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11/06/09 0943 Which antivirus is best at removing malware?
None of the products performed “very good” in malware removal or removal of leftovers, based on those 10 samples. eScan, Symantec and Microsoft (MSE) were the only products to be good in removal of malware AND removal of leftovers.

11/06/09 0938 Ow...my brain hurts...
Dan Aykroyd in talks to voice Yogi Bear, Justin Timberlake in talks to voice Boo-Boo and Anna Faris in talks to play a live-action documentary filmmaker I assume doing a feature in and around Jellystone.

11/06/09 0757 Direct2Drive calls Steam 'Trojan Horse'
IGN-owned digital games firm Direct2Drive is refusing to sell Modern Warfare 2 on PC because of its integration with Valve's Steamworks.

11/06/09 0756 Google Helps With the Password Juggle
The technology, called hybrid onboarding, was first employed by Plaxo and is already used by Facebook and Yahoo, said Eric Sachs, product manager at Google's security unit in a blog post.

11/06/09 0755 Gumblar's home domain lives
ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages.

11/06/09 0755 Google Apps expands Postini security beyond Gmail
The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite.

11/06/09 0751 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.5.5
All users should upgrade. You can download it from Slug's Download Page.

11/06/09 0747 email blocklist SORBS sold
GFI Software has confirmed the purchase of sometimes controversial spam blocklist provider SORBS for a reported $451,000.

11/06/09 0747 Dell details 'world's thinnest' laptop
The XPS’ odd hinged design will be the first aesthetic point that catches your eye, we believe.

11/06/09 0746 Facebook promises to cull the advertising scammers
SOCIAL NOTWORKING outfit Facebook has updated its developer platform terms of service to kill off ad networks that it says were running deceptive advertisements.

11/06/09 0744 Flock 2.5.5 addresses security issues
The Flock developers have released version 2.5.5 of their social web browser based on Firefox 3, addressing several security issues.

11/06/09 0743 Lose/Lose
Lose/Lose has real life consequences; each of the aliens in the game is based on a randomly selected file on the players computer and, when an alien is killed by the player, the file is actually deleted.

11/06/09 0742 Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners
Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI? Today Ubiquiti posted the winning entries to their support wiki.

11/06/09 0742 Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth
attached an RFID chip capable of sensing neural activity to a live moth, to pick up the spikes that occur as it beats its wings.

11/06/09 0741 Twitter ReTweets
Twitter has just activated the retweet button a a small number of accounts, according to a blog post.

11/05/09 1517 Kingston, Paramount Team Up on Movie Delivery Via Flash Memory
the movies will be supplied on Kingston media in as part of bundle packages and for sale. The first such movie, “Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen” is currently available at all OfficeMax stores for $29.99.

11/05/09 1510 Majestic 12
Wednesday, landscapers put down grass outside the theater at Third and Broad streets while workers inside placed other finishing touches on the $12 million project that also includes tracts available for commercial use.

11/05/09 1456 Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Offers Tabbed Email
Mozilla will roll out the newest version of its open-source email application, Thunderbird 3, on Nov. 10. Supposedly, Mozilla made over 2,000 improvements to the platform, although users are most likely to notice its more top-line features such as filtered search and tabbed email.

11/05/09 1456 Microsoft to fix six holes in Windows, Office
Microsoft said on Thursday it will issue patches next week for six vulnerabilities, including three critical Windows holes and two important holes in Office.

11/05/09 1455 Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems
Researchers from VUPEN have discovered critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave, a technology installed on over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops. T

11/05/09 1452 This is Why There are 100,000 Apps in the App Store
How about that Lotto info for Alaska, Arizona, and the entire fifty states repackaged into 50 unique apps! Or that basketball game info for each individual NBA teams divided into 30 separate apps.

11/05/09 1243 Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed
While indeed Facebook locked the front door from any non-Facebook domain access via Flash, a simple subdomain change allowed any flash application (domain="*") to access its domain data."

11/05/09 1022 12 common Windows 7 problems solved
If you've moved to Windows 7 recently then you might have noticed various upgrade problems, interface issues and features that seem to have disappeared entirely, among many other complications with the new system.

11/05/09 0817 New Sherlock Holmes Ad

11/05/09 0811 The 10 dumbest Firefox add-ons ever

11/05/09 0809 New tool seeks to block rootkits by protecting their targets
A paper describes a way of blocking rootkits by gathering all these functions in one place in memory, then locking down the memory.

11/05/09 0758 Scramble on to fix flaw in SSL security protocol
Late last year, researchers found a way to create fake SSL certificates that would be trusted by any browser, and in August researchers unveiled a handful of new attacks that could compromise SSL traffic

11/05/09 0758 Google Helps With the Password Juggle
Google today made available a technology aimed at allowing users to securely register at Web sites without having to go through a lengthy sign-up process.

11/05/09 0755 LoroBot
LoroBot encrypts various files on a users hard drive, such as music, movies and documents, and asks them to pay $100 for the decryption key to retrieve their data. Thankfully, CA is providing a free decryption tool.

11/05/09 0754 Apple App Store has over 100,000 Apps
Apple's App Store has crossed yet another landmark figure when the number of approved applications, available for download at the store went past the 100,000 mark.

11/05/09 0752 Orb goes Mac - at last
Orb, the Slingbox-in-software app that allows you to access your music, TV and photos on any device, has finally unleashed its long-awaited Mac version.

11/05/09 0749 Asus delays 'smartbook' release
However, Judy Wu, a market specialist at Asus, today told Register Hardware that the company will now not unveil the netbook until Q2 2010.

11/05/09 0748 Google launches privacy Dashboard service
Google has launched a Dashboard service that's designed to show how much the search engine giant knows about its users online activities.

11/05/09 0739 Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost
(4.0.223.16) of its Chrome browser yesterday, boasting a 30% speed improvement over the current production edition and adding integrated bookmark synchronization.

11/05/09 0738 Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project
music industry is still pushing Choruss, a controversial blanket-licensing scheme, but it is far less innovative than first described.

11/05/09 0735 Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out
We still go on supporting in the same level of integration GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2. Support for netbooks is improved as users can now easily test Moblin 2.0 environment. 'Smart desktop' coming from European research is now fully integrated and is the first real working semantic desktop

11/05/09 0734 new Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support
A newer build, 10C535, now appears to have brought the feature back and hints that the lack of Atom support may have been a bug or an otherwise temporary action.

11/04/09 2111 PayPal API
This enables developers to integrate PayPal payment processing services without forcing users to redirect to PayPal's website to enter payment information.

11/04/09 2110 Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking
Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minute

11/04/09 2101 CRITICAL: Linux mmap_min_addr
A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel can be exploited to access a system at root privilege level.

11/04/09 1752 Mozilla plans major Firefox interface overhaul
Considers 'tab-on-top' look; denies it will 'Chrome-ify' Firefox

11/04/09 0958 Jailbroken iPhones hacked via UMTS network
Their iPhone screens displayed an "Important Warning" informing them they had been hacked. A teenager appeared to be behind the hack, initially charging 5 euros for instructions on how to clean and then protect the affected iPhones.

11/04/09 0950 CRITICAL:Java 6 Update 17
Sun Microsystems has released Java 6 Update 17, which fixes multiple security vulnerabilities. These include various buffer and integer overflows triggered by crafted audio and image files,

11/04/09 0947 Firefox finally passes IE6
Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft's browser.

11/04/09 0946 Parallels says new Mac virtualization app faster than VMware Fusion
Parallels released the latest version of its Windows virtualization software for Mac computers on Wednesday, which it claims remains faster and more powerful than VMware's rival app.

11/04/09 0944 Got HDTV? Get Ready For UHD-TV
UHD will come in two resolution levels: 7680 x 4320 pixels (8K) and 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K) and provide four to 16 times the resolution of Blu-ray

11/03/09 2108 AT&T sues Verizon Wireless over 3G ads
AT&T is suing Verizon Wireless in an effort to stop its bigger mobile rival from using "misleading" coverage maps in advertisements that AT&T says are causing it to lose "incalculable market share."

11/03/09 2106 CRITICAL:Adobe Shockware Player
"The update, which is rated "critical," addresses a total of five documented vulnerabilities. The most serious flaw could allow remote code execution attacks against Windows and Mac users."

11/03/09 2103 Google Adds Longer Text Snippets and Image Previews to Search Results
If you open the left sidebar after a google search and select “more text”, the results will show a larger text snippet than previously allowed.

11/03/09 2101 In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses
They threw at it the next 10 virus/worm samples that came in the door. Seven of them ran; UAC stopped only one baddie that had run in the absense of UAC. "Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7."

11/03/09 2101 Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel,

11/03/09 2059 CRITICAL:Internet Explorer MS09-054
This is a patch for a patch for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. All users should visit Microsoft Update (check for updates).

11/03/09 1310 Vista Infected 62% Less Often Than XP
Windows Vista is dramatically more secure than Windows XP, according Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report, released Monday. The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than Windows XP SP3, the company said.

11/03/09 1255 Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited
That's now become Connectify, a free application from the company that effectively turns any Windows 7 computer into a virtual WiFi hotspot

11/03/09 1101 "first Twitter mobile device"
For $99, buyers get the device and six months of "unlimited Twitter service" before paying $7.95 a month thereafter.

11/03/09 1052 Cisco, EMC and VMWare make alliance official
The joint venture will sell and provide maintenance and service support for the product, which is called V-Block. It will combine EMC's storage equipment, Cisco's virtualized servers and networking equipment, and VMWare's virtualization technology.

11/03/09 0925 Review: Celio rolls out BlackBerry client for the REDFLY Mobile Companion
Today, we see the launch of a BlackBerry driver for selected BlackBerry devices, which makes the most sense considering there are so many BlackBerry devices in enterprise.

11/03/09 0917 Opachki, from (and to) Russia with love
This prevents the system from booting in Safe Mode – the attackers did this to make it more difficult to remove the trojan. This goes well with what I've been always saying – do not try to clean an infected machine, always reimage it.

11/03/09 0916 Hulu adds episode release schedule
Hulu has debuted a long-requested feature--the ability to find out when new episodes of TV shows will be available to stream.

11/03/09 0915 Google wheels out Chrome, Wave updates
Google's developers clearly missed all the Halloween fun, with both the Chrome and Wave teams slinging out updates yesterday.

11/03/09 0911 Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows
Williams said the link between PC infection rates and piracy is due to the hesitancy of users of pirated software to use Windows Update.

11/03/09 0911 ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication
Block-level dedupe requires more processing power, and is said to be good for virtual machine images.

11/03/09 0909 5 million Star Trek pirates vs. 1 FCC broadband plan
Paramount Pictures says that, in the months following the theatrical release of Star Trek, the media company tracked more than five million IP addresses that downloaded one of six camcorded copies of the movie.

11/03/09 0909 Cable modem hacker busted by feds
Ryan Harris, 26, ran a San Diego company called TCNISO that sold customizable cable modems and software that could be used to get free Internet service or a speed boost for paying subscribers.

11/02/09 2056 Google's Eric Schmidt sets out the search engine's future
Schmidt, of course, didn’t quite it put it this way. According to him, in five years time, a real-time, broadband intensive, video and app-centric web will be overrun by Chinese-language content.

11/02/09 2055 Prince of Persia, Sands of Time

11/02/09 1522 New Trojan encrypts files but leaves no ransom note
Symantec is warning about a new Trojan horse that encrypts files on compromised computers but offers no ransom note like other software designed to hold data hostage for a fee. Instead, the affected user can find a company in a Web search that offers a way to remove the malware.

11/02/09 1458 Apple's iTunes pitch: TV for $30 a month
Instead, it is presenting the offer as an extension of its iTunes software, which already has a huge installed base: A year ago, Apple said it had 65 million iTunes customer accounts.

11/02/09 1413 DirectX 11 Now Available for Windows Vista
And so it has come to pass. Vista users who check Windows Update should see a rather generic "Platform Update" with the reference KB971644.

11/02/09 1340 Skype For Linux To Be Open-Sourced "In the Nearest Future"
After mailing Skype support about Skype providing Mandriva RPM packages, Olivier Faurax got an answer which suggests that the Linux Skype client will be open-sourced.

11/02/09 1339 New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD
Engadget has a recent teaser video promising HD content via XBMC running on a 600MHz Beagleboard.

11/02/09 1335 Apple rumored to disable Atom support with Mac OS X 10.6.2
Mac OS X 10.6.2, the forthcoming update for Apple's Snow Leopard operating system, is reported to disable support for the Intel Atom processor, preventing unauthorized PC netbooks from running the operating system.

11/02/09 1335 Marvel Comics on your iPhone
Marvel Comics Partners With Panelfly To Bring Mobile Comics To The iPhone

11/02/09 0758 VLC 1.0.3

11/02/09 0755 Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books

11/02/09 0754 Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution
Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere.

11/02/09 0748 How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession
I will walk you through how these online scams work on Facebook and other social networks – the mechanics of how the money is made, some of the people involved, and who is actually clicking on ads.

11/02/09 0747 H.R. Giger: Father of the alien
Three decades ago, a loathsome, worm-like parasite burst from the chest of a hapless spaceship crew member

11/02/09 0747 How junk food diet 'can give you depression'
The researchers found that those with the highest consumption of processed food were 58 per cent more likely to be depressed five years later than those eating the least amount.

11/02/09 0745 Inside one of the world's largest data centers
It's what's inside those trailers, though, that is the key to Microsoft's cloud-computing efforts.

11/02/09 0745 Microsoft Patch Tuesdays yield 400 security bulletins
An informal count of releases in Microsoft's bulletin archives shows that the company has released about 400 security bulletins since October 2003.

11/02/09 0744 Unisys introducing software for private clouds
Unisys announced Monday software and services that will enable organizations to deploy and run their own internal private clouds, as part of its strategy to offer customers a variety of cloud computing options.

11/02/09 0744 Nokia to shut down N-Gage
First it was a phone, then an online service. Now, Nokia's N-Gage will soon be nothing at all. The Finnish phone giant is going to shut it down.

11/02/09 0740 Microsoft ditches Office Accounting product
Microsoft has begun telling UK customers that it will end sales of its Office Accounting product, according to a ZDNet report.All Office Accounting products will be affected, including Express, Standard, Professional, Professional Plus, 3-user and Small Business Accounting.

11/02/09 0739 AT&T Buys VeriSign Security
AT&T Inc. has cut a deal to buy VeriSign Inc.'s global security consulting business for an undisclosed sum in an effort to shore up network-based enterprise data security.

11/02/09 0739 iPhone OS Hackers Celebrate ‘Pwnkin Day’
The group of internationally known hackers going by the name of “the iPhone Dev Team” has posted an update on its blog, this time simply wishing everyone a Happy Halloween.

11/02/09 0736 EPB Customers To See Rate Relief
With TVA’s upcoming rate FCA, a bill for 1300 kilowatt hours on bills printed in November will be about $1.36 less than it would have been on bills printed in October, for the same amount of power used.

11/02/09 0731 Wi-Fi complexity moves into the cloud
There are now at least three companies moving enterprise Wi-Fi control functions, management functions or both into the cloud.

11/02/09 0730 Windows 7's share jumps 40% in first week of release
Overall, Windows continued to lose share globally, dropping 0.23 of a percentage point during October, while Apple's Mac OS X picked up most of that loss, gaining 0.15 of a point to finish the month near 5.3%, its highest ever.

11/01/09 1806 first Firefox 3.6 beta
Also debuting in the beta of Firefox 3.6, said Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, are support for new CSS, DOM and HTML 5 technologies; support for full-screen video embedded with the video HTML tag; and support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).

11/01/09 1803 Gmail users howl over Halloween outage
"More than 30 hours without email...totally unacceptable. I'll definitely have to reconsider my selection of gmail for my primary email account.

11/01/09 1802 Google Voice has 1.4 million users
Despite the fact that Google Voice remains an "invitation only" service, it has grown to well over 1.4 million users with a cool 570,000 folks using it daily.

11/01/09 1801 Wintel 7 machines freeze out iPhone
If you're having trouble syncing your iPhone with a PC based on the Intel P55 chipset and running Windows 7, you're not alone.

11/01/09 1800 Apple vs. Psystar
Finally, every time Psystar turns on any of the Psystar computers running Mac OS X, which it does before shipping each computer, Psystar necessarily makes a separate modified copy of Mac OS X in Random Access Memory, or RAM. This is the third unlawful copy.'

10/30/09 1233 Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony
Adobe has set up its "Adobe Opens Up" website to promote the use of Adobe technologies to achieve the goal of "opening up Washington,

10/30/09 1231 Happy 40th birthday, Internet!
On October 29, 1969, the Internet came in not with a bang, but with a "lo."

10/30/09 1230 Facebook drops App Verification
Facebook has abruptly decided to pull the plug on its Application Verification program, which let external developers pay to have their applications certified as exceeding certain requirements.

10/30/09 1221 Apple breaks Palm iTune syncing
"Apple's iTunes 9.0.2 update, pushed into the wild on Oct. 29, prevents Palm Pre users from syncing their smartphones with iTunes. "

10/30/09 1213 Hulu not changing to "pay site only"
Attention, thrifty PopWatchers: It turns out beloved home of full-lengthy goodness Hulu is not going to start charging after all. A source tells EW that the site’s rumored pay structure would only be in addition to its free content, not instead of it.

10/30/09 1211 Bioshock 2 Preview

10/30/09 0932 Oh No: Flu virus threatens internet bandwidth supply
Internet bandwidth supply may buckle under the weight of extra workers choosing to work from home once the flu season takes hold.

10/30/09 0915 EPIX Movie Service
Right now, complete access to Epix costs ten dollars a month, and is available only to Verizon FIOS subscribers.

10/30/09 0914 Facebook to share more user data with advertisers
The changes, announced by PR boss Elliot Schrage, suggest Facebook will give its paying customers more details about how their adverts perform. User data will be "anonymised", the new policy says.

10/30/09 0913 Amazon PayPhrase
Users can choose a phrase that they can easily remember. At check-out, the user simply types the phrase along with a four-digit PIN to authorise their purchase and complete the transaction.

10/30/09 0913 DARPA issues balloon-hunting $40k 'Network Challenge'
The first person or team to correctly locate ten large red balloons scattered across the USA will win $40,000.

10/30/09 0913 Apple's new headset patent
Similarly, voicemail messages received on the user's telephone could be uploaded into the headset for later off-line playback. Media files recorded by the headset also could be downloaded to the external device, the patent says.

10/30/09 0910 Twitter Lists
The new feature is designed to make it easier for users to group the people they follow by organizing them into lists.

10/30/09 0910 Facebook policy open for review
Looking to avoid the tumultuous user haggles that followed earlier changes to the Facebook terms of service, the company today released a proposed new privacy policy to user review.

10/30/09 0909 Windows 7 as a WiFi hotspot
A Philadelphia developer has rooted out an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other Wi-Fi-enabled devices to share the connection without special software.

10/30/09 0812 iTunes 9.0.2 and Apple TV 3
Apple smugly tells us that you can now navigate to your favorite content simpler and faster, and that Apple TV 3.0 makes enjoying the largest selection of on-demand HD movie rentals and purchases, HD TV shows, music and podcasts from the Itunes Store even better on your TV.

10/30/09 0807 ASUS mb USB3 performance
The Asus P7P55D-E Premium has a PLX PCI Express Gen 2 switch implementation that connects to NEC USB 3.0 and Marvell SATA 6G controller chips.

10/30/09 0803 Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB
Red Hat has invested an unspecified amount in open source database vendor EnterpriseDB, a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried about the implications of Oracle's takeover of MySQL through its pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

10/30/09 0743 Twitter users face new hacking attack
"We've seen a few phishing attempts today, if you've received a strange DM and it takes you to a Twitter login page, don't do it!," Twitter wrote on its Spam message page.

10/30/09 0743 Google Chrome OS download a fake
An official-looking page offered the opportunity to download the public beta as a VMWare appliance, but it turns out that the download was a fake. The site, hosted on Google's web-hosting service, has since been shut down.

10/29/09 2122 Who Installs the Most Crapware?
PC Pro has done a thorough test of the software bundled by nine of the leading laptop manufacturers to find out who installs the most crapware on their PCs

10/29/09 2121 Nintendo Announces DSi XL
The LL's main improvement is the size of its screens, which have been increased from 3.25" to 4.2" with a moderate increase to the size of the chassis.

10/29/09 2120 Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment
because the Fourth Amendment does not apply to e-mails under the third-party doctrine. 'When a person uses the Internet, the user's actions are no longer in his or her physical home; in fact he or she is not truly acting in private space at all.

10/29/09 2111 Droid by Motorola (Verizon Wireless)
The Droid is a big, industrial, even a little steampunk-looking contraption at 4.56 by 2.36 by .54 inches (HWD) and a hefty 5.96 ounces.

10/29/09 2110 Microsoft trumpets Windows 7 support options, response speed
Action Center is Windows 7's version of Vista's Security Center, but it also offers more than 20 automated troubleshooters that are accessed either at the user's request, or automatically by the OS.

10/29/09 2110 Windows 7 install trick is legal
Microsoft today confirmed that users can apply a workaround trick to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive as long as they toe the licensing line.

10/29/09 1325 Google's Music Search
The new service sounds great in theory, but in my tests it didn't quite match up to Google's claims.

10/29/09 1323 Twitter and Krab Krawler
Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called "Krab Krawler" that analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them.

10/29/09 1319 NSA to Run $1.5B Security Data Center
The National Security Agency is going to run a planned $1.5 billion data center in Utah that will serve as a support center for the government's information security programs.

10/29/09 1146 24 Season 8

10/29/09 1144 "Artificial" people?
Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells

10/29/09 1124 Microsoft ditches MSN Direct
Microsoft will be switching off broadcasts over its MSN network at the end of 2011, ending the company's half-decade foray into wireless consumer electronics and demonstrating that mobile telephone networks can provide for every kind of connectivity.

10/29/09 1123 Sony Recalls 69,000 Vaio AC Power Adapters
"Sony has initiated a voluntary recall for certain AC power adapters which may short circuit and pose a potential electrical shock hazard," read an Oct. 27 posting on Sony’s eSupport Web site.

10/29/09 1109 Ubuntu 9.10
The latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released. Offering numerous enhancements for both desktop and server environments, this release includes notable features like Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubuntu One "personal cloud", and Linux kernel version 2.6.31. You can get it from Slug's FTP Site.

10/28/09 1432 Apple to Nokia: We're Ready to Rumble
The two tech titans are set to battle over Nokia's claims that Apple illegally used its technology in the iPhone.

10/28/09 1431 REVIEW: VMware Fusion 3
goes head-to-head with Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition. The new VMware offering comes up a hair short in ease of use, but edges ahead in operations that matter on a daily basis.

10/28/09 1421 Google defends Google Apps security
Google Inc. this week came swinging at critics who have cited privacy and security concerns in calling on the city of Los Angeles to rethink its plan to implement the Google Apps hosted e-mail and office applications.

10/28/09 1421 CRITICAL:Opera 10.01
Opera dropped a major patch to fix three documented flaws, including a memory corruption issue that exposes users to code execution attacks.

10/28/09 1420 BlackBerry and PhoneSnoop
PhoneSnoop can only be installed by someone with physical access to the BlackBerry, Infosecurity understands, but, CERT said that if a remote user tricks the owner of the smartphone to install the software, then it will allow the monitoring of voice calls from afar.

10/28/09 1420 Apple's new 27-in. iMac
Apple's new 27-in. iMac can be described in one word: stunning.

10/28/09 1419 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0
He would surely agree with AVG's maxim: "All computer users have the right to free basic protection against Internet threats."

10/28/09 1418 Get Norton Internet Security 2010 for $9.99
Fry's is currently offering NIS 2010 3-User Edition for $9.99 shipped. Unfortunately--and this is really unfortunate--that's after a pair of mail-in rebates totaling $50.

10/28/09 1416 Tesla Roadster Breaks Distance Record For Electric Car
completing 501km on a single electric charge in the 2009 Global Green Challenge

10/28/09 1416 "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain
instead taking the advice of his good friend David Geffen and announcing that 'three strikes and you're out' will become law in Britain.

10/28/09 1415 "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket
The mission went off without a hitch — 'frickin' fantastic' was how one NASA executive classified it on NASA TV

10/28/09 1412 Google adds free turn-by-turn navigation, car dock UI to Android 2.0

10/28/09 1411 Disney offers refund after furore over Baby Einstein DVDs
Millions of American parents who bought Disney educational DVDs in the hope that they would supercharge their children’s brains are being offered a refund amid claims by researchers that watching any kind of television may be harmful to the under-twos.

10/28/09 1411 25 Best Vampire Movies

10/28/09 0919 Wireshark for Windows 7
The big change in the stable main version 1.2.3 is that it now contains WinPcap 4.1.1, making it fully Windows 7 friendly.

10/28/09 0918 Free tool from Microsoft hardens programs against attack
Microsoft has released a free tool for retroactively hardening applications against known attacks, without recompiling the program with a special compiler flag.

10/28/09 0757 Intel pulls SSD update
Intel has pulled the solid-state drive firmware update it released this week after an unspecified number of users claimed the software wasn't entirely compatible with Windows 7.

10/28/09 0756 Intel's Larrabee: The CPU and GPU, Together at Last
Coming soon from Intel is the Larrabee graphics chip. Larrabee is the first hybrid CPU and GPU, and consists of multiple in-order CPU-style processors.

10/28/09 0754 Google Apps scores in L.A.
Los Angeles City Council approved a $7.25 million five-year deal Tuesday in which the city will adopt Gmail and other Google Apps.

10/28/09 0751 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.5.4
Mozilla on Tuesday patched 16 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 11 of them critical, as it updated the open source browser to version 3.5.4. You can download it from Slug's Download Page.

10/28/09 0747 Buffer overflows in the Eureka and Pegasus email clients
The processing of over long POP3 responses from a mail server by the Eureka and Pegasus (PMail) email clients can trigger a buffer overflow that allows attackers to inject and execute malicious code.

10/28/09 0747 Microsoft Cancels Windows 7 Family Guy Deal
Microsoft has decided that the subject matter in the Family Guy television show is too racy for its taste. On Monday, Microsoft said it's pulling out of its sponsorship of the upcoming "Family Guy" special on the grounds that the show's content "was not a fit with the Windows brand."

10/28/09 0746 Microsoft creates Vista, Windows 7 compatibility tool
The tool, which features a set of runtime libraries, was designed by Microsoft to get better compatibility between Vista and Windows 7.

10/28/09 0745 Nasa tries again to launch rocket
Tuesday's launch of the Ares I-X had to be scrubbed due to bad weather, and the forecast for Wednesday is no better.

10/28/09 0736 REVIEW: Red Hat Fedora 12 beta
One of the first Fedora 12 enhancements to jump out at me was the distribution's new capability for sandboxing potentially untrusted graphical applications with SELinux. The new feature, called sandbox -X, provides graphical applications with a temporary environment to run in that's walled off from the rest of system.

10/27/09 1446 Android 2.0 features revealed
Android 2.0 also updates the Bluetooth API so apps can now access Bluetooth controls to discover, connect and share information with nearby devices, which unlocks the ability to make peer-to-peer and proximity-based applications.

10/27/09 1443 Fake Facebook Team emails
Some users are receiving the e-mail from "The Facebook Team," according to the security firm. The sender's e-mail address displays "service@facebook.com." In reality, the address and sender were spoofed.

10/27/09 1424 Toyota to Release Solar Charging Station for Electric Cars
Toyota is developing a solar charging station for electric cars and plug-in hybrids, making a green technology even greener.

10/27/09 1318 SeaMonkey 2.0

10/27/09 1317 Malware on Gizmodo
“Guys, I'm really sorry but we had some malware running on our site in ad boxes for a little while last week on Suzuki ads,” wrote Gizmodo’s Brian Lam."

10/27/09 1313 Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead
The new 'memorialized' accounts will continue to display photos and wall posts, but remove 'sensitive information' such as status updates and contact information.

10/27/09 1313 Cancer-Proofing gene?
Scientists discover that the naked mole rat, the only known cancerless animal, has two-tier defense against cancer.

10/27/09 1101 Amazon Cloud Adds Hosted MySQL
Amazon Web Services has added a relational database service to host MySQL databases in the cloud, and is also dropping prices on its Amazon EC2 compute service by as much as 15 percent.

10/27/09 1101 Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes
Intel has just released a firmware update for their 34nm Gen X25-M solid state drives that not only boosts sequential write performance, but adds support for the TRIM command as well.

10/27/09 1001 Google Social Search Unveiled Sans Facebook
The Google Labs page explains that with Social Search, you "sign in to Google and do a search. If there's relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a section called ‘Results from people in your social circle'."

10/27/09 1000 VMware Ships Workstation for Virtualizing Windows
VMware has added support for Windows 7 and expanded the ability to handle virtual processors in Workstation 7, the new version of its platform for running multiple OSes simultaneously on a PC.

10/27/09 1000 Six Million Vulnerable Embedded Network Devices Connected to the Internet
"Devices like routers, NAS appliances, home entertainment appliances, wifi access points, web cams, VoIP appliances, print servers and video conferencing units reside on the same networks as our personal computers and enterprise servers and together form our world-wide communication infrastructure. "

10/27/09 0959 Cisco snaps up $183m ScanSafe
Networking giant Cisco has signaled its intent to expand further into the security market, and perpetuate consolidation in the industry, by announcing it will buy web security-as-a-service firm ScanSafe.

10/27/09 0958 Online attacks on Swiss foreign ministry
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has reportedly been the target for espionage, with unidentified attackers having used "special software" to penetrate the department's IT infrastructure and procure specific information.

10/27/09 0823 Android Phone Turned Into Virtual Reality Goggles
Using an HTC Magic and Google Street View, Recombu.com made a simple pair of virtual reality goggles that let you immerse yourself in distant locations. As the article points out, you can also use these goggles with augmented

10/27/09 0822 ASUS supercomputer
its first supercomputer, the desktop computer-sized ESC 1000, which uses Nvidia graphics processors to attain speeds up to 1.1 teraflops

10/27/09 0822 Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software
had taken out their personal laptops in the cockpit, a violation of airline policy, so the first officer could tutor the captain in a new scheduling system put in place by Delta Air

10/27/09 0815 Universal mobile charger standard approved
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunications Union (ITU) has approved a standard for energy-efficient, one-size-fits-all mobile phone chargers.

10/27/09 0813 5 ways to overclock a netbook

10/27/09 0811 Suzuki unveils fuel cell e-scooter
Inside the Burgman Fuel Cell Scooter is a light-weight, air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell developed by British company Intelligent Energy.

10/27/09 0810 MiBuddy Android
Mio Technology will launch a new version of its MiBuddy 4.7-inch touchscreen Internet and navigation device next year running Google's Android mobile software, a company representative said Tuesday.

10/27/09 0808 Alleged critical vulnerability in Sun Java System Web Server
Sun Microsystem's Java System Web Server apparently contains a critical security hole that can be exploited to remotely inject and execute code in a system

10/27/09 0807 Google Voice Liberates Voicemail
Users of Google Voice can now choose Google as a voicemail provider for existing mobile numbers, displacing mobile carrier voicemail systems in the process.

10/27/09 0805 Is Nintendo Making Larger Screen DSi?
Earlier this year, Nintendo had released new DSi handheld console with svelte dual screen. Now, Japanese news service Nikkei has reported that a new DSi console with 4-inch screen is in works and would be available in Japan by the end of this year.

10/26/09 1327 GeoCities gets faceful of wrecking ball
Yahoo! is demolishing GeoCities today, a decade after acquiring the ticky-tacky build-your-own-website service for $3.57bn in stock.

10/26/09 1327 Palm Pixi
“We are excited to offer the new Palm Pixi to our customers in time for the holiday season, and it’s a great addition to Sprint’s industry-leading device portfolio,” said Kevin Packingham, senior vice president, in a statement.

10/26/09 1327 Asustek teams with Nvidia on 1.1 Teraflop supercomputer
Asustek Computer unveiled its first supercomputer on Monday, the desktop computer-sized ESC 1000, which uses Nvidia graphics processors to attain speeds up to 1.1 teraflops.

10/26/09 1326 Musicians call for release of torture soundtrack details
Now, famous artists like Pearl Jam, REM, Rosanne Cash, and the Roots filed a Freedom of Information Act demanding that the US government list the names of the tunes that were used as soundtracks in interrogation situations.

10/26/09 1325 Microsoft to open up Outlook data format
In a blog posting, Microsoft group manager Paul Lorimer said the company is working to publish the specifications behind Outlook's .pst files.

10/26/09 1322 20 Movie Villain Pumpkin Carvings
Walyou alone has put together a mega gallery of 130 Pumpkin carvings that feature likenesses of video game characters, geek celebs, and more

10/26/09 0924 12 Must-Know Windows 7 Shortcuts

10/26/09 0814 Alienware Area-51 ALX
It's impossible not to be in awe of the Area-51's ludicrous chassis. With enormous vents on the top that lift up when its silicon heart starts pumping

10/26/09 0813 Inside Apple's new Mac mini Server
While Appleinsider predicted the arrival of a new dual-drive, optical-free Mac mini, Apple managed keep secret its plans to introduce a new Mac mini server bundle up to its relatively subtle launch this week. Now the company faces the task of publicizing its availability as it works to enter a market it hasn't excelled at in the past.

10/26/09 0809 Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook

10/26/09 0801 Ars reviews Windows 7
In this extensive review, Peter Bright dives deep into Microsoft's new OS offering to see what's new, what's still the same, and whether it's worth upgrading.

10/26/09 0759 Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor
Tilera has announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip

10/26/09 0757 Netflix Coming to the PlayStation 3
Netflix will begin streaming movies and TV shows to PlayStation 3 consoles in the U.S. from November, it said on Monday.

10/26/09 0756 Is Windows 7 the Greatest OS Ever?
Windows 7 has been favorably reviewed thus far and it seems to be doing well out of the gate, but, let's take a look at some factors you might consider in trying to choose the best operating system ever.

10/26/09 0754 Steve Balmer and the Giant MacBook Pro
Call me crazy, but isn’t that a first-gen MacBook Pro in the background? Good job, NBC!

10/26/09 0753 Microsoft unwraps netbook Windows 7 upgrade tool
The free utility, Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, creates a bootable flash drive from a downloaded .iso file, or disk image, of Windows 7 that customers buy and downlod from Microsoft's online store.

10/26/09 0752 Some Windows 7 problems with endless reboots
Users began posting messages about the endless reboots Friday, saying that the Windows 7 installation would hang two-thirds through the upgrade.

