Researchers from Stanford University have claimed to have extracted a private key from a SSL based Web-server by using timing based attack techniques
Increasing numbers of small to medium ISPs are challenging the widespread Australian regime of limited data downloads with new and innovative approaches to pricing
Estari is making dual head laptops. Orient it like a book, you have two portrait-oriented touch sensitive monitors. Orient it like a laptop and one of the monitors becomes a soft keyboard. Not they don’t come cheap, with a starting price of US$4,000 — via Slashdot
An American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, has been run over and killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza
Build your own 1:5 scale Sherman tank, it comes complete with working suspension, meticulously built wooden tank treads and X-Arcade controls — via Slashdot
Toshiba has come up with a cartridge full of methanol which could be used as an alternative to battery power
The FBI says it may look into the case of forged documents the Bush administration recently presented as evidence of Iraq’s nuclear ambitions
Despite daily reports about the showdown
with Iraq, Americans hear very little from mainstream media about the most basic fact of war: People will be killed and civilian infrastructure will be destroyed, with devastating consequences for public health long after the fighting stops
US Government agencies opened a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters last September and seized a copy of an eight-year-old unclassified FBI lab report without obtaining a warrant or notifying the news agency
It is the oldest department of forensic science in the world and the seat of learning that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. For the past 200 years, generations of pathologists at Edinburgh University‘s faculty of medicine have assisted the police in some of the most gruesome criminal cases in Scottish history, including the Lockerbie disaster and the World’s End murders. Yesterday, that long and productive association came to an ignominious end after it emerged the university had refused to bid for the Crown Office contract to provide their forensic experts to the police
A Texas start-up has developed a system for immediately backing up and restoring email and other communication services in case of an outage — any outage. Just as important: MessageOne‘s service costs 90% to 95% less than conventional backup systems
Mozilla 1.3 is out and about. New to this version are features like image auto sizing, bayesian junk-mail filtering, dynamic profile switching, about:config for a pretty view into all of Mozilla’s secret
settings, an initial version of Midas for rich text editing, and a lot of other fixes for performance, standards compliance and site compatibility — via Slashdot
The world’s first brain prosthesis is about to be tested in California. The brain region to be replaced is the hippocampus, which encodes
experiences for storage as memories. Unlike devices like cochlear implants, which merely stimulate brain activity, the new silicon chip implant will take over the tasks of the damaged part of the brain
The recording industry condemns the launch of two systems that will allow people to copy up to 100 hours of music onto a single disk
European Commission experts have concluded that Microsoft violated EU antitrust rules, and the experts have proposed two major requirements: making Microsoft share more proprietary information with its rivals and uncoupling its Media Player audio-visual software from the Windows operating system
The cost of oil dependence has never been so clear. What had long been largely an environmental issue has suddenly become a deadly serious strategic concern. Oil is an indulgence we can no longer afford, not just because it will run out or turn the planet into a sauna, but because it inexorably leads to global conflict. Enough. What we need is a massive, Apollo-scale effort to unlock the potential of hydrogen, a virtually unlimited source of power
The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, one of the Scientology cult’s more obnoxious front organisations that is basically a hate group targeting mental health professions, engages in domain hijacking. They grabbed wfmh.net in an attempt to poach surfers looking for the World Federation for Mental Health
Telstra broadband cable users will receive a 25 percent rebate for February due to downtime, the second rebate to be paid to customers in as many months
An employee at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters has been arrested following revelations in The Observer last weekend about an American dirty tricks
surveillance operation to win votes at the United Nations in favour of a tough new resolution on Iraq
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