Filtering firm SurfControl has compiled a list of the top 10 most annoying spam messages sent across the net in the last 12 months — via BBC News
Technology groups are going on the offensive against Hollywood in a bitter dispute over a call for government-mandated copy protection
David Berlind has written about organising an industry-wide anti-spam consortium, and now it looks like this initiative to jam spam is coming to life. Together, we can fashion a royalty-free, interoperable anti-spam protocol
Take a desktop printer, wash out its ink cartridge, refill it with a suspension of cells, and what do you get? The answer, according to Vladimir Mironov and Thomas Boland, is a breakthrough in tissue engineering. They have successfully produced three-dimensional tubes of living tissue using just such a technique. Their work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire replacement organs
Internet address seller Network Solutions said it will apologise to tens of thousands of customers whose e-mail addresses the company inadvertently released
Anti-abortion groups continue to wage a battle against RU-486, the abortion pill. And, according to a new University of Oregon study, their tactics appear to be working
WhiteHat Security claims it has found a way to exploit a flaw in the way all web servers communicate
Complaints about identity theft nearly doubled in America during 2002, as what is that country’s fastest growing crime topped its government’s list of consumer frauds for a third consecutive year
A 60-year-old motorist in Britain, Barbara Byrne, has been banned from driving for a year after she was convicted for driving with one dog on her lap, four on the front passenger seat and 22 in the back
The leaders of France and Germany used a historic meeting of their two governments yesterday to state their united opposition to early military action against Iraq. While in Sydney, more than 150 anti-war protesters today converged on Garden Island to voice opposition to the forward deployment of troops to the possible war on Iraq
Andersen is offering windows that double as entertainment centres, being used as projection screens for home entertainment systems and DVD players — via Slashdot
Sharp will soon launch a Linux-based home audio-visual server in Japan that uses a broadband connection to reach beyond the boundaries of the home and allow users access to their stored video and image files from computers connected to the Internet
Federal Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston said Australia is getting screwed
by internet carriers’ peering arrangements and that he would be directing competition and consumer watchdog the ACCC to do something about it
In the 13th century, the Venetians built a warship a day to battle Turkey at sea. Today, the Pentagon can barely crank out a new fighter plane in 10 years. Experts blame red tape — and corruption — in the military industrial complex
Geneticist Giorgio Casari and neuroscientist Roberto Marconi of Milan’s San Raffaele Institute have discovered a gene linked to severe migraines, a finding they say could pave the way to banishing not only migraines but everyday headaches as well
The Australian Labor Party has offered a prize of a case of Coca-Cola and $100 worth of Linux merchandise to anybody who can find a valid e-mail address for John Howard
A man who erased his drunk-driving record from a police computer and replaced it with a winking smiley face
graphic ended up with a suspended license and a fine when police failed to see the funny side
Legato Systems said a survey of Australian companies had shown that many of them could be breaching archives and corporation law by deleting business-related e-mail
EuroSETI is set to reveal scientifically sound and verifiable evidence based on observations taken by the SOHO satellite and other satellites that indicate UFOs are present within our solar system — via Slashdot
Thousands of plastics industry workers marched in Taipei on the weekend, calling for the island’s environmental chief to step down in a protest against new curbs on plastic bags and tableware
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