10/26/09 0751 Facebook Makeover: The Good, the Bad, and the Backlash
The updates make the default feed more like it was before the last major homepage overhaul, but the changes aren't without some issues, and they have sparked some backlash among Facebook users.

10/26/09 0743 UK's Guardian newspaper's job site hacked
Computer hackers have targeted the Guardian newspaper's job site, putting personal information from users' CVs at risk.

10/26/09 0742 Trend Micro Deep Security
Its Deep Security product, introduced on Monday, provides protection for "the entire server," including "the operating system, network, and applications layers," according to the company.

10/24/09 1407 Bill Gates Phishing
Most major enterprise email products and services were unable to detect a fake LinkedIn invitation on behalf of "Bill Gates," which landed successfully in users' inboxes.

10/24/09 1407 Windows 7 install trick
Users can do a "clean" installation of Windows 7 using an upgrade license to save $80-$100 over the price of a "full" edition, a popular blog reported today.

10/24/09 1142 Microsoft Security Essentials..failure to update
MSE appears to have just a few, fixed times at which it checks whether new signatures are available to download. If it sleeps through these times, on waking it fails to correct this omission — at least as long as the signatures are not more than one week old.

10/23/09 2134 Apple Discontinues ZFS Project
Daring Fireball suggests that Apple's decision could have been motivated by NetApp's patent lawsuit over ZFS.

10/23/09 2129 Ninite, easy app install
All we do is install the latest versions of the appsyou choose. Not even Ninite is installed.

10/23/09 1535 Hulu to charge for content
Carey didn't say that free shows were going by the wayside—it's possible that Hulu may be plotting to launch a more limited ad-supported service alongside a "premium" tier as a paid subscription.

10/23/09 1512 Patent for Ads in the OS...Apple may be losing my support
On April 18, 2008, Apple Computer applied for a patent relating to an 'invention' that allows for showing advertisements within an operating system. The first named inventor on the patent application is none other than Steve Jobs.

10/23/09 1043 Apple's Magic Mouse

10/23/09 0948 Nikto 2.1.0 Released – Web Server Security Scanning Tool

10/23/09 0933 Microsoft releases major update to Hyper-V R2
Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software.

10/23/09 0926 Malware Cleaner Affiliates No Better than Scareware Pushers
And the lying continued with PC Tools affiliates who advertise the company's Spyware Doctor program. S!Ri documented and took screenshots from seven such websites, all claiming to offer free removal of the SecureShield rogueware and linking to PC Tools.

10/23/09 0925 First Look: BlackBerry Storm2
Underlying the surface of the 3.25in display is an electro-mechanical mechanism for interpreting the touch-screen requests, whereas the previous handset had a purely mechanical mechanism.

10/23/09 0922 Soupy Sales is gone
Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit Free Press reported. He was 83.

10/23/09 0921 Dallas returns
Dallas stars Linda Gray and Larry Hagman have confirmed they've been approached to reprise their Sue Ellen and J.R. Ewing characters for a remake of the classic 1980s soap.

10/23/09 0921 Newsday.com moves to subscriber model
will have to pay a $5 weekly fee. However, nonpaying customers will have access to some of newsday.com's information, including the home page, school closings, weather, obituaries, classified and entertainment listings

10/23/09 0917 Windows 7 Ads

10/23/09 0916 Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites
Operation 'Eagle Claw' have shut down 800 scam web sites, and arrested members of 18 syndicates behind the fraudulent scam sites.

10/23/09 0915 FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations
carriers would not be allowed to 'prevent users from sending or receiving the lawful content,' 'running lawful applications,' or 'connecting and using ... lawful devices that do not harm the network.'

10/23/09 0913 Google Wave: is it truly useful?
I'm not convinced this is a good thing. Most of us don't get a sentence completely right the first time -- we commit typos, then go back and edit them, or we start with one idea, think better of it, erase it and start over again. With Google Wave, the recipients see that entire process.

10/23/09 0912 Microsoft wants ISO security certification cloud services
Microsoft Corp. wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to try and assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services.

10/23/09 0648 Apple: You can't trust Microsoft
However, this time, it doesn't stop there. Because Apple also specifically asks XP users whether it's terribly wise to go with Windows 7 when Mac is No. 1 for Customer Satisfaction.

10/23/09 0648 Botnet click fraud at record high
Malware-infected computers are increasingly being used to perpetrate click fraud, according to a study released Thursday that found their contribution was the highest since researchers began compiling statistics on the crime.

10/23/09 0642 Apple Magic Mouse
Launched this week, the Magic Mouse - daft name - drops the Mighty Mouse's touchball in favour of a multi-touch surface like a kind of gently curved, shiny white trackpad.

10/22/09 1701 Rapid7 acquires the Metasploit project

10/22/09 1700 Apple must upgrade Boot Camp to support Windows 7
Promises update by year's end for Snow Leopard, abandons nine older Macs

10/22/09 1700 Nokia Sues Apple
Nokia has filed a complaint against Apple, saying its iPhone infringes on 10 Nokia patents related to wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.

10/22/09 1659 Kindle now only w/AT&T
Amazon has chopped $20 off its price and made that model its only Kindle offering for both the domestic U.S. and international markets. In the process,

10/22/09 1658 Win 7's PC "Kindleware"
Amazon has unveiled Kindle software for Windows, showing off the new ebook reader app at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch this morning in New York City.

10/22/09 1658 Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
A Dutch court ruled today that The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works.

10/22/09 1657 Dell Adamo XPS can only be opened by rubbing
The Dell Adamo XPS isn't only ridiculously thin, it opens like no laptop ever seen before. Its propped-up keyboard can only be opened by sliding a finger on the lid's heat-sensing strip

10/21/09 2116 WordPress 2.8.5 offers improved security
WordPress version 2.8.5 promises better security. Described by the development team as a 'hardening release',

10/21/09 2115 Vulnerability in ESX DHCP, JRE...
"vCenter, VirtualCenter and Server 2.0 are also affected by the vulnerabilities in DHCP and JRE. However, VMware is still working on patches for these products"

10/21/09 2113 Truecrypt 6.3 released

10/21/09 2113 Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer"
The system, dubbed Keychest, is being positioned as an answer to consumer concerns about purchasing digital media that are locked to a small number of devices

10/21/09 2100 First Public White-Space Network Is Alive
White space networks use unlicensed television spectrum and have been called 'WiFi on steroids.' They offer more bandwidth, over larger areas, than does WiFi.

10/21/09 2059 8 things you need to know about Windows 8
Windows 8 release date is late 2011 or early 2012

10/21/09 2059 fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB
Engineers have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data -- 50 times the capacity of today's best silicon-based chip technologies.

10/19/09 2056 Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
Former Current Media executive Robin Sloan appears to have posted Twitter's 5 billionth tweet, in the form of a reply to another user that otherwise read only "Oh lord."

10/19/09 2056 Unused servers squander $25 billion a year
A new report says 15 percent of servers aren't doing anything useful and are wasting energy

10/19/09 2044 CRITICAL:Foxit 3.1.2.1013, Xpdf
"The flaw was discovered in version 3.1.1.0928 and has also been confirmed to exist in the current version 3.1.2.1013 of Foxit Reader (with Firefox 3.5.3 ). A similar bug that affected the loading of objects was recently fixed in Adobe "

10/19/09 1955 Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market
But unknown to patients, an increasing number of outside vendors that manage electronic health records also have access to that data, and are reselling the information as a commodity.

10/19/09 1948 Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage
"The other shoe has dropped on the upcoming preview program for the next Xbox 360 update and it's going to cost you. In a post on the Major Nelson blog, Xbox's Larry Hryb reveals that this next update will lock-out unauthorized storage devices."

10/19/09 1500 iPhone Rock Band
EA Mobile has released the iPhone and iPod Touch version of its console title, Rock Band, the game that allows you and your friends to strum, smash or sing along with your favorite songs.

10/19/09 1448 A Look at Adobe Premiere Elements 8
The biggest new features include the "smart" decisions that PE8 takes on your footage automatically. SmartFix fixes the shakiness of your footage, lighting, and color

10/19/09 1440 Alternate Pixar Intro

10/19/09 1215 High End Electric Sports Car
Due to run as a prototype in 2011 and enter limited production soon after, the e-2 will be powered by four electric motors producing a combined power output of over 400kW (536hp).

10/19/09 1214 Three-wheel vehicles eligible for federal funds
Congress has approved a measure that will allow makers of three-wheel cars to receive funding for fuel-efficient auto technologies, according to published reports.

10/19/09 1213 First Microsoft Store Opens This Week
With Windows 7 launching on Thursday, Microsoft already has a busy week ahead, but the company may add even more to its plate by opening its first retail store on the same day as its new operating system.

10/19/09 1213 SCO fires CEO Darl McBride
In an SEC filing published today, SCO revealed that CEO Darl McBride has been terminated and is no longer with the company.

10/19/09 1018 Microsoft Surface and D&D

10/19/09 0818 iDon't..but Droid does

10/19/09 0746 VirtualBox 3.0.8
The most popular virtualization tool distributed by Sun Microsystems - and one whose future as an Oracle product is in question - is VirtualBox, and the software was just updated with a new 3.0.8 release.

10/19/09 0745 Sony designs 360° 3D TV
Sony has obviously felt compelled to push the envelope further still. So it has developed a 360° 3D display.

10/19/09 0742 Economics of Fake AntiMalware
"And if that wasn't bad enough, the cybercriminals are also using affiliate schemes to get middlemen to "sell" the software to potential victims, with the affiliate potentially earning 55 cents a download. According to Weafer, one affiliate scheme (which has been shut down), boasted that its top affiliates earned as much as $332,000 a month."

10/19/09 0737 Ars reviews Machinarium
With some of the most striking 2D visuals around and a understated but compelling narrative, Machinarium is a perfect example of a modern adventure game.

10/19/09 0735 Trojans on Facebook
Attackers have apparently embedded iframes that retrieve malicious code from various servers, into the web pages of the Facebook applications.

10/19/09 0735 Tool to fool TrueCrypt published
She wrote a keyboard logger that sniffs the password entered for decryption. To make the process especially user-friendly, she came up with an image that can be loaded on a USB stick.

10/19/09 0734 Oracle to patch 38 vulnerabilities
Affected products include Oracle Database 9i Release 2, 10g, 10g Release 2, 11g, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle WebLogic Server.

10/19/09 0733 Motorola, Android, and Lucasfilm
"Motorola is set to launch a super slim Android smartphone called the Droid on Verizon Wireless and has even got an advert that squarely parodies Apple's series of television ads, calling its arch rival, the iDon't "

10/19/09 0732 Mozilla removes MS Firefox Extension from Blacklist
However, it subsequently emerged that the Microsoft Framework Assistant add-on poses no threat to Firefox users.

10/19/09 0724 Windows 7 vs. Mac Snow Leopard: The Great Debate
Apple wanted to go on record and talk about why Snow Leopard is better than Windows 7. Apple's Senior Director of Mac OS X Product Marketing Brian Croll gave me his side of the story.

10/19/09 0724 A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion
The small company that Eric Lerner started recently gathered enough funding to start a two-year study on the validity of his theory regarding fusion-inducing plasmoids. If the theory holds, the device will produce more electricity than it consumes.

10/19/09 0723 OpenBSD 4.6 Released
Highlights of the new release include a new privilege-separated smtpd; numerous improvements to packet filtering, software RAID, routing daemons, and the TCP stack; a new installer; and lots more.

10/19/09 0722 PulseAudio..not perfect
While Poettering admits PulseAudio itself is not bug-free, he believes the majority of issues are being triggered by misbehaving drivers or applications."

10/17/09 1346 Microsoft Security Essential's first week
In its first week, MSE made almost four million detections on a total of 535752 unique machines, so it seems like it is doing its job.

10/16/09 0756 Google makes record $1.6bn profit
Google made $1.6bn on overall revenue of $6bn for the third quarter of the year, up by 7 per cent on the same period in 2008

10/16/09 0752 Apple patent to "mask" compression artifacts
"The described technology would not do away with compression, which is necessary given bandwidth restrictions. Instead, it details a new technology that would mask artifacting that often appears when video files are compressed to reduce their file size."

10/16/09 0751 Ars looks at Google Editions
Google Editions, would launch at the beginning of 2010 with around half a million books and that users will be able to buy books on a variety of devices, including their computers and mobile phones, and possibly even e-book readers.

10/16/09 0739 Performance showdown: Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
I've been wanting to do a performance comparison between Windows 7 and Mac OS X since I first got my hands on the Windows 7 RTM (the final build of the OS) more than two months ago, but decided to wait until I could compare the two apples to apples. (No pun intended.)

10/16/09 0717 CRITICAL:PHPMyAdmin 2.11.9.6,3.2.2.1
According to the developers' advisory, the previous versions contain two programming flaws that potentially can be exploited for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and the injection of arbitrary SQL commands.

10/16/09 0715 Firefox at risk from Microsoft plugin
""The .NET Framework Assistant [the name of the add-on slipped into Firefox] that results can be installed inside Firefox without your approval"

10/16/09 0713 Toyota "stalks" woman
Toyota marketing stalks and terrorizes woman, claims she consented by doing an online personality test

10/16/09 0713 Most corporate PCs ready for Windows 7
"currently 88 percent of corporate PCs meet the minimum requirements for Windows 7, according to a new study by IT solution provider Softchoice. "

10/16/09 0712 Facebook's COO, "we're too slow"
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted in a talk here on Thursday evening that the company's response to a database outage that knocked out approximately 150,000 user accounts was "too slow."

10/16/09 0710 Apple loves Windows 7
"Users are really growing tired of Windows and the headaches it brings," said Brian Croll, Apple's vice president of Mac OS X worldwide product marketing. "We've seen this with Vista, XP, and the other Windows operating systems going all the way back."

10/16/09 0707 Big companies fighting Net Neutrality
However, 44 companies — including Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia — have sent a letter to the FCC saying new regulations could hinder the development of the Internet.

10/16/09 0706 40 Years of Monty Python

10/15/09 2006 Seven Days in Haiku
Today marks an entire week of using Haiku as my primary operating system. This is my first PC to get the most out of any BeOS related operating system to date.

10/15/09 2005 Sonar Screensaver
" shut off the display immediately when the user leaves the computer rather than using slow and error-prone mouse/keyboard activity timeouts"

10/15/09 2004 Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard
Aside from some minor upgrades, there are advancements that will attract small businesses, especially shops running Mac OS X clients. Unfortunately, not everything worked out well in testing, including the performance of some tools and protocols.

10/15/09 1528 Firefox plugin scanner to run on other browsers
The check scans for installed plug-ins, identifies those for which updates are available and provides a link to the vendor's download site."

10/15/09 1324 New Outlook Web Access Phishing Scam
The attackers behind the Zeus Trojan have unleashed a new phishing scam that is specifically targeted at users of the popular corporate webmail tool Outlook Web Access.

10/15/09 1324 Six Years, 400 Bulletins, 745 Vulnerabilities
About 230, or more than half of the bulletins, addressed security vulnerabilities that were described by Microsoft as "critical."

10/15/09 1321 AT&T vs Google Voice
"lays into the chocolate factory for holding an unregulated monopoly on web searching, stacking web searches in its favour and adopting a hugely hypocritical stance on the neutrality of communication networks."

10/15/09 1316 Google Accounts for 6% of All Internet Traffic
Now, instead of traffic being distributed among tens of thousands of networks, only 150 networks control some 50% of all online traffic.

10/15/09 1113 Blackberry Storm 2 Thunders onto Verizon's Network
I don't think it would be an understatement to say the Blackberry Storm 2 is to Windows 7 what the original Storm was to Vista.

10/15/09 1112 Google to launch online bookstore
The search giant announced Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair that in the first half of next year it will launch Google Editions, a new service that will deliver e-books to anyone with a Web browser.

10/15/09 1019 Microsoft restores Sidekick customer data
The data will now be checked and, starting with address data, made available to customers. This will be followed by additional personal data, such as calendar entries, notes, task lists and pictures.

10/15/09 0942 Jon Favreau wont direct Avengers
Jon Favreau confirmed to MTV News that he won't be directing the Avengers movie. It's too bad, because everyone seemed to like what he did with Iron Man, and finding a good superhero movie director can be tough.

10/15/09 0921 Farewell, Captain Lou Albano
He may be best known for his roles in those early MTV classics, but I betcha don't know this, gamers: he also played "Mario" in "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show

10/15/09 0858 Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware with blackra1n
This time he is the first one to release jailbreaking solution for the new iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware for all devices through his new tool called blackra1n.

10/15/09 0856 AVG 9 Free
"AVG Free 9 introduces few new features, with improvements focused on performance including claims of faster scan and boot times. AVG is claiming that scans are 50 percent faster compared to AVG 8."

10/15/09 0855 Acer sells more than Dell
"Acer overtook Dell as the world's second-largest computer vendor during the third quarter, as the PC market showed signs of coming back to life, IDC said on Wednesday."

10/15/09 0855 HTC HD2 walk-through
Running Windows Mobile 6.5, the large, capactive touch screen interface is powered by Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon chipset

10/15/09 0854 Blackberry Storm 2
"has officially unveiled the Blackberry Storm2, the successor to its first touch-screen handset, adding WiFi capability and improvements to the tactile feedback for its display."

10/15/09 0849 Acer Aspire 3D laptop
This is all down to Acer's 3D CineReal technology and a special 3D coating on the screen that enables the 3D effect, thus allowing you to enjoy your favourite flicks in the third dimension.

10/15/09 0826 3d fingerprinting
"The US Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Justice are hoping to change that. They've given grants to dozens of companies to perfect touchless 3D fingerprinting."

10/15/09 0825 No easy riches in the iPhone app store
or a fast track to quitting the rat race. Instead they describe an anxiety-wracked marketplace full of bewildering rules, long odds, and little sense of control over one's success or failure. "It's kind of a crapshoot,"

10/15/09 0824 magnetricity
From the article, 'The phenomenon, dubbed "magnetricity," could be used in magnetic storage or in computing. Magnetic monopoles were first predicted to exist over a century ago, as a perfect analogue to electric charges.

10/15/09 0824 D&D online now free
Dungeons and Dragons Online is enjoying a second life in terms of player count and buzz, all thanks to its new business strategy: giving the game away.

10/15/09 0823 Hands-On with Western Digital's TV Live
Since then, Western Digital has issued a series of firmware updates that improve format compatibility (including DivX), but the new WD TV Live adds new hardware features as well.

10/14/09 1410 Sidekick problem based on sabotage?
"Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage"

10/14/09 1356 New Wi-Fi spec challenges Bluetooth
The way Wi-Fi Direct works is that it allows Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as phones, cameras, printers, computers, keyboards, and headphones to connect to other Wi-Fi devices individually or to multiple devices at once.

10/14/09 1355 Seth MacFarlane spokesman for Windows 7
Microsoft hopes that "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane will do what Jerry Seinfeld couldn't: sell an operating system.

10/14/09 1342 Acer Launching Dual Android/Windows 7 Netbook
Acer has unveiled an Aspire netbook that dual boots Google Android and Windows 7. 'User demand is not there for [other forms of] Linux [but] we never give up.

10/14/09 1341 Facebook, 30k servers
Facebook has continued to use that number, even as it has soared past 300 million users and dramatically expanded its data center space.

10/14/09 1339 Mozilla Plugin Check
It sounds like no big deal, but you have to consider how many security threats are posed by plug-ins. One example is the seemingly endless exploits associated with Adobe Systems' Flash plug-in.

10/14/09 1335 McAfee Endpoint Protection for Macs
"The security company has unveiled ‘Endpoint Protection for Macs’, suggesting there was growing demand from enterprises to have some kind of security protection on Mac machines in the workplace."

10/14/09 1107 New Koobface campaign spoofs Adobe's Flash updater
"spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe’s Flash updater embedded within a fake Youtube page."

10/14/09 1106 Details on this month's Patch Tuesday
"Microsoft today released its largest ever batch of Patch Tuesday updates to fix a whopping 34 security holes in a wide range of widely deployed software products."

10/14/09 1102 Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes
"'Look at all the paper and trees, he said, that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labor and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes.'""

10/14/09 1101 Cool..10/GUI
"The video is quite interesting, and, for me at least, pretty jaw dropping. This is a dramatic re-imagining of the current mouse/screen schema, one that I think has significant potential."" I want this...

10/14/09 1052 Next Nintendo Handheld To Be Powered By NVIDIA's Tegra Chipset
NVIDIA Tegra processor is an SoC that runs a set of ARM cores, a GeForce-based graphics core and an HD video processor capable of 1080p output t

10/14/09 0859 Samsung quietly testing mini SSD
Samsung Corp. said during an interview today that it is testing a new consumer-class solid state drive (SSD) with computer makers that's about one-third the size of a business card and that would plug directly into an internal PCI Express (PCIe) slot in a desktop, laptop or netbook.

10/14/09 0824 The Expendables...
Sooo bad...explosions, bad jokes, guns, kung fu...just like the 80s...

10/14/09 0801 Star Trek gag reel

10/14/09 0751 Steve Jobs voted 'most admired'
"America's pimply-faced yoof are wanna-be black-shirted Apple fanatics, apparently, as they voted for Steve Jobs as their most admired entrepreneur."

10/14/09 0749 Firefox 3.6 will support accelerometers
"Firefox is about to get a whole lot more sentient on us -- at least those of us with accelerometers in our hardware -- courtesy of a new device API that is capable of maintaining a webpage's vertical orientation relative to the ground, no matter what sort of salto mortale the underlying machine (Mac or otherwise) might be doing"

10/14/09 0748 LG introduces solar-powered e-reader
"The LG-crafted solar cell is 10cm in width and length, and fits the e-reader perfectly. The device has a 6-inch display, and has the ability to extend battery life up to one day after four to five hours of charging."

10/14/09 0736 Dell Slams Netbooks
Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.

10/14/09 0735 GovernmentAttic.org
Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and government bloopers, they're all here.

10/14/09 0734 Opera's Unite out of beta
"Despite only being available for a number of months in a beta separate from the main Opera build--and the Internet looking more or less like the same place in the aftermath--the release of Opera 10.10 beta indicates that Unite is about to become a standard Opera feature. "

10/14/09 0733 Windows 7 may trigger upgrades
forecast that as soon as eight months after its October 22 launch, corporate resistance to moving to the new operating system will likely start to dissolve.

10/14/09 0713 FreeBSD Gets Grand Central Dispatch Port
It was suggested that it could be ported to other platforms, and the FreeBSD team has done exactly that.

10/14/09 0712 Details Emerge of 2006 Wal-Mart Hack
She goes into great detail about the investigation and what the investigators found, including that the hackers made copies of their point-of-sale source code, and that they ran l0phtCrack on a Wal-Mart server.

10/14/09 0712 Linux LiveCDs to fight bank fraud
"Washington Post Security Fix columnist Brian Krebs recommends that banking customers consider using a Linux LiveCD, rather than Microsoft Windows, to access their on-line banking. "

10/13/09 1458 Dyson's bladeless electric fan
As a result, Dyson claims the bladeless fan, which works by forcing a jet of air out of a narrow circular slit and then over an aerofoil-shaped blade, is at least as efficient as its bladed counterpart, more comfortable and much safer.

10/13/09 1445 CRITICAL:Adobe Acrobat Patches
"Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions update to Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2. Adobe recommends users of Acrobat 8.1.6 and earlier versions update to Acrobat 8.1.7, and users of Acrobat 7.1.3 and earlier versions update to Acrobat 7.1.4."

10/13/09 1441 CRITICAL:It's Patch Tuesday
"Microsoft released a record number of 13 bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday and the first critical update for Windows 7, as well as fixes for zero-day flaws involving Server Message Block (SMB) and Internet Information Services (IIS)."

10/13/09 1437 Gmail Detects Potential Recipient Mistakes in Group E-mails
Google's Gmail webmail service can now detect if users have included a potentially incorrect recipient in an e-mail message they're sending to a group of people.

10/13/09 1435 Nokia Booklet 3G
For the holidays, Nokia’s Booklet 3G netbook will be available only at Best Buy, for $299 with $60-per-month 3G support from AT&T.

10/13/09 1434 Google shares malware samples with hacked site admins
Google has rolled out a feature that provides webmasters of compromised sites with samples of malicious code and other detailed information to help them clean up.

10/13/09 1433 WD TV Live HD Media Player
"The WD TV Live is an upgrade over the previous WD TV model, now adding Ethernet connectivity and digital theater sound to its extensive features."

10/13/09 1252 Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet
"Pingdom and Network World are reporting that the SE tld dropped off the internet yesterday due to a bug in the script that generates the SE zone file. "

10/13/09 0852 Office 2004 for Mac support expended
"Just a day before Microsoft was to have retired Office 2004 for Mac by ending updates and fixes, including security patches, the company said Monday that it would instead extend the five-year-old suite's support until Jan. 10, 2012."

10/13/09 0852 MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives
"The PCIe cards, from Fusion-io Inc., have allowed MySpace to replace multiple server farms made up of 2U (3.5-in high) servers that had used 10 to 12 15,000 RPM Fibre Channel drives each with 1U (1.75-in high) servers using a single ioDrive. "

10/13/09 0851 AVG LinkScanner updated
"AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack."

10/13/09 0805 Intel Caught Cheating In 3DMark Benchmark
"Intel's current Windows 7 drivers appear to be in direct violation, offloading the graphics workload onto the CPU to artificially inflate scores for the company's integrated graphics chipsets."

10/13/09 0805 Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW
"An anonymous reader tips news that Blizzard will be requiring all World of Warcraft players to use Battle.net accounts to log into the game starting on November 11th."

10/13/09 0804 World of Warcraft movie
"Among the revelations Raimi had to share was the news that "Saving Private Ryan" writer Robert Rodat will be tackling the "Warcraft" script as well."

10/13/09 0803 Cancer passed in the womb?
"A team at the Institute of Cancer Research working with colleagues in Japan, has found a cancer case that has defied accepted theories of biology. "

10/12/09 0948 Snow Leopard "guest" account bug
"The problem, can easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one"

10/12/09 0947 RapidShare replacing P2P for warez
"Sites such as RapidShare, Megaupload, and Hotfile let anonymous users upload large files such as cracked software for free."

10/12/09 0944 Bahama Botnet
"A recently discovered botnet has been caught siphoning ad revenue away from Google, Yahoo! and Bing and funneling it to smaller networks."

10/12/09 0751 New Ad-Aware offers behavioral detection
"Called Genotype, Ad-Aware's heuristic-based behavioral detection engine isn't explicitly called out in the interface."

10/12/09 0750 DRAM Errors in the Wild
"But the number of hard errors - such as when bits get stuck and a machine crashes and you need to replace a memory module - is a lot higher than current lab tests from memory and server makers might suggest.'

10/12/09 0749 Google Android 1.5 vulnerabilities
"INSECURITY RESEARCHERS have disclosed two vulnerabilities in Google's Android mobile platform that could lead to denial-of-service attacks."

10/12/09 0749 Microsoft patent for time-based licensing
"Microsoft has applied for a patent on a software licensing technology that could be used to bill users for the time they spend computing, just as if they were paying for minutes spent using a PC at an Internet cafe or like feeding the parking meter for their car. "

10/12/09 0745 Details on Sidekick user data loss
"A major server outage at Microsoft's subsidiary firm Danger, which provides Sidekick data services to T-Mobile customers, has forced the company to admit that many of its users have lost personal information that was stored on the system."

10/12/09 0741 Technet details on October Patches for Microsoft

10/12/09 0739 Video Tweets?
"Reports are emerging that Twitter is planning to allow users to tweet videos, but the company has denied any such suggestion."

10/12/09 0734 LG Presents Solar Powered E-Book
"LG’s new solar e-book aims to address this issue by harnessing the sun's rays to power its display."

10/12/09 0732 Android Will Be #2 Mobile OS by 2012
"While the Google-backed Android mobile operating system will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market in 201"

10/12/09 0732 Frankencamera
"It works a bit like an iPhone, in that it runs on an open source operating system, allowing photographers to change the electronic guts of the camera by downloading applications."

10/10/09 1813 Solaris 10 10/09 Released
"The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems"

10/10/09 1805 Exchange 2010 RTM
"This Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone means we are on our way to general availability and the launch at Tech·Ed Europe 2009 (http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/) in early November."

10/10/09 1804 Firefox 3.6 is faster
"Generally faster JavaScript execution and much faster page rendering will result in a browser that's almost one-fourth faster than its predecessor -- by our estimate, 22.78% faster on average."

10/10/09 1801 Computer assisted ESP
"Dr. Christopher James of the University of Southampton has demonstrated what is being termed 'Brain to Brain' communication. In binary, no less. In essence, one person imagined a binary number, which was picked up by an EEG and transmitted via the net to another PC"

10/10/09 1543 Windows Server Trusts Samba4 Active Directory
"Windows Server will now join, trust and replicate a Samba-based Active Directory using Microsoft-native protocols"

10/10/09 1542 Ubuntu 9.10 review
"And, while Ubuntu 9.10 certainly doesn’t implement everything I’d dreamed of in that article, they hit some of the key points. Let’s take a few minutes and go over the good and bad."

10/09/09 0753 Microsoft delays Forefront Endpoint Protection
"Microsoft is delaying the launch of its Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 anti-malware product until the second half of next year."

10/09/09 0742 CRITICAL:Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3
"The post reveals that a critical vulnerability, CVE-2009-3459, is now being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks. The vulnerability affects Adobe 9.1.3 on Windows, Unix and OS X. However, the exploits have been limited to Windows so far."

10/09/09 0741 world's first USB 3.0 hard disk
"Buffalo's making the boast today that its HD-HU3 series of USB 3.0 hard disks will be the "world's first!!" to ship."

10/09/09 0740 Microsoft Works is dead
"Well, Microsoft has announced today that it will kill Microsoft Works, and replace it with Microsoft Office 2010 Starter"

10/09/09 0738 Comcast Constant Guard
"Comcast Constant Guard, focused on end-user security. One technical aspect of that is a (web-based) Service Notice, which we will start testing in a small part of our network later today. "

10/09/09 0737 Next Tuesday is Patch Tuesday
"Microsoft said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix 13 flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and Forefront Security client software. Among the updates will be the first for the final, or release to manufacturing, code of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system"

10/09/09 0728 President Barack Obama is announced as the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

10/09/09 0727 Man did walk on the Moon
"Now new photos taken by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) camera may settle the matter once and for all. "

10/09/09 0727 Hulu Desktop for Linux
"Hulu Desktop for Linux is currently built on Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. The packages should also work on any Linux distribution with glib2.16 (such as Ubuntu 8.04+ and Fedora 9+). Other configurations have not been tested."

10/08/09 1319 Facebook account problems
"Earlier this week, we wrote about Facebook's acknowledgment that some members could not access their accounts for several days, instead receiving a "down for maintenance" error. At the time, a Facebook representative explained that it was a "technical issue with one of our databases" and estimated that it would be solved within 24 hours. It's unclear how many accounts have been affected."

10/08/09 1316 'Starter' version of Office
"Aiming to turn more new PC buyers into Office users, Microsoft has announced plans for several new ways to obtain the software, including an ad-supported "Starter" edition that can come loaded on new PCs. "

10/08/09 1315 Twitter clogged?
the stream of updates from the Twitter accounts you follow--isn't bringing up any new tweets. For me, it looks like this started at around 8:00 a.m. PT.

10/08/09 1313 Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony
"Sony's new "bendable" and transparent organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology is being shown in prototypes featuring an OLED a mere 0.2 mm thick. The prototype devices are a Vaio notebook, a flexible e-book, and a Walkman bracelet."

10/08/09 0954 GDB 7.0 released
"Release 7.0 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymousFTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C,Pascal and many other languages"

10/08/09 0907 Sony claims lightest-ever notebook
"The 11-inch netbook crossover is billed as the lightest ever notebook and uses a carbon fiber shell to reach a weight of just 1.6 pounds."

10/08/09 0815 Root server with DNSSEC-signed zone
"Joe Abley of ICANN and VeriSign manager Matt Larson announced, at the 59th meeting of the "Réseaux IP Européens" (RIPE) in Lisbon, that, starting on the 1st of December, the central root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) will be signed, deploying the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol, which has been discussed for years."

10/08/09 0804 Microsoft, Red Hat seal the deal on interoperability
"The two companies said they have completed testing and validation and that they fully support virtualization environments that combine Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4."

10/08/09 0803 Dell Android Phone
"The smartphone will run the Android flavor of Linux, and will include a touch screen and a camera, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with Dell's plans."

10/08/09 0800 Nvidia Halts Chipset Developments
"Intel says that its four-year agreement with Nvidia doesn't cover the Nehalem or Core series of processors and, while the legalities have nothing to do with Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia has stopped developing chipsets for AMD as well."

10/08/09 0758 Avatar Business Dress Codes
"With businesses increasingly using digital tech like virtual worlds and Twitter, their staff will have to be given guidelines on how they 'dress' their avatars, according to analysts. "

10/08/09 0757 Candy Linked To Violence In Study
"The researchers theorize the correlation comes from the way candy is given rather than the candy itself"

10/07/09 2116 11 Products fail Virus Bulletin's latest test
"The outfit tested 26 applications this time around, 11 of which failed, including the popular Avira AntiVir Server and Sophos Anti-Virus."

10/07/09 2115 Operation Phish Phry
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday charged almost 100 people in Operation Phish Phry, the largest cyber fraud phishing case to date.

10/07/09 2113 New Visa security practices
"Data field encryption can be another layer to enhance a merchant's security by eliminating any clear text data either in storage or in flight."

10/07/09 2111 Malware Fleamarket
"Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan downloaders and tools for evading detection are bargaining with thousands of would-be "affiliates" willing to compromise victims' computers globally and get paid for it."

10/07/09 2101 128-bit Windows
"The next client version of Windows should therefore follow suit, but apparently Microsoft is going to prepare it for 128-bit as well. We're not saying Windows 8 will definitely come in 64-bit and 128-bit flavors, but Microsoft is moving down that path"

10/07/09 2024 Google search results with formatted PDFs
Google on Wednesday announced that its search results now feature an option allowing users to view formatted PDFs from within their browser.

10/07/09 2023 Geocities is dead
Yahoo released a "final notice" on Wednesday reminding GeoCities users that the free site creation service will be closing up shop later this month.

10/07/09 2022 Windows 7 doesn't boot faster
which can be as little as 40 seconds on a fresh installation of Windows 7, but rather the time it takes to become fully usable "with CPU cycles no longer significantly high and a true idle state achieved.

10/07/09 2019 Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s
some cases the PS3 hardware itself was damaged. It continues, 'For owners who sustained hardware damage from the Sony-required update, Sony is charging a $150 repair fee per unit.

