Hate-filled emails targeting African-Americans, Arabs and Muslims flooded the inboxes of undergraduate students during a recent hacking spree at NYU’s Stern School of Business
Foxtel subscribers will be able to access 53 new channels and the ability to pause live television under a package providing new set-top boxes from early next year
Two serious flaws in AOL’s ICQ software could allow an online attacker to take control of a person’s PC
A rocket-powered sled shot down a 3-mile straightaway at Holloman AFB in about six seconds to break a world record that had stood for two decades
Bruce Simpson has launched a project to build a US$5000 DIY cruise missile
David Strom went in search of the oldest running commercial software application with interesting results
A new IE exploit was found that crashes almost any version of Internet Explorer past 4.0 with just five lines of plain HTML code — via Slashdot
With Pattern Recognition now out, William Gibson talks about blogging, which ones he’s looking at and why he may have to quit blogging himself — via Slashdot
After years of ridicule and ruin, internet stocks are recapturing their charm and seducing investors again
Researchers at IBM and the University of Toronto are squeezing light out of molecules. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre optic technology
Run your e-mail address through the Hiveware Enkoder before you post it on your site, and the e-mail harvesting robots will pass right on over it
AOL incompetence has resulted in the death of a litter of puppies
HP will outsource jobs from its frontline support operations in Sydney, Melbourne and throughout the Asia Pacific to India. And Qantas‘ Sydney data centre may soon follow suit
HP has built-in time limits for its inkjet printer cartridges which means machines may stop working even if the consumable has 75% ink let to go
Radical British anti-capitalist activists had a hit-list of more than 50 companies of mass destruction
— mainly oil companies, arms manufacturers, banks and multinationals — in their sights yesterday for May Day protests in London and elsewhere. Entirely coincidentally, the webcams that are down for maintenance are lined along the major routes for today’s annual May Day demofest
Verbatim has just extended its Digital Vinyl series — CDs overprinted with a grooved vinyl record texture, complete with centre label — by boosting the capacity to 80 minutes (700MB), shipping them in a 50-disc spindle pack and offering a label area that can be directly printed on using an inkjet CD printer — via The Register
Details of hundreds of thousands of Nazi-era life insurance policies were published on the internet yesterday as part of attempts to call to account companies which did not pay out in the chaotic aftermath of the Second World War
In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial email, Virginia enacted a law imposing harsh new felony penalties, including prison time
British authorities arrested a man Tuesday believed to head a group of hackers known as Fluffi Bunni
, which used a stuffed pink rabbit to mark attacks that humiliated some of the world’s premier computer security organisations
In a huge setback to the big record and movie companies, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled in favour of two file-swapping services; Grokster and StreamCast Networks
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