The Federal Government will create new offences for those who use the Internet to incite or promote suicide
Did you know that Taco Bell bought the Liberty Bell? Or that Spaghetti grows on trees? The Museum of Hoaxes compiles 100 of the best April Fool’s Day hoaxes perpetrated through the ages
After years of providing the Netscape-branded browser with its Unix operating system, Hewlett-Packard is sidestepping that product for its open-source original, Mozilla
The phrase self-healing server
has an almost spiritual ring to it. Few IT marketing promises sound as appealing as this one, and IBM is spending a lot of money to make sure it sticks in the head of IT administrators
A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean
Federal investigators have arrested Andrew Carlssin, an enigmatic Wall Street wiz, on insider-trading charges. Carlssin claims his uncanny success in the stock market is due to his being a time traveller from the year 2256
The Australian Defence Force’s $1.23 billion Jindalee over-the-horizon radar network has made its official debut after 40 years of development
The notion that as a Marine he would be expected to kill people somehow escaped Stephen Funk when he enlisted. Yesterday, 47 days after he refused to report for active duty in Iraq, Funk declared himself a conscientious objector
NXT has developed an LCD screen that can produce sound as well. They claim that the sound quality is quite good, and compare it to average multimedia computer speakers
American troops shot and killed seven Iraqi women and children yesterday when the van in which they were travelling failed to obey orders to halt at a checkpoint near the city of Najaf in southern Iraq
Sources close to Microsoft’s legal department claim that the company has purchased the rights to an obscure patent that effectively gives it control of the entire open-source movement
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70% of the world’s e-mail messages
Two incidents of friendly fire in the ongoing war against Iraq have raised concerns about potentially serious glitches in the targeting software of the US Patriot missile
Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton believes spammers may breach Australia’s National Privacy Principles and hopes to join the fight against spam by launching a test case
The quest for perpetual motion has been going on since at least the 11th century according to the Museum of Unworkable Devices, and scientists have been getting it wrong ever since. Take a gander at some of the most valiant efforts (and ultimately the biggest failures) in trying to beat the laws of physics through the last 1000 years, along with other impossible inventions and devices — via Slashdot
A leading diabetes researcher, Baker Institute’s Danielle Alberti Memorial Centre director, Mark Cooper, will today outline a possible new treatment which could save the lives of juvenile diabetes sufferers
Clay Shirky has a good essay on wireless networking, contrasting two approaches to building out a network, roughly akin to the cathedral and bazaar methods of building software — via Slashdot
The Maryland General Assembly has voted to reduce penalties for cancer patients and others who smoke marijuana to relieve suffering
A California anti-spam bill passed the Senate on Wednesday, a first step toward the passage of a law that would give people the right to sue spammers
Instead of the traditional soldering iron, Kenneth Maxon has successfully used a toaster oven to solder surface mount parts
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