A security researcher presents a hacking program that turns company handhelds into a back door to the internal network. Kim Zetter reports from the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
Thousands of players qualify for the World Series of Poker, held in Las Vegas, by participating in cash-paying online rounds. So, can they play? A House bill would ban most internet gambling and the DOJ says web poker is a no-no.
Powerful X-ray beams illuminate writings of Greek mathematician Archimedes, hidden for centuries under prayers. The palimpsest contains the only copies of treatises on flotation, gravity and mathematics.