10/07/09 2017 Who should write your programs?
A 27-year-old man serving six years for stealing £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet was recruited to help write code needed for the installation of an internal prison TV station

10/07/09 2016 Debian FreeBSD
The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor architectures are now release architecture

10/07/09 0859 Google confirms Gmail phishing attack
" Google confirmed today that passwords for its free Gmail online e-mail service had been harvested by hackers, but downplayed the phishing attack as involving just a "small number" of accounts."

10/07/09 0858 CIA's cloud
"Jill Tummler Singer, the CIA's deputy CIO, says that she sees enormous benefits to a cloud approach. And while the CIA has been moving steadily to build a cloud-friendly infrastructure -- it has adopted virtualization, among other things -- cloud computing is still a relatively new idea among federal agencies."

10/07/09 0857 Microsoft, EU reach accord on antitrust
"Microsoft appears to have reached an agreement with the European Commission that concludes an antitrust battle that has lasted a decade, Europe's top competition regulator said Wednesday."

10/07/09 0853 AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone
"AT&T announced it will allow Apple to enable Voice over Internet Protocol applications, such as Skype, to run on its 3G wireless data network."

10/07/09 0843 Common Hotmail passwords
"A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456″ was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times."

10/07/09 0823 Adobe AIR update
"While Flash Player got most of the attention at Adobe Systems' developer conference this week, the company also announced an update to Adobe AIR, a runtime environment that allows Flash programs to run offline on the desktop."

10/06/09 2134 68 Hard drives stolen from Blue Cross
"Officials said they did not know if personal information was stored on the equipment."

10/06/09 2118 Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed
"hundreds to thousands of times more common than has been previously believed. Hard errors may be the most common failure type. The DIMMs themselves appear to be of good quality, and bad mobo design may be the biggest problem"

10/06/09 2117 London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source
"London Stock Exchange decided to move away from its Microsoft .Net-based trading platform, TradElect. Instead, they'll be using the GNU/Linux-based MillenniumIT system"

10/06/09 2114 Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released
" Yesterday, someone posted a null-prefix certificate for www.paypal.com on the full-disclosure mailing list. In conjunction with sslsniff, this certificate can be used to intercept communication to PayPal from all clients using the Windows Crypto API, for which a patch is still not available. This includes IE, Chrome, and Safari on Windows."

10/06/09 1442 Google Native Client..Active X again?
"In ActiveX's case, this was accomplished via a native-compiled, Win32 program that was then specially wrapped and packaged for easy download/installation, with little or no user interaction. Native Client take a slightly different approach, with a plug-in architecture and additional layers of abstraction and security."

10/06/09 1424 Windows Mobile 6.5 reviews
""Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't just a letdown -- it barely seems done.""

10/06/09 1421 Just cause...love cake

10/06/09 1243 What is Google Wave?

10/06/09 1238 Psystar starts licensing Apple's Mac OS X to OEMs
"NOT CONTENT with antangonising Apple all alone, cheeky Mac cloning company Psystar is trying to gather allies to its cause by offering to certify other non-Apple hardware as OS X compliant."

10/06/09 1236 Eolas files patent lawsuits vs. everybody
"Eolas' lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, claims the tech vendors and other companies have violated two Eolas patents, one for allowing embedded applications in Web browsers, and the second a continuation of the first patent, allowing Web sites to add embedded applications through the use of plug-ins and AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)."

10/06/09 1231 "Father of Fiber Optics" Wins Nobel Prize
"Kao, sometimes referred to as the 'father of fiber-optic communications,' was formally honored by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden 'for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.'"

10/06/09 1056 Epic Mickey video game
"The game is a Wii-exclusive and Game Informer promises “we have some amazing things in store, including screenshots, animations, and tons of concept art and music.”"

10/06/09 1032 VMware Fusion 3.0 "macifies" Windows
"The upcoming version of VMware Inc.'s Fusion software for Mac-Windows desktop virtualization includes an interface overlay called "Unity" that erases Windows' long ubiquitous Start taskbar in favor of Mac OS X's Dock, and replaces the Windows Search with one closely resembling Mac OS X's Spotlight search box."

10/06/09 0805 Popular Mechanics 2009 Breakthrough awards
"Included on the list is a series of innovators, as well as a number of products, including this lawn mower, the Hustler Zeon, which is the world's first all-electric, zero-turning-radius mower. It can cover an acre of grass on a single charge."

10/06/09 0805 Mac owners have more PCs
"Households with Macs are also more than twice as likely as Windows PC-only homes to have three or more computers, said Stephen Baker, an analyst with NPD Group."

10/06/09 0804 Research In Motion (RIM) "webapps" coming
"Research In Motion (RIM) will preview on Tuesday technologies enabling application builders to use Web development skills to build programs for the company's BlackBerry smartphone."

10/06/09 0803 Apple leaves US Chamber of Commerce
"Apple has resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce due to the American business organization's criticism of efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions."

10/06/09 0753 Palm Frees up webOS Development
"They are fully blessing application distribution outside of the App Catalog, open source developers will no longer have to pay a dime to have their applications in the App Catalog"

10/06/09 0752 Netgear WNR3500L
"Netgear has announced the WNR3500L, a brand new, open source, wireless-N gigabit router is customizable with third party firmwares"

10/06/09 0751 72% of Banks Say Their Employees Committed Fraud
"The financial crisis appears to be exacerbating fraud by bank employees: a new survey found that 72 percent of financial institutions say that in the last 12 months they have experienced a case of data theft by one of their workers."

10/06/09 0742 FreeBSD security update
"Users with restricted privileges can reportedly exploit all three holes to elevate their privileges. One of the vulnerabilities is caused by a design flaw recently also discovered and fixed in the kernel."

10/06/09 0742 Chrome 4.0.220.1
"In addition to a number of fixes, the latest Dev release of the web browser adds Google's open source Native Client technology for running x86 native code in web applications. "

10/06/09 0741 Apache Server 2.2.14
"According to the projects developers, the release is considered to be the "best available version of Apache HTTP Server". In addition to fixing bugs, Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 addresses a number of security issues."

10/06/09 0737 Adobe Developed IPhone Tool Without Apple's Help
"the next version of Flash Professional, due in beta later this year, will allow developers to export their Flash code in a format that allows it to run on the iPhone as a native application"

10/06/09 0734 "Food Lion" to buy BiLo
"Belgian international food retailer that is the parent of Food Lion, announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with BI-LO"

10/06/09 0730 URLzone Trojan
"It rewrites bank pages so that the victims don't know that their accounts have been emptied, and it also has a sophisticated command-and-control interface that lets the bad guys pre-set what percentage of the account balance they want to clear out."

10/05/09 2011 Microsoft mouse prototypes
" The craziest two are probably "Arty," which has two articulated arms to cradle your thumb and index finger, with each pad housing its own optical sensor for mission-critical pinching gestures"

10/05/09 2008 AVG 9..free version out soon
"He said that more sophisticated caching and memory use had allowed for a 50 percent reduction in scan time, compared with the previous version. Burke said that boot times had also been reduced in AVG 9.0, by around 10 to 15 percent."

10/05/09 1611 No Flash 10.1 for iPhones
"There is much excitement and celebration today in the world of mobile phones. Adobe announced that Flash Player 10.1 will soon be gracing the diminutive screen of your mobile phone...unless you have an iPhone."

10/05/09 1608 Change your Hotmail password now
"More than 10,000 usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts were leaked online late last week, according to a report by Neowin.net , which claimed that they were posted by an anonymous user on pastebin.com last Thursday."

10/05/09 1605 Mozilla "signed web content" protection
"The technology, dubbed "Content Security Policy" (CSP), is a Mozilla-initiated specification targeted at Web site and application developers, who will be able to define which content on the site or in the online application is legitimate"

10/05/09 1604 AT&T's Windows Mobile 6.5
" AT&T today announced two new smartphones based on Microsoft Inc.'s new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, HTC's Tilt 2 and Pure "

10/04/09 2132 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 brings DLL problems
"This is an alert for all developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. At the beginning of January, Microsoft issued a security fix for Visual Studio 2005 forcing the use of new dynamic libraries (DLLs) by all applications compiled with this IDE. Basically, applications compiled with Visual Studio 2005 will not work anymore on an ordinary (non-dev) PC unless the newer DLLs are installed"

10/04/09 1319 Apple Multitouch Patent Application
"The patent application, which can be found here, describes a device whose screen could be manipulated with not only the fingers of both hands, but also palms. In theory, this allows for a broad range of activities beyond multitouch navigation, including typing or drawing. "

10/04/09 1241 Perl 5.11.0
"jamie points out that Perl 5.11.0 was released yesterday, as well as a schedule for future 5.11.x releases, planned for the 20th of every month"

10/04/09 1240 Why CIOs oppose Macs...cost....
"I'd need to consider not only the costs of the software, hardware, and training; but also the intangible costs of inevitable downtime, stakeholder disgruntlement, and more calls to my service desk team whilst staff come to grips with a system that is reportedly 'quite easy' to use according to the many Mac enthusiasts"

10/04/09 1239 50 Years of the Twilight Zone
"Like the time-space warps that anchored so many of the show's plots, Rod Serling's veiled commentary remains as soul-baring today as it did a half-century ago, and the show's popularity endures in multiple facets of American pop culture, "

10/04/09 1239 Spyware beats Facebook Captcha
"When AVG started looking at the pages, it noticed that the Facebook profiles featured pictures of the same woman and merely had different names to differentiate them. Each page had a link to a supposed video that would infect user computers with spyware if clicked."

10/04/09 1237 Blackberry software for the Mac
"BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac allows users to sync their contacts, calendar, notes, and to-do data between their Macs and BlackBerrys as well as installing and managing applications for the phone."

10/04/09 1232 Retailers screen reviews?
"After about a week, I noticed that the review never made it up there, so I wrote another one just in case. After several attempts to leave a negative review for the product, I realized that the website was screening reviews and only posting the ones that made the products look good. "

10/04/09 1230 Palm re-enables iTunes sync
"The ongoing battle between Palm and Apple over the Palm Pre’s ability to sync up with iTunes shows no signs of dying down, despite numerous attempts from Apple to block the Pre and in spite a recent letter from the USB Implementors Forum which chastised Palm for spoofing Apple’s USB Vendor ID."

10/03/09 0945 "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit
"Whereas Microsoft certified PCs that could only run Vista Home Basic last time around, this time PCs will have to work with all versions of Windows 7 to qualify for the sticker, including 64-bit versions of the OS"

10/03/09 0944 The Pirate Bay Sails To a New Home
" On the heels of several rumors today, Patrik said he could confirm news of the move, saying that he believes The Pirate Bay is now hosted in Ukraine.'""

10/03/09 0943 PSP Go
"Sony has now officially launched the new version of their portable game console, the PSP Go, and the Opposable Thumbs blog took it for a spin to see how they liked it."

10/02/09 0924 CRITICAL:VMware Fusion
"An update for VMware's Fusion software has patched two vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to control or crash a user's computer."

10/02/09 0924 Virus-laden spam hits new record
"Record levels of virus-laden spam emails hit the internet in the third quarter following a six-month surge in total spam, says Google."

10/02/09 0923 Google adds date and time specific searches
""Today we're announcing nine new Search Options tools: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news," explained Google product manager Nundu Janakiram in a blog post."

10/02/09 0918 Microsoft releases XP Mode virtualization to manufacturing
"Microsoft has released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing on October 1, company officials said, and it will be generally available on Microsoft.com on October 22, the launch day for Windows 7."

10/02/09 0918 Beetle Cyborg
"By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command."

10/02/09 0916 Trojan Steals $439K from German Banks
"EWeek reports that the bank trojan has been used to steal $439,000 from German bank accounts over a 22-day period."

10/02/09 0915 Saturn brand is dead
"Saturn brand meets its demise when deal with the Penske Automotive Group falls through"

10/02/09 0906 Apple's "cripple the cell" patent application
"Provisioning, says Apple, allows carriers to 'specify access limitations to certain device resources which may otherwise be available to users of the device.' So what problem are we trying to solve here?"

10/02/09 0802 Windows 7 vs. Vista
"Microsoft's Windows Vista lost market share last month for the first time in almost two years, a sign that users are already abandoning the oft-ridiculed operating system in favor of the new Windows 7."

10/02/09 0802 Google strips Pirate Bay homepage from search results
"The Pirate Bay’s homepage and seven other pages relating to the BitTorrent tracker website have been removed from Google’s search engine, following a DMCA complaint."

10/02/09 0758 PayChoice "hacked"
" In a somewhat unusual data breach, hackers recently stole the login credentials of an unknown number of customers of payroll processing company PayChoice Inc., and then attempted to use the data to steal additional information directly from the customers themselves."

10/02/09 0741 OpenSSH 5.3
"OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions. Version 5.3 marks the 10th anniversary of the OpenSSH project.""

10/02/09 0740 UK Court summons via Twitter
"The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. "

10/02/09 0734 CRITICAL:Samba
"The development team behind open source file and print server Samba have released versions 3.0.37, 3.2.15, 3.3.8 and 3.4.2. They fix three vulnerabilities which attackers could exploit to access data or disable the server. In addition to the new versions, source code patches are also available."

10/01/09 0935 Comcast wants to buy NBC
"LA Times article about another step in the seemingly unending media consolidation. This time it's Cable giant Comcast Corp. looking at NBC. "

10/01/09 0827 Sandboxie 3.4
"Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer."

10/01/09 0826 OpenShot Linux video editor
"Effects are used to modify the video, image, or sound a clip outputs. For example, an "echo" effect will cause the audio of a clip to echo. A "black and white" effect will cause the video to be in black and white."

10/01/09 0734 Another review of Microsoft Security Essentials
"Scan speed for the product was fair and rootkit removal was good. The main deficiency identified in the product was a lack of effective behaviour-based malware detection, a feature Redmond claims was bundled with Microsoft Security Essentials."

10/01/09 0733 MythBusters Fall shows
"Among them are exploring the myth that dirty cars are more fuel efficient than clean ones; one that addresses the reality of a YouTube video in which a man shoots high off a huge water slide and lands, far in the distance, in a small inflatable pool; and one about insects. "

10/01/09 0732 Anti DoS protocol
"The user presents a filter value with each request packet for the server to do a quick check. The filter value is a one-time secret that is presented along with a pseudo-ID. The pseudo-ID is also one-time use."

10/01/09 0731 New "superchip"
"University of Idaho say they have created a single chip more powerful than 17,000 quad core processors that will run on less than 0.03 per cent of the power those chips would require."

10/01/09 0730 Cisco buys Tandberg
"Cisco Systems has signed an agreement to buy videoconferencing vendor Tandberg for about US$3.0 billion, it said on Thursday. "

10/01/09 0730 Apple Maps?
"It appears that Apple has purchased PlaceBase, a company that produced a maps API called Pushpin and offered a mapping service much like Google Maps."

10/01/09 0729 Free All Media
"Free All Media, an Atlanta-based start-up, is the latest company to propose an ad-supported music downloading service. "

10/01/09 0726 SSL trick certificate published
"On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted" Most browsers were patched weeks ago.

10/01/09 0725 CRITICAL:Google Chrome 3.0.195.24
"Google has released version 3.0.195.24 of Chrome 3, a security update that addresses a high risk vulnerability in its WebKit-based browser."

10/01/09 0724 Astaro Gateway 7.5
"Astaro Gateway 7.500 features a new Intrusion Protection Engine for improved scaling with multi-core systems, a Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor including Dashboard improvements and a transparent HTTP proxy mode with captive authentication portal."

10/01/09 0724 Update your free Avira AntiVir
"A "huge update" for Avira AntiVir anti-virus products led to issues for users of the free Avira AntiVir Personal when attempting to update to the latest virus signatures."

10/01/09 0710 Microsoft Security Essentials requires validation
"Microsoft will block users running counterfeit copies of Windows from installing the free Security Essentials antivirus software, said Alex Kochis, director of Microsoft's Genuine Windows team, in a post to a company blog."

10/01/09 0710 Nvidia Fermi GPU
"More than just a graphics processor, Fermi incorporates many enhancements targeted specifically at general-purpose computing, such as better support for double-precision math, improved internal scheduling and switching, and more robust tools for developers."

10/01/09 0709 Wii Update 4.2
"On September 28, Nintendo released a Wii update, titled 4.2. This update was targeted squarely at homebrew, performing sweeping changes throughout the system."

10/01/09 0706 Botnet control via JPEG
"which is pushing out Trojan downloaders to infected machines, is encoding the instructions to appear as if the command-and-control server is returning a JPEG image file"

09/30/09 0946 Intel 'Light Peak': not an Apple idea after all
Intel's newly announced 'Light Peak' optical interconnect wasn't developed at Apple's instigation as has been claimed.

09/30/09 0848 The Apple Tablet Print Revolution
"But Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a "new device." And they're not just going for e-books and mags. They're aiming to redefine print."

09/30/09 0817 Latest Palm Pre update does not re-enable iTunes sync
"Palm released its latest update for the Pre handset this week, and the new software does not re-enable sync with iTunes -- perhaps a sign that the hardware maker has given up in its fight with Apple."

09/30/09 0757 Find "Alternative" software to the big names
"AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great alternatives! Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, we make each application into a category. "

09/30/09 0731 Microsoft dual screen Courier "notebook"
"The net result, according to the tipster, is that Courier will be launched next year."

09/30/09 0730 Intel dual cores CPU for laptops
"According to Digitimes, Chipzilla plans to upgrade its ultrathin notebook portfolio before the year is out to include dual-core CPUs."

09/30/09 0729 Bank snafu Gmail missive never opened
"This summer, according to court documents, an unnamed employee with the Wyoming-based Rocky Mountain Bank was asked by a customer to send some loan documents to a Gmail account used by a third party."

09/30/09 0729 "the next generation of bank trojans"
"The URLzone Trojan, identified by researchers at Web filtering vendor Finjan Software earlier this month, represents "the next generation of bank Trojans," said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Finjan's chief technology officer."

09/30/09 0718 Review: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
"The R2 release, however, has a lot more going for it, including Live as well as Quick migration options. But it's not all good news, especially if you're looking for a complete virtualisation solution, which Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is not."

09/30/09 0718 New Facebook bug
"A bug that seems to change some information in your Facebook account has been making rounds since yesterday. The "Vidyartha" bug, as it is known, seems pretty harmless. But, is this bug really a virus? That's still being researched. "

09/30/09 0717 Bing warns on scam filled searches
"Microsoft has also taken on so-called advance-fee fraud, by directing people to its own warning page. "

09/30/09 0716 Blackberry browser vulnerability
"That's because a new bug found in most current versions of Research In Motion's (RIM) device software, which makes it easier for malicious parties to execute "phishing" attacks on unsuspecting smartphone users, has been addressed via handheld software updates from RIM"

09/30/09 0713 Richard Stallman backtracks on OS X
"During those speeches, he repeatedly claimed Mac OS X contained a backdoor which allowed Apple to forcibly impose software changes upon users. "

09/30/09 0710 Gamers agression vs. strangers
"According to NewScientist, victorious gamers enjoy a surge of testosterone — but only if their vanquished foe is a stranger."

09/30/09 0709 Google Wave beta
"The company is inviting about 100,000 users and developers to preview the new technology"

09/30/09 0708 Browser Soup
"Mozilla executives today took shots at Google for pitching its Chrome Frame plug-in as a solution to Internet Explorer's poor performance, with one arguing that Google's move will result in "browser soup.""

09/30/09 0708 Quotes about Microsoft Security Essentials
""Security Essentials won't change anything," said Jens Meggers, Symantec's vice president of engineering. "Microsoft has a really bad track record in security,""

09/30/09 0707 No "ribbon" for Firefox on Windows
""Firefox will have a normal toolbar with two 'menu' tabs. We don't have thousands of commands like Microsoft Word, we have tens of commands.""

09/30/09 0707 40 Years of Unix
"Since there was a now-famous "little-used DEC PDP-7" mini-computer at Bell Labs, they took it over and start programming the game into the computer using paper tape"

09/29/09 1526 Warner Music returns to YouTube
The music label has agreed to return its full catalog to YouTube in return for more control and a larger cut of advertising.

09/29/09 1449 Phase Change Memory
"Phase change memory relies on a class of alloys called Chalcogenides, which can adopt crystalline or amorphous forms; the crystalline form provides low resistance to currents. Switching between the two states can be done simply by heating the alloy and carefully controlling the cooling process. Fortunately, "carefully controlled" doesn't mean "slow"—Doller said that his company has phase change devices with 17 times the access speeds of SSDs."

09/29/09 1444 Second Life "King of Social Networks?"
"Second Life Residents spend an average of about 100 minutes inworld per visit. This average session time is significantly greater than those seen with popular social networking Web sites and reveals the uniquely high level of engagement Residents have with Second Life.""

09/29/09 1126 Microsoft Security Essentials

09/29/09 0948 Metasploit gets SMB2 exploit
"Fully functional exploit code for the (still unpatched) Windows SMB v2 vulnerability has been released to the public domain via the freely available Metasploit point-and-click attack tool, raising the likelihood for remote in-the-wild code execution attacks."

09/29/09 0941 Unix at 40
In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder Linus Torvalds.

09/29/09 0936 WebOS 1.2
WebOS 1.2 will add a number of features to the company's Pre handset, including the ability to download files through the Pre's browser and synchronise information from a LinkedIn profile.

09/29/09 0928 AT&T iPhone MMS roll out
"Nearly three days after activating its multimedia messaging service (MMS) to iPhone 3G and 3GS, AT&T Inc. said today it was "pleased with the rollout" despite continuing user complaints on its own Facebook page."

09/29/09 0922 Google Docs, now more student friendly
It’s added an equation editor, allowing students to solve maths problems within an online document. Youngsters can write papers, take notes and answer questions in class using Google Docs, assuming their school or college lets them, that is.

09/29/09 0920 Apple rehires Newton designer
Michael Tchao left Apple 15 years ago and was a key developer on the Newton platform, which Apple chief executive Steve Jobs scrapped on his return to the company.

09/29/09 0823 CNN's iPhone App
"Featuring live newscasts, video-on-demand, and a familiar iPhone interface, the CNN iPhone app also takes a step ahead of other news apps by charging $2 for the download."

09/29/09 0820 Poland okays forcible castration for pedophiles
""The purpose of this action is to improve the mental health of the convict, to lower his libido and thereby to reduce the risk of another crime being committed by the same person," the government said in a statement."

09/28/09 2018 Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again
"wags his finger at Apple for indiscriminately pushing the iPhone Configuration Utility 2.1 update out to Windows users, since it is a tool for business system administrators to set up and administer corporate iPhones"

09/28/09 1945 My head hurts.."time" based compression
" They sent a 2.5 nanosecond long light pulse, encoding 24 bits of information, into their time telescope. What came out on the other side was the same 24 bit pulse, but compressed into 92 picoseconds. Squashing more information into a light pulse could help to send more information via optical fibres.""

09/28/09 1942 Windows 7 Launch Party ads...
"A Washington Post reader was quoted as saying 'If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.'""

09/28/09 1941 US to give up ICANN
"The US government is expected to relax control over how the internet is run when it signs an accord with net regulator Icann on Wednesday."

09/28/09 1330 Honda's U3-X

09/28/09 1227 Apple app store, 2 billion downloads
"Apple's App Store today surpassed 2 billion downloads, proving that the iPhone maker still reigns supreme in the mobile app world."

09/28/09 1225 Who gets to be LA's email provider
"Microsoft and Google are vying for a $7.25-million contract to replace an outdated e-mail system."

09/28/09 1106 Phishing up in 2009
"Phishing attacks reached a record high during the second quarter of 2009, with 151,000 unique attacks, according to a study by brand reputation firm MarkMonitor."

09/28/09 1105 Microsoft Security Essentials, tomorrow
"Microsoft's free antivirus software, Security Essentials, will be made publicly available tomorrow.The security software is Microsoft's replacement for Windows Live OneCare, a for-a-fee security suite that was retired at the end of June 2009."

09/28/09 1004 FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks
Canonical will be releasing Ubuntu 9.10 at the end of next month while the final release of FreeBSD 8.0 is also expected within the next few weeks. With these two popular free software operating systems both having major updates coming out at around the same time, we decided it warranted some early benchmarking as we see how the FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 performance compares.

09/28/09 1003 Reddit Javascript exploit
"Reddit user Empirical wrote javascript code where if you copied and pasted it into the address bar, you would instantly spam that comment by replying to all the comments on the page and submitting it."

09/28/09 0753 Cain & Abel 4.9.32
"recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary and brute force attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols"

09/28/09 0748 "IRS" email virus
"What makes this campaign particularly ugly is that the malware that accompanies the fake IRS messages is a variant of the hard-to-detect Zeus Trojan."

09/28/09 0747 UNC data breach exposes 163,000 SSNs
"The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Friday began notifying about 163,000 women about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data."

09/28/09 0747 Another review of Office online
"For example, only Excel and OneNote will allow co-authoring (letting multiple people collaborate on a document simultaneously). Neither Word nor PowerPoint will have those features at launch, although Microsoft says they will be added in the future."

09/28/09 0737 Review of Snow Leopard Server
"It was easy to miss the release of the server version of Apple's Snow Leopard amid all the hoopla over the client version, but Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard deserves attention."

09/28/09 0736 Adobe and Mcafee Partnership
"The integrated data loss prevention and enterprise digital rights management software will leverage McAfee's expertise in policy-based data classification with Adobe's leadership in policy-based document protection to secure business-critical information and content, according to officials at both companies."

09/28/09 0733 Carl Sagan sings

09/28/09 0731 The History of the Netflix Player
"Called the Netflix Player, it would allow most of his company's regular DVD-by-mail subscribers to stream unlimited movies and TV shows from Netflix's library directly to their television—at no extra charge."

09/28/09 0727 Xerox buys Affiliated Computer
"Xerox Corp said on Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc for $6.4 billion in a cash and stock deal that expands the copier company into technology outsourcing and data management."

09/28/09 0725 Time magazine for sale?
""Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they're just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks," said Crawford, managing director of The Capital Group."

09/28/09 0725 Michigan may shut down?
"Economically beleaguered Michigan faces a possible government shutdown - shuttering highway rest areas, state parks, construction projects and the state lottery - if lawmakers fail to reach a budget deal in the next few days."

09/27/09 2205 Infected Macs..$0.43
"Samosseiko said that at the beginning of the year he noticed a website (Mac-codec.com) – now off line, where infected Mac systems were going for 43 cents – at a time when Windows systems were worth 50 to 55 cents."

09/27/09 2204 Which cell puts out the most "radiation"

09/27/09 2203 Apple/Intel USB/Firewire replacement
" Apple had reached out to Intel as early as 2007 with plans for an interoperable standard which could handle massive amounts of data and 'replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector (FireWire, USB, Display interface)"

09/27/09 1836 Internet Explorer now supports StartCom certs
"With its last update, Microsoft has added StartCom to the pre-installed root certificates in its operating system. As a result, Microsoft products (such as Internet Explorer) now accept certificates issued by StartCom without prompting the user or requiring any special configurations for the certificates."

09/25/09 2026 Opie is making a Cthulhu movie
"If you excuse me, I need to gibber insanely and soil my pants for the next few hours while contemplating whatever kind of mediocre, vanilla non-terrifying movie Howard will make."

09/25/09 1015 Dissecting September's Twitter Scareware Campaign
"By the time Twitter suspends the automatically registered bogus accounts, on average, 70 to 80 tweets have been published per single account."

09/25/09 1011 Worst 100 movies of last 10 years

09/25/09 0915 Bioshock for the Mac
"it actually came out for PC and consoles a full two years ago. At this point, a Mac port is probably useless, but it's coming out anyway. "

09/25/09 0856 OS X malware, still not worth it
"According to a presentation from Sophos virus specialist Dmitry Samosseiko at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference, Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is still unprofitable as a platform for malware."

09/25/09 0854 New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second
" a highly optimized UEFI implementation that can start loading an OS in just under a second. Combined with Windows 7's optimized startup procedure, that means you're looking at incredibly short boot times"

09/25/09 0853 Apple's Green Effort
"On Sept. 24, the company will release more of the details environmental groups have been clamoring for, on its Web site and elsewhere"

09/25/09 0852 Bullet manufacturers can't keep up
"Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo"

09/25/09 0849 Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost more?
"But one of the country's biggest ISPs is now slinging around some huge numbers of its own, saying it will actually cost ISPs £365 million a year to adopt "three strikes" rules meant to stem piracy."

09/25/09 0847 Gmail outage
"The company first gave notice of the outage at roughly 7:30 AM US Pacific time (15:30 GMT) and said that the outage affected "a small subset" of its user base."

09/25/09 0847 Twitter valued at $1 billion
"Twitter is nearing a deal for as much as $100 million from a group of investors who say they believe the Internet short messaging giant is worth about $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site."

09/25/09 0844 Microsoft's Barrelfish
"Barrelfish is an OS written specifically for multicore environments. It hopes to improve the performance of boxes with such chips by creating a network bus, if you will, between cores. "

09/25/09 0842 Atom-based system-on-a-chip TVs
"Intel is putting Atom processors almost everywhere these days, with the latest target being televisions. The company announced a new Atom-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) design for television sets to make them the hub of social networking and interactivity. "

09/25/09 0840 New iMacs
" Apple will refresh its iMac desktop computer within a matter of weeks and will unveil the first revamp of the all-in-one's exterior since mid-2007, a prominent Apple enthusiast site reported Thursday."

09/24/09 2053 Water on Mars
"the HiRISE Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed sub-surface water ice halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars. "

09/24/09 2053 HIV vaccine
"A vaccine has reduced the chance of HIV infection in humans for the first time, in what the scientific community has hailed a breakthrough in the fight against Aids. "

09/24/09 1041 Microsoft Office Web Apps review
"They recently launched a limited technical preview to users last week and today we will take a look at what they have to offer so far."

09/24/09 1039 Microsoft, "Don't replace IE8 web engine w/chrome..too dangerous"
"With Internet Explorer 8, we made significant advancements and updates to make the browser safer for our customers. Given the security issues with plug-ins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plug-in has doubled the attach area for malware and malicious scripts."

09/24/09 1038 The Facebook movie
"The Social Network, which everyone else just calls "that Facebook movie."

09/24/09 1032 The man behind Anonymous?
"a faceless, leaderless mob growing daily as new adherents flocked in. None of them knew one another, even by pseudonyms, since as a rule there was only one username throughout the community. In fact, it was a standing in-joke on 4chan and related sites that their collective output was the product of a single hive-mind entity, known by that same username: Anonymous."

09/24/09 1028 Twitter App store
"The site lists 1,332 free and paid applications and services built on Twitter’s API, where people can search for, rate and buy Twitter services."

09/24/09 1027 Google Sidewiki
"Users activate the service by clicking on a button and a sidebar appears to the left of whatever website is being viewed. The user can then leave a comment on the entire page or a selected piece of text, and share the URL via email,"

09/24/09 1026 Project Pink..by Microsoft
"Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure."

09/24/09 1026 Next Ghostrider movie by Goyer
"If there is one thing that could get us interested in another Ghost Rider movie, this is it: There's news that David Goyer, the writer behind The Dark Knight (not to mention ABC's FlashForward and about a zillion Blade movies) will be writing a new take on the Marvel franchise. "

09/24/09 0823 Malware bypassing two factor authentication
"Naturally, cybecriminals have found ways to adapt to these SMS alerts, by exploiting badly implemented processes within particular financial institutions allowing a customer to change the mobile number in any particular moment of time."

09/24/09 0822 Google's DoubleClick being used to distribute malware
"Criminals flooded several online ad networks with malicious advertisements over the weekend, causing popular Web sites such as the Drudge Report, Horoscope.com and Lyrics.com to inadvertently attack their readers, a security company said Wednesday."

09/24/09 0821 Razer mouse maker had infected software
"Customers who downloaded Razer software would get the drivers they requested, but they also got an obscure Trojan program."

09/24/09 0820 Malware surviving System Restore
"According to Microsoft anti-virus researcher Chun Feng, five generations of the Win32/Dogrobot malware family have perfected the novel rootkit technique to hijack System Restore on Windows — effectively allowing the malicious file to survive even after the compromised machine is reverted to its previous clean state."

09/24/09 0810 The Fly
"A remake/reimagining/reworking/whatever of THE FLY is indeed in the works according to Steven Zeitchik at Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog, but it's being spearheaded by David Cronenberg himself."

09/24/09 0736 Water on the Moon
"Information has leaked ahead of the scheduled NASA press conference tomorrow that we have found unambiguous evidence for water on the moon."

09/24/09 0710 Cisco IOS patches
"CISCO has released a number of security advisories. The following table summarises the information. for more details check out the full advisory on the CISCO site. "

09/24/09 0709 Tokyo’s historic electronics district
"Akihabara, Tokyo’s historic electronics district, has morphed into a geek paradise filled with videogames, pop-culture collectibles and other nerd attractions."

09/24/09 0708 19.2 pound newborn
""This heavy baby made the surgery really tough, especially the process of taking him out of his mum's womb," Binsar Sitanggang said."

09/23/09 2131 New Twitter Phishing
"There are reports of a new phishing scam making the rounds on Twitter. The attack seeks to steal user credentials by sending tweets out with links to a phishing site"

09/23/09 2128 Firefox to get Ribbon UI
"Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its 'dated' browser"

09/23/09 1358 New cooling tech
"Garimella and Harirchia have now determined that "allowing a liquid to boil in cooling systems dramatically increases how much heat can be removed, compared to simply heating a liquid to below its boiling point," according to their report."

09/23/09 0939 Windows 7 launch parties
"To help launch Windows 7, Microsoft is enlisting PC people to hold house parties to promote the new operating system."

09/23/09 0936 Fedora gets a "sandbox"
"Dan Walsh has souped up the security mechanisms in Fedora and SELinux by adding a desktop sandbox which he's calling "sandbox -X". Users can run desktop applications of their choice inside his sandbox, which then protects the underlying system from any possible damage."

09/23/09 0935 CRITICAL:iTunes 9.0.1
"Apple has released iTunes version 9.0.1 for Mac OS X and Windows. It fixes various bugs and one critical security vulnerability when processing playlists."

09/23/09 0917 Microsofts new "booklet"
"It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we've all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft's astonishing take on the tablet."

09/23/09 0912 USB 3 video..
"Displayed at the ongoing IDF event in San Francisco, DG’s webcam streamed uncompressed 1920 x 1080p video - through a Fresco Logic USB 3.0 host controller running on an ASUS P7P55D platform – onto a nearby screen."

