According to Shane Hird, a research scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre at the University of Queensland, unwary Windows XP users can have entire directories emptied of files simply by clicking on a hyperlink
While Sony’s online gaming experiment is only a few weeks old, PlayStation 2 gamers are already finding it helps to have a tolerance for foul play
A robot will be sent to explore Cheops, Egypt’s largest pyramid, to investigate a mystery behind a stone door
A Digital television set that learns its owner’s tastes and a dancing baby-sized robot are among new gadgets being displayed by Sony at a futuristic exhibition in Japan
IBM has expanded a deal with software maker Red Hat to sell Linux software across the entire range of IBM’s computer servers
California Assembly candidate Dan Dow has an official Web site: Dandow.com. But he’s also registered the URLs JohnDutra.com, JohnDutra.net and JohnDutra.org. And incumbent Assemblyman John Dutra — Dan Dow’s opponent in the upcoming election for California’s 20th District — is none too pleased that his name is being used against him in the campaign
A newly publicised flaw in Mozilla-based Web browsers allows servers to discover where visitors go after they leave the site
M&M2000 has decided to power his AthlonXP via a Tesla Coil. Pretty pictures, shame about the troll
Washington, the first state to take a legal stand against sending misleading, unwanted e-mail, won its first case yesterday, against a prolific spammer who flooded the state’s computers with advertising several years ago
UFOEarthContact and, more importantly, my mate Paul Black have managed to get a write-up in the Sydney Morning Herald
Accredited Australian Internet registrar NetRegistry has announced plans to set up an industry-wide legal fund to combat allegedly unscrupulous operators
Sony Australia has revealed its blueprint for the far distant future of its highly successful PlayStation games console. Part of its plan revolves around the use of biotech games controllers
An innovative, pedal powered, wireless network provides Internet access to off-grid villages in Laos — via Slashdot
Tens of thousands of readers of e-mail newsletters have recently been spammed, and the newsletter publishers are blaming the company that manages and distributes the newsletters for them
Sony has pledged to appeal a Federal Court decision that gave a green light to mod-chipping PlayStation game consoles
AMD are about to reveal their smallest double-gate transistor to date. The gate of the transistor, across which electrical current flows to turn the switch on, measures 10 nanometers, or 10 billionths of a metre — via Slashdot
Netscape won’t dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling, Mozilla, is aiming at even bigger game: Windows
Industry figures have confirmed that Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies are rapidly overtaking cable as the Australian broadband connection of choice, but corporations are cautious about using broadband Internet services in essential areas of their business
Zeldman preaches the nightmare of backward compatibility: Though their owners and managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all web sites are obsolete. These sites may look and work all right in mainstream, desktop browsers whose names end in the numbers 4 or 5. But outside these fault-tolerant environments, the symptoms of disease and decay have already started to appear
Microsoft’s plans to crack down on hackers pirating its Windows XP operating system seem likely to come unstuck, with the internet’s underground already working out ways around its latest security measures
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