NSW Fisheries is appealing for witnesses to the spearing of Sydney’s celebrity groper, Bluey, at Clovelly Bay last week. The metre-long fish was a star in snorkelling and diving circles and his death has left locals, including the Premier, shocked
As major record labels unveil a new breed of CDs designed to prevent Napster-style piracy, Dutch consumer electronics maker Philips, the co-creator of the CD, is refusing to play along
Nexia Biotechnologies, a Canadian company, has successfully mimicked nature and produced spider silk, a coveted substance five times stronger — weight for weight — than steel
A plaque intended to honour black actor James Earl Jones at a Florida celebration of the life of Martin Luther King instead paid tribute to James Earl Ray, the man who killed the black civil rights leader
The world is full of experts on serial murder. Just walk the true-crime aisle of your local book store. But don’t believe everything you read, and know that most of the common wisdom about serial murder is probably wrong
A new way of making silicon explode could mean anyone trying to use a stolen laptop or mobile will be confronted by this message: This machine is stolen and will self-destruct in ten seconds…
Online vandals are using a two-month-old security hole in Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system to break into servers on the internet
As Silicon Valley’s vultures and sentimentalists gather today to inspect the assets of Be Inc prior to its liquidation auction, Palm has told community site BeUnited that it won’t be licensing the BeOS operating system it acquired from Be to any third party
They eat hydrogen, breathe carbon dioxide, and belch methane. And they form the root of an ecosystem unlike any previously known on Earth. Meet the methanogen, a tiny organism living in complete darkness 200 metres underneath the surface of Idaho
The University of Queensland is to install a $4 million supercomputer as part of a project to develop a supercomputing consortium within the state
Microsoft opponents who signed up for information on the latest competitor to Windows, Lindows, now find that their names and addresses have been handed over to the software giant
Microsoft on Monday acknowledged that it shut down a Web site for an online Microsoft Developers Store last Thursday to look into a possible security vulnerability that could compromise customer information
One of the board members of the net co-ordinating body ICANN has called the organisation secretive and undemocratic. Karl Auerbach, ICANN regional representative for North America, made his comments while testifying before a Senate subcommittee investigating the organisation
Mysterious rafts made of giant bamboo have been washing up on Micronesian atolls, two of them with human skeletons on board
Irish counterfeiters have brought themselves undone by not being able to spell Euro
Hounded by pet lovers, South Korean dog meat proponents were forced to postpone a major event planned for this week to promote canine cuisine and fight off international critics
Optus has denied rampant rumours within the broadband community that it’s firing up an ADSL service that will rival Telstra’s oft-criticised broadband solution
The Korean government is to buy 120,000 copies of Hancom Linux Deluxe this year, enough to switch 23% of its installed base Microsoft user to open-source equivalents. By standardising on Linux and HancomOffice, the Korean government expects to make savings of 80%, compared with buying Microsoft products
New security problems highlight Microsoft’s ongoing battle to keep its software — and its ambitious .Net strategy — safe from malicious hackers. Critics say the company treats bugs as a PR problem
The CIA has recruited British defence and hi-tech companies in an attempt to acquire the latest technology for its spying missions and intelligence-gathering — Labour MPs protest that this would give the CIA the power to snoop on any house in Britain
RSS – Posts