09/23/09 0902 Microsoft P2P DRM...
"InformationWeek reports that Microsoft has been awarded a digital-rights management patent for a distributed DRM system that works over peer-to-peer networks and uses encrypted public and private keys as the licensing mechanism."

09/23/09 0902 USB Wars:Palm vs. Apple
"Apple is violating its USB-IF Membership Agreement by preventing the Pre from syncing with iTunes. It's found in favor of Apple. Worse, it's accused Palm itself of violating the Membership Agreement by using Apple's Vendor ID number to disguise the Pre as an Apple device.""

09/23/09 0821 ATI HD Radeon 5870: The Fastest Videocard Ever
"AMD packs 2.15 billion transistors into a tiny chip, offering outstanding performance, DirectX 11 support, and triple-monitor (or better) capability. Nvidia’s response is nowhere to be seen "

09/22/09 1612 Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Engine
"Google Chrome Frame is an open-source plugin that adds HTML5, Canvas, a fast JavaScript engine and more to Internet Explorer; in fact it just swaps out Trident with Webkit! Developers can opt-in to the feature on their sites via a meta-tag / HTTP-header and prompt users to install Google Chrome Frame if they don't have it."

09/22/09 1612 Picassa gets facial recognition
"Hot on the heels of rolling out facial recognition on its Picasa Web Albums site, Google on Tuesday is introducing an updated version of its Picasa software that can recognize faces in photos stored on users' computers. "

09/22/09 1554 Gmail and Exchange ActiveSync
"Gmail support into the Exchange ActiveSync mix, so any phone with Exchange support should theoretically be able to get in on the action."

09/22/09 1033 F-Secure Rescue CD 3.11 released
"Rescue CD contains a Knoppix (a kind of Linux) operating system which allows using your Windows PC and getting access to the hard disks."

09/22/09 1031 Microsoft Surface Tablet?
"Microsoft plans to create a tablet, which is based in part on the technology behind the company's Surface table project and has been developed under Bond-villain code names such as 'Oahu' and 'Alchemy Ventures'"

09/22/09 1030 IR lamps to thwart screener copies
"By placing mega IR lights behind the screen (which are invisible to the human eye, of course), the light can tunnel through tiny holes that are already in screens for the passage of sound."

09/22/09 0919 Netflix awards prize money
"at the end of Netflix's competition in which The Ensemble passed BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos by 0.01% a mere twenty minutes after BellKor had submitted results past the ten percent mark required to win the million dollars. Unfortunately for The Ensemble, BellKor was declared the victor this morning because of that twenty-minute margin."

09/22/09 0918 Hand Eye Interactive Technology
"What's interesting about this is that Hand Eye Interactive Technology (HIT) takes the interaction off the main TV display and pulls it onto the personal, mobile, and much smarter display on users' phones."

09/22/09 0916 Ellison: We won’t spin off MySQL
"Oracle CEO Larry Ellison insisted Monday that he would not spin off MySQL to get EU approval of Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems and that Oracle's database does not compete with MySQL."

09/22/09 0916 Opera rebrands Unite Services
"Unite Services developer programme, renaming it Unite Apps.Opera Unite is the browser firm's new sharing tool that lets users create private networks through which to share content such as photos and videos, without having to post them onto sites like Youtube or Flickr."

09/22/09 0915 LG GD910 Watch Phone
"LG’s PC Suite software allows you to backup and restore the GD910, synchronise contacts, synchronise messages, and use USB mass storage mode to copy files across to the 80GB of memory."

09/22/09 0913 SGI 'personal supercomputing'
"Octane III, which can be expanded to an 80-core system with a capacity of up to 960GB of memory, is SGI's entry into the emerging personal supercomputing market "

09/22/09 0913 Arse Elektronika
"And that's why our annual conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex, technology and the future. "

09/22/09 0854 VLC 1.0.2
The VLC developers have published the source code for version 1.0.2 of their open source media player, closing several critical security vulnerabilities. Versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.1 of the popular media player are vulnerable to a stack overflow that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code."

09/22/09 0853 March of the outdated machines
"Since the first digital electronic computers were built in the 1940s their descendants have helped change the world"

09/22/09 0853 Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht
"when they detect a CCD, they fire a bolt of light right at the camera to obliterate any photograph"

09/21/09 2159 Intergalactic Kung Fu Zombies, Go!

09/21/09 2135 Facebook is wobbling
"Facebook confirmed on Monday afternoon that there have been sitewide problems that saw log-in credentials turned down, status messages eaten up, and other various unpleasant occurrences over the course of the past few days"

09/21/09 2101 Reputation based AV protection is helping
""There are huge differences between anti-malware products, and the reputation systems are making a considerable impact.""

09/21/09 2059 Kirby Kids get some Marvel...
" Some rights could revert to the heirs as soon as 2014, for characters that are among the hottest in Hollywood: The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Avengers, and others"

09/21/09 2058 Microsoft Pink Phones
"Stories that Microsoft is planning to release smartphones under its own brand name have been burning up many leading rumors sites for months."

09/21/09 2057 Linus on the current state of the Kernel
""We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds."

09/21/09 1524 iPhone OS 3.1 battery complaints
"AppleCare specialists have sent follow-up questions to an undisclosed number of iPhone owners who posted on its support forums about the decreased battery life. "

09/21/09 1523 FCC's Net Neutrality rules
"The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission outlined rules on Monday that would prohibit Internet providers from selectively blocking Web content and applications."

09/21/09 1435 MIT Gaydar
"The best part of Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree's software, created for a research project, is that you don't even need to "friend" your target to figure out if he's gay. You simply need access to his friends list, which is made public by default on Facebook."

09/21/09 1309 Adobe wants "Flash" flood of apps
"The company will usher in the first of its Adobe Flash Platform services with a distribution manager that pumps Flash content and applications to more than 70 social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. The service will also deploy to Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices and Apple's iPhone."

09/21/09 1302 Seagate 6Gbps Barracuda 2TB
"Seagate is launching the first 6Gbit/s 2TB drive, the Barracuda XT, and altering the Barracuda naming convention at the same time."

09/21/09 1248 gallium nitride/silicon "hybrid" microchip
"Chips made from new materials such as gallium nitride could deliver better performance, but researchers have been unable to match the efficiency and reliability of silicon microchips so far."

09/21/09 1244 PBS' Curious George site hacked to serve malware
"The website for the popular children's television show "Curious George" was compromised this week to serve malware to visitors, according to researchers at web security vendor Purewire."

09/21/09 1243 Hack Facebook account for $100
"The Facebook hacking website -- called "Hack Facebook online!" -- pledges to be able to crack any account on the popular social networking site and offers to do it for $100."

09/21/09 1242 Spammers abusing Yahoo "backdoor"
"A security researcher has exposed a vulnerable Yahoo Web service that has been abused by spammers to enumerate valid Yahoo! IDs or brute-force login credentials for years. The attacks are possible because the company failed to apply the same security checks to the API as it did to the webmail interface."

09/21/09 1038 COBOL at 50
"The language used to power most of the world's ATMs, COBOL, is turning 50. It also runs about 75 per cent of the world's business applications, so COBOL should be celebrated for making it to half a century."

09/21/09 1021 Dell Buying Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion
"Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for around $3.9 billion in cash, and intends to make the company its global services delivery division, the companies said Monday"

09/21/09 0931 Bing up to 10%
"the total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search engine market."

09/21/09 0841 Halo 3:ODST review
"We had played the past Halo games together, spent numerous hours online and in co-op, and were ready for something new.Around four hours later the credits ran. "Well, that saved me $60," my friend told me wearily."

09/21/09 0752 School Gmail glitch
" In the end, only 22 out of the 200 students were affected, but the fix was not put into place until Tuesday"

09/21/09 0743 Microsoft releases SMB2 disable button
"Until the security update is released, the best way to protect systems from this vulnerability is to disable support for version 2 of the SMB protocol. The security advisory was updated yesterday with a link to the Microsoft Fix It package that disables SMBv2 and then stops and starts the Server service."

09/20/09 1557 Published Google Docs in Search results
"The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines."

09/19/09 1655 Facebook shuts down Beacon
""We learned a great deal from the Beacon experience. For one, it was underscored how critical it is to provide extensive user control over how information is shared. We also learned how to effectively communicate changes that we make to the user experience," said Barry Schnitt, Facebook's Director of Policy Communications, in a statement. "

09/18/09 1257 Google: Apple rejected Google Voice
"Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejected because Apple believed the application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone," Google said in its letter. "

09/18/09 1010 CRITICAL:PHP 5.2.11
"advising developers to update PHP 5.2.x-based applications to the new stable version 5.2.11. The update focuses on stability and contains more than 75 bug fixes, some security related."

09/18/09 1009 PC infections, here to stay
"Half of the PCs behind these addresses had been infected for at least 300 days and four out of five had been infected for at least a month or had multiple infections."

09/18/09 1006 The 10 biggest moments in IT history
"It’s unlikely that everyone will ever agree on the most important dates in the history of IT. I know my IT timeline has a personal and professional bias."

09/18/09 1005 Microsoft goes after Malvertising
"Today, Microsoft filed five civil lawsuits, the first of their kind against a nasty phenomenon known as malvertising. That’s the industry term for malicious online advertising. Microsoft works with the other leading providers of online ad platforms to mitigate the threat posed by malvertising, but we’re now taking that effort a step further."

09/18/09 0950 College students get Windows 7 for $30
"But, details aside, Microsoft is offering college students Windows 7 for $29.99, according to a new deal announced on September 17."

09/18/09 0819 Mac Plus #1
"The company gave the first one (serial number #F4200NUM0001) to Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry."

09/18/09 0818 Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia
"According to Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification, Left 4 Dead 2's content exceeds that allowable for an MA15+ rating. Any such game is rated as Refused Classification, effectively banning it. "

09/18/09 0817 MMO Publishers Sued
"The Boston Globe reports that major MMO publishers (Blizzard, Turbine, SOE, NCSoft, and Jagex) are being sued by Paltalk, which holds a patent on 'sharing data among many connected computers so that all users see the same digital environment' "

09/18/09 0816 Is RAID too old?
"The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future — and are probably obvious to some users already. In my opinion, RAID-6 is a reliability Band Aid for RAID-5, and going from one parity drive to two is simply delaying the inevitable."

09/18/09 0815 Zune free apps w/ads
"Zune HD: Texas hold 'em, Sudoku, Space Battle 3, Shell Game, Of the Future, Hexic, Goo Splat and Chess, as well as calculator and weather apps. Users, however, are required to view an ad (up to 30 seconds in length) while the game starts up. "

09/18/09 0810 Second Life Sex-Code Lawsuit
"The 6-year-old virtual world, run by Linden Lab of San Francisco, is apparently so littered with bootlegged sex toys that it’s hard to know whether you’re getting the right bang for your buck."

09/18/09 0807 Google Espresso Book Machine
"Google agrees to provide 2 million non-copyrighted book titles for On Demand Books printing and cutting using its high-speed Espresso Book Machine. "

09/18/09 0807 Palm bails on Windows Mobile
"Palm adopted Windows Mobile back in 2005 as a way to help boost its sales to enterprise customers. But since Palm announced webOS, its own mobile operating system the writing was on the wall for Microsoft."

09/18/09 0806 20 most bizarre Craigslist adverts of all time

09/17/09 1509 Complexities of the iTunes music economy
"Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to one day collect performance fees from Apple and other e-tailers for not just traditional music downloads but for downloads of films and TV shows as well. Those downloads contain music after all."

09/17/09 1500 iPhone 3.1 bugs
"The problems being reported are legion. They include iPhones becoming totally unresponsive, dropped calls, poor battery life, difficulties with Wi-Fi connections, failed Microsoft Exchange syncing, dead GPS service, loss of signal after syncing, tethering no longer working in "legally" unlocked phones outside the US, and more."

09/17/09 1445 Microsoft backs HTML 5 media tags
"The draft of the HTML5 specification has been under discussion for a while now, but despite the fact that it's not yet finished, all major browsers have implemented at least the most important aspects of it - except Microsoft."

09/17/09 1444 Ars reviews iPod Nano
"Sadly, though, you cannot play radio through the internal speaker. The tuner requires the headphones to be inserted as they perform a dual-role as the FM antenna."

09/17/09 1442 Zune HD apps
"Nine apps are available: calculator, weather, Texas hold 'em, Sudoku, Space Battle 3, Shell Game... Of the Future, Hexic, Goo Splat, and Chess."

09/17/09 1442 Ozzy the Legend
"Billboard will fete Ozzy Osbourne with the Legend of Live award at the 2009 Billboard Touring Awards, set for November 5 in New York. Osbourne will be in person at the event to receive the honor."

09/17/09 1253 Firefox Flash warning working
"In one week, 10,000,000 people have clicked on the “flash update” link below."

09/17/09 1024 Ars reviews Haiku
"The Haiku project, which aims to build a binary-compatible open source reimplementation of BeOS, has announced the availability of its first alpha release. Ars puts it to the test to see how it compares with the authentic BeOS experience."

09/17/09 1022 Henry Gibson is dead
" The first, and most well-known, is THE BLUES BROTHERS where Gibson gave us all a reason to hate Illinois Nazis."

09/17/09 1014 "Coke" Tax coming
"Their paper, appearing in the most recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, calls for a tax on "sugar-sweetened" drinks in order to reduce the consumption of the drinks and lower health costs as well as fund government-run health programs. "

09/17/09 1012 US Govt App Store
"he Obama administration has unveiled a government 'app store' designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing."

09/17/09 1011 Google buys ReCAPTCHA
"Every time people solve a CAPTCHA from the company, they are also, as a byproduct, helping to turn scanned words into plain text that can be indexed and made searchable by search engines. Interesting times indeed.""

09/17/09 1004 Don't copy that floppy 2
""'Don't Copy That 2' uses humor to bring a serious message to today's youth and remind us all that copyright piracy is a crime," explained SIAA Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement SVP Keith Kupferschmid"

09/17/09 0846 Just Peter & Paul...No more Mary...bummer
"Now, the blonde is gone. Mary Travers, 72, died Wednesday in a Connecticut hospital after a long battle with leukemia. "

09/17/09 0841 Firefox "sprint" patching
"Mozilla has switched to a quick-paced "sprint" cycle for Firefox that it hopes will bring new features to users faster, the company's browser architect said today."

09/17/09 0839 No Service Pack 3 for Windows 2003
"Extended Support for Windows 2000 Server will end on July 13, 2010. At this time, Windows 2000 Server will no longer be publicly supported. You will be able to continue using "Self-Help Online Support"*"

09/17/09 0834 Zune HD review
"The big question: Can the Zune HD compete with the iPod Touch? I get the sense that Microsoft isn't trying to, exactly."

09/16/09 2128 CRITICAL:SMB2 Exploit public
"This is already bad enough; however, it just got worse. Yesterday a well known security company added a module for their exploitation product. The module contains the remote exploit for this vulnerability – in other words, any user running this tool can get full access to affected machines."

09/16/09 1359 Oracle Ends Partnership With HP
"With Sun servers in house, Oracle apparently feels no need to work with HP anymore."

09/16/09 1352 Night of the Living Dead 3D
"Zombie movie “Night of the Living Dead” is coming back, this time in a 3D CGI format and without the involvement of George Romero."

09/16/09 1350 WSJ charging for mobile content
"The Wall Street Journal soon will begin charging people to read the paper on mobile devices such as their BlackBerrys, the paper's owner Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday. "

09/16/09 0818 No Googling while on jury duty
"A judge has ordered the jury to sign a document that they will not use the internet to research the case, and they can face perjury charges if they're caught doing so."

09/16/09 0736 OpenDNS Enterprise
"OpenDNS is currently developing OpenDNS Deluxe and OpenDNS Enterprise, two new service offerings designed to meet the DNS infrastructure and security needs of SMBs and large enterprises."

09/16/09 0736 Nessus 4.0.2 released
"Tenable Network Security has released version 4.0.2 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This release includes several fixes and support for the latest operating systems from Microsoft and Apple."

09/16/09 0735 Facebook, 300 million users
"Facebook has breached the 300 million user mark and is heading towards profitability, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg."

09/16/09 0733 Wireshark 1.2.2
"due to multiple security vulnerabilities affecting the GSM, OpcUa, and TLS dissectors (the latter is specially relevant), plus fixes for other memory leaks"

09/16/09 0731 Apple explains iPhone 3.1 Exchange support
'"We added device encryption information to the data that can be managed by IT administrators using Exchange Server 2007. The policy of whether to support iPhone 3G, in addition to iPhone 3GS, which always has on-device encryption, on Exchange Server 2007 is set by the administrator and can be changed at any time." "

09/16/09 0730 New Opera Mini gets tabs
"Opera is bringing multipage browsing to its popular Mini browser, with a beta rolling out today. Mini 5.0 also gets a slick visual makeover, and touch support on devices that accept touch input."

09/16/09 0729 Archos phone coming
"Media player specialist Archos will launch an Android-based mobile phone next year, the company has revealed."

09/16/09 0725 Google Chrome 3
"Thanks to a full year of great feedback from our users, we're kicking off our second year of Google Chrome with a brand new stable release. This release comes hot on the heels of 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes in the past year."

09/16/09 0724 Australia breaks up largest ISP
'in which he promised to force Telstra to split its network and wholesale businesses."

09/16/09 0723 Mono framework on the iPhone
"MonoTouch, a new framework that allows application developers to build native iPhone software with C# and other .NET programming languages. It is designed to conform with the requirements stipulated by Apple for App Store eligibility. T"

09/16/09 0718 Archos 5 Internet tablet
"I didn't expect much from the Archos 5 Internet tablet -- and I was surprised. This Android Linux powered device is more than just another would-be iPod Touch competitor; it's a powerful touch computer in its own right."

09/16/09 0717 Apple Tablet rumors..again
"The tablet will feature the 9.6-inch screen, the multi-touch user interface made famous by the iPhone and iPod Touch, and a processor created by P.A. Semi, the Santa Clara, Calif. microprocessor design company that Apple purchased over a year ago."

09/16/09 0717 Google Govt. cloud
"Google will offer cloud-computing services designed specifically for U.S. government agencies starting next year, the company announced Tuesday at the NASA Ames Research Center."

09/16/09 0716 Web hacks up
""The sheer number of attacks against Web servers was surprising," said Dhamankar. "In terms of attack volume, they were almost 60% of all so far this year."

09/15/09 1451 Voice chat on Facebook
"Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications. "

09/15/09 1450 T-mobile/Sprint merger?
"Deutsche Telekom, the owners of T-Mobile in the U.S., are reportedly looking into acquiring competitor Sprint. Together, the two companies would have a customer base that rivals AT&T."

09/15/09 1446 SANS says Security Pros looking at the wrong stuff
" 60 percent of the total number of attacks occur on Web applications, and many attacks are aimed at third-party applications such as Microsoft Office, and Adobe Flash and other tools"

09/15/09 1445 No App Store For Microsoft's Zune HD
"Microsoft's Zune HD, set to go on sale Tuesday, will not feature an open application store like its competitor the iPod Touch"

09/15/09 1418 Lenovo TouchScreen Laptops w/Windows 7
"Lenovo is offering the new multiscreen technology with both its T400s laptop and X200 tablet PC."

09/15/09 1418 Ars reviews Google Fast Flip
"The way we would describe Fast Flip would be that it's not quite a feed reader, and not quite an online magazine."

09/15/09 1151 System Rescue CD 1.3.0
"Updated the standard kernels to Linux kernel 2.6.31; updated FSArchiver to 0.5.9 (better NTFS support); updated NTFS-3G to version 2009.4.4 AR17 (NTFS-3G advanced release); updated e2fsprogs to 1.41.9 (ext2, ext3, ext4 file system tools); Linux kernel 2.6.31 and btrfs-progs 0.19 are using a new btrfs format; added gdisk 0.3.1 (gdisk is a GPT partition table manipulator); updated the Xfce desktop environment to version 4.6.1; updated Python to version 2.6.2; updated Mozilla Firefox to version 3.5.2" You can get it from slug's ftp site.

09/15/09 0954 A video on producing Linux malware
"where he shows how to create a trojan using the xbomb game package. He creates the trojan by bundling a Metasploit reverse TCP stager payload with the game package. When the game is installed and executed, the Metasploit payload executes and connects back to the attacker, giving him a shell on the system."

09/15/09 0942 Stars' tribute after Swayze death
"Actor Patrick Swayze's Dirty Dancing co-star Jennifer Grey led tributes after he lost his two-year battle with pancreatic cancer."

09/15/09 0939 Showers increase chance of pulmonary disease
"Moreover, the M. avium pathogen was often clumped together with other pathogens in a slimy biofilm that clings to the insides of showerheads at more than 100 times the levels found in municipal water."

09/15/09 0937 iPhone 3.1 kills access to Exchange for older iPhones
"The point release - which is supposed to improve security, reliability and fix bugs - also stops all devices older than the brand new Iphone 3GS from accessing some Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers, according to reports."

09/15/09 0936 Guts of the Zune HD
" eagerness to stop trying and just crack open Microsoft's newest entrant into the portable media player market. Without getting too gushy, we can definitively say that the innards look just as sexy as the exterior"

09/15/09 0934 Ars looks at Zune HD
"It's small, has a gorgeous OLED screen, WiFi, HD radio, and even apps. Our first impressions of the device inside."

09/15/09 0931 Shooting video: iPod Nano vs the rest
"We wanted to know how good the new iPod Nano's video functionality is compared to the competition, so we went to a shop and shot some video."

09/15/09 0926 Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs
"ISPs should therefore attempt to identify the end user whose computer has been compromised, and contact them to educate them about the problem,' the new code states"

09/15/09 0926 Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP
" 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible,"

09/15/09 0925 Microsoft Visual Search
""Now to find that movie you were looking for, click on 'Movies' and scroll through the imagery to find 'what's-his-name.' Now that you found it, hover your mouse over the movie to view details including title, rating, reviews, and how much it grossed at the box office, all right under the search box.""

09/15/09 0804 Christoph Waltz Is Villain In 'Green Hornet'
"Christoph Waltz who won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination) has now been cast as villain Chudnofsky in Sony's The Green Hornet opposite Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz."

09/15/09 0804 Google Fast Flip
"Google is testing a service that will let newshounds read Web pages of magazines and newspapers like they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy."

09/14/09 1723 Apple "missed the boat" on Snow Leopard security
""Apple didn't change anything," said Charlie Miller, of Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators, the co-author of The Mac Hacker's Handbook, and winner of two consecutive "Pwn2own" hacker contests. "It's the exact same ASLR as in Leopard, which means it's not very good.""

09/14/09 1716 Bing 2.0 update
"Microsoft is adding to Bing a new visual-search feature, which it will begin rolling out on September 14. But a full-fledged refresh of Bing isn’t coming until later this fall, Microsoft officials said."

09/14/09 1255 CableCARD Now Open To All
"Up until now, users have had to purchase an entirely new system from a certified OEM (think Dell, HP, etc.) with a CableCARD installed at the factory. If you even attempted to install a loose CableCARD into your own machine, you'd never get anything to work."

09/14/09 1203 AT&T to FCC, "Broadband does not include gaming"
"The computer gaming industry is not pleased with comments that AT&T filed with the Federal Communications Commission on how to define "broadband," particularly the suggestion that online games should be relegated to the category of "aspirational services." "

09/14/09 1202 More on iPhone's AntiPhishing
""Safari's anti-phishing database is downloaded while the user charges their phone in order to protect battery life and ensure there aren't any additional data fees," Apple spokesman, Bill Evans, told The Loop."

09/14/09 1200 Security Professionals, "AV useless vs. 0day, better than nothing"
"Three out of four administrators consider signature-based enterprise anti-virus protection unreliable. For zero day attacks in particular, two thirds of the administrators surveyed did not believe that standard anti-virus products helped to prevent attacks. "

09/14/09 0800 NEC, Casio, Hitachi Merge Cellphone Operations
"NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi Ltd. said Monday that they have agreed to merge their mobile-phone handset operations in a move that would create Japan's second-largest cellphone maker by shipments after Sharp Corp."

09/14/09 0743 Antarctica's hidden plumbing revealed
"THE first complete map of the lakes beneath Antarctica's ice sheets reveals the continent's secret water network is far more dynamic than we thought. This could be acting as a powerful lubricant beneath glaciers, contributing to sea level rise."

09/14/09 0743 LG's Android phone
"LG has called its offering the GW620, but has decided to keep the handset’s full technical specifications close to its chest for now."

09/14/09 0737 WebKit to get 3D GPU acceleration
"According to a report posted by a developer on the Wolfire Blog, WebGL provides HTML5's Canvas with hardware accelerated 3D rendering features by adding a JavaScript binding for OpenGL ES 2.0, enabling web developers to present 3D scenes and models that tap the full native processing power of the client's graphics hardware."

09/14/09 0731 Edit Word docs on the iPhone
"No, you can't run Microsoft Office on your Apple iPhone or iPod touch. But you can edit Word and Excel files, including docs and sheets saved in Redmond's current .docx and .xlsx standards."

09/14/09 0728 Haiku R1/Alpha 1
"This first alpha release of Haiku comes approximately eight years after the project kicked off, and is the direct result of the dedication of many volunteer contributors from all over the world. You can download a Torrent, ISO, or RAW image file."

09/14/09 0725 world's biggest identity theft
"The Miami man dubbed the world's most prolific identity thief has admitted stealing 40 million credit and debit cards records from US retailers."

09/14/09 0718 Chrome gets more XSS protection
"The 4.0.207.0 release uses a reflective XSS filter that checks each script before it executes to check if the script appears in the request that generated the page."

09/14/09 0717 Microsoft "patches" autoplay for Windows
"Microsoft has delivered on their promise to backport the improved autoplay behavior in Win7 to older versions of Windows"

09/14/09 0716 Cellphone DRM for Japan
"The Japanese Music Industry is currently in talks with Japanese cell phone providers to introduce a new anti-piracy system in all cell phones in Japan."

09/14/09 0715 Pictures from Space for $150
"Proving that you don't need Google's billions or the BBC weather centre's resources, the four Spanish students managed to send a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere. "

09/13/09 2135 Dr. Horrible wins Emmy
"The award was one of the Creative Arts Primetime Emmys presented in Los Angeles, which recognize technical and other achievements for the 2008-'09 season."

09/13/09 2134 100GB Blu Ray?
"This could potentially mean 75GB or 100GB recordable discs, but what are you going to do with that much storage space?"

09/13/09 2112 NYTimes hosted popup leads to malware
"The rogue ad warns readers that their computer may be infected with a virus and redirects them to a site that purports to offer antivirus software,"

09/13/09 2111 FTC nukes Sear's Spyware
"Sears has now agreed to destroy all data gained from the experiment and stop collecting data from any software still running in the wild. In addition, if it wants to do any tracking in the future, the company has committed to "clearly and prominently disclose the types of data the software will monitor, record, or transmit."

09/13/09 1924 I've seen alot of dumb ads..but...

09/13/09 1642 Google, Gmail, and The Law
" A Canadian court has ordered Google (GOOG) to turn over the identities of anonymous Gmail users who had accused York University faculty members of fraud and dishonesty. Like similar cases in the U.S., the York incident shows just how easy it is for courts to allow authorities to gain access to "our" personal information."

09/13/09 1049 Windows 7 upgrades can take up to 20 hours
" Microsoft said Friday that some "in-place" upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users over 20 hours to complete."

09/13/09 1047 Google Groups used to command botnet
" 'It's worth noting that Google Groups is not at fault here; rather, it is a neutral party. The authors of this threat have chosen Google Groups simply for its bevy of features and versatility.'""

09/12/09 0859 AMD wants DirectX 11 in laptops
"Advanced Micro Devices will bring its latest graphics hardware based on DirectX 11 to laptops by early next year, aiming to make graphics in Windows 7 smoother and more realistic."

09/12/09 0859 Ads coming to Tweets
"The micro-blogging website has updated its terms of service to allow Twitter and its partners to target ads based on Tweets, searches, and other information users provide."

09/12/09 0858 802.11n is now a standard
"As predicted last month, the IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard. "

09/12/09 0858 New iTouch has space for camera?
"device is sporting an 802.11n Broadcom chip along with enough space to house the much rumoured camera."

09/12/09 0847 Yellow Submarine and Pirates 4
Disney pulls out all the stops at D23

09/11/09 1027 Facebook Lite
"Functionality on the new site, which Facebook is calling a "public preview," is largely limited to browsing other people's profiles, confirming friend requests, writing on walls and posting photos. Current Facebook users can get into the site using their password while new users must create an account. "

09/11/09 1017 Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch
"Apple has open sourced libdispatch, also known as Grand Central Dispatch, which is technology in Snow Leopard that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of multi-core parallelism"

09/11/09 0843 DRM wars:Flash v. Silverlight
"The next edition of Adobe's rights management server, now called Flash Access 2.0, was unveiled today at a broadcasting conference in Amsterdam."

09/11/09 0818 Crytek Giving Away CryEngine To UK Universities
"Crytek will be making CryEngine, the game engine behind Far Cry and Aion, available to universities in the UK for free. "

09/11/09 0818 Facebook Now Lets You Fax Your Photos

09/11/09 0815 Windows 7 commercial
"As Europe's "The Final Countdown" played, I was nonplussed, but a fellow convention-goer immediately started laughing. "

09/11/09 0813 Facebook open source web server
"The Web server framework that Facebook will offer as open source is called Tornado, was written in the Python language and is designed for quickly processing thousands of simultaneous connections."

09/11/09 0813 Turing gets an apology
"Gordon Brown's words of contrition came in response to a petition on the No 10 website calling for a posthumous government apology to the wartime hero and computing pioneer."

09/11/09 0812 One video card, 6 displays
"AMD announced Eyefinity yesterday, a new technology that allows up to six displays to be driven by one video card."

09/11/09 0809 Large Piracy ring busted
"Six men have been accused of running the world’s most prolific music piracy ring, an online crew federal prosecutors allege delivered more than 25,000 copyrighted albums, often before they were officially released."

09/11/09 0806 Motorola Android Cliq
"The phone weighs 5.6 ounces, has an HVGA touchscreen, Qwerty keyboard, Wifi, Bluetooth and GPS. There's a five-megapixel camera. Rated talk time is six hours, with a standby time of 13.5 days."

09/11/09 0751 CRITICAL:OS X Security Update 2009-005
"Security Update 2009-005 addresses a total of 33 security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X 10.5.8, Server 10.5.8, 10.4.11 and Server 10.4.11, including nine issues related to the Flash Player plug-in, some of which could lead to arbitrary code execution when viewing a maliciously crafted web site."

09/11/09 0750 CRITICAL:OS X 10.6.1
"Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.1 for Snow Leopard and Security Update 2009-005 for 10.4.11 Tiger and 10.5.8 Leopard systems, fixing several bugs and security vulnerabilities. Mac OS X 10.6.1 upgrades the Adobe Flash Player to the latest 10.0.32.18 release, eliminating several critical security vulnerabilities."

09/10/09 1435 Microsoft's Open Source foundation
"Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source."

09/10/09 1243 Twiguard
"DarkReading is reporting on the launch of a new experimental service set up to detect spam and threats on the popular Twitter microblogging service."

09/10/09 1230 CRITICAL:Quicktime 7.6.4
4 Critical vulnerabilities patched. Users of Windows, Tiger, and Leopard should upgrade soon. You can patch via Software Update (OS X) or Apple Software Update (Windows). Quicktime is also available http://apple.com/quicktime

09/10/09 1224 Making money with Twitter
"Stone on Tuesday said the company is building an 'analytics dashboard' designed to help businesses keep track of what is being tweeted about them. "

09/10/09 1223 Judge tells Facebook to hand over source code
"Additionally, while the judge in question deems it fine to let Leader Technologies look at Facebook's source (for a patent, no less!) in its entirety for a single feature,"

09/10/09 1220 iPhone OS 3.1 Phishing protection
"It turns out that the protection is far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide any protection at all."

09/10/09 0824 Google micropayments
"Google is looking at adding a micropayments system to its Checkout payment system."

09/10/09 0822 Norton Internet Security 2010 Quorum
"Quorum creates a "reputation" for every piece of software it encounters, basing that reputation on a number of factors, including download source, age, prevalence and digital signature."

09/10/09 0817 iTunes 9 kills Palm sync
"The tug of war between Apple and Palm continues, as the latest update to iTunes has once again blocked the Palm Pre from syncing with a users' iTunes library."

09/10/09 0816 Paula out..Ellen in...
"Ellen DeGeneres is replacing Paula Abdul on "American Idol.""I just finally got the OK . . . just moments ago to announce this to you today," DeGeneres told her studio audience during yesterday's taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," airing today on WNBC/Channel 4. "

09/10/09 0814 TomTom opensource format
" They aim is to push it as an open standard to build a cooperative information base, presumably to operate in a similar fashion as its current TomTom Map Share technology, in which end users provide map corrections on the fly. "

09/10/09 0813 Malware Archive
"a large security archive with a massive collection of downloadable malware and computer underground related information for the purposes of analysis, testing, research and development. "

09/10/09 0812 Pigeon Turns Out to be Faster Than S. African Net
"The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."

09/10/09 0807 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.5.3/3.0.14
There are 3 critical security fixes in the 3.5.3 advisory...There are 3 critical and 1 moderate security fixes in the 3.0.14 advisory..You can get it from Slug's Download Page or Update via "Check for Updates" within Firefox's Help menu.

09/10/09 0801 McLaren's MP4-12C
"Behind the rear seats sits a 3.8-litre twin-turbocharged V8 with 600bhp, that is driven through a McLaren seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, controlled via steering-wheel mounted paddles. "

09/10/09 0801 Will we need a new Aragorn for the Hobbit?
"“I have no plans to do another movie. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm open to seeing how I feel in a while, but right now I'm not saying yes to anything"

09/10/09 0800 Five Features We Want to See in Ubuntu
"If every Ubuntu developer were assembled at one place, here are five things we'd ask them to accomplish."

09/09/09 1522 Make your own Big Daddy costume
"This is a long, long, long post that details nearly 7 solid weeks of work, and you guys deserve to know that the long post is quite necessary, and (I think) well worth the read."

09/09/09 1431 Summary of Apple's 9/9/9
"These LPs will be a digital album with cover art, lyrics, videos, and other customized content created by the artists themselves. Moving on, they showed off a few new games: an Assassin's Creed sequel, an FPS called Nova that had impressive graphics and multiplayer capability, Riddim Ribbon, a futuristic driving/music game that lets you remix your songs by how you navigate the course, and Madden NFL 2010. "

09/09/09 1422 iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3.1
"With over 75,000 apps in the App Store, it can be difficult to find new applications. Apple's extended its Genius media-recommendation algorithm to iPhone applications. It looks at the apps you already own and makes recommendations based on that information.'

