Arch rivals AOL and Microsoft say illicit e-mail has so overwhelmed their efforts to stop it that they are joining forces to press for tough federal legislation to stymie the spammers
Experts have poured cold water on claims sweeping the Internet that Swiss researchers have cracked the ubiquitous SSL protocol
Unlike Hollywood’s Hannibal Lecter or the real-life Ted Bundy, not all serial killers present an easy-to-spot profile ripe with rituals, methods and arcane messages. Many remain unnoticed for years because their crimes show little or no common link
Intel is setting ambitious targets for the battery life of a laptop and hopes people will be able to use the newest machines for up to eight hours before they need to be recharged
Now teachers may want to rewrite the lesson about oil and water not mixing. If you first remove any gas that is dissolved in the water, it will mix spontaneously and even stay that way indefinitely, according to chemist Ric Pashley of the Australian National University in Canberra
A new algorithm that spots jumps in a word’s rate of usage could indicate fast-emerging trends in weblogs or customer complaints
Australian entrepreneur, Bernard Palmer, has created what may be the first antispam service that lets its users charge for the privilege of sending them email
A malicious attacker broke into computer systems and gained access to several million Visa and MasterCard accounts in the US in one of the largest security breaches to affect the two credit card companies
Major record companies have instigated a legal battle with Australian universities over students’ alleged use of university networks to engage in illegal file swapping. But while the major music companies may fret over falling revenue, one label saw its business jump 33 percent last year — thanks in part to the recordable compact discs that the industry says are hurting its sales. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is using CD-Rs, to ensure that each release in its extensive catalogue is always available
How to regulate wolves and wolf-dog hybrids is the subject of debate in cities in Washington and among lawmakers in Olympia
China has sentenced Tao Haidong, an Internet activist, to seven years in prison for publishing articles critical of the Chinese government
An online civil liberties organisation has raised serious concerns about the implementation of an email monitoring policy for NSW education institutions, while a teachers’ body has issued a guarded response
IBM and Ipex are likely to escape penalties over their failure to meet industry development requirements under their federal government outsourcing contracts, after the Government suggested it would water down the provisions. While Senator Richard Alston’s equally weak reaction to the tight and unpopular download caps imposed by broadband ISPs is that they were almost inevitable
Consumers will pay more under the major banks’ plan to more than double charges on using Eftpos terminals in shops. The Australian Retailers Association believes the banks plan to increase the charge on merchants for providing the Eftpos service from 17 cents a transaction to 37 cents
The NSW government is moving to clamp down on crime rings’ stealing and trafficking in credit card data following recent thefts involving information from users of ATMs
The beggars are making their pleas for help via the Web. Some are struggling single mums or recent university graduates loaded down with student loans and maxed-out credit cards. Others are childless couples seeking treatment for infertility. One even makes a pitch for a cat named Buster
Airline pilots are taking naps
for up to two hours during flights and ordering cabin crew not to disturb them
People who believe they have been taken
by aliens show real stress symptoms like those of traumatised war veterans
Two experts in a new technology which maps telephone numbers to the Internet are scheduled to address an Australian workshop as the United States government throws its considerable weight behind moves for its implementation
The last secret of one of the greatest historical hoaxes in the history of the West has finally been revealed — it was a joke pulled on an eminent UC Berkeley professor by members of E Clampus Vitus, which describes itself as either a historical drinking society or a drinking historical society. It involves the mysterious Plate of Brasse
supposedly left by Sir Francis Drake in Marin County 424 years ago when he claimed what he called New Albion for England
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