Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user’s browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome — via redwolf.newsvine.com
“Duke Nukem Forever”, a video game synonymous with never being released, is finally being released — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the odors emanating from Washington, DC, these days is from journalists marking their territory — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sensing Senators don’t have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google is set to introduce a new feature for Gmail users in the coming week that sorts emails based on how important they are to the reader, called “Priority Inbox” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Victoria Police has vowed to “reconcile” databases after 20 years of dodgy record-keeping resulted in the force losing track of almost 200 weapons, including semi-automatics, shotguns and pistols — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Canon has announced that it has developed the world’s largest CMOS sensor, 40 times the size of the largest CMOS sensor that appears in its full-frame cameras — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet service providers often tell their clients that they offer bullet-proof hosting
. Whistleblower organisation Wikileaks, it seems, will settle for nothing less than bomb-proof
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Even though I’m on WordPress 2.7.1 (courtesy of the magical new auto-upgrade in 2.7), the Press This bookmarklet continues not to work for me. When I try to use it, I don’t see the formatting buttons at the top like I should and text I select on the page I’m blogging about isn’t copied into the post like it should be (at least selecting text doesn’t blank the input box like it used to). This makes it fairly useless for me. Prior to 2.7.1 it wouldn’t even put the URL of the page I was on in the new post so at least it’s getting better. I still can’t use it for everything, but I can for some stuff which is certainly good — via Matt O’ Rama
Facebook has filed suit against Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses Teachbook of “misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook’s trademark” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook management failed repeatedly to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on their site and ignored continuing admissions by one of the ring’s Australian members — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Running multiple operating systems side-by-side gives you the chance to test applications, run platform-specific software, and tons more without ever rebooting. It’s also extremely cool. Here’s how to run Windows, Mac, and Linux simultaneously and pain-free as possible — via lifehacker
Canadian developers are plotting a small revolution in the still-tiny market for electric cars, with a concept vehicle made from hemp set to debut at a specialised auto show next month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The web is littered with design galleries showcasing beautiful websites, but most such galleries focus on the site as a whole — where do you turn if you just want some inspiration for a navigation menu or a really slick sign-up form?*
We stumbled across Pattern Tap, which is a design gallery of sorts. But it breaks the showcased site down into specifics, like sites with awesome navigation menus, great looking web forms or really eye-catching typography.
In some cases, the overall designs of the featured sites are great. In other cases, not so much. But that’s bound to happen with you start breaking a design down into tiny components like great-looking code snippets or often neglected aspects of web design like sites with really good copy.
Discerning Internet users know that glowing online reviews of things like books or restaurants cannot always be trusted. But federal regulators are serving notice that if you stand to gain financially from the review you are writing, you should be upfront about it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien “sentient machines” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 2010, 25 percent of new worms have been specifically designed to spread through USB storage devices connected to computers, according to PandaLabs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Salt Lake City mortgage company employee allegedly got drunk, opened fired on his firm’s computer server with a .45-caliber automatic, and then told police someone had stolen his gun and caused the damage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Birds and high-performance jet aircraft don’t mix. So at a base in Germany, the Air Force is fighting birds with birds – specifically trained falcons that patrol the base and help eliminate at least some of the feathered threat to the F-16 Fighting Falcons and other aircraft.
Now, it may have been my choice of search term, or it may have been that the event is already more than a week old, but I was amazed to see, at the top of the Google News results, a story from Associated Content — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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