Ever since their computerised ID system switched on a few days ago, Japanese citizens have dropped out in droves from what many resent as a big brother
monitoring of the people
Human Rights Watch have announced that Yahoo is complicit
in rights abuses by the Chinese government after agreeing to a Beijing-backed self-censorship pledge for web pages
Cybercrime investigators for NASA are trying to figure out how 43MB of sensitive design data about planned space vehicles got into the hands of a hacker — and then into the hands of a reporter
Despite continual problems with its BigPond service, Telstra continues to play down the extent of disruptions experienced by its internet customers
On Wednesday, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system. The TIA program, with its ability to provide persistent storage of everything from credit card, to employment, to medical, to ISP records, is a recipe for civil liberties disaster unless there are provisions for citizens to find out who is looking at their records and to see and correct those records
Microsoft’s new Software Choice
campaign is all for your right to choose… as long as you choose Microsoft. It’s too bad that Intel and the US Government couldn’t see through the rhetoric
BBC has investigated allegations that Downing Street illegally hacked into its computer system in order to influence critical news items before they were broadcast
US lawmakers have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to go after Internet users who download unauthorised songs and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans
It hovers! It spins! It spies! The Draganflyer III gyro-stabilised helicopter with optional Eyecam video system is the highest tech flying toy in the world
Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbours from trampling your backyard, but just couldn’t find the system to really deter them? Why not build a bi-polar Tesla Coil system — via Slashdot
Mac users are having trouble applying for an Australian Business Number online, forcing them to use snail-mail to register their business
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have put the theoretical to the test by using single silicon atoms to represent the 1s and 0s of computing. This is equivalent to storing the contents of 7,800 DVDs in one square inch of material
Hewlett-Packard is using the spraying technology developed for inkjet printers to cool chips. They have made a robot that’ll wander around data centres, detecting hot chips and hosing them down — via Slashdot
Cell, a radical new processor designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba and dubbed a supercomputer on a chip
, could enter production in 2004. The chip could end up inside the PlayStation 3, and elements of its design will be seen in future server chips from IBM
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the marketing practices of VeriSign. In recent months, the company has been hit with a spate of lawsuits accusing it of deceptive marketing practices related to its efforts to persuade rivals’ customers to shift suppliers of domain names
Japanese electronics giant Sharp will start making solar batteries in the United States from next April to help expand the small but growing part of its business
Jakob Nielson is proposing that tactile, physical interfaces will be the next evolution in how we interact with machines
American movie, recording and software executives could be arrested if they travel to Australia, could be prohibited from entering Australia, or could be extradited to face criminal charges if Californian Democrat congressman Howard Berman’s copyright protection bill, which allows cracking of computers, passes into law
Real estate agents say location is everything, but these tenants don’t care about the neighbourhood — the worse, the better. Carnegie Mellon University is looking for property — two or more sites of 300 acres apiece — on which to test robots developed by its National Robotics Engineering Consortium. And when it comes to running robots through their paces, a house in the suburbs just won’t do
A bug in widely-used communications software could let attackers gain control of computers and authentication systems. Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems
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