09/09/09 1356 Engadget covers Apples 9/9/9 event
"I'm very happy to be here today with you all. As some of you know about 5 months ago I had a liver transplant, so I now have the liver of a mid-20's person who died in a car crash. I wouldn't be here without such generosity. I hope all of us can be as generous and become organ donors."

09/09/09 0816 Redhat 6 features
"The presentation closes with some notes on the features to expect in RHEL 6, currently in development and scheduled for release in the first half of next year. Virtualisation is once again a key topic, but Burke also stresses power management/green IT and improved 'manageability' features."

09/09/09 0815 Silverlight 4 features
"Microsoft plans to add a native multicast capability, as well as support for offline digital rights management (DRM). "

09/09/09 0813 Windows 7 selling points
"In preparation for the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has created ExpertZone "training courses" using controversial talking point programing to dissuade retail employees from selling customers Linux PCs or Macs, and arms them with "facts" to use in upselling Windows PC users on expensive service plans."

09/09/09 0800 Vista install stats
"As it turns out, two years after Vista's release not even 30 percent of PCs actually run it. And those that do are almost exclusively the Home Premium version, meaning that Vista is employed mainly by home users who likely got Vista preinstalled on a new PC."

09/09/09 0759 Palm Pixi
"It is missing two crucial components: GPS and Wi-Fi. The lack of these two features indicates that the Pixi is aimed at a tweener set who probably won't use these features as much as older, more business-minded users."

09/09/09 0759 iPhone options coming?
"Overage alerts and an option to disable custom voicemail greetings and automated instructions may be added to the iPhone before year end "

09/09/09 0754 Aircrack-ng 1.0 released
"Aircrack-NG, the WEP and WPA-PSK cracking application, has been released as a finalised 1.0 version, after being in beta test since October 2007"

09/09/09 0752 Rent an Exoskeleton
"The mind-controlled wearable machine increases strength and endurance, and rents for $2,300 a month. "

09/09/09 0751 Tolkiens settlement, Hobbit underway
"Two independent sources with knowledge of the deal pegged the value to the Tolkiens and co-plaintiff Harper Collins at well over $100 million. "

09/09/09 0750 Companies Customer Service Ratings
"With that in mind, we have sifted through customer surveys and studies as well as some real-life experiences of customers, to come up with a list of the 10 best and the 10 worst companies for customer service. "

09/09/09 0748 Intel Turbo Memory
"Intel is taking another crack at Turbo Memory, which was the chipmaker's failed effort to put a pool of flash memory cache on motherboards to speed boot and load times."

09/08/09 1536 Patch Tuesday Overview
Overview of the September 2009 Microsoft patches and their status.

09/08/09 1434 CRITICAL:Sept. Patch Tuesday
"According to Symantec Security Response research manager Ben Greenbaum, the two vulnerabilities most likely to be used by attackers involve the way Windows handles ASF and MP3 media files. "We've seen similar exploits in the past and all a user would have to do is visit a compromised Web site hosting one of these malicious files, which could be an MP3, WMA or WMV file, and they could become infected.""

09/08/09 1042 OSSEC 2.2 is out
Users should wait a week before upgrading. Last time there was a nasty Windows leak.

09/08/09 0855 Rambo vs "The Predator"
"the story has Rambo leading a Black Ops squad to hunt, capture or kill an escaped military experiment. "

09/08/09 0847 Harder than diamond?
"So might there be some tweak to carbon's atomic arrangements that would optimise the strength of its bonds and make a material harder than diamond?"

09/08/09 0846 Girls update Facebook, get rescued
"Instead of ringing the emergency services, the two girls decided to make a Facebook status update stating that they were lost, which, luckily for them, caught the attention of one of their male friends who called for help."

09/08/09 0843 Windows Genuine Advantage Lawsuit
"WGA's implementation also prevented users from purging the protection from their PCs without completely reformatting a computer's system drive, leaving many with no real choice but to accept WGA after it was installed."

09/08/09 0842 Steel Velcro
"Metaklett is a steel velcro-like substance created by Josef Mair and teammates at Technical University of Munich."

09/08/09 0836 C64 on your iPhone
"the C64 Emulator has finally been approved for the iPhone "

09/08/09 0835 "The Lost World?"
"40 previously unidentified species were discovered inside the crater of an extinct volcano on Papua New Guinea. "

09/08/09 0834 What does the DHS record?
"The document reveals that the DHS is storing: the traveler's credit card number and expiration; IP addresses used to make Web travel reservations;......."

09/08/09 0830 "Anonymized" data really isn't
"For twenty dollars, she purchased the complete voter rolls from the city of Cambridge, a database containing, among other things, the name, address, ZIP code, birth date, and sex of every voter. By combining this data with the GIC records, Sweeney found Governor Weld with ease. Only six people in Cambridge shared his birth date, only three of them men, and of them, only he lived in his ZIP code."

09/08/09 0829 Foxconn Arm Netbooks
"Foxconn Technology plans to launch next year its first smartbooks, which are mini-laptops that use microprocessors from Arm Holdings normally found in smartphones."

09/08/09 0827 Norton Community Watch
"Users installing the new Symantec Internet Security Suite will be able to opt in a program called Norton Community Watch that will actively collect attack information. This soft will behave differently from any other standard anti-virus, being more engaged in the user's actions, warning them of real-time attacks and displaying detailed statistics about the problem disrupting the user's activity."

09/08/09 0824 Adobe and Oracle Delay Oct Patches
"Oracle's reason for delaying its patch day is the OpenWorld 2009 Oracle conference taking place from 11th to 15th October, which generally attracts large numbers of administrators responsible for Oracle installations."

09/08/09 0823 CRITICAL:0-Day BSOD Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008
"We have confirmed it affects Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008. The exploit needs no authentication, only file sharing enabled with one 1 packet to create a BSOD. We recommend filtering access to port TCP 445 with a firewall."

09/08/09 0819 The Beatles: Rock Band
""We had to come up with full music videos for over 20 Beatles songs,""

09/08/09 0818 Prostate Cancer Caused By a Virus?
"Comparing more than 200 human prostate cancers to more than 100 non-cancerous prostate-tissue samples, they found that 27 percent of the cancers contained the virus known as XMRV, which was found in only 6 percent of the benign tissues."

09/08/09 0816 First Intel Lynnfield PCs
"Like the previous Core i7 processors, the new CPUs are optimized for multimedia and gaming tasks that support multiple threads (or tasks) happening simultaneously."

09/08/09 0815 Digital Personal Property (DPP)
"It's that the ability to lose control over property that is central to the DPP system. DPP files are encrypted. They can be freely copied and distributed to anyone, but here's the trick: anyone who can view your content can also "steal" it irrevocably."

09/08/09 0814 Changes to Android Marketplace
"Google will also make it easier for users to find paid apps in the store. Currently, it's extremely difficult to find the folder in the Market that includes applications that users must pay for."

09/05/09 2009 Unpatched WordPress blogs under attack
"The particularly nasty bug crawls the web for vulnerable Wordpress installations, installing malware, deleting content, and generally wreaking havoc wherever it can."

09/05/09 1004 Microsoft can sell Word, but battle's not over
"The victory is a small one for Microsoft; the company still has the whole appeals process to go through"

09/05/09 1003 Firefox to check Flash version
"Mozilla is going to check the version of installed Adobe Flash plug-ins and warn users if it discovers an outdated version with potential security holes."

09/04/09 1905 TiVO wins $200M from Dish Network
"The U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas ruled to impose contempt sanctions against sister companies Dish and EchoStar for violating a court-ordered permanent injunction from April 2008 through July 1, 2009."

09/04/09 1508 House Party 7
"putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout, launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes and communities to demonstrate and help spread the word about its new OS."

09/04/09 1503 Amazon apologizes for 1984 Kindle deletes
"Kindle customers who saw George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four disappear from their screens have received an apology from Amazon's CEO, along with a copy of the book or $30 of restitution."

09/04/09 1502 Star Trek online
"Like CCP's EVE Online, each player will captain his or her own ship, but the specifics of interior vessel exploration or the latitude you'll have to poke around planet-side are scarce."

09/04/09 1502 Frankencamera
"world's first open-source camera. Their contraption, dubbed the Frankencamera, consists of a Nokia N95 mobile phone camera module, circuit board, a couple of lenses from Canon and Linux for all the open-source goodness. "

09/04/09 1501 Ping gets added to Bing
"Bing & Ping is a "potential new feature" for Bing that allows people to click on links below a search result to post the information on social-networking sites or e-mail it to friends."

09/04/09 1125 CRITICAL:OS X 10.5 Java Update
"Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.6.0_13, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to obtain elevated privileges"

09/04/09 1123 5 Critical Patches on Tuesday
"Microsoft today said it will deliver five security updates on Tuesday, all affecting Windows and all ranked "critical," the company's highest threat rating."

09/02/09 2105 Microsoft wants a global patent system
"They have already attracted opposition from the open-source community and the Pirate Party. "

09/02/09 2100 CRITICAL:Flash on Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard ships with a vulnerable Flash plugin. Update ASAP.

09/02/09 1426 More details on "Malware CDs sent to Banks"
"The bottom line here is this. This was a controlled exercise in which the process worked. The social engineering attack itself was unsuccessful and drew the attention of the proper authorities."

09/02/09 1402 Movie studios again demand HDTV disabling powers from FCC
"Even the MPAA now concedes that its bid for selectable output control could force some consumers to buy new home theater gear. "

09/02/09 1401 The US did land on the Moon....
""Our images also show tracks left behind by the lunar rovers which were used by the astronauts.""

09/02/09 1400 2 TB WD hard drive
"The Caviar Black drive (model WD2001FASS) will be priced at $299, WD said. It includes a five-year limited warranty. "

09/02/09 1354 Redhat Linux 5.4
"The firm called RHEL 5.4 the foundation of its portfolio of virtualisation solutions, adding that it supports a broad ecosystem of hardware and software while also contributing to Red Hat's vision for the future."

09/02/09 1350 War over the definition of broadband
"that major internet service providers in the US are seeking to redefine the term 'Broadband' to mean a much lower speed than in other developed nations."

09/02/09 0750 Quicktime 7 vs. Quicktime X
"Also like iMovie 08, the new QuickTime X doesn't do everything that the previous QuickTime 7.x does, such as providing complex transcoding options, component plugins for installing alternative codecs, or the ability to hint tracks for RTSP streaming via QuickTime Streaming Server. That's why Apple includes an updated version of the previous QuickTime 7.x player as an optional install in Snow Leopard to handle all of those features."

09/02/09 0744 Wii browser now free, new Flash
" It is now a free download (if you already paid for it, you get a free NES game), and finally supports Flash 9 content after being limited to Flash 7 ever since it was launched in late 2006.""

09/02/09 0740 CRITICAL:Microsoft Live Messenger
"Microsoft's Live Messenger appears to be among the programs affected by the critical ATL security holes. Holes Microsoft recently closed with emergency patches for the Visual Studio development environment libraries and later blocked in Internet Explorer."

09/02/09 0731 Windows 7 RTM trial
"Microsoft on Tuesday offered a free 90-day trial of the final version of Windows 7, saying that the three-month free ride is for IT professionals."

09/02/09 0730 Credit card "thieves" charged
" New York prosecutors indicted five Eastern European men on Monday in an extensive credit-card fraud operation that netted the defendants at least US$4 million from some 95,000 stolen card numbers."

09/02/09 0730 Nokia Booklet 3G cost
"The Nokia Booklet 3G netbook will ship with Windows 7 and cost €575 (US$816) before subsidies and taxes, Nokia announced on Wednesday at its World conference in Stuttgart, Germany."

09/02/09 0729 Parallels 4 for Linux/Windows
"The solution supports both Intel VT-x (including EPT, Flex Priority, VPIDs) and AMD-V virtualization technologies."

09/02/09 0727 Gmail servers were overloaded
"The problem was that some recent changes designed to improve traffic flow on request routers, servers designed to direct Web queries to the appropriate Gmail server, overloaded the system after workers took some Gmail servers offline to perform routine upgrades."

09/02/09 0726 ARS reviews Guitar Hero 5
"This is more World Tour 2 than it is Guitar Hero 5, but admitting that might mean that Band Hero would seem even more redundant when it comes out."

09/02/09 0725 Hyper-V still needs work?
"but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group."

09/01/09 2025 Gmail outage
"As I type this, GMail is experiencing a major outage. The application status page says there is a problem with GMail affecting a majority of it's users" Back by 5:37 PM.

09/01/09 1517 Malware:Firefox Flash AddOn
"EBOD-A also has the capability to inject ads into the user’s Google search results pages, Trend Micro warns, which adds that the malware appears to be spreading via forum posts."

09/01/09 1249 Twittering remote
"patent on a network-enabled smart remote control that sends out a message to Twitter, Facebook or a blog when you start watching a TV show."

09/01/09 1122 ARS takes on Snow Leopard
"Got all that? A nearly two-year development cycle, but no new features. Major new frameworks for developers, but few new bugs. Significant changes to the core OS, but more reliability. And a franchise rejuvenation with few user-visible changes.It's enough to turn a leopard white."

09/01/09 1118 Internet's 40th birthday tomorrow
"In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s."

09/01/09 1116 Windows Mobile 6.5 phones
"The software maker said on Tuesday that the first phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 will launch worldwide on October 6 and will include phones running on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless. "

09/01/09 1115 Opera 10 Browser
"It now supports rich text email, the 'turbo' Opera proxy server feature, some HTML 5 support, XML 'pretty printing', extra skinning features, and a 100/100 score in the Acid3 test."

09/01/09 1112 Oracle Database 11g Release 2
"Oracle pulled the covers off Oracle Database 11g Release 2 today, bringing a host of new features around performance and management. "

09/01/09 1106 Ebay sells Skype for $2.75B
"EBay Tuesday announced it has signed an agreement to sell its Skype voice-over-IP service to a group of private investors in a deal that values the business at US$2.75 billion."

09/01/09 1105 Google Chrome comes to Sony Vaios
"Google confirmed that Sony PCs carrying Chrome had started to go on sale and said it was in talks for similar deals with other computer makers. "

09/01/09 1104 Rave Theatre robbed
"The man then said he had a gun and demanded that one of the managers retrieve money from the safe while he waited with the other. Management did as he asked. The suspect made a manager lead him to his car. The suspect took the manager's car and fled the scene."

09/01/09 1056 CRITICAL:IIS 5/6 0-Day
"By issuing an FTP NLST (NAME LIST) command on a specially-named directory, an attacker may cause a stack buffer overflow." Disable anonymous FTP write. Microsoft has yet to release a patch.

08/31/09 1242 AMD 6-core 40W Opteron
" The six-core AMD Opteron EE consumes 40 watts, and is designed for 2P servers, among the most popular in the virtualized server space"

08/31/09 1134 Disney buys Marvel
"for $4 billion in stock and cash. In a statement, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger said "adding Marvel to Disney's unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation.""

08/31/09 0809 Some HP printers not Snow Leopard compatible
"Some were infuriated that their long-reliable printer was not currently supported by Snow Leopard, while others rebelled when HP told them to buy a new printer."

08/31/09 0807 3do...putty protection for electronics
"You can punch your fist into a ball of the material sitting on a desk and not feel a thing, according to the staff at PC Pro who have been testing the material, called 3do."

08/31/09 0805 A Breathalyzer For Cancer
"identified 42 "volatile organic compounds" (VOCs) present in the breath of 83% of cancer patients but fewer than 83% of healthy volunteers"

08/31/09 0804 No remote killswitch for Kindle
"Our reader, Justin Smith, said that Amazon's Kindle Support told him that there's no way to send a kill signal down to the Kindle and have it shut off remotely. This is "something which I feel would be beneficial in a situation like this, where recovery of the device is unlikely," he told us via e-mail. "

08/31/09 0803 Sharp PC-Z1
"The PC-Z1 device is as easy to handle as a mobile phone and provides performance similar to PCs, the company said in a statement last week. It is designed for an audience that relies mostly on the Web for computing."

08/31/09 0800 MacPorts 1.8.0

08/31/09 0800 Conficker..back in the news
"The infamous Conficker worm first spread its malicious infection across the Internet more than eight years ago and just last month it shot back into prominence, infecting 43 percent of machines in use worldwide in the space of four weeks and, for good measure, it now installs rogue security software on compromised machines."

08/31/09 0759 UK Parliament site "hacked"
"A hacker broke into the database of the UK Parliament website by exploiting an SQL injection vulnerability. The incident reveals very poor and questionable password security practices on behalf of the website administration."

08/29/09 2233 Phoronix benchmarks OS X 10.6
"We were quite amazed with multiple tests exhibiting nearly 50% performance boosts over Mac OS X 10.5.8. While that was an extreme improvement, many other tests ran 10~16% faster. In a few tests, the performance was the same or the delta was statistically insignificant, but in a couple tests, there were regressions."

08/29/09 0855 Snow Leopard's default 32bit kernel
"In short, very few things require 64-bit mode at the kernel level, and we're guessing that it defaults to 32-bit due to the fact that a select few of the earliest Macs didn't ship with 64-bit CPUs'

08/28/09 2056 Snow Leopard, not as secure as it could be
"While Microsoft has had it implemented since the roll-out of Windows Vista, the analogous protection in Snow Leopard, which went on sale Friday, suffers from a crucial deficiency: It fails to randomize core parts of the OS, including the heap, stack and dynamic linker."

08/28/09 1054 "Image" of a single molecule
"New Scientist is reporting that researchers at IBM Zurich have managed to image a single molecule in detail for the first time"

08/28/09 1052 More on the Apache.org "hack"
"SSH is a widely used technology for remote administration, so in the worst scenario the compromise created a means for hackers to upload Trojanised code onto the download section of Apache's website."

08/28/09 0857 Laptops being sent to US Governors
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who is sending laptop computers to state governors across the U.S., including West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin and Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal. Some state officials are worried that they may contain malicious software."

08/28/09 0844 Trusted sites...not so clean
"Kris Lamb. director of IBM's X-Force team, said users who stay away from "red light district" sites are still at risk, as more trusted sites have been found to host malicious code used in drive-by attacks."

08/28/09 0812 Pirate Bay purchase..one step closer
"GGF (Global Gaming Factory) shareholders approved the $8.5 million transaction on Thursday this week, four months after TPB's four co-founders were convicted and found guilty of facilitating copyright infringement"

08/28/09 0810 Apache.org offline for a while
"A later update says that services on the European mirror were not compromised and the team are in the process of switching DNS over to point to those systems saying"

08/28/09 0809 OpenShot is Video Editing Software for Ubuntu
"The software is called OpenShot and is a free and open source solution for editing videos on Linux environment. "

08/28/09 0807 DHS "laptops at the border" searches will continue
"DHS claimed that they would "enhance and clarify oversight for searches of computers and other electronic media at U.S. ports of entry." "

08/28/09 0806 Pushing SSDs to 3.5GB/s
"The theoretical maximum for our array should be somewhere around 3.5 GB/s, which is 60% more than what we’ve reached so far. Clearly, we were looking at some sort of bottleneck."

08/28/09 0802 Slackware 13.0

08/28/09 0757 FTC vs. Robocalls
"The Federal Trade Commission next week will make automated robocalls illegal for most telemarketers. Still, the list of exceptions mean that the calls will continue as charities, politicians, banks, and telcos can continue their prerecorded pitches."

08/28/09 0757 Snow Leopard inspires malware writers
"Virus slingers are taking advantage of the release of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system by offering malware from sites touting operating system upgrades."

08/27/09 2219 Snow Leopard review
"Snow Leopard offers slimmed-down code, a smaller footprint and a raft of under-the-hood technologies designed to bring additional stability and performance. It also lays a strong foundation for the future."

08/27/09 1408 Google Docs Translator
"On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages."

08/27/09 1407 Phishing emails down..
"Phishing email volumes fell during the first half of 2009, according to a variety of security reports out this week."

08/27/09 1407 It had to happen..the Eeebook reader
"Asus has thus fair been fairly successful in launching consumer-friendly computing devices under its Eee brand. With netbooks, nettops already under its belt, Asus is now taking a firm look at tackling the growing ebook segment."

08/27/09 1348 Nokia N900
"Nokia releases their first Linux mobile handset, the N900 The handset is based on the latest release of Maemo, the Nokia mobile Linux platform"

08/27/09 0919 Snow Leopard "anti malware" only detects two worms
""RSPlug.a" which was first seen in October 2007 and "Iservice" which appeared in January are both identified by Snow Leopard's anti-virus checker as being brand new."

08/27/09 0752 Twitter still vulnerable to CSS flaw
"A vulnerability in the way Twitter handles the URL of client applications that post to the microblogging service can allow for cross site scripting attacks."

08/27/09 0752 Next Gen Trojans can record Skype calls
"The program can be injected into a PC as a trojan. According to the Unteregger, the successfully injected trojan hooks into active Skype processes, secretly records the audio data of conversations and transmits it to an external server as MP3 files."

08/27/09 0749 Snow Leopard reviews...boring...
The bottom lines are in...

08/27/09 0748 Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite price cut
"Microsoft will lop US$100 off its highest-priced Xbox 360 game console on Friday"

08/27/09 0748 WPA data is gone in 60 seconds
"JAPANESE BOFFINS took time out from fighting giant moths to work out how to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in just sixty seconds."

08/27/09 0747 Sharp's Netbook
"it launched the PC-Z1 Netwalker, a weeny netbook based around a 5in display and Ubuntu Linux and an ARM Cortex A8-derived CPU."

08/27/09 0747 Sirius XM SkyDock
"SkyDock, which allows users to connect to satellite radio via their Apple iPhone or iPod touch"

08/27/09 0746 Will Snow Leopard be more secure than Windows?
""Apple hasn't implemented all the security features that Vista has," Miller said. "They made some improvements in Leopard, but they are still behind.""

08/27/09 0744 OS X Hackers
"He said he has reported more than 10 vulnerabilities to Apple over the years and does so out of love for the platform."

08/27/09 0743 Will Google become a Library?
"Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the implications of Google's proposed settlement with publishers that, if implemented, will allow it to bring millions of books online."

08/27/09 0740 ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches
"The ACLU has sued the US Customs and Border Protection agency under the Freedom of Information Act, aiming to obtain records on the agency's policy of searching laptops at the border. "

08/27/09 0737 TiVo sues AT&T and Verizon
"TiVo has already taken Dish for more than $200 million and a judge has slapped a permanent injunction, now being appealed, against Dish. If all goes TiVo's way, Dish will have to shut off millions of its customers' DVRs or strike a licensing deal with TiVo."

08/26/09 1512 Battlenet 2.0 screenshots

08/26/09 1511 Mininova has to clean up its act
"Today, the judge ruled that the world’s largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean up its site and remove all torrents that link to infringing content."

08/26/09 1510 A Cybercrime Hub
"describing the activities of an Estonian ISP acting as a cover-up for a large cybercrime network. It's involved with malware distribution and DNS hijacking, which leads to credit card fraud. "

08/26/09 0945 Free anti-malware for OS X

08/26/09 0930 Hacking Oil Rigs
"everything from data transmission to drilling to sophisticated navigation systems that maintain the platform's position over the wellhead — are controlled via wireless links to onshore facilities"

08/26/09 0812 Antivir tops PCWorld free AV tests
"You can find lots of free software made to stop worms, viruses, and other malware. We tested several such programs to find the free antivirus you can depend on."

08/26/09 0805 Trying for the 10 petaflop computer
"Fujitsu aims to deliver by early 2011 a 10-petaflop supercomputer, which would be almost 10 times more powerful than today's fastest system."

08/26/09 0804 Woofer, the anti-Twitter
"Woofer requires each post to have a minimum of 1,400 characters."

08/26/09 0757 MacTablet...will it be a big deal?
"On the following pages is a gallery of concept designs created by Jon Doe, an anonymous grad student from Georgia who has done a LOT of thinking about how Apple’s tablet will work."

08/26/09 0752 Batman Arkham Asylum review
"If we went back in time two years and tried to convince ourselves that in 2009 Palm would release a damn fine phone, people would be excited about a new Windows release, and Batman would star in a game-of-the-year contender, what do you think we would say to ourselves?"

08/26/09 0744 Guts of the PS3 Slim
"the guys at iFixit.com have already taken a screwdriver to Sony’s latest console."

08/26/09 0743 Snow Leopard comes with antivirus?
"Well, now it seems that Apple has backtracked on its faith-based IT security regime and provided Snow Leper users with free anti-virus software. Of course this must still be to protect against 'malware' or even 'worms' because Apple's latest adverts slam Microsoft's products for suffering from viruses."

08/26/09 0740 FSF doesn't like Windows 7

08/26/09 0739 "Analyzer" the hacker pleads guilty
"Notorious recidivist hacker Ehud Tenenbaum has pleaded guilty to credit card fraud as part of a plea bargaining agreement with US authorities in a multi-million dollar fraud case."

08/26/09 0738 Global Office Genuine Advantage
"The software giant confirmed yesterday that 41 countries could now enroll in Redmond’s voluntary program that offers end users “enhanced protection” against the “risks” of using counterfeit copies of Office."

08/26/09 0735 CRITICAL:Google Chrome 2.0.172.43
" A high-severity vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine could allow an attacker to run specially-crafted JavaScript on a page, bypassing security checks to read unauthorised memory, or even leading to the execution of arbitrary code"

08/26/09 0734 Youtube wants your videos to make money
"The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals, notifying them that they can become advertising partners."

08/26/09 0733 More on newest Sony ebook reader
"Analysts said Sony's Reader Daily Edition is a direct challenge to Amazon's best-selling Kindle device. "

08/26/09 0732 Jackson reality TV
"The brothers of late pop star Michael Jackson are to appear in a reality TV series, US network A&E has announced."

08/26/09 0730 Senator Kennedy is dead
"Senator Edward Kennedy, who died Tuesday, aged 77, was the liberal lion of US politics, a towering, controversial figure whose death ends an era when his family appeared born to rule. "

08/26/09 0728 Vulnerability in some Cisco access points
"Cisco uses an Over-The-Air-Provisioning (OTAP) protocol that uses multicast data to find a controller. During this initialization phase, a rogue controller could respond and send a bad configuration to the access point, disabling the device."

08/26/09 0728 Plastic MacBooks to get an overhaul
"People familiar with Cupertino-based company's plans say the 13-inch portables are presently undergoing an industrial design overhaul that will see them reemerge in the coming months with a slimmer, lighter enclosure and restructured internal architecture to boot."

08/26/09 0727 The worst sites on the net?

08/25/09 1309 Netbook battery life under Linux
" I found that I had a battery life of nearly three hours using the long-life battery, at this point I was a happy camper because it means that I can watch a DVD during a flight. I then tried various Linux distributions and found the battery life under FOS to be very disappointing, with an average of 45 minutes before a warning message. "

08/25/09 1308 Pirate Bay returns
"The Pirate Bay team has always anticipated an unwanted disconnection of the site. After their servers were raided in 2006 several measures were taken to ensure that the site could simply come back online from a new location in a few hours, and this is the first time that this backup plan had been executed."

08/25/09 0814 CRITICAL:Redhat(Centos) Kernel Update
"Red Hat have now released updated kernel packages for RHEL 4 and RHEL 5, fixing two security issues and a bug. As CentOS is based on the RHEL source, the CentOS developers have also announced the release of updates for CentOS 4 (x86-64 and x86-32) and CentOS 5 (x86-64 and x86-32)."

08/25/09 0812 Looking at Flash worms
"Flash files can also be dangerous – I've successfully used them during various penetration tests to evade web application firewalls (which are not the solution to bad coding!)."

08/25/09 0810 Almost 55k websites hacked, hosting malware
"Victim sites include feedzilla.com, latindiscover.com, and a number of charitable and nursing facilities, including howellcarecenter.com, sweetgrassvillagealf.com, foodsresourcebank.org, and morningsideassistedliving.com."

08/25/09 0800 The End of the Pirate Bay?
"Several sources are discussing the recent attempted shutdown of The Pirate Bay by Swedish authorities."

08/25/09 0800 Antispam lawyer loses almost everything
"James Gordon tried to set himself up as an ISP to get around the conventions of the CAN SPAM act in order to set up a litigation house designed to sue companies that spam. Unfortunately a judge did not take kindly to this trick and ordered him to pay $110,000 to the firm he was suing"

08/25/09 0758 Wikipedia, edits must be approved for articles on living people
"The new feature, called 'flagged revisions,' will require that an experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it can go live. "

08/25/09 0756 Windows 7 battery life, single computer example
"Laptop magazine reported in its blog on Monday that during a recent test, a Toshiba netbook lost 2.5 hours of battery life when running Windows 7 instead of XP, or about 30% (6:53 for Windows 7, versus 9:24 for XP). "

08/25/09 0756 SCO returns. Judge overturns Novell copyright
"A federal appeals court Monday overturned a 2007 decision that Novell owns the Unix code, and the ruling now clears the way for SCO to pursue a $1 billion copyright infringement case against IBM."

08/24/09 1510 Slideshow of what's new in Snow Leopard

08/24/09 1459 Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up
"the tickets were sold out before your turn came. Tens of thousands more chose to order the pay-per-view coverage, demonstrating the extraordinary enthusiasm felt for Blizzard's games. Their presentations didn't disappoint."

08/24/09 1302 Fake Department of Homeland Security email warnings
"Homeland Security officials are warning that some e-mails purporting to be from the department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software."

08/24/09 1048 iPhone apps, "non-commercial use only"
"Apple is reminding customers that applications sold through the iTunes store are strictly for non-commercial use: business use is forbidden, which makes one wonder what that section of the store is for"

08/24/09 1047 Snow Leopard Aug 28th
"Among the refinements promised with Snow Leopard is OpenCL, the multi-processor technology which lets the graphics processor act as an additional CPU to speed up applications; support for Microsoft Exchange Server; updated Quicktime, 64-bit support, and multi-core optimization with Grand Central Dispatch."

08/24/09 1046 All Windows 7 versions on one DVD
"Now, why do you need a little technical expertise? You need to remove a file from the DVD or from the .ISO image. As Windows Secrets notes, all you have to do is delete the ei.cfg file."

08/24/09 0852 "bare-metal client hypervisor"
"On a desktop computer outfitted with a client hypervisor, for example, you might find corporate-sanctioned and supported operating system and applications running on a locked-down VM"

08/24/09 0851 NASA ALICE rocket fuel
"The new wonder-paste is composed of aluminium powder and ordinary water ice, and is known as Al-ice or ALICE. The clever bit is that the aluminium powder is extremely fine - "nanoscale" fine - giving it much greater surface area and letting it react with the water much more vigorously.'

08/24/09 0850 Nokia Booklet 3G
"The device also has a 10-inch screen, and can connect to bigger displays using an HDMI port, according to Nokia. Like most other netbooks on the market, it contains an Intel Atom processor and will run Windows -- although Nokia isn't yet ready to say which version of the OS."

08/24/09 0850 10G Ethernet on a motherboard
"Fabless chip-design house Solarflare Communications is today expected to announce what it claims are the first integrated 10GBASE-T LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) controllers."

08/24/09 0844 Facebook app security
" Facebook apps run with the access privileges of the user running it, so anything your friend can see, the app they're running can see, too."

08/24/09 0843 NASA outsourcing services
"The Wall Street Journal is running a piece about the growing momentum behind the idea of NASA outsourcing to private companies everything from transporting astronauts to ferrying cargo into orbit"

08/24/09 0842 Bioengineered tooth
" Once the engineered tooth matured, after 11 weeks, it had a similar shape, hardness and response to pain or stress as a natural tooth, and worked equally well for chewing. "

08/24/09 0841 White holes?
"Hawking has said that "black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow.""

08/24/09 0840 Apple and Google Voice..cont.
""Contrary to press reports," Apple's letter insisted, the company hasn't rejected the feature. It's just continuing to "study" it."

08/21/09 1043 Nokia "Debian" phone
"This is the most awesome device I have ever seen: MAP3 CPU/GPU, 3,5" 800x480 touchscreen, keyboard, Wi-Fi, HSPA, GPS; 5-MP camera, CZ lens, 32 GB storage, SD slot; X11, VT100 terminal emulator, APT package manager. Estimated price without credit: $780 "

08/21/09 1023 Low tech attack vs. two factor authentication
"“What everybody thought was a very secure identification method, these guys found a low-tech means to get around it,” said Joe Stewart, the director of malware research for SecureWorks, a software company. “They don’t break the encryption; they just log in at the same time you do.”"

08/21/09 0948 Sun Oracle merger OK'ed
"(DOJ) has approved its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, although the deal is subject to certain conditions and still needs the blessing of European regulators."

08/21/09 0840 Microsoft cuts down Chinese 'Tomato Garden'
"Microsoft scored a big victory in China yesterday, after four people were reportedly sentenced to jail terms for reproducing and distributing illegal copies of the firm's Windows XP operating system."

08/21/09 0840 Microsoft removes Attach Photo from Hotmail
"the past month since the software maker suddenly removed a popular feature because it created a security hole.The "Attach Photo" feature allowed users to directly add photos, images or graphics into e-mails."

08/21/09 0839 Living with Office 2010
"The most noticeable change for me is in Outlook, particularly its new conversation threading feature. Although the concept is familiar to anyone who has used Gmail, it is quite powerful to see the notion applied to the hundreds of e-mail messages that land in my in-box on any given day. "

08/21/09 0838 Twitter:Opt-in for tweet location
"Twitter, thrillingly, is adding location information to every tweet, so now you'll be able to avoid twits physically as well as electronically."

08/21/09 0837 Asimov's robot laws need updating
"He argues that the problem is not the robots but the people behind them. Woods said that real dangers can arise when humans push robots beyond their current decision-making capabilities."

08/21/09 0836 Review: HP 1120NR Netbook
"Geeks.com, home of cheap netbooks, sent us in the HP 1120NR netbook, running a modified version of Ubuntu Linux. Check inside to read our experience with it."

08/21/09 0834 Cash for Clunkers ending
"The $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program will shut down on Monday, the government said Thursday."

08/21/09 0831 CRITICAL:Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
"Thus update fixes MFSA 2009-42 (Compromise of SSL-protected communication). "

08/21/09 0830 Possible futures of cell phone tech
"from a wearable prototype such as MIT's SixthSense device which projects mobile data into the user's world, to a mobile that mixes the real and the virtual by using holographic telepresence. "

08/21/09 0824 Windows 7 spurs touchscreen development
" In the past three weeks, five leading PC makers have announced or been reported to confirm plans to release touch-screen PCs in time for the multi-touch-enabled Windows 7, reports Computerworld"

08/21/09 0817 Cell service costs too much
""We have a lot of concerns over voice and data plan costs, not just that they are too high, but there is demonstrated evidence that as the wireless carriers' revenues are rising, their wireless capital investments are decreasing,""

08/20/09 2131 Drive-by Exploit operators like Firefox
"Criminals running websites that push drive-by exploits overwhelmingly prefer the Firefox browser, according to a researcher who spent the past three months surveilling their browsing habits."

