Click on an eBay auction listing, and you could get an unwanted result: a fake eBay login page, created by scammers looking to pilfer your username and password
Twentieth Century Fox confirms The Simpsons are going to the movies and should hit theatres in 2007. A 25-second trailer for the film has been shown to US audiences at screenings of Ice Age: The Meltdown, promising to introduce the greatest hero in American history
. It then cut to Homer Simpson, wearing only his underwear, who admitted: I forgot what I was supposed to say
German nuclear power station officials, responsible for high-level security within the plant, avoided owning up to having lost keys to vital areas around the reactors for as long as possible — via iol News
Believe it or not, Emilio Gonzalez, a Spaniard amateur began his crater search at home after reading an article about the discovery of Kebira, the biggest one found in the Sahara. After a couple of minutes he located two craters. After checking the records, he realised these were completely new, and now two geologists confirm his findings. And there is more, these craters may be part of a chain studied by NASA geologist Adriana Ocampo, so if it’s confirmed that these new ones are part of the same episode, it could mean the definitive evidence for her theory of an asteroid broken into pieces fallen in that area — via Slashdot
The keeper of the biggest collection of indigenous Australian art and cultural history is digitising its catalogue in a project designed to help preserve its ageing archives
Movie studios want to punish legitimate customers for legally purchasing content, while the real pirates go right on stealing. ZDNet’s George Ou writes: There seems to be a persistent myth floating around the board rooms of the movie companies and Congress that analog content is the boogie man of music and video piracy. In fact, they’re so paranoid about it that they’re considering a mechanism called ICT (Image Constraint Token) that punishes law-abiding customers for content that they legally purchased. But ironically, the real content pirates who make millions of bootleg movies have no intention of ever taking advantage of the so called ‘analog hole’ because that is the slowest and lowest quality method of stealing content
— via Slashdot
The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed neuro-chips in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together
Australian ISPs could face huge fines if they do not provide spam filtering or impose e-mail sending limits under new rules set down by a communications watchdog
Optus will open its long-awaited, $150 million DSL broadband network to new customers from Saturday, offering downloads speeds of up to 20Mbps
Apple has introduced an iPod software update that lets users set maximum volume limits on the device
Microsoft plans to release a special compatibility patch that will temporarily undo some upcoming changes to Internet Explorer
Intel wants to make laptops more accessible to users and would like to make devices more akin to their desktop counterparts. With the company’s new Interchangeability Initiative, components including the optical drive, LCD screen, battery, power adapter and keyboard would all be upgradeable and can be swapped between notebooks. Hard drives are already for the most part interchangeable as long as you decide on PATA or SATA — via digg
eBay helped to shut down a Russian Web site last week that was offering to sell stolen customer account information for as little as $5 each. Armed with an eBay customer’s login and password, a fraudster could post items for sale, collect payments, and then never deliver the goods. The site was also offering to sell a handful of PayPal accounts
Fujitsu expects to begin shipping a 200GB hard drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year. Based on that schedule the drive could be available in computers for end-users within the year. That’s earlier than Fujitsu predicted last year when it said such drives wouldn’t be available until 2007
A team of German and Japanese scientists have collaborated to shatter the world record for data transmission speed. By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40Gb/s, or around 50 times slower
Microsoft is for the first time encouraging people to give public feedback on Internet Explorer, with the creation of a bug database for the next version of its browser, IE 7 beta
Scientists in northeastern Ethiopia recently discovered a skull that they think may be evidence of the missing link between Homo erectus and modern man. The hominid cranium — found in two pieces and believed to be between 500,000 and 250,000 years old — comes from a very significant period and is very close to the appearance of the anatomically modern human
, said Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Ethiopia
del.icio.us now supports private bookmarks. To try it out, go to settings
and click on private saving
to activate; you’ll then see the new option whenever you save a page — via digg
Reports from Redmond are that Microsoft Employees are not happy with the double delay of Windows and Office being pushed back into 2007. EETimes is reporting that some Microsoft employees are calling for the termination of several top managers Including Brian Valentine, Jim Allchin, and Steve Ballmer for the delay debacle. The report references a blog by Who da’Punk, an anonymous Microsoft employee who asks, where’s the accountability for failure? So far the blog entry has generated over 350 comments from Microsoft insiders and outsiders
Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen. And they could eventually be used to make more advanced prosthetic limbs, say researchers at University of Texas
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