Jacob Appelbaum, who volunteers with Wikileaks, is questioned for three hours and has mobile phones confiscated on his way back to the U.S. for hacker show.

A Brazilian promotion for Omo detergent involves 50 boxes that have GPS inside. Customers lucky enough to buy one of these boxes will be followed home in order to be given a very technological prize.

The future role of cloud computing is in many ways unpredictable and ever changing. What balance of traditional infrastructure, private clouds, and public cloud services will your IT department consume in the next three years? Five years? The trick is to hedge your bets wherever you can.

The fast-growing social-gaming site says it has hired Allen & Co. investment banker David Wehner as its new chief financial officer.

An enterprising marketer is attempting to persuade geeks that the new geek chic consists of wearing Apple’s Spinning Wheel of Doom on their chests. Will it work?

Multiple reports indicate that an Intel buyout of chipmaker Infineon’s wireless unit may be imminent.

Organizers of contest at hacking confab hope showing how easy it is to get data from cold calls to companies will help alert firms to the threat of social engineering.

If you know what this is and where it’s located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.

Douglas Smith built a telescope out of plywood, aluminum, and porthole glass. Now he can see the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter.

Amateur astronomer Douglas Smith made his own stargazing telescope, and it can see details on the moon. Have a look.