The Pentagon plans to use genetically modified bugs that eat
the enemy’s fuel and ammunition supplies without harming humans. Should be loads of fun when that escapes into the surrounding environment
Users of the TiVo digital video recorder have reacted angrily to a new sponsorship feature that automatically records certain programmes, adverts and other promotional material
A British man has been threatened by a gang of spammers after reporting its activity to his ISP
Former Labor MP Andrew Theophanous was a self-styled champion of multiculturalism and immigration. This week, the one-time ALP high-flyer was found guilty of taking bribes, the first federal MP ever to be convicted of corruption
The US spacecraft Mars Odyssey has reportedly discovered vast quantities of frozen water just below the planet’s surface — a finding being hailed as one of the most important ever made about the red planet
National Party Senate leader Ron Boswell has said, a legislated right of country people to the latest technology must be a part of any further sale of Telstra
Japanese computer giant NEC will close its plants in Britain and Malaysia as part of a plan to move production to China
Telstra expects to have to pay up on its decision to offer rebates to ADSL customers for loss of service
Mummified, rotting moths are being used as a slow-release pesticide. Roundworms grown inside the moths’ bodies contain a bacteria which emerge to kill other soil bugs. If the moths are coated in clay and starch they can be easily scattered among crops
John Zuccarini, a scam artist, who trapped surfers mistyping their URLs, including those for children’s web sites, and barraged them with popup ads for porn and gambling has been fined almost US$2 million. The FTC has a sense of humour: the case name is Cupcake Party
Internet addresses packing the famous labels of Ralph Lauren and Polo fashions and an alleged cybersquatter who didn’t even bother to respond to the accusation would normally add up to a slam-dunk decision for a trademark holder under a fast-track system to resolve disputes over domain names
Touted as the first Internet-enabled, completely autonomous consumer robot, it is the first product from Evolution Robotics of Pasadena, California. With the company’s US$499 build-it-yourself kit, you essentially construct a mobile robot around your own notebook PC. Included software permits novice robotics hobbyists to program complex behaviours with relative ease
Scientists at the University of Florida say a new form of solid nitrogen salt could power smaller and lighter spacecraft
Lord Bingham, the senior UK law lord, called for abolition of the laws against cannabis
Echelon has been surrounded by controversy since rumours of it first popped up on the net. The US Government has never admitted to it, although various other governments have. Now Bruce McIndoe, a lead architect for Echelon and its big brother
, Echelon II, has been discovered and interviewed
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems
Microsoft has warned Windows NT and 2000 users of a new flaw in its debugger tools that could let attackers give themselves complete control of a system once they’ve gained basic access to that system
Netscape 7.0 is the latest browser version developed around a technology called Gecko, which was created by an open-source browser movement known as Mozilla and funded by AOL
Microsoft is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant
An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc’s contents across more than 12,272 km of network in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in transferring 625 megabytes of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the Netherlands is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem
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