Two of the four winners of the Right Livelihood Award, dubbed the alternative Nobel, accused the United States of adopting policies which threaten the world
Authorities in the city of Lucknow have decided to serve the 35 or so primates at the local zoo a daily dose of brandy to ensure they stay warm and happy
At BBC children’s TV Newsround Bill Gates got some hard-hitting questions that left him inarticulate, the reporter was Sarah, 15, from Lincolnshire
Two separate denial of service attacks hit Telstra’s data network at the weekend
European telecommunication ministers have agreed that unsolicited e-mail and wireless text messages should be prohibited under a new data protection law
The German Federal Government and the State governments have agreed to new measures for protecting youth from pornography on the Internet: all such content is banned from 11.00pm until 6.00am
Advanced Micro Devices has developed a transistor with a gate length of 15 manometres that can switch more than 3 trillion times per second
A dog may be many men’s best friend, but not Nandor C Santho. At least not after Santho’s dog helped turn him in to police in what may be the biggest drug bust in Delaware County history
KPMG are sending out please explain
or cease and desist
requests to people found linking to their sites
Internet backbone provider MCI WorldCom has acknowledged that network-intrusion specialist Adrian Lamo used a security hole in a company Web server to grant himself access to its administrative network. The quizzical hacker poked around WorldCom’s system four times over the past two months, ending last Friday when he told the company of the hole and helped it secure a misconfigured server
Sean Thomas has won the most dreaded of British literary prizes — the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, with the award winning passage: It is time, time… Now. Yes. She is so small and compact and yet she has all the necessary features… Shall I compare thee to a Sony Walkman. She is his own Toshiba, his dinky little JVC, his sweet Aiwa… Aiwa, aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
A flexible computer screen or TV that you can watch on the train or bus then roll up and put in your pocket is a step closer to reality
The Computer Emergency Response Team‘s Co-ordination Centre, an important national clearinghouse for computer-security information, came under attack Wednesday, leaving its main Web site only intermittently reachable
British supermarket chain Asda said it would be using chicken waste and used cooking oil to power its delivery trucks
Tasmanian state-owned electricity generator Hydro Tasmania said yesterday it was considering investing in mainland Australia wind projects
It is being hailed as one of the most significant advances in nerve regeneration in a decade. After severing an optic nerve in rats, neurologists have found a way to reconnect it to the brain so that it once again transmits normal electrical signals
The birth records of more than 24 million Californians have been sold by the state and posted on the Internet, offering easy access to critical information needed to create fake identities
Alfred Taubman, the 76-year-old American shopping mall developer and former chairman of auction house Sotheby’s, brokered a deal with his counterpart Anthony Tennant at the auction house Christie’s to fix commission on the sales of artworks. He has been found guilty in New York of conspiring to fix art prices
The largest prime number yet discovered is revealed to the world — all four million digits
AOL has joined the growing force developing an open-source alternative to Microsoft’s .Net network. And in other related news, the Seven Network is reportedly in advanced talks with AOL Time Warner for a merger of their Australian online businesses
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