Hacker group 2600 Australia today warned soft drink maker Coca-Cola Amatil to increase the security of online competitions after today publishing part of the process it says the company uses to verify competition entries
Villains have all the fun. Even when it comes to kid’s stuff. As Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab pointed out, the movie Toy Story says a lot about what our culture lauds and what it disapproves of in children. The story’s hero, Andy, has a bedroom full of well-kept toys — frequently played with but never adapted or modified. The arch-nemesis Sid, on the other hand, turns everything he can into ghastly hybrids like a spider with a baby doll’s head and Erector Set legs
Apple Computer, which gained fame with its iconoclastic marketing, has told the Church of Satan it does not want to be associated with it
Despite two major outages, Telstra says BigPond customers will not be compensated for service disruptions which have left them high and dry for close to 24 hours
A travelling digital film festival run by a punk rocker continues to tour America, harkening to a time when freaks ruled the Internet and major media corporations refused to contemplate a future online
Philips and E-Ink have demonstrated the first high-resolution electronic ink displays for use in handheld devices. They aim to have them on the market within two years
A new invention could help the blind to see
again — with their tongues
Microsoft bashers were out in full force last week, chastising the company for a new technology in the forthcoming version of its Windows operating system they say infringes on free speech, intellectual property and the copyrights of Web content creators
Dr Who, the hero of the world’s longest-running science fiction series has visited many worlds, but next month he will visit the unexplored terrain of cyberspace with the BBC’s first ever Internet-only broadcast
A tongue-in-cheek warning says AOL’s removal will free up disk space and save money
A virtual bomb was lobbed on the sleepy town of Texas on the NSW and Queensland border. It sat undiscovered until Mr John Beale, owner of the Lilyvale Estate winery, logged on to update his Web site on Friday
Intel Corporation researchers have demonstrated that there are no fundamental barriers to extending Moore’s Law for another decade by building the world’s fastest silicon transistors. These transistors — featuring structures just 20 nanometers in size — will allow Intel to build microprocessors containing a billion transistors, running at speeds approaching 20 gigahertz and operating at less than one volt in approximately 2007
A useful game for long car trips is If Only He Had Lived to See
. If only Gregor Mendel had lived to see the first cloned pig. If only Icarus had hung on long enough to fly the Concorde. If only Zapruder had used a better-resolution camera, with more frames per second, on the grassy knoll. And if only Alfred Hitchcock had a mobile phone
Now they’ve come up with computer memories in which information is recorded, read and erased by molecular switches. That means super-tiny machines with powerful capabilities
By studying genetic data and fossil records of a common California snail, biologists from Louisiana State University and the University of California, San Diego have found that a change in a species’ territory can bring on rapid morphological, or structural, evolutionary changes — evolution is faster than you think
A program created to automatically overload Microsoft’s Web and e-mail servers has been discovered on several corporate networks and may have spread further on the Internet, antivirus researchers said Friday. First reported this week, the worm — dubbed DoS.Storm — spreads on Web servers running Microsoft software and is designed to use the infected servers to level an Internet attack against the company
Vying for prime position in outer space, Australian scientists hope to secure one of the largest radio telescope projects to observe the universe. As part of a consortium of countries, which include the United States, Europe and China, Australia is grappling for the opportunity to be the host of the AU$1 billion Square Kilometre Array telescope project
Remote-controlled car locks replace not only the traditional key but also the coat hanger and the rock through the window
In spite of stereotypes, women who consider themselves hackers have been part of the computer world for decades
A consortium led by the CSIRO is designing a super-speed Internet for Australia to service high-end users in medicine and the film industry. It has received AU$14 million from the Australian Government to establish a Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy
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