Lenovo has made announcement about the launching of its much-awaited ‘ThinkPad X300’ notebook computer, which targets business users as well as consumers.

The newly launched ‘ultra-portable machine’ weighs just 2.9 pounds and enjoys more features as compared to Apple MacBook Air.

Who says hackers are all bad? The infamous Cult of the Dead Cow, a Lubbock, Texas,-based hacker organization, known for its strong views on censorship and social justice issues, released a Google Web auditing scanner allowing users to search a specific Website or domain for exploitable flaws through the search engine.

The hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow has released a tool that should make Google hacking a little easier for novices.

Called Goolag, the open-source software lets hackers use the Google search engine to scan Web sites for vulnerabilities.

This is something that hackers have been doing for years, but it can be tricky work -- involving custom scripts and tools that sift through the mountain of data available via Google.

The Cult of the Dead Cow is best known for creating the Back Orifice software 10 years ago, which could be used to remotely control a Windows machine.

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced the addition of four publishers to its growing newspaper consortium. The new additions are Shaw Newspapers, The Buffalo News, The Times Publishing Company, and The Columbian Publishing Company. With the additions, the total number of participating papers, Yahoo claims, is up to 634, 425 of which are daily. The announcement states that Yahoo HotJobs has seen 50 percent year-over-year traffic growth, in part due to the newspaper partnerships.