Teen hacker from Essex Ryan Cleary has just been released on bail by a London Magistrate, pending his trial for charges of hacking next month. Under the terms of Cleary's bail agreement he is forbidden from having any internet-enabled devices in his house. This is the guy who threatened to kill himself when his mum…

Obviously, they were doing it for their own entertainment, but they also like to claim they were doing it for ours too. The lulz they made were meant to be shared and LulzSec had the most extrovert profile of any hacker group over the past few years. That included a twitter account followed by 288,000…

A love button sounds kind of rude - but it's not. Its Wikipedia's new way to motivate its team of volunteer editors who feel increasingly taken for granted. Instead of being treasured and praised as knowledgeable people who are generous with their time, Wikipedia writers and editors have come in for much more flak than…

Now that people spend more time looking at apps on phones than they do looking at the web on browsers, it's of interest to everybody what apps we're looking at most and spending the most time on. And interestingly, it's not always what we download the most. Of course we knew that anyway - seriously,…

It's probably not a rival to Facebook, but it is kinda innovative for the publishing industry: JK Rowling's Pottermore site promises to be a social network cum literary experience with an online store for eBooks built in. The eBook idea doesn't exactly wow me, but we are kind of interested by this Harry Potter universe…

Well. There you go. We'll find out what the mystery pottermore.com site is at midday when JK herself will do an announcement about it. It has been announced already but is under embargo till then. This is what one tweeter at the press conference said about it: Rory Cellan-Jones says: Sales eh? Sounds sensible to…

Question: Why shouldn't you put tinfoil over your windows? Answer: because it makes you look mental. Especially after Scotland Yard arrest you for hacking multinational companies. A photo of 19 year old hacker Ryan Cleary's bedroom has just been released. Key features include the covered up window, the air conditioner, a picture of two naked…

Some papers report him as a ring leader, LulzSec say he just hosted a few chatrooms and their website encyclopediadramatica.ch on his server. But the real danger for LulzSec in Ryan's arrest will be the details that the FBI comb out of his computers and the information that he coughs up under questioning. That could…

It's one for a niche audience this. But you'll enjoy it if you've ever had the pleasure of watching a Jobs keynote. As the vid creator says "Steve likes to say boom to insist on how fast his software can react." And he sure does say boom a lot.

The milestone has been passed: the future is officially mobile. Americans now officially spend more time looking at apps on their mobile devices than they do looking at the web on laptops or desktop computers. After closely tailing the amount of time spent on the normal internet, mobile analytics firm Flurry's new report showed that…