08/20/09 2130 Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo vs. Google Books
"Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo plan to join a consortium to fight a proposed settlement Google has made with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service"

08/20/09 2120 Quake III Live
"Those of you who loved Quake III Arena but prefer to run on Apple or Linux boxes will now finally get to take part in the Quake Live online browser game."

08/20/09 2119 Mitnick's AT&T account "hacked"
"Instead, the company informed Mitnick it plans to cancel his contract and not pay damages for the breach, he said. (His service was still working Thursday afternoon.) Now he may sue."

08/20/09 2117 Apple patent to swap tunes via calls
"Apple has filed a patent application that would enable iPhone users to transfer files and typed messages to others while speaking with them during a voice call."

08/20/09 1539 CRITICAL:IM Clients
"Pidgin, Finch, Adium, Meebo, and Gaim among others. Although CORE only specifically mentions GAIM, Libpurple, Pidgin, and Adium specifically, the other libpurple based ones may be vulnerable as well."

08/20/09 1537 Internet addiction center
"The center, called reStart: Internet Addiction Recovery Program, is a 45-day treatment center where, for a steep set of fees, people can be cured of their addiction to the Web."

08/20/09 1536 US Longevity has peaked?
"The culprits — largely preventable with better diet and access to medical services — are diabetes, cancers and heart disease caused by smoking, high blood pressure and obesity"

08/20/09 1435 Inside the Defcon 17 Network
"This, understandably, creates challenges for the people in DefCon’s Network Operations Center (NOC), who were tasked with keeping the networks up and running and relatively clean of malicious traffic during the four days the conference ran this year."

08/20/09 1343 Console failure rates
" Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s: 54%! The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 (11%) and Wii (7%)."

08/20/09 1331 How good are your "engineering" skills?

08/20/09 1307 The Avatar Trailer

08/20/09 1008 Fails in the Star Wars Universe
"They stand out like a sore thumb in every environment but snow, the helmets restrict view ("I can't see a thing in this helmet!" -- Luke Skywalker), and the armor is penetrable by single shots from blasters."

08/20/09 1007 NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily
"NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is using a pumped up communications device to deliver 461 gigabytes of data and images per day, at a rate of up to 100 Mbps."

08/20/09 0936 "Dirtiest" (malware) sites on the web
"It comes as no surprise that 48% of the Dirtiest Web Sites are, well, dirty— sites that feature adult content. "

08/20/09 0825 Richard Dawkins site hacked
"The 68,083 forum members of RichardDawkins.net were sent an invite from a forum admin's account to sign up to a warez site. We guess it was survival of the fittest atheist as to who visited the warez site."

08/20/09 0824 Blackberry to get Flash support?
"The sources also indicated that support for Microsoft Silverlight – a rival to Adobe’s Flash – will also be rolled out for BlackBerry phones in the future."

08/20/09 0823 Sony improves battery tech
"you’d think that it had virtually invented the Lithium Ion battery in the first place, but now it has come up with a breakthrough next step – with a battery that will survive far more charges and discharges without its performance decaying."

08/20/09 0821 120 days of "free" Windows 7
" Like its predecessor, Windows 7 can be used for up to 120 days without providing a product activation key, Microsoft confirmed today."

08/20/09 0820 Nanobee, anticancer "nanobot"
"Scientists at the St. Louis medical school announced this week that they are using nanoparticles to deliver the bee venom melittin through the body to kill cancerous tumor cells."

08/20/09 0819 Apple patches Bluetooth, HD firmware
" On Wednesday, Apple released updates for users of its wireless mouse and keyboard, as well as for recent MacBook Pro owners."

08/20/09 0819 New PayPal transaction fees
"While PayPal has certainly had their fair share of controversy, the new "transaction fees" that promise to affect the entire customer base are already well on their way to becoming another."

08/20/09 0817 Ethernet..talking in your sleep
" The adapter keeps the network connection going and the researchers have also developed a simplified IM client and bittorrent client that carry out more complicated tasks autonomously, only waking the computer if, for example, an actualy IM"

08/20/09 0817 2.5 trillion digits of PI
"have calculated Pi to over 2.5 trillion decimals using the T2K Open Supercomputer "

08/20/09 0815 "The cloud" isn't stable
"One of the lead researchers behind the stress tests reports that Amazon's EC2, Google's AppLogic and Microsoft's Azure cloud services have limitations in terms of data processing windows, response times and a lack of monitoring and reporting tools."

08/20/09 0813 iTunes 9 to have Facebook support
which earlier in the month wrote that iTunes 9 is expected to allow organization of iPhone apps and iPod games and indicated some sort of social media integration was in the cards.

08/19/09 2216 Star Trek 2009 trailer via 1970s animation

08/19/09 1359 Microsoft Office 2010 sandbox tech
"Last week, Microsoft revealed more details about a new security feature in Office 2010, dubbed "Protected View," that is designed to shut down the popular hacker tactic of feeding users rigged Word, Excel and PowerPoint files."

08/19/09 1346 Logitech "Darkfield" mouse
"Those of us with fancy glass desks know that getting an optical mouse to work on glass is a futile effort without the addition of a mousepad. Thanks to Logitech's new "Darkfield" technology, tracking on glass is now possible."

08/19/09 1346 Microsoft Azure SQL preview
"The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL Server driver for building PHP applications for the Azure platform. "

08/19/09 1346 Facebook growth
"That's enough to make Facebook one of the fastest-growing properties on which searches are conducted, according to research firm comScore's monthly search report. "

08/19/09 1345 The Pirate Bay goes legit
"To please the entertainment industry, GGF will install a system that will allow the copyright holders to either authorize the 'illegal' torrent or have it removed from the site."

08/19/09 1345 Review:MiFi hotspot
"The battery is supposed to last four hours when in active use, but in practice I never drained it, using both a netbook and an iPod Touch. The MiFi is pre-set to switch off after five minutes without use, and although you can change this, the default setting works fine."

08/19/09 1344 Linux kernel dev speed increases
"The report found that that there Linux saw a net increase of 2.7 million lines of code between the 2.6.24 and 2.6.30 releases, compared to the almost 300,000 lines added in the run-up to 2.6.24. "

08/19/09 1056 New antimalware alliance
"The Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) is parked under the IEEE Standards Association and includes mostly security heavyweights and antivirus players. The founding members are AVG Technologies, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro. "

08/19/09 1052 Video ads in magazines....
"The technology for the battery-powered ads was manufactured by a Los Angeles-headquartered company called Americhip, and each video ad can handle about 40 minutes of video."

08/19/09 0946 Google forced to reveal blogger id
"Model Liskula Cohen sued Google in January in the hope of forcing the company to reveal the person responsible for allegedly defamatory comments on a blog called Skanks"

08/19/09 0945 Two more patent lawsuits vs Microsoft
"EMG, meanwhile, contends that Microsoft's Windows CE, PocketPC, and Windows Mobile products infringe its patent for viewing Web content on a mobile device. EMG also lists investment broker Scottrade and Southwest Airlines in its complaint. "

08/19/09 0944 Microsoft's dual "mobile strategies"
"Microsoft will not phase out Windows Mobile 6.5 from the market but will lower the OS price, when it launches Windows Mobile 7 scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2010, the sources added."

08/19/09 0943 Wikipedia iPhone App
"The truth, however, is that this isn't a very good application and doesn't really go beyond anything the regular mobile Wikipedia website doesn't already do. Indeed, the app is basically just a wrapper for the mobile Wikipedia site."

08/19/09 0943 Windows 7 half price in UK
"In the UK, full versions of Windows 7 Home Premium -- not an upgrade edition -- are going to cost around £65. "

08/19/09 0939 Office Update moved to Microsoft Update
"As quietly announced in May, Microsoft has shut down its separate Office update service and, since the start of August, has been distributing updates for its Office suite via the central Microsoft Update address. "

08/19/09 0929 What's Koobface up to these days.
"Kuku Ruku Koobface! What does Koobface has to do with a legendary cocoa cream wafer Koukou Roukou sold in the 90's? It's one of new domains introduced over the past seven days"

08/19/09 0927 CRITICAL:Adobe ColdFusion, JRun
"release of patches to cover serious vulnerabilities in the ColdFusion and JRun web design and development platforms."

08/19/09 0920 Rat eating plants
"British experts Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, found the plant on Mount Victoria in the Philippines."

08/19/09 0841 MediaSentry, MediaDefender, re-born
"They’ve been re-born as Peer Media Technologies."

08/19/09 0841 Beamforming WiFi
"“That’s almost 40 megabits streaming over WiFi. I’ve never even been able to do one stream before, and now we’ve got two!”"

08/19/09 0838 Archos 5-inch Internet Tablet
"It's an Android-green invitation to the unveil of the 5-inch Archos Internet Media Tablet. "

08/19/09 0837 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
"Hot on the heels of the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 is System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, an essential management companion for the Hyper-V component of Microsoft’s server platform."

08/19/09 0834 iTunes sells 25% of all music in the US
"Online music sales have grown to more than a third of all music sold in the US, with iTunes making up a full quarter. CD sales remain dominant, but given the trajectory of online sales, that may not last for long."

08/19/09 0832 Back to school netbooks sales beat Macbooks
"A new study suggests students prefer low-cost netbooks over Apple's MacBook, but some believe the Mac-maker's long-rumored tablet could take a large portion of low-end laptop sales."

08/19/09 0821 Mozilla on IE ballots
"Senior executives at Mozilla have argued that recent proposals by Microsoft to appease European Commission (EC) anti-trust regulators over the unfair bundling of Internet Explorer (IE) in Windows products do not go far enough."

08/19/09 0821 500000 WiFi hotspots
"BT staked its claim as the UK's premier Wi-Fi hotspot provider today with the announcement that it now has 500,000 sites throughout the UK and Ireland."

08/19/09 0820 Facebook sued over privacy
"Five users of Facebook are suing the social network for violating Californian privacy laws over the way it handles personal information."

08/19/09 0819 stoned bootkit
"attacks Windows XP, Sever 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7 with one single master boot record"

08/19/09 0818 Latest Linux kernel vulnerability
"It’s also exploitable according to the report – This issue is easily exploitable for local privilege escalation. In order to exploit this, an attacker would create a mapping at address zero containing code to be executed with privileges of the kernel (which I would assume to be root)."

08/19/09 0814 CRITICAL:Pidgin 2.5.9
"The cause of the problem is a bug in the libpurple library used by Pidgin, which allows code to be written to memory and executed using crafted MSN-SLP packets." All users should upgrade to 2.6.1.

08/19/09 0813 Mounting dd full disk images

08/19/09 0808 OpenOffice won't be sued for XML document tech
"The company with the patent, i4i, believes that OpenOffice does not infringe upon it."

08/19/09 0807 Layer 2 switch with 100000 ports
"The researchers say their PortLand software will enable Layer 2 data center network fabrics scalable to 100,000 ports and beyond; they have a prototype running at the school's Department of Computer Science and Engineering's Jacobs School of Engineering."

08/19/09 0804 Palm Pre app store
"The handset maker Tuesday invited developers to apply for the beta test via e-mail, submitting a description of the application, price tag and other details along with the application itself in a .ipk file attachment."

08/19/09 0803 "awful" Internet laws
"A spokeswoman for Maine Attorney General Janet Mills didn't have an immediate comment on the law's inclusion on the NetChoice iAWFUL (the Internet Advocates' Watchlist for Ugly Laws) list."

08/19/09 0803 No more Windows 7 RC after Thursday
"Microsoft will turn off the download spigot for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on Thursday around 11 a.m. ET, the company confirmed on Tuesday."

08/19/09 0802 Microsoft, "Massive disruptions from prohibition of Word sales"
""Microsoft and its distributors (which include retailers such as Best Buy and OEMs such as HP and Dell) face the imminent possibility of a massive disruption in their sales,""

08/19/09 0756 UK looks at tougher P2P penalties
"has reportedly ordered his staff to come up with plans for a crackdown on illegal file-sharers that includes giving ISPs the power to disconnect repeat offenders ala a “three-strikes” graduated response system."

08/18/09 2320 "Spyware" apps on your iPhone
Some iPhone applications are phoning home with some scarily detailed information about you and your usage patterns.

08/18/09 2036 Infected Delphi Development Environment
"After infection, all Delphi programs compiled using the infected Delphi environment are also infected. Anti-virus laboratory AV-Test has already spotted the first examples in the wild."

08/18/09 1548 Snow Leopards not all 64bit
"Only Macintosh machines with a 64bit EFI are able to boot the 64bit Snow Leopard kernel and kexts; this is an artificially implemented limitation by Apple, as 32bit EFI can boot a 64bit kernel just fine. On top of that, even if your MacBook has a 64bit EFI, you will only be able to boot the 32bit version of Snow Leopard - again because of an artificial limitation by Apple for MacBooks."

08/18/09 1512 PS3 Slim
"They officially revealed the PS3 Slim, which will be 36% lighter and 33% smaller than the normal PS3. "

08/18/09 1236 10 tech blunders
" Because the people and companies involved didn't realize what they were letting slip through their fingers, or they simply couldn't foresee what would happen afterward"

08/18/09 1232 HDMI 1.4
" With one eye firmly on the digital home there are several significant improvements to the technology, including integrated data connectivity and support for 3D"

08/18/09 1230 Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate
"is role-based access control (RBAC), a complete replacement for the permissions system used up to now in ES 2007. This should divorce a very sensitive component of the e-mail server from the Windows System Registry, replacing it with an independent system that's under the control of the PowerShell-based engine introduced in ES 2007"

08/18/09 0813 Hacker sting backfires
"Unfortunately the wheels fell off the scheme, because the officers involved failed to set a password on the database behind the honeypot site, allowing hackers to seize control with the minimum of effort."

08/18/09 0812 Dell Cel was only a concept phone
"The Mini 3i Android-based mobile phone Dell showed off at a China Mobile even this past weekend was merely a proof of concept device, the company has claimed."

08/18/09 0805 Cheaply protect your gadgets
"When we raised the question with the MythBusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, it got our guest editors’ gears spinning with ideas, and they delivered a ­laundry list of materials that we could tape, glue or otherwise wrap around our electronics to toughen them up. "

08/18/09 0805 Multiprocessing, slow uptake on the Desktop PC
"If you have a task that cannot be parallelized and you are currently on a plateau of performance in a single-processor environment, you will not see that task getting significantly faster in the future.""

08/18/09 0803 Apple tops customer satisfaction
"Apple again thrashed rival computer makers selling Windows PCs in an annual customer satisfaction survey, although by a smaller margin than last year, the poll's manager said today."

08/18/09 0803 Apple Event 09/09/09
"This year the event is expected to focus on new iPods and Apple's Cocktail Album encapsulation formats."

08/18/09 0755 Beatles Rock Band
The featured songs are listed below, with the albums they're from in italics above. Abbey Road is the most represented single disc release here, with five of its tracks being chosen.

08/17/09 2139 Mass website defacement
"Thousand of sites were mass defaced on yet another large web hoster (in this case servage.net) possibly via MyBB or similar vulnerabilities"

08/17/09 2138 SQL injection led to 130 million CC numbers stolen
"Interestingly, the focus of the indictment, Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez, is currently awaiting trial for masterminding the TJX break-in, "

08/17/09 2136 Microsoft needs to "ship Word"
"a judge ordered Microsoft to halt sales of Word and handed down $290M in fines, the software giant has moved to stop the ban"

08/17/09 1131 Gmail now #3
"Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL"

08/17/09 1130 Dell Cel
"The candybar device lacks WiFi (or Chinese WAPI) and is strictly 2G GSM (no 3G) but does come with a 3 megapixel camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth, and 950mAh battery."

08/17/09 1124 Your bladder at the movies....

08/17/09 1105 Downey as Lestat
" Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, which tells the tale of the vampire Lestat Du Lioncort, a nobleman-turned-vampire"

08/17/09 1105 Debian is 16

08/17/09 0917 TomTom on your iPhone
"The TomTom iPhone application includes multi-touch pinch to zoom capabilities, rotates between portrait and landscape mode, seamlessly integrates with the phone's contact list, and has the ability to add locations. It also includes TomTom IQ Routes, which recommends the smartest possible trip based on the driving habits of others."

08/17/09 0827 Huffington Post, Facebook sync up on social news
"Called HuffPost Social News, the new site aggregates Huffington Post stories that a given user's Facebook friends have recommended or commented on, and then share their Huffington Post activity on their Facebook profiles in turn."

08/17/09 0826 No new Apple Tablet?
"September will probably be filled with some uninteresting drival about music and perhaps another flavour of Ipod. Only fanboys will cheer that one."

08/17/09 0826 Facebook Phishing
"Miscreants have recently begun peppering Facebook with a variety of new phishing scams with sex, sex, sex and more sex featuring prominently."

08/17/09 0825 Samsung "Gamer SSD"
"The drive uses 2-bit multi-level cell technology to produce its 256GB capacity and this is twinned with a Samsung-developed controller using an ARM processor core."

08/17/09 0815 Download the Pirate Bay
"The nostalgic torrenters among us might want to download a copy of the site for archival purposes. "

08/17/09 0814 Exported old computers reused
" Namely, that most of the exports of used computers imported by buyers overseas (88%) are really for reuse and repair. "

08/17/09 0813 OpenSource GSM network
"In turn these provided access to the Base Station Controller (BSC), in this case a Linux server in a tent running OpenBSC. The system authenticated users with a token sent via SMS; in total 391 users subscribed to the service and were able to use their phones as if they were on any other network."

08/17/09 0811 Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant
"but to my relief, they replied with a refreshingly honest and absolute confirmation that it is currently impossible to meet PCI level 1 compliance using AWS services for card data storage."

08/17/09 0810 Twitter down on Saturday
Twitter experienced "unexpected" downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement measures that affect third-party applications that use the Twitter API.

08/15/09 2027 Firefox 3.0 support discontinued soon
"Mozilla late last week began offering Firefox 3.5 to users still running older versions of the browser, the first of what will likely be several attempts to get people to upgrade before support expires for Firefox 3.0."

08/15/09 1606 Internet Explorer 8, the safest browser?
"Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 8 again trounced rival browsers in a test of their malware-blocking abilities, catching 81% of attack-code-infected sites, according to a testing company."

08/14/09 0914 BSG movie coming
"Bryan Singer will direct and produce a film version of the TV series Battlestar Galactica, reports say."

08/14/09 0912 Twitter controlled botnet
"A now-suspended Twitter account was being used to post tweets that had links new commands or executables to download and run, which would then be used by the botnet code on infected machines,"

08/13/09 2118 Les Paul is dead
"Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died Aug. 13"

08/13/09 1259 Sony kills of DRM in ebooks
"Sony announced that it intends to "take the confusion out of digital book formats" and put all its weight behind the EPUB format."

08/13/09 1259 Intel only for Apple Adobe products
"It's the latest blow for PowerPC users, who may have bought their Macs as late as 2006 in Apple's pre-Intel days."

08/13/09 1258 MS revives Outlook for Mac
"Microsoft is to bring back a Mac version of Outlook, a move that will see the end of its current Mac OS X email, PIM and collaboration offering, Entourage."

08/13/09 1104 The Truth about Twitter
"The Texas-based research firm declared that pointless babble accounted for 40.55 per cent of traffic, while spam accounted for 3.75 per cent and self promotion 5.85 per cent. We'd take a guess that "conversational" will largely consist of people asking the pointless babblers what exactly was in their sandwich. Either way, it accounted for 37.55 per cent of Tweets."

08/13/09 0813 They say this works....

08/13/09 0759 Apple Security Update 2009-004
"According to Apple's notes the update only addresses one issue; a problem with BIND which made it possible to crash a BIND DNS server with a crafted dynamic update message. An exploit for the problem is publicly available. T"

08/13/09 0759 eBay tells developers to change passwords
"There appears to have been a security problem (details of which have not been disclosed) which has allowed unauthorised access to login information."

08/13/09 0757 Aussie arrested in botnet allegation
"AN AUSTRALIAN has been charged with writing software that was used to infect 3,000 computers worldwide with viruses to steal banking details."

08/13/09 0745 GFS v2.0
"According to the company, it's two years into a GFS sequel designed specifically for customer-facing apps that require ultra low latency.""

08/13/09 0744 MS stopped in mice
"The new treatment, called GIFT15, is composed of two proteins, GSM-CSF and interleukin-15, that are fused in the lab. Normally, the individual proteins act to stimulate the immune system, but when they're stuck together, the proteins suppress immune response, the researchers explained."

08/13/09 0744 T-Mobile wants you to pay for paper bill
"The gall, the unmitigated gall of charging customers $1.50 per month for the privilege of receiving a paper bill cannot be overstated."

08/12/09 1429 Palm Pre spying on users
"It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about the user to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. "

08/12/09 0938 New Astroboy trailer

08/12/09 0829 Tr.im moves to bit.ly
"But there's a catch: Twitter (the main reason URL shortening sites took off in the first place) has aligned itself with competing service bit.ly, and Tr.im URLs are still getting replaced"

08/12/09 0811 Fujitsu 0 watt standby
" device is capable of going into a 0-Watt standby automatically, without someone using the hard-off switch or the off switch at the power outlet."

08/12/09 0753 CRITICAL:Safari 4.0.3
" Six problems are addressed; critical bugs, including a heap buffer overflow in CoreGraphics when drawing long text strings and a buffer overflow when handling EXIF metadata on Windows XP and Vista which may lead to arbitrary code execution or crashes."

08/12/09 0751 EVE Online currency farmers
"The developers felt that merely banning sellers whenever they could was not enough, so they introduced a system where players could purchase game-time codes that could then be sold within the game to other players. "

08/12/09 0750 UK:Won't give us your encryption keys? Jailtime.
"where two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years."

08/12/09 0749 Firefox 3.6a1
Ars takes a look at the new features, such as CSS gradients.

08/11/09 1951 Flash cookie privacy...again
"The most questionable activity the report exposes is known as "respawning": after a user has deleted browser tracking cookies, some sites will use information in Flash cookies to recreate them"

08/11/09 1948 How many people are watching a single TV?
"that cable set-top box will know whether three people are sitting on the sofa watching TV and how many are adults vs. children. Do we really need cable and/or video service operators knowing this?"

08/11/09 1947 CRITICAL:It's Patch Tuesday
"Microsoft today delivered nine security updates that patched 19 vulnerabilities in several crucial components of Windows, as well as in Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, IIS (Internet Information Server), Office and several other products."

08/11/09 1944 The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
"This is the last movie that Heath Ledger played in"

08/11/09 0817 Windows 7 Starter edition
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently confirmed that the company will limit Windows 7 Starter, the edition expected to end up on netbooks, to systems that sport small screens and low-powered processors."

08/11/09 0814 WordPress vulnerability allows remote admin password reset
"The password reset function in the wp-login.php PHP module can be abused to bypass the first step and then reset the admin password by submitting an array to the $key variable. "

08/11/09 0813 SpiralFrog spam
"SpiralFrog seems to have sold their members' e-mail (addresses) to spammers"

08/11/09 0813 Apple promises MacBook Pro drive bug fix
"Apple has confirmed it's working on an software fix to appease MacBook Pro owners who've been complaining their new machines beep unexpectedly and suffer recurring temporary freezes."

08/11/09 0812 PayPal debit cards
"Called Student Accounts, it centers on the use of a special PayPal-branded Mastercard debit card that's tied to a parent's PayPal accounts. "

08/11/09 0809 CMX, the digital album
"However, this may be of little interest if CMX isn't compatible with iTunes, the default music software for iPods, iPhones and Apple computers. "

08/11/09 0808 New Google search infrastructure
"Some early testing indicates that the new search may be faster in some cases, and return more relevant results, than the old one. "

08/11/09 0807 Comments on OpenOffice "ribbon"
"Judging by the vast majority of the 500-odd comments at Sun's blog last week, the new UI caused many to recoil at its strong association with Microsoft."

08/11/09 0807 Windows 7: How low can you go?
"At another site, The Windows Club, someone claims to have run Windows 7 on a circa-1997, 266MHz Pentium II with 96MB RAM and a 4MB video card."

08/10/09 2048 VMware buys SpringSource
"A move intended to capitalize on the budding cloud application deployment trend will unite virtualization vendor VMware with Java framework developer SpringSource."

08/10/09 2048 Facebook buys Friendfeed
"FriendFeed was founded in 2007 by four ex-Googlers, including Paul Buchheit — the engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google's "Don't be evil" motto"

08/10/09 2047 Zune HD details
"On September 8th, the 16GB Zune HD will be available at $220, while the 32GB model will cost $290 (versus $299 and $399 for the 16GB and 32GB iPod Touch.)"

08/10/09 1153 Charlie Miller on the Security of SmartPhones
"The most surprising thing was that the bug could be traced back to several previous generation of the iPhone OS (he stopped testing at version 2.2). He also talks about the failures of other devices, such as crashing HTC's Touch by sending a SMS with '%n' in the text"

08/10/09 0817 Ars looks at Microsoft's XML patent
"Microsoft could grant all comers a perpetual royalty-free license to this approach. Perhaps the worst thing that could possibly happen is for Redmond to not do anything for the time being, which would leave the patent hanging over potential competitors like a sword of Damocles. "

08/10/09 0754 AT&T changes terms of service
"Note that you are already required to submit your case to arbitration, a forum in which consumers are often at a substantial disadvantage. Now you must go up against AT&T alone.""

08/10/09 0751 tr.im closes
"The tr.im link shortening service was shutdown by operator Nambu Network on Sunday after the company failed to find a buyer for the service."

08/10/09 0751 Review:Google Wave
"There are definitely some intriguing capabilities in Wave that could easily be leveraged by inventive developers to build important new applications and systems. Only time will tell if Wave will be a major Google success like Gmail or if it will be tossed aside like Lively."

08/10/09 0750 Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Information-Retrieval Patent Ruling
"That patent, which covered the retrieval of information from multimedia content and is now owned by Britannica, would have been relevant to the many companies selling multimedia CD-ROMs at the time.""

08/10/09 0749 Toshiba gets Blu-Ray
"Toshiba has asked the Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) if it can join the gang, a move it specifically stated paves the way for the introduction of Toshiba kit supporting the HD optical disc format."

08/10/09 0749 Review of HTC Hero
"the first big change in the appearance of the Google Android operating system. HTC has clearly made the same sort of effort with Android that it has with Windows Mobile – not that it needed quite so much – to make it more user friendly, as well as distinctive."

08/09/09 1900 Security in the "cloud"
"If someone breaks in because of the provider's mistake, the client agrees not to hold the firm responsible. If there is a data loss because of a data center failure, the provider are not obligated to do anything for you, Stamos says."

08/09/09 1859 iTunes 9 rumor, Blu-Ray
"One of those features is said to have long been on the wish-lists of many Mac users while the other is expected to cater to the semi-professional audio/video crowd."

08/09/09 1859 Linux, the MBR and GPT
"With 1TB-hard disks now common and 2TB-disks becoming available, forward-looking individuals are thinking about alternatives to the MBR partitioning scheme. The heir apparent is the GUID Partition Table (GPT). Learn how to make sure your Linux® system is fully prepared for the future of disk storage."

08/09/09 1152 Why geeks cant be judges

08/08/09 1135 DDOS continues vs Twitter, Google, Facebook
"The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that knocked out Twitter for hours and affected other sites like Facebook, Google's Blogger and LiveJournal on Thursday continued all day Friday and may persist throughout the weekend."

08/07/09 0906 XML attacks coming
"His comments came after security test toolmaker Codenomicon and the Finnish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FI) disclosed security risks in XML libraries that could result in successful denial-of-service attacks on applications built with them."

08/07/09 0825 Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
"Using a Nokia mobile phone and a laptop computer, Laurie was able to copy the data on a card that is being issued to foreign nationals in minutes.""

08/07/09 0817 Mac Office 2008 12.2.1 Patch
"The company noted yesterday that the 12.2.1 patch would get rid of error messages that some Mac users were faced with when trying to open various PC-created documents in Office 2008."

08/07/09 0816 Why was Twitter DDOS'ed
""If you monitor the hacking forums, it's clear they're pissed at Twitter," said Richard Stiennon, founder of IT-Harvest, a security research firm. "Twitter came out of nowhere. Hackers hated that. They'd been using forums and IRC to communicate, and all of a sudden, the rest of the world has their own thing in Twitter.""

08/06/09 2118 Rest In Peace John Hughes
"The man either wrote or directed (or did both) some of my all time favorite films, including FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, WEIRD SCIENCE, PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, UNCLE BUCK, PRETTY IN PINK, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, DUTCH and HOME ALONE. "

08/06/09 2104 Microsoft Office 2010 document format "ballot"
"We already have to deal with the browser ballot, but that's not the only ballot Microsoft will deliver. Hold on to your panties, as Microsoft will also offer a file format ballot in Microsoft Office 2010."

08/06/09 2104 Apple's hardware to detect changes
" It does seem reasonable that a corporation would wish to protect itself from fraudulent warranty claims; however the idea of sensors inside your portable devices detecting what you do with them might raise eyebrows even beyond the tinfoil-hat community.""

08/06/09 2103 Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents
"Presumably developers are protected by Microsoft's 'covenant not to sue', so the biggest question raised by this patent is: How in the world was it granted in light of the 40-year history of document markup languages? "

08/06/09 1703 Facebook also facing DDOS
"Facebook noted on its site this afternoon that it too was fending off a distributed denial-of-service attack that was slowing its site. Unlike Twitter, which was down for two hours this morning, Facebook remained online. "

08/06/09 1702 9 Microsoft updates next Tuesday
"Microsoft today said it would deliver nine security updates next Tuesday, all but one affecting Windows. Five are pegged "critical," the company's highest threat rating."

08/06/09 1503 Ridley Scott, Brave New World
"The "Blade Runner" director is joining forces with Leonardo DiCaprio to take on one of the most highly regarded dystopian works of literature, Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World.""

08/06/09 1236 Bias in Bing results?
"The top responses to the "Is Microsoft Evil?" question were, get this, a link to a New York Times story about whether or not Google is considered evil, a link about proxy servers, and a link to a story about Microsoft being charitable. Wow. "

08/06/09 1234 DDOS takes Twitter down
"It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking"

08/06/09 1232 US/EU Mars Mission becomes reality
"This could help to target landing of the agency's flagship rover, ExoMars, and a mid-sized NASA rover, due for launch in 2018."

08/06/09 1006 Comcast starts "DNS hijacking"
"The new product, which has been tested in trial markets since July 9, redirects nonexistent URLs like www.clinteckergoatbonedbyhisnewbicycle.com to a search page slathered in advertising instead of returning the proper DNS error to the browser."

08/06/09 1005 Texting to 911
"An emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the country to accept text messages sent to "911," starting Wednesday."

08/06/09 1004 Sony's 2TB memory stick
"” At that time, Sony had mentioned that this new Memory Stick would have 2TB maximum capacity, but details were rather scarce"

08/06/09 1003 Bing's new jingle
"Today, they have announced the winner. “Catchy” is one word for it. Another is “awful.”"

08/06/09 0925 Wikipedia dying?
"Chi said that "occasional" editors who make just a single edit a month, have 25 per cent of their changes erased, or reverted by other editors. In 2003 that proportion was 10 per cent."

08/06/09 0922 OpenOffices upcoming ribbon
"more specifically for Impress. The general gist? It's Microsoft Office 2007's ribbon interface"

08/06/09 0921 Changes in Chrome beta

08/06/09 0753 Windows 7 to Technet,MSDN
"The operating system, which was released to manufacturing last month, is now available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers."

08/06/09 0753 Results of latest Virus Bulletin 100
"Twelve of the 35 anti-virus products put through their paces by independent security certification body Virus Bulletin failed to make the grade for one reason or another and therefore failed to achieve the VB100 certification standard."

08/06/09 0748 Murdoch, "We'll charge for news"
" 'The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution, but it has not made content free. Accordingly we intend to charge for all our news websites,' "

08/06/09 0748 Latvian ISP "malware cesspool" taken offline
"'This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,' he said in an e-mail interview. 'It was a cesspool of criminal activity,' said Paul Ferguson, a researcher with Trend Micro.""

08/05/09 2050 CRITICAL: OS X 10.5.8
"The update brings improvements to Safari, Airport, Bluetooth, among others and rolls out the latest OS X security fixes.""

08/05/09 1541 Awaken the Dragon
"Sutter said he's writing "Awaken the Dragon" as a contemporized drama about a lone FBI agent who pursues a rogue Shaolin monk into the bloody world of underground martial arts fight clubs."

08/05/09 1527 Scotch tape produces X-rays
"Horvat says that refinements should increase the power by orders of magnitude.' It may be old news to Slashdot that [peeling clear tape] had been proved to produce X-rays, but watching the linked video where they use tape to expose X-ray film was pretty amazing.""

08/05/09 1421 chkdisk bug found in Windows 7
Doesn't sound as serious as some may think. " the chkdsk.exe utility -- appears when you attempt to run the program against a secondary (that is, not the boot partition) hard disk using the "/r" (read and verify all file data) parameter. The problem affects both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and is classified as a "showstopper" in that it can cause the OS to crash (Blue Screen of Death) as it runs out of physical memory."

08/05/09 1414 XML Library flaw
"The security vendor found flaws in XML parsers that made it fairly easy to cause a DoS attack, corruption of data, and delivery of a malicious payload using XML-based content."

08/05/09 1116 Wipeout HD Loading Ads Scrapped After Uproar
"The ad has been removed from Wipeout HD and we are investigating the situation to ensure that any in-game advertising does not affect gameplay.'""

08/05/09 1116 Fake Microsoft update making the rounds
"once again spamming a non-existent Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721) as officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe detected as VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.FO."

08/05/09 0927 Sony's new ebook readers
"The Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition are scheduled to go on sale at the end of the month and cost $199 and $299"

08/05/09 0927 Google buys video compression company
"On2 makes video-compression technology, a key asset as online-video viewership continues to surge. Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., has one of the most-visited video sites, YouTube."

08/05/09 0903 Microsoft/Yahoo partnership details
"Microsoft will pay Yahoo $50 million a year for three years and will hire at least 400 Yahoo employees as part of the companies' recent search agreement, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission."

