Alex Ionescu has found a way of fooling Vista into believing DRM is working when it’s not. It allows premium content such as HD-DVDs to be played on an uncertified computer
. This is quite different from the method used by muslix64 to circumvent DRM by locating the DRM key in the binary image of a DVD player program such as WinDVD
More than 300 cases of the highly infectious disease, which is spread by airborne droplets and kills 98% of those infected within about two weeks, have been identified in South Africa — via Bruce Sterling
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department restyles their recruitment page in the mode of Frank Miller’s Sin City — via Warren Ellis
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users
A data cable made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system. The modified cells should form better connections with human tissue than the metal electrodes currently used for purposes such as remotely controlling prosthetics — via Warren Ellis
Microsoft acknowledged offering to pay a blogger to correct what it said were errors in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia
Scientists have built a tiny memory chip that uses new technology to pack a relatively large amount of information into a square about one-2,000th of an inch on a side. Although the chip is modest in capacity — with 160,000 bits of information — the bits are crammed together so tightly that it is the densest chip ever made. The achievement points to a possible path toward continuing the exponential growth of computing power even after current silicon chip-making technology hits fundamental limits in 10 to 20 years
Maine overwhelmingly rejected federal requirements for national identification cards, marking the first formal state opposition to controversial legislation scheduled to go in effect for Americans next year. Both chambers of the Maine legislature approved a resolution saying the state flatly refuses
to force its citizens to use driver’s licenses that comply with digital ID standards, which were established under the 2005 Real ID Act. It asks the US Congress to repeal the law
Bird flu hasn’t gone away. The discovery, announced last week, that the H5N1 bird flu virus is widespread in cats in locations across Indonesia has refocused attention on the danger that the deadly virus could be mutating into a form that can infect humans far more easily
Computer experts have traced a $1 million online bank heist in Sweden to a Russian hacker known only by his colourful sobriquet — the Corpse — in one of the more brazen Internet banking crimes of recent memory
A New Jersey state appellate court yesterday affirmed that any personal information given to ISPs must remain private. Yes, this indicates that New Jersey, like a lot of states, is ahead of the curve on Internet privacy,
said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights group
Synthetic spider silk, like lycra in many ways, has a number of unique properties. The MIT lab that created it is being monitored by military elements, keenly interested in applications of this material to front-line technologies. The secret of spider silk’s combined strength and flexibility, according to scientists, has to do with the arrangement of the nano-crystalline reinforcement of the silk as it is being produced — in other words, the way these tiny crystals are oriented towards and adhere to the stretchy protein. Emulating this process in a synthetic polymer, the MIT team focused on reinforcing solutions of commercial rubbery substance known as polyurethane elastomer with nano-sized clay platelets instead of simply heating and mixing the molten plastics with reinforcing agents
Google’s German web site was waylaid for two hours because its address was mistakenly reassigned. The temporary takeover of the site just after midnight was not the result of a hacker attack. Rather, it appears that the German organisation that assigns domain names, the DeNIC, made an error and registered www.google.de as available and immediately gave it away
Europe is upping the pressure on Apple to open up its restrictive DRM that ties iTunes to the iPod. Norway ruled last year that the iPod-iTunes tie-in was unreasonable and gave Apple a deadline to make a change to its policies, but was unsatisfied with the response they got. Now France and Germany have joined forces with Norway, making it a lot harder for Apple to just walk away from those markets
A North Dakota man aims to be the first hemp farmer in the United States. That is, the first one since the practice was made illegal in 1938 and only allowed again temporarily as part of the WWII war effort. After 10 years of recent effort by North Dakota lawmaker David Monson, he is now poised to receive a license to grow the crop beloved by sustainability advocates — as long as he gets fingerprinted first
The British Broadcasting Corporation said Monday that it was in discussions with the search engine company Google about putting some of the BBC’s programming on the online video site YouTube
The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend–and it worked a treat
Australians are likely to miss out on the option of upgrading to Microsoft’s new Windows Vista and Office 2007 software through a new Internet download service
Record companies are considering ditching DRM for their MP3 albums. For the first time, flagging sales of online music tracks are beginning to make the big recording companies consider the wisdom of selling music without rights management
technologies attached. Most independent record labels already sell tracks digitally compressed in MP3 format, which can be downloaded, e-mailed or copied to computers, mobiles, portable music players and compact discs without limit. Partially, the independents see providing songs in MP3 as a way of generating publicity that could lead to future sales. Should one of the big four take that route, however, it would be a capitulation to the power of the Internet, which has destroyed their monopoly over the worldwide distribution of music in the past decade and allowed file-sharing to take its place —l via Slashdot
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