Nine Inch Nails are struggling to keep their website online after releasing their latest album as a partly free download
Microsoft has had a change of heart regarding IE8. The new version of the dominant browser will render in full standards mode by default. Developers wishing to use quirks mode for IE6- and IE7-compatible rendering will have to opt in explicitly
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor released a 36-song instrumental collection, Ghosts I-IV
, direct to the Internet via his official website. The album is available at a number of pricing options, beginning with a free sampling of nine of the songs. All 36 cuts can be had for as low as $5 (download), or for as high as $300, a signed limited-edition set that will ship in May (pictured). There’s also a $10 double-disc CD set, which includes a 16-page booklet and ships on April 8, or a $75 package that includes two discs, a DVD and a deluxe book
After taking control of Shareaza.com, imposters trying to pass themselves off as an open-source dev team have stepped up their action to destroy the GNU GPL licensed project. In an audacious move, lawyers representing Discordia Ltd have filed to register the Shareaza
trademark at the US Patent Office
Jeffrey White of Federal District Court in San Francisco, on Friday withdrew his earlier order disabling, Wikileaks.org, a web site that allows the anonymous posting of documents to discourage unethical behaviour in governments and corporations
Most homes will have broadband communication speeds up to 100 times faster than what is currently available, under the Rudd Government’s plan to wire Australia for the 21st century
A divided Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the nation’s first felony conviction for illegal spamming on Friday, ruling that Virginia’s anti-spamming law does not violate free-speech rights. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, NC, considered among the world’s top 10 spammers in 2003, was convicted of massive distribution of junk e-mail and sentenced to nine years in prison
Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, undocumented
means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance — via Slashdot
Google launches Google Sites, a new piece of the Google Apps hosted collaboration and communication suites. Google Sites is the JotSpot hosted wiki service reborn. JotSpot’s re-launch under a different name and a revamped architecture finally answers how this hosted wiki service was retooled, almost a year and a half after Google acquired the company
Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They’ve recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. And it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7. Things are really starting to fall into place for Firefox 3 Beta 4 which should be available in the next week or two — via Slashdot
While the RIAA sues its customers, and blames filesharing for the decrease in record sales, a coalition of seven independent Swedish record labels explores alternatives that make use of the Internet and filesharing technology
Websense Security Labs has discovered that Google’s popular web mail service Gmail is being targeted in recent spammer tactics. Spammers in these attacks managed to created bots that are capable of signing up and creating random Gmail accounts for spamming purposes
The constant pokes, friend requests and incessant invitations to play poker or write on each other’s Fun Wall
have taken the cyber-shine off Facebook. Even as the social networking site careers through the 64 million member mark, disgruntled and grumpy early users (many of whom only joined 18 months ago but already feel nostalgic for the old Facebook) are bundling up their online personal lives. They’re off to find something more relevant
Dell, long dinged for using proprietary hardware in its gaming PCs, has seen the light. The company said such annoying traits such as proprietary motherboards and power supplies is now a thing of the past. The change is a long overdue
Google has agreed to build an undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United States to Japan, and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in internet traffic between the continents
A company trying to pass itself off as vendors of the open-source file-sharing software Shareaza, has set the legal dogs on the real Shareaza forum. Discordia Ltd, who earlier turned Bearshare and iMesh into pay services, demanded action after a member of the real Shareaza forum suggested a DOS attack on the site
European regulators are considering whether to categorise IP addresses as personal property. Their decision could throw a monkey wrench into tracking by search-engine operators
The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group has released an open-source web auditing tool called the Goolag Scanner that aims to let owners check their web sites for widespread security vulnerabilities
Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, will be dedicated by the National Science Foundation and the Texas Advanced Computing Centre at The University of Texas at Austin. Ranger’s deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data
Over the past week, some servers used for updating the anti-virus software NOD32 were labeled as anti-p2p by a popular list maker for PeerGuardian. In response, NOD32’s company, ESET, has categorised PG2 as malware in some of its latest updates
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