In a case of speedy justice a jury today ruled that Neil Gaiman was in the right on all 9 counts in the case he brought against Todd McFarlane. This case revolved around ownership stakes for Medieval Spawn, Angela, Cagliostro, and further contracts involving the rights to Miracle Man
Recent tweaks to Google’s PageRank search algorithm have degraded rather than improved the accuracy of the results
Congratulations to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, who was awarded the Ig Nobel Award for Interdisciplinary Research, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint — who gets it, when, what colour and how much
Nokia’s 8850 model mobile phone is coming under fire from consumers who claim the handset suffers from the same screen defects that plagued the 8210
SETI@home is planning to transfer it’s operations from Arecibo to another telescope in Australia, where they say lies an increased chance of finding extraterrestrials. The telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia is more powerful, with a wider view of the sky; scientists are betting that this new telescope will also help find signs of shriveling
black holes — via Slashdot
A US Senate hopeful in the state of Montana, Libertarian candidate Stan Jones, has a bad case of the blues after years of drinking a home-made silver solution for medical reasons
Australian computer users are coming under siege, with two separate worms infiltrating systems with damaging and costly effect
Australia has been earmarked for a campus of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
Australia will consider forcing television manufacturers to include digital tuners in new sets to encourage consumers to take up the new technology
Australian power company Origin Energy said it will buy the entire electricity output from Australia’s largest wind farm Challicum Hills
The Australian Government has refused to allow Electronic Frontiers Australia to find out which web sites have been banned under the federal web censorship laws introduced in 2000. Government spokespeople generally insist that they’re all hardcore pedophilia
etc, but the issue of which web sites are banned has become more interesting since the NSW Police Minister called for web sites run by WTO protestors to be shut down. So in order to ward off continuing inquiries from the likes of EFA, the Government is introducing changes to FOI laws
Red Hat, one of the biggest distributors of the Linux operating system, released a new version yesterday designed to attract more users of desktop personal computers, even as the company plays down attempts to compete with Microsoft
The US state of California yesterday targeted the information age scourge of spamming
with a US$2 million lawsuit
John Carmack and crew at Armadillo Aerospace have gotten their first man in the air. Six seconds of perfectly controlled flight with human passenger
On 9 October the US Supreme Court will hear the case of Eldred vs Ashcroft. It’s a challenge to the controversial 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which lengthened copyright terms by 20 years, stretching them to 70 years after an artist’s death
A malicious Windows XP help centre request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine. Worse, Microsoft has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public announcement
Optus has claimed that Telstra is using its market power to stop rivals in rural Australia offering fast-speed internet services
A survey of 28 leading scientists from around the world concluded that using biotechnology to produce simple nutritional and hygienic improvements and cheap vaccines would do more to improve global health than the development of high-tech treatments
We’ve all heard about spyware, well now KaZaA, Morpheus and LimeWire are sneaking a new type of nastiness onto your computer, software that — without you even knowing it — redirects commissions for online purchases you make from other vendors back to them
One of the world’s most unusual chemical compounds, zirconium, may prove a godsend for dentists, chefs and even Formula One drivers as it defies the normal laws of physics with a rare ability to shrink, not expand, when heated
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