Microsoft is throwing the full weight of Hotmail behind its Sender ID e-mail authentication technology by sidelining incoming mail when it fails to pass a Sender ID check. The software maker has begun warning Hotmail users with an on-screen alert when the sender of an incoming e-mail cannot be verified using its Sender ID Framework. Mail that fails to pass the test will be placed in a junk mail folder or could even be deleted
Google has confirmed that it is developing an online payment system, although it says it has no plans to take on eBay’s PayPal service
An Indian researcher has cracked the much-touted impenetrable
Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft. According to Microsoft this service would soon require all Windows users to verify their licence before downloading updates
Phishers and malware writers have started sending e-mails that refer to the high profile data security breach at MasterCard — when information on more than 40 million credit cards was stolen — with an offer to help worried card holders into recovering
their stolen information
Dvorak has an interesting editorial up, where he links the recent stories of alleged security problems
and spyware problems
bittorent has been having with the recent Microsoft announcement of research into a file sharing application called Avalanche
. concluding it’s all part of an orchestrated Microsoft disinformation campaign against BitTorrent
A prankster in Sunnyvale, California has been toying with traffic lights across the city for three months. Police say he or she has turned them to face the wrong way, altered the timing, and made them flash red in all directions. There is evidence that whoever is doing it knows what they’re doing,
(city spokesman John) Pilger said. The evidence suggests they’re an electrician or have that background. This isn’t a high school prank
— via BoingBoing
New Zealand’s telecommunications have been crippled by two separate incidents that have closed the country’s stock exchange and affected internet, mobile and landline phone calls around the country. You’d think Telstra were running the show
Apparently a sudden interest in technology is catching. My mother is in good company with her recent acquisition of an iPod, Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is also a devotee of Apple’s iPod. If the thought of the Queen trolling through Apple’s online jukebox, iTunes looking for hits
is a little too much for the frontal lobes, the Sun assures its readers that, like most things, she probably has a footman to do it for her
A Georgia lawyer is taking a case to appeals court to prove that the mere act of viewing a web site does not constitute possession of the materials that were automatically cached on your hard drive
If you love chickens and post-it notes AND weird humour, then savage chickens is the comic strip for you!
I have been very quiet about the whole Apple switching to Intel processor thing. Partly because I’ve been too busy at work, and TAFE assessments, and partly because I don’t understand the intricacies of system architecture and computer bits and what have you. Again I defect to Ol’ Grubey for what seems to be pretty in-depth light on the subject. But faster laptops = good surely.
I would like the world to know that MS Word screws up images, and that whacking some jpgs of lets say, web site designs that you expect people to code as pixel exactly as possible sites off is really fucking bad. There’s really nothing wrong with sending through images in .jpg, or .gif or .png format without the MS Word fuck-tionality.
Denial of service attackes mounted through zombie
PCs are more likely to come from users of AOL than any other source
A Russian site, IframeDollars, is paying web developers 6 cents for each machine they infect with spyware or adware. One security expert estimates that iframeDollars could collect as much as $75,000 annually from the adware it placed on the infected machines during the third week of May, which cost approximately $12,000 in payments to place
Just had a Windows crash. Whether it was related plugging in a USB Flashcard reader or transferring stupidly large files across the hard drive is anyone’s guess. But there were several blue screens on restart, a refusal to go into safe mode and then a restart as if nothing had ever gone wrong.
The point of this is a reminder to myself of stupid things W2K does for the next time it spits the dummy.
NTFS does not like most video file formats. This meant I got around to converting the NTFS partitions over to FAT32. Still didn’t make the AVI files play.
As the AVI files were equally borked on both Winamp and WMP — I got audio, but no video — at least it narrowed down the weirdness. I reinstalled the ffdshow codec pack and have video again. It looks like W2K can sometimes eat or corrupt video codecs on crashing.
It might be time to upgrade to the horror of XP.
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, has disclosed in an interview that PlayStation 3 will natively run Linux. In fact, it will come bundled with it, if you purchase the HDD peripheral
iPods may soon shrink slightly in size, with news that Toshiba has managed to make 46mm drives a little smaller. The move reflects industry-watchers doubts that new generation music players can be marketed solely on higher-capacities — portability and weight are emerging as equal considerations for future generations of such devices
Scientists at Sandia National Labs have created a magnetic pulse gun (rail gun) that can accelerate small aluminum plates at 34 kilometres per second, faster than the Earth travels through space. The accelerated plates strike a target after traveling only five millimeters, or less than a quarter-inch. The impact generates a shock wave — in some cases, reaching 15 million times atmospheric pressure — that passes through the target material turning matter into various states almost instantly (solids into liquids, liquids into gas, and even gas into plasma)
CVS has began selling a disposable digital camcorder. The US$29.99 pocket-sized camcorder was developed by Pure Digital Technologies, a San Francisco-based start-up company. The camcorder weighs under 140 grams and holds 20 minutes of digital video and sound. It features a 35mm colour playback screen and an ability to delete video and it saves video on a memory chip instead of tapes. Within 18 hours of getting his hands on the camera, the king of the one-time digital camera hacks/analysis had slurped the flash memory and has the unencrypted, XVID codec, 320×240, 30fps movies stored in the camera on his computer
Taiwanese technology group BenQ has agreed to take over Siemens’ ailing mobile-phones unit, drawing a line under hundreds of millions of euros of losses for the German engineering giant
Australia’s domain name regulator has seized more than 1,000 domains from Ansearch, saying the search engine company’s intended use did not comply with its policies. However, in a twist, more than 100 of those names — which only came back onto the market last week — have already been scooped up by a Perth-based web hosting and online search company, Empius Interactive
According to its creator, Dr Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath, RepRap is a revolutionary machine that can copy itself and manufacture everyday objects quickly and cheaply could transform industry in the developing world. To encourage that development, Bowyer plans to make the design of the RepRap available online and free to use, in the same way as open source software such as the Linux operating system or Mozilla’s Firefox browser
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