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From the grand, savage outdoors to the inner chambers of those awaiting certain death, Werner Herzog has gone to the ends of the Earth to capture our innermost dreams and fears in his documentaries. For his latest, Lo and Behold: Reveries of The Connected World, he looks to the unwieldy unknown of the Internet and how its evolution has immensely affected the way we communicate, for better or worse. Told in 10 distinct chapters, from “The Early Days” to “The Future,” the film will arrive later this summer and today we have a new trailer and poster.

I said my review, “While most of Werner Herzog’s work seems timeless in its themes, one of the most interesting aspects of Lo and Behold is to imagine if the many predictions offered up throughout will come to fruition. Can a robot soccer team defeat FIFA world champions? Will we be able to tweet our thoughts?...

“My dream at Sundance to take off from the Olympic ramp on skis remains unfulfilled," Werner Herzog says about the sale of his doc "Lo and Behold" to Magnolia Pictures, "but I am even more exhilarated by the fact that my film now is taking flight through Magnolia." Waiting outside the Indiewire photo booth at Sundance for Herzog, his reputation precedes him. Viggo Mortensen, about to do a panel for "Captain Fantastic," is eager to meet him, and introduces the wind-blown filmmaker to all his screen children. We repair to a quieter room at the Chase Sapphire Lounge, but are eventually driven out by the noise. The film features ten conversations with Herzog and various tech pioneers, from a recovering game addict in rehab to PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. Magnolia is targeting a 2016 theatrical release. Watch: "Werner Herzog...

Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights to Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World, a playful and intellectually searching new documentary by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams) that offers a bold exploration of the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet. Praised by critics after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this week, the film features interviews (conducted by Herzog) with a diverse array of tech pioneers including PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Magnolia is targeting a 2016 theatrical release.

In Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World, the Oscar-nominated Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as the Amazon, the Sahara,...

Magnolia Pictures has remained relatively quiet at this year's Sundance Film Festival, but the company has finally made a move by picking up worldwide distribution rights to Werner Herzog's "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World." Mostly praised by critics after its world premiere at Sundance, the movie finds the iconic director exploring the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet. Interviewees include PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick.  The official synopsis reads: "In 'Lo and Behold,' the Oscar-nominated Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as the Amazon, the Sahara, the South Pole and the Australian outback. Working with NetScout, a world leader in real time service assurance...

Nude photo rumors are pretty commonplace for most Hollywood actresses, so when Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco first got an email alert about this summer’s iCloud photo hack, she didn’t think much of it.

"This one came up, and I was like, 'Oh, it’s another fake one,'" she told late night host Jimmy Kimmel. "I looked and I was like, oh my god, there are some real ones."

It’s estimated that up to one hundred celebrities, including Cuoco, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kate Upton, were victimized by the latest security breach, when hackers broke into Apple iCloud accounts and posted the photos to online imageboard 4chan.

News: Jennifer Lawrence Calls Nude Photo Hacking a 'Sex Crime'

It’s a heinous crime, but stars like Anchorman 2’s Meagan Good said that the violation of her privacy was not the most upsetting consequence.

"There was a lot of victim blaming," she told Et...

Scarlett Johansson's hacker is said to have acted alone, but is that possible? Is it really that easy to hack a celeb's personal info? —Yankee via the inbox You speak of Christopher Chaney, the hacking suspect who now says he's real, real sorry for showing Scarlett Johansson's nekkidness to the grubby masses like he did. According to hacking experts, one doesn't need to be Kevin Mitnick these days to access forbidden fun bags. In fact you can hack a star right at home! Not that you should, but if you wanted to, you know, do this theoretically, it would go like this: Related: Big stars are being hacked left and right! 1. Google [star name here]. 2. Glean...

High-profile hacker Kevin Mitnick once coded and charmed his way through unbelievable thickets of corporate and government security, then defended himself by saying he did it all out of curiosity. His memoir, Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures As The World’s Most Wanted Hacker, fleshes out this defense and feeds his version of what he calls “the Myth” without apologizing for the damage he did. An early interest in ham radio led Mitnick into the world of “phone phreaking,” hacking into local and national telephone companies to get unlisted numbers or make unpaid long-distance calls. His accomplishments, including hacking ...

A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry?

Borrowing code is standard operating procedure for those who work with software. All modern computer program languages use what is known as an "object oriented" model, which means code is designed to be modular--like swappable, repeatable, spawning objects. Over time standards have emerged, with programs often inheriting code from third-party libraries. Many popular open source packages like Drupal or Wordpress are not only composed of contributions and "borrowings" of thousands of developers and sources, but are architected to be customized by copying parts to be "overridden." In other words, copying is required, and there are a variety of licenses that specifically allow for it, provided credit is given. Code is a bit like a message in a bottle floating in the ocean.

In light of the News of The World scandal, let's re-examine how we use the term "hack."

Over the years I've published tens of thousands of words on "hackers." I wrote "Hacking Bhabha," a story about the "hack" of an Indian atomic research station, when gangs of computer miscreants went wilding through its servers, and the 1998 takedown of the New York Times website, which, for me, resulted in the threat of a justice department subpoena. I interviewed Kevin Mitnick while he was still in prison and sat at my computer one night as someone who called himself MagicFX replaced eBay's home page with his own that said: "Proof by MagicFX that you can't always trust people... not even huge companies." I profiled an It consultant selling exploits to compromise software products as varied as Microsoft Office, Mozilla Firefox, Sap, and Hp while working for Hp in France. In my first book,...