08/05/09 0846 Mozilla shuts store temporarily
"Mozilla closed its online store on Tuesday after finding out that the firm it hired to run the back office operations of its e-tailing business had suffered a security breach."

08/05/09 0828 CRITICAL:Java Update 1.6.0_15 (6u15)

08/05/09 0806 Microsoft, "Linux is a competitor"
"Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. "

08/05/09 0804 Windows 7 RTM review
"'By fixing most of the perceived and real problems in Vista, Microsoft has laid the groundwork for the future of where Windows will go. Windows 7 presents a stable platform that can compete comfortably with OS X, while reassuring the world that Microsoft can still turn out a strong, useful operating system.'""

08/04/09 1446 Police go after UK's FileSoup torrent site
"It has already outlived The Pirate Bay by around 9 months and is believed to be the oldest community still around today."

08/04/09 1346 Military Staff gets Google Voice
"Staying in touch with family and friends can be a challenge for military staffers, especially those serving overseas. With its latest campaign, Google is trying to help."

08/04/09 1324 FAQ: Windows 7 Family Pack and Anytime Upgrades
"Whether it's a 7-year-old desktop running its original copy of Windows XP, or a year-old Vista laptop with the same, both can be upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium via the $149.99 three-license Family Pack."

08/04/09 1323 Bell Canada snarfing non-existent domains
"Bell Canada started hijacking non-existent domains (in the same manner as Rogers), redirecting NX-response queries to themselves, of course. Before opting-out, you get their wonderfully self-promoting and self-serving search page."

08/04/09 1320 Marines ban social networks
"Marines who are fans of Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace will have to wait till they go home to get their social networking fix."

08/04/09 1025 Rogueware mimics BSOD
"Prospective marks are presented with a seemingly crashed system, along with a text warning that they need to buy "security software" to clean up their systems. But the SystemSecurity rogue package on offer has no utility other than scamming people out of their money."

08/04/09 1025 sslsniff now does null char
"seems to have released the new version of sslsniff which supports these attacks. While the release appears to coincide with a patch from Mozilla, every product that uses the Microsoft CryptoAPI is still vulnerable, including Internet Explorer and Outlook. "

08/04/09 1024 Chrome bookmark sync
""We wanted to focus on bookmarks and get it right first before we think about other data types. We chose bookmarks both because they are generally the most important to users, but also because they are the hardest data type to sync," Avraham said. "

08/04/09 1023 1 TB SSD
Colossus SSD drive will be available in mid-August. Also confirmed: the drive will cost a whopping $2,200.

08/04/09 0913 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.5.2
All users should upgrade asap. Get it from Slug's Download Page or via Update from the Help menu within Firefox.

08/04/09 0828 The building that didn't want to fall down

08/04/09 0828 "In Game" ads on the PS3
"The writer suspects that the display software was installed during update 2.01, and the ad-content is now being snuck in. Gamasutra has a story on the company responsible for the software to deliver these ads, Double Fusion, which said it plans to launch in-game advertising in 'another handful' of PS3 games "

08/03/09 2052 Problem in new Intel SSDs
"consumer-class X25-M and X18-M solid state-disk drives (SSDs) suffer from data corruption issues and said it has pulled back shipments to resellers. "

08/03/09 2050 SquirrelMail Plugin problems
"in late June, the operators initially stated that they didn't believe plug-ins had been modified as a result. Suddenly, they are admitting that the attackers added code t"

08/03/09 1514 Arrest made in domain name theft
"Daniel Goncalves was arrested at his home in Union, New Jersey and charged in a landmark case, the first criminal arrest for domain name theft in the United States."

08/03/09 1212 Twitter filtering malware sites
"The tactic, noticed by security researchers on Monday but yet to be officially announced by Twitter, is designed to prevent surfers straying onto sites packed with dangerous exploits."

08/03/09 1038 OS X malware will grow
"This fact, as well as the fact that visual spoofs of OS X like dialogs are also getting template-ized are not a coincidence - it's a signal for an efficient and social engineering driven malware delivery mechanism in the works."

08/03/09 1030 "The Business of Rogueware"
"New rogueware strains have skyrocketed from about 92,000 in all of 2008 to 374,000 in Q2 this year and will leap by an estimated 637,000 in Q3, according to the Panda Security report, "The Business of Rogueware," released today. Panda estimates that victims are shelling out $34 million per month worldwide. It's an easy buck -- you infect a computer and wait for the credit card payment. "

08/03/09 1019 How do fake antimalwares make money?
"Further digging indicates that Crutop is linked to the operations of Chronopay, an online payment processor based in the Netherlands that has come under fire from security researchers for processing payments for a large number of Web sites hawking scareware."

08/03/09 1017 New "man in the middle" null-char attack on SSL
"Both researchers have found a new method for attacking the SSL protocol that enables them to get a valid wildcard SSL certificate for a domain that they don't control. That means that an attacker would have the ability to monitor supposedly secret SSL communications using a man-in-the-middle attack."

08/03/09 1015 Yahoo may do "real time" Twitter search
"Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said in an interview with Reuters that the company could mine and analyse real-time search results from Twitter to offer users something more than the simple internet search results they will get with Bing."

08/03/09 1004 Google's Schmidt leaves Apple board
"Apple announced today that it has finally severed ties with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who had been on the firm's board of directors since August 2006."

08/03/09 0959 "a million Linux kernels" at once
"Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, have run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines."

08/03/09 0846 Windows 7 to raise netbook prices
""The theory was wrong," Ballmer said, explaining that there wasn't enough new demand to make up for the drop in profits. "You’ll see us address the theory. We’re going to readjust those prices north [using Windows 7].""

08/03/09 0846 New NYSE data center
"The new datacenter will significantly advance the amount of computer-automated trading that already dominates global markets, housing as it will "several football fields of cutting-edge computing equipment for hedge funds and other firms that engage in high-frequency trading,"

08/03/09 0802 Google Billboards
"Mountain View plans to slap Google Apps adverts on billboards in major US cities from today in its latest attempt to woo businesses away from Microsoft’s Office suite."

08/03/09 0801 Google's Chrome Sync
"Google has revealed plans for a Chrome cloud service that will allow users to synchronize browser data with their Google accounts."

08/03/09 0749 DOD comes to Defcon
"Col. Michael Convertino came to Defcon for the first time last year, and after finding about 60 good candidates for both enlisted and civilian positions decided to come back again."

08/03/09 0749 Browser shares for last month
"Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, again lost share last month, although the company's newest browser, IE8, surged past the 10% mark to end July at 12.5%, more than half the share of the once-dominant IE7 edition."

08/03/09 0748 Microsoft kills Windows 7E
"Betting that European antitrust regulators will okay its proposal for a "ballot screen" and facing opposition from computer makers and corporate customers, Microsoft late Friday abandoned plans to ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer (IE)."

08/01/09 2109 Problems with Service Pack 2 for Office 2008 for Mac
"Unfortunately, what the release notes don't say is that Service Pack 2 also makes it impossible for many Office 2008 for Mac users to open some Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), and PowerPoint (.pptx) files created by PCs running Office 2007 for Windows and saving into the Open XML format."

08/01/09 1700 IBM's "finding your friends" upcoming patent via call logs
"By analyzing who calls who, and for how long, IBM claims its patent-pending snooping software can now identify circles of 'friends' who tend to exhibit the same profit-threatening behavior."

08/01/09 1517 CentOS stabilizes, now lead by committee
" There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward. The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions."

08/01/09 1515 Apple Keyboard "keylogger"
"Apple keyboards are vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the device's firmware. "

07/31/09 1739 CRITICAL:iPhone SMS patch
"We have received confirmation that the patch has been released by Apple to fix the SMS vulnerability in the iPhone OS. It looks like the patch has to be downloaded from Apple iTunes. "

07/31/09 1351 Laptop Lojack" could lead to persistent infection
"This allows the creation of malware capable of 'infecting the BIOS with persistent code that survive reboots and reflashing attempts.' Computers from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, Asus, and others may be affected.""

07/31/09 1018 Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too
"Today Amazon credited my card with $65.45. After ordering an Eee PC 1005 HA from amazon.com, I asked them for a refund for the cost of Windows XP via the 'Contact us' form."

07/31/09 0930 Chinese Firm Writes First SMS Worm
"now a group of Chinese companies has managed to develop the first SMS worm!"

07/31/09 0832 vaccine via mosquito
"have been used for the first time to deliver anti-malarial vaccine through their bites"

07/31/09 0832 3D TV service
"You will need the Sky+ HD set-top box, and a '3D ready' TV set (glasses-based stereoscopic system such as LCD shutter glasses or polarized glasses)."

07/31/09 0831 Free parking in San Fran
" technically savvy hacker to make a fake payment card that gives them unlimited free parking on San Francisco's smart parking meter system"

07/31/09 0831 Twitter/Facebook on Xbox360
"Microsoft has said that the Twitter and Facebook applications planned for Xbox 360 will be separate applications rather than part of another broad dashboard update. "

07/31/09 0829 Skype security to be neutered?
"Skype's proprietary scrambling technology is purportedly the bane of electronic spies at the NSA and GCHQ, and now in a move sure to spark conspiracy theories, eBay has quietly revealed it could rip out and replace the code at its core."

07/31/09 0829 Microsoft renaming continues:Windows Phone
"AT AN EVENT to show off upcoming Christmas goodies, Microsoft let slip to the INQ that Windows Mobile 6.5 is to be re-christened Windows Phone."

07/31/09 0828 'Kindle ate my homework'
"THE BOY who lost all his homework on George Orwell's book 1984 when it was deleted from his Kindle has decided to sue Amazon for getting him in hot water with his teacher."

07/31/09 0828 Dr. Wikipedia
"MORE THAN half of US doctors use Wackypedia to work out what is wrong with their patients, according to a study published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project."

07/31/09 0826 Annie Lennox vs. the System
"Already known for her stand against criminalizing music downloaders, now Lennox has given DJEarworm her multi-track masters to mash u"

07/31/09 0826 Balmer wants better hardware for 7
"Apple is a great company. Does a fine job. But their model says high margin, high quality, high price. That's kind of how they come to market. We say we want big market share but with big market share you take a lower price.""

07/31/09 0822 Gmail can now use outside MXs
"Google has now said that, instead of using Gmail servers to send the message, it will use the servers at the sender's other email address to prevent the two addresses being shown."

07/31/09 0816 Pirate Bay booted out of Netherlands
"The ruling gives Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg 10 days to stop the service. If they don't, they face a €3 million fine, rising by an extra €30,000 per day."

07/31/09 0814 British hacker to be sent to US for trial
"A British hacker who broke into U.S. government computer systems seeking evidence of alien life has failed in his latest efforts to block extradition to the U.S. to face trial."

07/31/09 0813 1 billion Firefox downloads
" The Firefox Web browser is fast approaching its billionth download and is likely to hit that milestone some time on Friday."

07/30/09 1443 Windows 7 testers to get free copy
"In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate."

07/30/09 1019 All iPhones vulnerable
"A single character sent by text message could allegedly compromise every iPhone released to date. "

07/30/09 1009 Apple introduces 2TB Time Capsule backup appliance

07/30/09 0948 Debian not switching back to time based releases
"Time-based releases are the approach used by Ubuntu, where we plan to release on a specific date. Instead, they will use the same approach as in previous releases, where they set criteria for release-critical bugs, and release when all release-critical bugs are closed.The difference is that they will schedule the freeze date in advance."

07/30/09 0931 CentOS in trouble?
"In an open letter from his fellow CentOS developers, they describe the precarious situation the project has been put in. There have been attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the sole administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and apparently, CentOS funds."

07/30/09 0918 EMI wont sell to small stores anymore
"EMI has been notifying small music stores that they will no longer be able to buy EMI CDs from EMI, and will have to buy product from Mega-Chains like Walmart. Independen"

07/30/09 0821 Novell Log Management
"The Novell Sentinel Log Manager is designed to simplify auditing and bolster security by streamlining the management of raw event data used for risk investigations and compliance reporting for regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS."

07/30/09 0821 Hackers break into MI5 web site
"A report in the Daily Express claimed that a hacking gang known as 'Team Elite' managed to break into the site, and alter it so that "the identity of visitors could be stolen and viruses downloaded on to their machines".'

07/30/09 0820 Engineers rewrite Asimov's three laws
"While they aren't quite as snappy as the originals, the engineers say they are a safer and more realistic version. "

07/30/09 0807 Mac Security at Defcon
"He said that there is no magic fairy dust protecting Macs, despite the belief of Apple's fanboys that Steve Job's aura is the only anti-virus protection you need."

07/30/09 0806 "Bootkit" bypasses TrueCrypt
"Stoned injects itself into the Master Boot Record (MBR), a record which remains unencrypted even if the hard disk itself is fully encrypted. During startup, the BIOS first calls the bootkit, which in turn starts the TrueCrypt boot loader."

07/30/09 0802 "No Health Benefits to Organic Food"
" 'There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce"

07/30/09 0802 Bad email gets McAfee in trouble
"e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally coughed up the personal details of some 1400 attendees of its recent security conference in Sydney, Australia. Those who were sent the list — attached as a spreadsheet to a thank you e-mail — are far from pleased that such an extraordinary thing could happen."

07/30/09 0756 Man in the Middle SSL attack
"Once installed, it spots SSL traffic and presents his null-termination certificate in order to intercept communications between the client and the server."

07/30/09 0755 Free WiFi at Barnes and Noble
" Barnes & Noble Inc. took free Wi-Fi a step further this week by announcing that anybody can walk into one of its nearly 800 stores nationwide and surf the Net free for an unlimited time."

07/30/09 0755 EFF counters "Jailbroken iPhones bring down cell towers."
""In 2006, the Office gave permission to unlock call phones, and I don't see our jailbreaking exemption very different from that,""

07/30/09 0753 Fake Antivirus, King of Malware
"In the first quarter of 2009, the company detected more bogus anti-virus files or variants than in the whole of 2008, 111,000 in total."

07/29/09 2017 Intel will use Windows 7
"Intel is looking forward to installing Windows 7 on the computers of its own employees.Intel was arguably the most visible corporation that decided to skip Vista. And it was by no means lonely in its decision."

07/29/09 2016 Macs become target at BlackHat
"To date, Metasploit has focused on Windows, with its in-memory exploitation engine called meterpreter. That is now set to change, with Mac and Unix/Linux versions that will enable security researchers to execute code on those platforms as well. "

07/29/09 2014 Yahoo Search: RIP
"Yahoo started out in 1994 as a ragtag site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," named after founders Jerry Yang and David Filo"

07/29/09 2012 Microsoft, "Don't use cracked Windows 7"
"Microsoft strongly advises customers not to download Windows 7 from unauthorized sources. Downloading Windows 7 from peer-to-peer Web sites is piracy, and exposes users to increased risks"

07/29/09 2009 A patent on podcasting
"VoloMedia announced today that it has been awarded what it called the 'patent for podcasting.' "

07/29/09 1959 Two top "hackers" hacked
"The files taken from Kaminsky’s server included private e-mails between Kaminisky and other security researchers, highly personal chat logs, and a list of files he has purportedly downloaded that pertain to dating and other topics."

07/29/09 1957 Alan Cox is not happy
" stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem "

07/29/09 1957 IronMan 2 interview

07/29/09 1524 BlackHat presentation on Clampi trojan
"According to Stewart, the group behind Clampi is running one of the most sophisticated Trojan criminal operations on the Internet."

07/29/09 1519 7 vs XP on EEE PC
"we installed Windows 7 on the ASUS Eee PC 1005HA seashell netbook and ran all the benchmarks we run in our full reviews in order to get a full impression on how Windows 7 stacks up against Windows XP on a netbook"

07/29/09 1503 Firefox URL spoofing vulnerability
"The URL in the address bar can be spoofed when a new window or tab is opened by a malicious web page."

07/29/09 1446 Fat Mice burnin calories
"think boosting “brown fat” — a special kind of fat that burns calories to keep people warm"

07/29/09 1444 Adobe Flash vulnerable to ActiveX flaw
"According to multiple security advisories posted to its site on Tuesday, the Windows versions of Adobe's Flash Player and Shockwave Player harbor vulnerabilities because Adobe used a buggy Microsoft code "library" during their development."

07/29/09 1444 iDisk on your iPhone
"Apple has released its long-awaited MobileMe iDisk application for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's available for free download from the App Store."

07/29/09 1444 Windows 7 Ultimate cracked
"but crackers have already managed to activate and validate the tricked-out Ultimate version of the OS. "

07/29/09 1443 Malware levels up..SPAM too
"Spam and botnets have hit their highest levels ever, according to McAfee's second-quarter Threats Report, released Wednesday. McAfee's Avert Labs says spam recorded in the second quarter shot up 80 percent compared with the first quarter of the year."

07/29/09 1439 SSL error warnings "useless"
"They say most users fundamentally misunderstand SSL certificates, thinking they could ignore warning messages when visiting web sites they trusted, but should be more careful with untrusted sites."

07/29/09 1439 Microsoft ActiveX vulnerability spreads to other vendors
"Cushman said that major developers of ActiveX controls, such as Adobe and Sun, received early information so at least their controls can be made safe."

07/29/09 1434 Stopping SPAM before it hits the mail server
"analyzed 2.5 million emails collected by McAfee in order to determine the key packet characteristics of spam. These include the geodesic proximity of end mail servers and the number of ports open on the sending machine. "

07/29/09 1118 Mass Effect 2
"Part of it, too, is the fact that we've gone in and improved literally every system in the game, your powers, the controls, aiming, the way that your character stats work and how you build a character, the inventory system, weapons, and so on."

07/29/09 1104 "Jailbroken" iPhones = cell tower disruption
" Apple has told the U.S. Copyright Office that modifying the iPhone's operating system could crash a mobile phone network's transmission towers or allow people to avoid paying for phone calls."

07/29/09 0903 BlackHat and the possible death of the killbit
"Researchers at Black Hat on Wednesday will be demonstrating how to override the killbit controls and get access to vulnerabilities supposedly stopped with a killbit. What's really scary is that Microsoft has issued 175 killbits fixes so far.""

07/29/09 0831 Avoid twitviewer.net
"The tweets contained a link to the TwitViewer.net website, where visitors where then prompted to enter their Twitter login details."

07/29/09 0818 Latest Microsoft vulnerability caused by "&"
"Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a single superfluous character in its own development code is responsible for the bug that has let hackers exploit Internet Explorer (IE) since early July."

07/29/09 0817 China bans digital gangsters
"These games encourage people to deceive, loot and kill, and glorify gangsters' lives. "

07/29/09 0816 Autotranslated SPAM
"The use of automated translation services enables multiple-language spam runs and is responsible for a 13% increase in spam levels in these countries since May.""

07/29/09 0802 Debian's new release cycle
"As such, the project adopted a two-year release schedule, with a development freeze every December of odd-numbered years, with the actual release following in the first half of the following year. "

07/29/09 0750 Microsoft/Yahoo agreement
"Yahoo will not receive an upfront payment. Bing will become the default search engine on Yahoo, according to AdAge."

07/28/09 2209 CRITICAL:New vulnerability in BIND 9
"remotely exploitable vulnerability has been found in all version of BIND 9. A specially crafted dynamic update packet will make BIND die with an assertion error. There is an exploit in the wild and there are no access control workarounds."

07/28/09 2158 Pirate Bay deal off the table?
"But according to Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster who was involved with GGF recently, this is unlikely to happen. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is giving GGF a week before they cancel the deal."

07/28/09 1417 Transparent Aluminum
"but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion"

07/28/09 1357 Google App Security
""Those who may be unfamiliar with cloud computing see this as a security risk simply because it is new and because it is something different,""

07/28/09 1340 CRITICAL:Out of Band Microsoft IE Patch
"The second bulletin (MS09-034) is a defense in depth mitigation for potential bypass of ActiveX killbits, commonly used to mitigate other vulnerabilities. Apply this patch ASAP"

07/28/09 1252 Diamonds and your wound
"Insulin is very attracted to nanodiamonds and in addition to regulating blood sugar, insulin can accelerate the healing process and stave off infection in wound sites. Since the tiny diamond can be easily placed in a wound without causing further damage, this is an excellent way to get an increased amount of insulin there as well."

07/28/09 1247 Blue M&Ms are good for your spine
"The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around the damaged area - an event that often causes more irreversible damage than the original injury. "

07/28/09 1026 ASUS cancels USB 3.0 enabled Motherboard
"But now Asus informs us it has cancelled its P6X58 USB 3.0 motherboard. It has ceased to be, expired and gone to meet its maker, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible."

07/28/09 1024 IBM buys SPSS
"IBM is paying $1.2bn for SPSS, which sells business intelligence and predictive analysis software."

07/28/09 1023 Real Green Laser
"Until now, only red and blue laser diodes were available, and now with the addition of green, new TVs and projectors that are more efficient can be produced. And if you were wondering how green lasers pointers are already produced,"

07/28/09 0853 Making money from Xbox Live GamerScore
"lucrative business for both eBay sellers and those who want to artificially inflate a Gamerscore before selling that account, or trading it for credit card details."

07/28/09 0851 iTablet "confirmed"
"Apple is racing to launch the Apple tablet—along with new iPods—as early as September. "

07/28/09 0848 Peter Jackson and the Hobbit
""Well, obviously, we could squeeze The Hobbit into one movie," but even, like, a three-hour movie, you'd be amazed at how much of that story you'd have to lose"

07/28/09 0846 UBISOFT's DRM plans
"The Large Fromage of the French gaming house announced during a recent financial conference call that his boffins were working on yet another fiendish tool to prevent the unwashed masses from stealing the company's software."

07/28/09 0846 Apple rejects iPhone Google Voice
"Apple rejected Google's official Google Voice app when it was submitted for approval six weeks ago."

07/28/09 0845 Google sells AOL stock
"Google has sold its 5% stake in AOL back to Time Warner for almost 75% less than it paid for it in 2006."

07/28/09 0842 "Cone of Silence" over Today's IE patch
"Yesterday, security experts involved with two separate lines of research declined to comment further about the findings they had already published, saying or hinting that they were doing so at Microsoft's request."

07/28/09 0809 Get your own Symantec Security Professional
" It's not a cheap option though - support starts at $325,000(£197,000) and could rise to more than $1 million. "

07/28/09 0757 CRITICAL:MS SQL 2008 Patches
"The update packages address several bugs affecting SQL Server that could lead to the database server returning incorrect results."

07/27/09 1629 Active X Killbit useless?
""If someone finds a way to bypass the killbit feature, it effectively means they're subverting one of the core 'black-listing' security features in Internet Explorer,""

07/27/09 1628 Microsoft in the mall?
"Microsoft today confirmed that plans for its upcoming retail stores, which leaked to a popular gadget site, are legitimate. But it said that the design concepts are not necessarily the final word on what's coming."

07/27/09 1626 Filemon and Regmon are dead, long life to Procmon!
"Yes, in about one month, two of the most widely used tools for Windows malware analysis and system inspection will say goodbye. The good news is that Procmon (v2.5 at this point) is the natural replacement:"

07/27/09 1534 Windows 7 and the GPU/CPU balance
"The CPU is exceptionally good at performing sequential calculations, I/O, and program flow, whereas the GPU is perfectly suited for performing massive parallel calculations.""

07/27/09 1533 Wednesday is Sysadmin's Day
"This is pretty much my favorite holiday of the year -- the day when we celebrate the unsung heroes of the wiring closet and the server room and the admin interface."

07/27/09 1531 Bing's Page Hunt game
" Called Page Hunt, the game (which of course requires Silverlight to run) shows users a webpage and asks them to figure out a search query that should produce the page within the first 5 results"

07/27/09 1256 1TB laptop hard drive
"The Scorpio Blue hard drives support the SATA2 (3Gbps) standard but have a thickness of 12.5 millimeters, as opposed to 9.5 millimeters in other 2.5-inch drives. This means the new drives will not fit in all 2.5-inch slots in laptops."

07/27/09 1256 NetFlix's new algorithm
"Almost three years ago, Netflix offered $1 million to whoever could improve the accuracy of its movie recommendation system by 10 percent or more."

07/27/09 0815 Alice in Wonderland

07/27/09 0808 Smells to improve your driving awareness
" It means that the system can tap into an array of sensors in order to find out exactly what environment is best for your current state of mind, and if it needs to, it'll blast your nostrils with gusts of fresh forest"

07/27/09 0758 Opera wants world wide "browser ballot"
"said it is "very happy" with Microsoft's offer to provide users a choice of browsers, but said the deal should be extended worldwide."

07/27/09 0756 Apple's Cocktail
"Apple and the major record labels are teaming up to create bundles of interactive features to accompany music downloads, according to the Financial Times.The project, code-named "Cocktail," has Apple collaborating with EMI, Sony Music, Warner Music, and Universal Music Group"

07/27/09 0755 8G iPhone 3G referb, $50
"specifically, the black 8GB model--can now be picked up for just $49, "

07/27/09 0755 AT&T blocks 4chan
"The imageboard 4chan.org has seen access cut to some of its most popular boards including the imaginatively titled /r9k/ and /b/."

07/27/09 0750 SHA-3 hash competition
"Fourteen algorithms are still vying to be crowned in 2012 as the next standard for cryptographic hash functions, SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm)."

07/27/09 0742 10 things from Comic Con
"Jackson reveals that a script for The Hobbit, his Lord of the Rings prequel, will be finished in a month"

07/27/09 0742 Comic Con Costumes

07/26/09 1909 Wolverine meets Vampire Hunter D
Weird..but cool...

07/26/09 1641 Microsoft's downhill slide....
"I could go on with home-automation initiatives, phone operating systems, pen computers (two shots at that market), page-layout programs, Web-design tools and on and on -- all shiny objects for a company that doesn't want to actually fill a need, but jump from one idea to the next."

07/26/09 1640 iTouch tablet revolution?
"Steve Jobs has mentioned that he has never seen anything like success of the App Store in his career. If he is saying that, then I’m saying that this 9.7 inch iTouch that has been designed to optimally utilize the apps will become the flagship Apple product."

07/26/09 1112 Bacterial computer
"The researchers say that this proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates that bacterial computing is a new way to address NP-complete problems using the inherent advantages of genetic systems."

07/26/09 0922 Is your picture here?

07/25/09 1817 Don't be hatin Microsoft..
" 'I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease"

07/25/09 1816 Twitter banned in White House
"Gibbs clearly doesn't appreciate the value that can be derived from the innovative social network; he jokes about it as if it is a tool for personal exhibitionism."

07/25/09 1455 AVG update kills iTunes
"They were blocked from doing so and AVG popped up with a “Threat detected” warning saying iTunes was infected with the small.BOG Trojan. "

07/25/09 1447 Laptop Hunter ads over
"Bowing to pressure from Apple's legal department - and that pesky imperative known as "the truth" - Microsoft has edited one of its Laptop Hunter ads to reflect Apple's new MacBook pricing."

07/25/09 1447 iTouch tablet rumors
"But AI and others see the t/n/m/e/w as a sea change in computing history. At Seeking Alpha, for example, Jason Schwartz bubbles that "The iTouch Tablet is about to change society as we know it.""

07/25/09 1443 Microsoft to issue emergency patches next week
"Microsoft plans to issue two emergency patches next week that fix vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer browser and Visual Studio developer suite that allow attackers to remotely execute malware."

07/25/09 1441 Network Solutions hacked
"suffered a massive security breach that lasted three months and exposed tens of thousands of credit card numbers of its customers "

07/25/09 1440 RAID and SSD drives
"most RAID controllers are completely unprepared for solid state drives and parallel file systems"

07/25/09 1440 Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market
"Macs made up a whopping 91 percent of the $1,000-and-up computer market in June. Not so long ago, $1,000 got you an entry-level machine."

07/24/09 1145 Koobface gets harder to kill
""We express our high gratitude to Dancho Danchev [...] for the help in bug fixing, researches and documentation for our software," they ironically wrote in a recent Koobface update."

07/24/09 1121 CRITICAL:Adobe PDF Flash vulnerability
"As a temporary measure to eliminate the security risk, Adobe recommends disabling Flash support in Acrobat Reader by renaming or deleting the "authplay.dll" file. Doing so will cause Acrobat Reader to abort when it attempts to reads a Flash-enabled PDF."

07/24/09 1058 iPhone 3GS encryption cracked?
"supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak it can be cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of readily available freeware."

07/24/09 1046 Office 2010 will have sandbox tech
"Office 2010 will incorporate sandboxing technology so that when users want to simply read Office documents, these files will have no access to other files or information."

07/24/09 1045 Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading
"Nice piece in the NY Times today on ultra-fast trading on the NYSE and other markets. "

07/24/09 0916 After the Mad Hatter, Depp the Vampire
"Johnny Depp is attached to play Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series."

07/24/09 0909 New Twitter Homepage
"Stone said the current page is essentially confusing to the masses of people who come to it, made aware of the microblogging service by the massive media hype it has received over the last year."

07/24/09 0906 HTC Hero review
"Namely, a polished and attractive device -- polished enough to go head-to-head with the iPhone -- that kept its open source heart."

07/24/09 0856 Palm Pre can now (again) sync with iTunes
"Just a week after Apple killed the Pre's ability to sync with desktop music management client iTunes, Palm has responded with webOS 1.1 -- a software update that again enables Palm's phone to access media from the current version of iTunes."

07/24/09 0812 WD40 Inventor is dead
" died on July 3 in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego. He was 84."

07/24/09 0733 Windows 7 gaming
"Windows 7 basically takes the Vista codebase and rewrites, refines, optimizes, and overhauls most of the internal stuff without making dramatic changes to the driver stacks that Vista did over WinXP. "

07/23/09 1055 looky-likey domain names
"appear to be an attempt to fool busy system administrators when they are examining the firewall logs into thinking they are legitimate connections from auto-update mechanisms in applications. "

07/23/09 1055 RainbowCrack 1.4 is released

07/23/09 1025 Barnes and Noble returns to ebooks
"Barnes & Noble on Monday announced that it's getting back into the e-book market. The company said in a statement that its new e-book store has more than 700,000 books for sale--far more than the 300,000 books available for download from Amazon.com's Kindle store."

07/23/09 1024 Yahoo buys Xoopit
"Xoopit--a company known for its photo management tools"

07/23/09 1024 Apple's Firepod
"Worse, Apple knew and chose to file exemption after exemption with the CPSC, putting its corporate image ahead of consumer safety."

07/23/09 1023 Eclipse malware
"Miscreants are using black hat search engine trickery to point geographically-confused users towards websites peddling rogue antivirus software, as explained in an illustrated advisory by Trend Micro here."

07/23/09 1023 500000000 cpus from AMD
"announced the shipment of the 500 millionth x86 processor during the company’s 40 years in operation."

07/23/09 1022 Amazon will sell shoes
"Amazon said on Wednesday it struck a deal to buy Zappos, for 927.9 million -- mostly in stock -- growing its footprint in shoes and apparel."

07/23/09 0928 Windows 7 RTM: Is it really better than Vista?
"Microsoft's underlying security improvements were actually introduced with Windows XP SP2 and enhanced with Windows Vista, leaving most of the security fixes under Windows 7 to be relatively minor changes. Yet those changes will make a big difference in the user experience."

07/23/09 0928 Google Wave
" including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — presumably forever"

07/23/09 0829 Update on New Flash 0-day
"At the moment there is a low number of malicious sites serving the exploit, but we confirmed that the links have been injected in legitimate web sites to create a drive-by attack, as expected." No patch until July 30.

07/23/09 0819 Ten of the Worst Artery Cloggers in America
" America has no shortage of unhealthy options. While many of the artery-clogging, calorie-packing, and waist-expanding choices are obvious, other fast food items are deceptively deleterious. "

07/23/09 0816 New Sherlock Holmes Trailer

07/22/09 1920 VMware Profits Off 36 Percent
"storage virtualization software king reported profits of $33 million"

07/22/09 1920 USB 3.0 Motherboard
"The P6X58 Premium board features both 3.0 and 2.0 ports, allowing for greater functionality with USB devices both old and new. "

07/22/09 1919 Flash 0-day
"Researchers on Wednesday said they have uncovered attacks in the wild in which malicious Acrobat PDF files are exploiting a vulnerability in Flash and dropping a Trojan onto computers."

07/22/09 1919 Gmail auto-unsubscribe
"Google has added an auto-unsubscribe feature to Gmail that will unsubscribe you from mailing lists that you may have signed up for but then decide you don't want after all."

07/22/09 1917 Top 10 Botnets
"The Zeus Trojan uses key-logging techniques to steal user names, passwords, account numbers and credit card numbers, and it injects fake HTML forms into online banking login pages to steal user data"

07/22/09 1916 Mac OS X root kit manual
"researcher Dino Dai Zovi plans to discuss specific features in the OS that make it possible to write rootkits that are virtually impossible for untrained users to detect."

07/22/09 1440 F-22 Raptor Cancelled
" F-22 Raptor has been cancelled by the Senate. At an estimated price tag of $339 million per aircraft"

07/22/09 1424 Windows 7 on Aug 6
"The company has also hinted strongly at a release-to-manufacturing date for Windows 7 of August 6.TechNet and MSDN subscribers will be able to download English-language versions of the RTM code on August 6, the company said Tuesday."

07/22/09 1423 Intel appeals billion euro fine
""We believe the European Commission misinterpreted some evidence and ignored other pieces of evidence," Intel spokesman Robert Manetta told Reuters today."

07/22/09 1415 Portable Xbox Definitely Coming
"The portable Xbox is coming: That much, it seems, is no longer up for debate. "

07/22/09 1043 CRITICAL:DD-WRT vulnerability
"The bug allows unauthenticated users to remotely gain root access simply by luring someone on the local network to a malicious website."

07/22/09 1042 Revamping the iTunes app store
"Acknowledging that there is room for improvement in the current offering, Apple COO Tim Cook said Tuesday that Apple is looking for new ways to categorize software in the App Store on the iPhone and iPod touch."

07/22/09 1041 Apple wants its NAND
"Apple has continued its significant investment in flash memory, with the Cupertino company announcing Tuesday that it recently prepaid $500 million to Toshiba to secure long-term supply of NAND for its mobile devices."

07/22/09 1041 Microsoft kills Soapbox
"Microsoft will shut down Soapbox, its online-video competitor to YouTube, by the end of August. "

07/22/09 1040 Why we need 6Gbps SATA
"That data rate may reach 250 megabytes per second (MBps), or 2,000 megabits per second (Mbps), in 2011, more or less saturating the current 3Gbps limit of the SATA 2.0 specification. "

07/22/09 1013 Microsoft Makes Second GPLv2 Release
"its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for Moodle, an 'open-source course management system that teachers use to create online learning Web sites for their classes"

07/22/09 0944 BlackBerry Storm 2
"A video has appeared online in which a second-generation Blackberry Storm is apparently demonstrated."

