A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the browser to crash when it views pages containing malicious HTML code
The National Office for the Information Economy has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, with spammers possibly facing prison sentences, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits
AOL has launched an intensified legal assault on junk e-mail by filing five lawsuits against more than a dozen individuals and companies accused of being major purveyors of spam
Legislation aimed at blocking freedom of information applications on the government’s internet censorship regime appears to be heading for defeat in the Senate, as the Democrats are unlikely to support it
Telstra will not support laws banning the use of hands-free and handheld mobiles in vehicles, ignoring concerns by safety advocates who point to research that both are unsafe for driving
Sony will put an upgraded version of its PlayStation 2 video game, featuring improved DVD playback and a better remote control, on sale in Japan in mid May
The US says it will recover and repair priceless antiquities looted from Baghdad’s national museum. Which is laughable when they just sit back and watch as library books, letters and priceless documents are torched. It should prove interesting watching them try to pry artefacts out of the claws of wealthy American collectors
Welcome aboard the Iraqi gravy train. There will be no role for the UN in setting up an interim government in Iraq. The US-run regime will last at least six months, probably longer. And by the time the Iraqi people have a say in choosing a government, the key economic decisions about their country’s future will have been made by their occupiers
Telstra claims it is disabling an increasing number of BigPond Internet accounts involved in spamming as the nation’s largest ISP adopts a ‘get-tough’ policy on the annoying and expensive practice
The Department of Energy has chosen to completely disregard the key finding of the National Academy of Sciences that polygraph screening is completely invalid
In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, we set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. The results offer Internet users insights about what online behaviour results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam — via Slashdot
Starship Dimensions places images of various starships from science fiction settings such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, ID4, Macross/Robotech, Lexx, Freespace and Battlestar Galactica side-by-side, in scale. The author has also conveniently included football fields, humans, King Kong, and buildings for comparison. You can even drag them around the page and stage your own interstellar battle royale — via Slashdot
In Canada, when engineers finish their undergraduate degree, they attend a ceremony referred to as Kipling. Alongside the formal ceremony are the kipling pranks. This year, the Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering — via Slashdot
Sony has taken an extraordinary step to cash in on the war in Iraq by patenting the term Shock and Awe
for a computer game. It is among a swarm of companies scrambling to commercially exploit the war in Iraq, which has killed more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in the space of three weeks
The family of a British peace protester, shot by an Israeli sniper as he shielded three young children, claimed yesterday that he appeared to have been deliberately targeted for assassination
Another spam e-mail fraudulently claiming to represent an Australian bank is doing the rounds, this time claiming to be from ANZ
WorldCom is planning to announce that it will abandon its scandal-tainted corporate moniker and take on the name of its better-known long-distance subsidiary, MCI, according to sources familiar with the company’s intentions. And for much the same reasons the dodgy Advantage Group has rebadged itself as Provenco, no doubt hoping that customers have the attention span of a goldfish
An extreme case mod of a Nissan Sentra, where a car is turned into a go-kart — via Slashdot
The House approved nearly $19 billion in tax breaks Friday for energy companies and power producers and set up a showdown with the Senate over energy policy, particularly oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge
Children using Google’s SafeSearch feature, designed to filter out links to Web sites with adult content, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended
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