07/22/09 0943 Top 11 things to learn from Twitter security
"The first time was for its proactive measure in suspending the accounts of users whose machines were apparently infected with the Koobface worm. The second time was for the leak of critical information. Both cases provide valuable lessons for organizations and individuals."

07/22/09 0936 "Microsoft Patents Join-Leave in Split-Screen Multiplayer Games"
"to a "squad-based shooter" that "allows players to dynamically join and leave the game, "

07/22/09 0850 Another look at the Chrome OS
""We are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware, and security updates," the post said. "

07/22/09 0849 Firefox 3.7 mockup
"Mozilla developers have revealed mockups of Firefox 3.7 to give users a taster of what that version of the popular open source browser might eventually look like."

07/22/09 0849 World of Warcraft movie
"Spider-Man director Sam Raimi will helm a movie adaptation of World of Warcraft, Variety reports."

07/22/09 0848 Seagate loses $3bn in a year
"Seagate lost $3.09bn in its fiscal year to the end of June, with revenue plummeting 23 per cent to $9.8bn. In its final 2009 quarter it lost $81m, on revenue 19 per cent down at $2.35bn, compared to a profit of $160m a year ago."

07/22/09 0848 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.0.12
"Firefox 3.0.12 addresses security and performance bugs in the open source browser for users yet to upgrade to 3.5.x, which was released with great fanfare in late June."

07/22/09 0820 Laser Ignition
"The University of Liverpool and their success in using near-infrared lasers instead of spark plugs in automobile engines."

07/22/09 0819 Adobe still service insecure Acrobat Reader
"Version 9.1 of Reader, which is what you get when you visit the official download site, contains 10 vulnerabilities that were patched by later releases."

07/22/09 0818 Flaming iPods
"An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property."

07/21/09 2044 40 Million Identities Up For Sale On the Web
"Highly sensitive financial information, including credit card details, bank account numbers, telephone numbers, and even PINs are available to the highest bidder. The information being traded on the Web has been intercepted by a British company and collated into a single database for the first time. "

07/21/09 1550 256GB flash drive
"Kingston has unveiled the 'world's first' 256GB flash drive, raising flash drive storage to the kind of capacity you normally associate with laptop hard disks."

07/21/09 1230 802.11n standard almost finished
"It's probable that the 802.11n standard will finally be approved at a scheduled IEEE meeting this September, ending a contentious round of infighting that has delayed the standard for years"

07/21/09 1035 Javascript beats cross site scripting security tokens
"Inferno has published a demo of his attack, which, in tests by the heise Security editorial team, The H's associated publication in Germany, was able to find two five-figure tokens in under seven minutes."

07/21/09 1025 Yahoo 2.0
"Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday is expected to launch a new design for its homepage months ahead of schedule, giving users more control over what appears there."

07/21/09 1018 the Xbox 'banhammer'
"Stephen Toulouse is widely known for wielding the "banhammer"--that is being the guy who comes down on cheaters and those who harass people over the online service. "

07/21/09 1017 The Software of Apollo 11
"The software was programmed on IBM punch cards. They had 80-columns and were 'assembled' to instruction binary on mainframes... and it took hours. ... During the mission, most of the software code couldn't be changed because it was hard-coded into the hardware, like ROM today"

07/21/09 0957 Wireshark 1.2.1

07/21/09 0952 Opera server, not Opera compatible
"They shipped the server, but when the Opera sysadmins started up the web-admin interface, they were met with a JavaScript statement that managed to piss off the whole company including the CTO. The script, apparently, locked out the Opera web-browser.""

07/21/09 0948 Project Natal and Gears of War
"Count Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski among those who don't believe that Microsoft's Project Natal will replace "traditional" gaming"

07/21/09 0947 Lawsuit over touchpad interface
" Tsera, a technology firm based in Texas, is suing more than 20 companies, including Apple, Microsoft and LG"

07/20/09 1706 TerreStar-1 Completes First Call
"Almost three weeks after launching the world's largest commercial satellite to deliver 3G voice, data and video communications"

07/20/09 1704 RIAA spokesperson denies proclaiming DRM 'dead'
"denied telling an SC Magazine reporter, even off the cuff, that "DRM is dead," calling it a "blatantly inaccurate quote.""

07/20/09 1450 Google Earth..for the Moon
"Google Earth 5.0 with a complete map of the moon that lets you explore craters, historic sites, and human artifacts"

07/20/09 1335 CRITICAL:Office 2008 1220 Patch
Microsoft has released a patch for Office 2008 for the Mac, and all users are urged to upgrade.

07/20/09 1318 Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S.
"If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right, according to new data from Microsoft's Hotmail team and online security player Sophos."

07/20/09 1316 Microsoft "GPLs" some device drivers
" Now, as Microsoft releases Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) under the GPL (version 2), apparently Microsoft calls the GPL 'ally.' Of course, there was little chance the device drivers would be accepted into the Linux kernel base unless open source, but the news suggests a shift for Microsoft."

07/20/09 1312 Watchmen, the Director's Cut
"The movie is still slow in the middle (about 30 minutes originally, 50 minutes in the Director's Cut), but the beginning and the end are still awesome. Y"

07/20/09 1057 Alaskan Blob Is an Algae Bloom
"the previously unidentified blob floating off of the coast of Alaska. The article states that the blob is an algae bloom —"

07/20/09 1053 How Twitter's Google Docs were "hacked"
"by resetting the account's password. To do that, Hacker Croll had to answer one or more personal questions used to authenticate the user."

07/20/09 1051 Microsoft Backs Down On Making IE8 Default At Upgrade
"Internet Explorer 8 will no longer replace the default browser when a user selects the 'Use express settings' option during installation. "

07/20/09 0638 Mozilla, "Dont worry about latest Firefox bug"
"the reports by press and various security agencies have incorrectly indicated that this is an exploitable bug,"

07/20/09 0638 Toshiba to go Blu Ray
"Toshiba may be finally about to put the past behind it, look to the future and launch a Blu-ray Disc player."

07/20/09 0634 Put your music on Rock Band

07/20/09 0634 Toilet is out on the ISS
"But now the main toilet has broken down on the International Space Station while a record 13 astronauts are on board."

07/19/09 1949 Net-Zero Energy home
"It has ground source heat pumps (promising a 30% reduction in energy use), photovoltaic arrays, supplementary wind power, high efficiency appliances and battery storage, all talking to each other through a Home Energy Manager."

07/19/09 1948 DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
"When the most vocal forefighters of DRM say so, it must be for real. Although this is the first time that the RIAA have actually said on record that DRM is dead, other players in the music industry have seen the light before them."

07/19/09 1706 Fake OpenSSH exploit leads to root'ed box
"A system log showing an attack in progress suggested that a group named "anti-sec" was being in possession of an OpenSSH exploit called "Open0wn," which was being used to compromise Linux and FreeBSD servers."

07/19/09 1501 Wikipedia's video format
"All these factors go harshly against the free-as-in-beer, Creative Commons grain of Wikipedia/Wikimedia, so it should come as no surprise that the Foundation's video player and tools are to represent a dramatic shift from current web video standards."

07/19/09 1415 Another Firefox Javascript vulnerability
"If exploited, the resulting overflow could lead to code execution, or if the exploit attempts fail, a denial-of-service scenario." It's recommended that Firefox users disable Javascript until the issue is patched, though addons like NoScript should do the trick as well"

07/18/09 1557 Red Hat is the first Linux company to make it on to the S&P 500.

07/18/09 1556 Apple TV console rumors
""Apple TV is the device that they can turn into a console, and they have essentially the same goals as Microsoft -- to turn Apple TV into an entertainment and Internet hub.""

07/18/09 1549 BioShock Creator Levine Teases Next Project
"we had a scope and ambition in mind which is more ambitious than anything we've ever done. Even more, substantially more ambitious than BioShock.' "

07/18/09 1548 Amazon.com deletes Kindle ebooks remotely
"users had an eerie feeling that they were being watched, receiving emails stating that their purchases were being refunded. When they connected to the Kindle's WhisperNet, the purchases in question were automatically deleted."

07/18/09 1547 Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

07/17/09 1731 CRITICAL:Chrome 2 2.0.172.37
"Users that currently have Chrome installed can use the built-in update function by clicking Tools, selecting About Google Chrome and clicking the Update button."

07/17/09 1727 Facebook and your photos
"Peter Smith, who no doubt agrees that the woman in the image is hot -- although he suspected she wasn't single. You guessed it, that's his wife - consultant Cheryl Smith."

07/17/09 1305 Canada's Govt investigates Facebook privacy
"The CBC's coverage spells out the areas of privacy concern, in particular that nearly a million developers of Facebook apps in 180 countries have full access to the entirety of users' private data. Also of concern: Facebook holds on to your data indefinitely after you quit the site."

07/17/09 0945 New Google Doc interface
"Mountain View has the builders in over at Google Docs, where the company is working on a new interface for the online office app."

07/17/09 0944 Microsoft sues ringtone company
"Microsoft has set its legal attack dogs on a Hong Kong distributor of mobile ringtones, over allegations that it has flooded Microsoft Live Messenger users with deceptive, fraudulent IM spam messages ultimately aimed at promoting online smut."

07/17/09 0944 The Pirate Bay will now charge
"Now GGF's cunning plan has been revealed, and from now on if you want to share on the site you are going to have to pay a monthly fee."

07/17/09 0943 The cost of a smartphone
"But we found that, among the most popular smartphones on the market today, there isn't a big difference in the total cost of ownership (device, service contract, and so on) over two years -- they all come in at around $3,800."

07/17/09 0943 Xbox sales up
"Games console sales in the US fell 38 per cent last month when compared to June 2008, market watcher NPD's latest numbers show."

07/17/09 0936 DVDs to last 1000 years
"Utah startup that is about to introduce technology for writing DVDs that can be read for 1,000 years after being stored at room temperature."

07/17/09 0909 Microsoft's Windows 7 adoption numbers
"Microsoft said this week at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference that it has already licensed 51 million desktops for Windows 7, which won't be available to business customers through its volume-licensing program until Sept. 1."

07/17/09 0851 Sun shareholders approve Oracle deal
"Shareholders holding about 62% of Sun's stock voted in favor of the deal at a special meeting "

07/17/09 0849 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.5.1
All Firefox users should upgrade. You can get it from Slug's Download Page or by using "Check for Updates" from Firefox's Help menu.

07/16/09 1520 Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
"In all, 80 updates have been integrated, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. "

07/16/09 1515 Marvell Confirms 6-Gbit/s SATA Chip Issue
"Marvell Semiconductor has confirmed an issue with its 6-Gbit/s Serial ATA chip, although the company said it believes that the technology will still roll out in 2009."

07/16/09 1502 Nmap 5.0 is out
Insecure.Org is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00 from http://nmap.org/. This is the first stable release since 4.76 (last September), and the first major release since the 4.50 release in 2007. Dozens of development releases led up to this.

07/16/09 1350 Google's new "diff" update system
"Courgette achieves smaller diffs (about 9x in one example) than standard binary-diffing algorithms like bsdiff by disassembling the code and sending the assembler diffs over the wire."

07/16/09 0942 Changes in Windows Security Center
"If you are seeing a red shield in the bottom right corner, your Malware Protection tab maybe indicating your AV "is on but it is reporting its status to Windows Security Center in a format that is no longer supported. Use the program's automatic updating feature, or contact the program manufacturer for an updated version"."

07/16/09 0941 Apple, "Stop the Laptop Hunter Ads, Microsoft"
"Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer said that he knew the ads were working because two weeks ago he got a call from Apple's legal department saying the adverts had to be pulled because "Apple had lowered its prices"."

07/16/09 0940 First known 3G phone botnet client
"YXES-B poses as a legitimate application called Sexy Space (ACSServer.exe) to steal the subscriber, phone, and network information of victims. The malware forwards these details to a site under hacker control."

07/16/09 0938 Windows 7 install will require wipe in EU
"It seems that to install Windows 7 in Europe, you'll have to wipe the system and start over."

07/16/09 0936 Lawyer offers reward, "prove my client did it"
"Cheney Mason, made the mistake of offering a million dollars on a TV show to anyone who could prove that his client"

07/16/09 0925 Facebook, 250m members
"Just a little more than three months after welcoming its 200 millionth user, the social networking site announced that as of today, Facebook hosts 250 million people."

07/16/09 0925 Dell Smartphones coming
"Dell plans to enter the consumer and small and medium-sized business (SMB) smartphone market by working with several major carriers globally, Dell officials told analysts Tuesday, without divulging many details, including timing."

07/16/09 0922 Microsoft retail stores
"In a keynote speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner told partners that the corporation is planning to open the first of its retail stores next to existing Apple stores."

07/15/09 2209 Firefox 3.5 "self inflected" vulnerability
"A noted Firefox contributor called the situation "self-inflicted" and said it was likely that the hacker who posted public exploit code Monday became aware of the flaw by rooting through Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug- and change-tracking database."

07/15/09 2025 Windows 7 Home Premium Won't Have Backup
"For one reason or another, however, Microsoft has deemed making regular backups a mostly-business related affair." Argh!!! The Stupidity continues...

07/15/09 2024 Twitter docs "hacked" on Google Apps
"A hacker has reportedly obtained and distributed more than 300 confidential documents pertaining to Twitter's business affairs. The documents were reportedly stored on Google Apps."..Password guessing it looks like.

07/15/09 2023 Microsoft's plans for streaming music
"Microsoft is on the verge of mimicking Spotify, the UK-based music streaming service that serves up audio ads alongside free tunes."

07/15/09 2008 1 billion biometic IDs for India
" charged with assigning every living Indian an exclusive number and biometric ID card. "

07/15/09 2007 Linux, 1 second boot...
"a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat on their embedded Linux platform."

07/15/09 2006 Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes
"According to the changelog, it offers bug fixes and 'addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.' "

07/15/09 2006 Google's Chiller-Less Data Center
"Google has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, "

07/15/09 0954 How 16 Famous Electronics Companies Got Their Names
"The brand names for these products are all familiar, but where did they come from in the first place? "

07/15/09 0841 BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier
"Though an official announcement has not yet been made, it would appear that the BOINC project as a whole has exceeded two petaflop/s performance."

07/15/09 0840 USPS now uses Linux
"US Postal Service has moved its Cobol package tracking software to HP machines running GNU/Linux."

07/15/09 0840 Canadians Find Traffic Shaping "Reasonable"
"A recent Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll on ISPs' use of traffic shaping suggests that 60% of survey respondents find the practice reasonable as long as customers are treated fairly'

07/15/09 0834 Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes
"the tool allows for a centrally administered migration unseen by users, who can still use the IBM collaboration system during the process"

07/15/09 0833 DHS, Congress look to strengthen E-Verify system
"Sessions' amendment would make E-Verify a more formal program than the temporary presidential directive it is today, while Grassley seeks to allow both the federal government and private employers to use the program to check on both new and longtime workers."

07/14/09 1534 More Apple Tablet rumors
"It makes sense that Apple would divide the multi-talented team into an effort focused on the mobile space and something else focused on more substantial designs for tablet computers or netbooks."

07/14/09 1533 Buy the Ecto 1
"converted by Universal Studios into the Ghostbusters' Ecto-1, was up for auction on eBay. "

07/14/09 1505 CRITICAL: Firefox 3.5 Javascript
"The temporary fix disables a new Javascript processing feature in Firefox 3.5, which Security Fix says will slow down Javascript handling but protect against this exploit" You can apply the fix or use Noscript.

07/14/09 1504 CRITICAL: Patch Tuesday
" Microsoft today delivered six security updates that patched nine vulnerabilities. The patches fix two bugs now being used by hackers but leave one still open to exploit." Patch your Windows boxes..

07/14/09 1502 Comcast offers HBO online, on demand
"HBO and Cinemax content is making its way onto the Internet, but only for people who already subscribe to HBO and Cinemax through their cable providers."

07/14/09 1502 Balmer on Chrome and Android
"Addressing Google's Chrome OS, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that the move leaves its rival with dual operating systems, something that Microsoft learned the hard way is not a good idea. "

07/14/09 1451 German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key
"After their Hardware Security Module (HSM) dutifully deleted its crypto keys during a power outage, it was all 'Oops, why is there no backup?' All issued cards must be replaced"

07/14/09 1450 UK, Not North Korea, Is Source of DDoS Attacks
"The UK was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the US and South Korea, according to an analysis performed by a Vietnamese computer security researcher. "

07/14/09 1449 'Rosetta Stone' Of Bacterial Communication Discovered
"Although they have no sensory organs, bacteria can get a good idea about what's going on in their neighborhood and communicate with each other, mainly by secreting and taking in chemicals from their surrounding environment."

07/14/09 1020 Microsoft pricing for Azure cloud
"On a pure consumption basis, Microsoft said it will charge 12 cents per hour for computing, 15 cents per gigabyte for storage and 10 cents per 10,000 storage transactions. For network bandwidth, the software maker is charging between 10 cents and 15 cents per gigabyte. "

07/14/09 1018 New Zealand ISP moving toward filtering
"Voluntary for ISPs but not for their users, ISPs representing over 94% of the market are already intending to join"

07/14/09 0752 Harry Potter at 98%

07/14/09 0751 Windows 7 not done yet
"The software giant went to great lengths to stamp out the speculation after Windows 7 build 7600 and Windows Server 2008 R2 build 7600 tipped up on BitTorrent tracker sites."

07/14/09 0748 Free, online version of Office
"On Monday, Microsoft said it would offer a free version of its popular Office software suite that would run on the Internet. "

07/14/09 0741 NASA finds moon walk tapes
" The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards.'""

07/14/09 0740 Pandora Wants Radio Stations To Pay For Music, Too
"Some might think it odd that Pandora is weighing in on the side of the record labels in their fight to get radio stations to pay more for the music they broadcast. "

07/14/09 0740 BioShock 2 Delayed
Co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere said that the game is on-time and on-budget, but also that they don't want it to come out at the same time as many other high-profile games.

07/13/09 1723 IronKey self destructing key...
"first and only USB storage device to achieve FIPS 140-2, Level 3 validation' and delivers advanced Cryptochip featuring AES-256, tamper-resistance and self-destruction circuitry.""

07/13/09 1534 'Karate Kid' remake
Chan's young disciple in "Kung Fu Kid" will be played by Jaden Smith, the son of Hollywood superstars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

07/13/09 1137 CRITICAL: Office Web Components ActiveX
This vulnerability exists in the ActiveX control used by IE to display Excel spreadsheets. Apply the fix it soon...

07/13/09 1016 Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
"featuring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Mia Wasikowska as Alice, and Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum"

07/13/09 1011 Swearing for pain release
"may not only be an expression of agony, but also a means to alleviate it"

07/13/09 0857 Software Watches Ball Games, Calls Plays
With a game as slow and boring as baseball, a device as powerful as a stopwatch could probably figure out the plays.

07/13/09 0842 Apple's 9.7-inch 'netbook' to debut in October for $800?
It's still unclear whether the reported device takes on the traditional netbook form-factor, goes convertible like the T91, or is a 9.7-inch slate like a giant iPod touch

07/13/09 0833 575 Koobface Worm Variants
"Koobface, the infamous worm, was first detected by Kaspersky Lab as Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface, and it instantly became popular when it appeared almost one year ago targeting Facebook and MySpace accounts. "

07/13/09 0833 potential iPhone security threat
"The survey also revealed that 40 per cent of businesses knowingly allow staff to download company data onto removable devices without any security provision. "

07/13/09 0831 First Permanent Node of "Interplanetary Internet"
"Researchers developing the 'Interplanetary Internet' have launched its first permanent node in Space via a payload aboard the International Space Station."

07/13/09 0830 Windows Embedded in smartbooks
"Microsoft plans to use Windows Embedded to combat rival operating systems in smartbooks and a number of other devices meant to always be connected to the Internet that Microsoft calls CIDs, or consumer Internet devices."

07/13/09 0830 Six out of ten firms will skip Windows 7
"Presumably deciding that a press release entitled '95 per cent of enterprises are too lazy to respond to a survey' is less interesting than one about Windows 7, the firm stuck with its initially intended mission."

07/13/09 0826 Dragon Quest 9 Hits Japan
"Dragon Quest IX, one of the most anticipated video games ever to hit Japan, went on sale on Saturday morning and sold an impressive 2.3 million copies over the weekend, according to Enterbrain.'

07/13/09 0825 Eee PC T91
"We found that the chip was up to web-browsing and other light tasks we threw at the device all at once, from email writing to word processing and even 720p HD video playback."

07/13/09 0820 Microsoft releases Office 2010 details
"The next version of Office moved a step closer to reality on Monday as Microsoft released an invitation-only technical preview of Office 2010. "

07/13/09 0816 Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday
3 Critical patches for Windows.

07/13/09 0804 Android still has future says Google
Google's new Chrome operating system won't squeeze out Android, according to senior Google executive.

07/13/09 0754 milw0rm is back
"According to str0ke the decision to get back to work is thanks to friends who have agreed to take on some of the work on milw0rm."

07/11/09 1700 Lightning strike grounds Endeavour

07/11/09 1658 Anti-Sec hacks ImageShack in protest
"site's hosted pictures with one of their own, which detailed their manifesto. The group's grievance is against full-disclosure of exploits, an issue that was debated recently after a presentation on an ATM exploit was canceled. "

07/10/09 1036 Twitter, Facebook, Myspace explained..

07/10/09 1034 WordPress 2.8.1
"WordPress 2.8.1 has been released to fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages."

07/10/09 0938 Poor cat, the worst bath....
"It was only after the cycle had finished that the owner discovered the black kitten unconscious and hypothermic."

07/10/09 0919 Green Lantern Movie
"Warner Bros. is about to decide who will wear the super-powered ring in "Green Lantern," the studio's latest DC Comics tentpole movie. "

07/10/09 0852 New Kind Of Astronomical Object Around Black Hole
"The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick."

07/10/09 0851 Lying Down Game
"It's called the Lying Down Game. And the rules of this wonderfully batty pursuit are very simple."

07/10/09 0841 Bill Gates, Weather Master
"On Thursday, the USPTO revealed that Gates and ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold have filed five patent applications that propose using large fleets of vessels to suppress hurricanes "

07/10/09 0831 Text scammers target small banks
"Law enforcement and security experts say that for more than a year now, scammers have been using scam text messages to prey on small regional banks and their customers."

07/10/09 0830 Office 2010 browser version
"Microsoft will bow to reality with Office 2010, adding browser-based versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote. But, in an interview this week, the head of Microsoft's Business Division says that there is still plenty of life in the full version. "

07/10/09 0829 Bing comes to Hotmail
"The company announced the new feature yesterday, which allows users to add Bing image and video search results directly into Hotmail messages."

07/10/09 0805 Silverlight 3
"A day earlier than expected, Microsoft has released version 3 of its Flash alternative Silverlight, including a number of related tools to aid in Silverlight development. It comes with a whole lot of new features."

07/10/09 0759 Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct
"is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive"

07/10/09 0759 Max Launch Abort System
" MLAS is designed to pull the crew away from the main rocket stack during the critical first 2.5 minutes of flight in the event of a catastrophic failure."

07/09/09 0957 Windows 7 Family Pack price
"Microsoft Corp. will price a multi-license "family pack" for Windows 7 at $149.99, according to at least one online retailer that has posted pricing details prematurely."

07/09/09 0957 VirtualBox 3 review
"VirtualBox is an open-source virtualization program which lets you run guest operating systems with your native desktop operating system."

07/09/09 0943 Microsoft Hohm, home energy monitor
"The launch of Microsoft Hohm Monday struck me as particularly serendipitous, both as a journalist and as a potential user."

07/09/09 0942 Apple HTTP Live Streaming
"Essentially, Apple wants a standard for streaming video that anyone can use so that it can continue selling hardware without being either shut out of the market by proprietary software, or held captive by it; Microsoft, as a software vendor, wants to create another captive market where it has the power to shut out competitors at its whim."

07/09/09 0931 Kindle price drop
"Online retail giant Amazon quietly dropped the price of its heavily promoted Kindle 2 e-reader today, lowering the price to from $359 to $299—a $60 cut."

07/09/09 0925 Harold Ramis Talking Ghostbusters 3

07/09/09 0925 Spammers love tinyurl and others
"shortened URLs on services such as Twitter is aggravating the spam "

07/09/09 0925 Google Chrome OS explained
"Google has said about Chrome OS and it doesn't say much, let's do something I learned in college, turning tiny paragraphs into pages of "deep reading"

07/09/09 0924 Screenshots of Google OS?
" Still, a hastily constructed WordPress blog has been setup to host what are claimed to be the world's first screenshots of Google's new Chrome OS "

07/09/09 0620 Google OS hardware makers
"With a post to the official Chrome blog Wednesday afternoon, the Mountain View Chocolate Factory said its hardware partners include Acer, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba."

07/09/09 0618 No OpenSSH 0day
"At this moment, it definitely looks like we're dealing with a hoax – even more, it's not the first time someone said they have a 0-day exploit for SSH. So, let's see some facts about this."

07/08/09 2135 CRITICAL:Safari 4.0.2
"It would appear that this new versions addresses the following security related issues in WebKit (as well as some performance increases in the nitro JS engine)."

07/08/09 1455 Milw0rm offline?
" I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don't :(. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours"

07/08/09 1451 Firefox To Get Multi-Process Browsing
"The project is called Electrolysis, and the developers "have already assembled a prototype that renders a page in a separate process from the interface shell in which it is displayed"

07/08/09 1450 'The Man Wall'
" That's right, in addition to the four TVs, there's a keg-erator with tap, 32-bottle wine rack, two cigar humidors and a microwave."

07/08/09 1237 Porn crushing wireless in Japan
"Now, porn is showing up on mobile phones and it's relentlessly wearing down the wireless carrier's bandwidth. "

07/08/09 0918 Google's Native Client
"The Native Client system is designed to give web applications access to the client processor's full performance, while maintaining browser neutrality, operating system portability and security."

07/08/09 0915 New MyDoom brings DDOS
"An updated version of the MyDoom virus is responsible for a large DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack that took down major U.S. Web sites over the weekend and South Korean Web sites on Wednesday, according to Korean computer security company AhnLab."

07/08/09 0915 General Electric and Tendril saving energy
"Smart-grid start-up Tendril and General Electric later this year will test a smart-grid system that will allow GE's networked home appliances to take advantage of cheaper electricity rates, the companies announced Wednesday. "

07/08/09 0911 Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg
" Dubbed the Sahimo, their pint-sized hydrogen car is cable of eking out an incredible 568 km on 1 liter of fuel (about 1,336 miles per gallon). "

07/08/09 0910 BT Drops Phorm
"BT has abandoned plans to roll out Phorm's controversial web monitoring and profiling system across its broadband network, claiming it needs to concentrate resources on network upgrades.."

07/08/09 0755 "Newest IE bug could be next Conficker"
"It's better than [the vulnerability used by] Conficker," Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG Technologies, said yesterday. "It exposes the whole world, and can be exploited through the firewall. That's better than Conficker, which mostly did its damage once it got inside a network.""

07/08/09 0754 Google Chrome OS
""Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android," it said. "Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the Web.""

07/07/09 2322 Rubik 360
"Rubik’s 360, which goes on sale next week, features six small balls inside three interlocking spheres. "

07/07/09 2223 Beginner Command Line for OS X, Clix

07/07/09 1442 Hard Drives vs. Solid State and the Windows Experience Index
"I installed pulled the Seagate drive, installed an 80GB Intel X25-M solid-state drive, and installed Windows 7 again. Now my hard drive score jumped to 7.4—pretty damn good in my book. "

07/07/09 1439 Rumours of critical vulnerability in OpenSSL in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
"OpenSSL server in CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). According to the posting, the vulnerability is present in the OpenSSL version 4.3 used in this distribution."

07/07/09 1200 Google drops "beta" tags
"Google will drop the "beta" label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop on Tuesday to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks many IT managers and CIOs."

07/07/09 1036 VLC 1.0
"VLC media player, which we all know for simplifying the playback of pretty much any codec out there, has finally released version 1.0.0. "

07/07/09 0957 US/Russia nuclear arms agreement
United States and Russia, seeking to move forward on one of the most significant arms control treaties since the end of the cold war, announced that they had reached a preliminary agreement on cutting each country's stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons

07/07/09 0948 Sony's Netbook
"The Vaio W-series comes in a choice of three colors (sugar white, berry pink and cocoa brown) and with a high resolution (1366 x 768), 16:9 widescreen display. "

07/07/09 0947 Windows 7 Ultimate
"According to Microsoft's Windows 7 Web page, Windows 7 Ultimate edition sports just two features that you won't find in Windows 7 Professional: a full language pack, which includes support for 35 languages, and the company's BitLocker software"

07/07/09 0945 OpenSSH Exploit?
"We cannot confirm its existence, other than a DOS exploit for OpenSSH that recently showed up on Milw0rm"

07/07/09 0817 CentOS server "hacked", no data affected
"Attackers have used a configuration error in the Xoops content management system to access the main web server of the CentOS project."

07/07/09 0816 CRITICAL:Microsoft fix for DirectShow
"Microsoft has officially confirmed the new vulnerability in DirectShow and has provided a fix-it tool that gives users an easy way to switch off either the vulnerable control or system support for it."

07/07/09 0814 Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise"
" regarding the explicit placement of C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (the ECMA standard that underpins .NET) under their Community Promise:"

07/07/09 0813 New incandescent tech
"For example, new incandescent technology from Philips that seals the traditional filament inside a small capsule (which itself is contained within the familiar bulb)."

07/07/09 0810 Ubisoft moves to Canada?
"GAME PUBLISHER Ubisoft has been given a $263 million sweetener to set up shop in Toronto.The move is supposed to create 800 jobs and offset some of the losses in the province's manufacturing sector."

07/07/09 0810 Microsoft's new browser
"Naturally, the view that Windows is on a path to irrelevance is not one generally espoused by Microsoft. That said, at least some inside Redmond's walls argue that the Web browser needs to start acting more like an operating system. '

07/07/09 0809 Plasma Rocket
"A radical electrically-powered space rocket which has the potential to cut months or years off travel times to other planets has achieved a further successful test today."

07/07/09 0809 Opera Unite security
"Opera has spent a "fair amount of time" securing Unite, but it remains to be seen if that's enough to encourage its use so that we can really see if Unite stands up to a deliberate attack"

07/07/09 0807 New SSN guessing tech
" has actually allowed the statistical reconstruction of the number using information that many people place on social networking sites"

07/06/09 2103 Symantec Reputation Technology
"Now available in a free beta, the products represent Symantec's hybrid approach to security that mixed traditional signatures with application whitelisting."

07/06/09 2056 10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons

07/06/09 2055 LucasArts on Steam
"LucasArts today announced that they will soon be releasing games from their back catalog through Steam. "

07/06/09 2054 Robot Invented To Crawl Through Veins
"purportedly able to crawl through a person's veins in order to diagnose and potentially treat artery blockage and cancer"

07/06/09 2052 Photographic Memory in a Pill?
" When the production of the protein was boosted in mice, the rodents' visual memory retention increased, from about an hour to almost 2 months."

07/06/09 0838 It just keeps getting weirder....
"As his family tries to finalise details for the King of Pop’s funeral on Tuesday they have been told it will be held back for tests."

07/06/09 0835 Countering rumor says Apple and NVIDIA "doing just fine"
"Just as soon as one rumor has suggested trouble in the relationship between Apple and NVIDIA, a conflicting report now claims that the two are still on good terms."

07/06/09 0834 Zero's Newest Electric Motorcycle
"Someone at the factory sent us a neutered model fitted with a speed limiter that had the bike gasping like a lifelong smoker once we pushed it past 45. "

07/06/09 0810 uSocial Sells Twitter Followers By the Thousand
This is just the latest in a number of different exploits and problems of the Twitter universe as individuals try to subvert a popular tool into a self serving device.

07/06/09 0810 Plug-in Prius?
Mass production of a plug-in Toyota Prius could start within two years, it’s been reported.

07/06/09 0806 CRITICAL:0-Day Microsoft DirectShow
"A 0-day exploit within the msVidCtl component of Microsoft DirectShow is actively being exploited through drive-by attacks using thousands of newly compromised web sites, according to CSIS. The code has been published in the public domain via a number of Chinese web sites."

07/04/09 2155 Symantec, "Don't use free AV"
"you are not getting the protection you need to be able to stay clean and have a reasonable chance of avoiding identity theft,' said David Hall, a Product Manager for Symantec"

07/04/09 2155 The TerreStar-1
" Its launch weight was 6,910 kg, and it is "distinguished by a giant, 60-foot (18-meter) wide S-band antenna that will be unfurled in the coming weeks. Once the satellite's two solar wings are deployed"

07/04/09 2154 The Crunchpad
"The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web. Turn it on and up comes a browser — 'an Internet consumption device,' for reading, checking e-mail or watching video. "

07/04/09 2154 iPhone 3GS battery life
"The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life -- but its battery isn't one of them."

07/04/09 2153 68 hot dogs and still the champ
"Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island"

07/04/09 2152 Compuserve is dead
"After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company."

07/03/09 2126 McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide
"IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death."

07/02/09 2031 First Person Shooters Disease

07/02/09 1621 Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
"Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies. "

07/02/09 1338 Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked"
"Previously schizophrenia and depression were assumed to be two separate conditions, but the new research shows for the first time that both have a common genetic basis"

07/02/09 1336 superdosage acetaminophen outlawed?
"The problem is the key ingredient — acetaminophen — can easily damage or destroy a patient's liver if more than 2000 mg are used per day. In many cases that means if you take a pain killer and then take two extra strength Tylenol, you may have gone over the maximum dosage per day.""

07/02/09 1057 "$4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Grants Tied to Strict Net Neutrality Rules"
"Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use, vice president Joe Biden announced today."

07/02/09 0850 Apple to drop NVIDIA?
"Although they've portrayed themselves almost as best friends for several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models."

07/02/09 0840 Cash machine cracking presentation cancelled
"Hacking into automated teller machines was to be the subject of the presentation, "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines", planned for delivery at the coming Black Hat Conference."

07/02/09 0840 Apple iDisk flaw fixed
"According to Apple, it was a directory traversal issue; this is when access to directories using relative paths is allowed, for example, when the path is prefixed with "../"."

07/02/09 0833 Don't "Youtube" your hacking activities
"He says he's "infiltrated a very large corporate office," but according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, he was just working the night shift as a security guard, pretending to break into the very building he was supposed to be guarding."

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