People can strengthen their muscles by imagining that they are exercising them, according to study findings presented Sunday at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting in San Diego, California
Oracle‘s top executive told computer hackers on Monday night that his software is so secure they would never be able to break into Oracle’s Web site, a boast that may be taken by many as a challenge
The annual meeting of ICANN began this week with a warning from a US congress member that unless domain registrars can verify their customers, Congress may step in and force them to do it
Sylvester Stallone may bring, Rambo, his one-man army out of retirement and send him back into Afghanistan 13 years after his last mission
Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto — and, in a nightmarish ritual of death, skinned him, cut off his head and cooked parts of his body — received no mercy for her horrifying crime. The 46-year-old former abattoir worker now has the dubious distinction of becoming the first woman in Australia to be jailed for the term of her natural life
A homeless boy who shocked Chile in June when he was found living with a pack of dogs has run away from a children’s home where he was being looked after
The modern technology of e-mail and laser printing speeded up the publication of complete volumes of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the archaeological finds of the 20th century
A report, produced by Brazil’s National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals, estimated that local traffickers of endangered animals earn about $1 billion a year, causing untold losses to the country’s natural habitat
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison is gunning for Microsoft once again, this time with a new strategy aimed at the giant’s commanding lead in e-mail software
Be Inc shareholders have formally approved the transfer of key assets to Palm Inc. The deal was voted through yesterday and, realistically, only a board coup stands in the way of the transfer taking place. But over at BeUnited, campaigners are hopeful that they can catch the great BeOS operating system should it be dropped in the resulting shake-out. BeOS has been neglected for eighteen months and is unwanted by Palm — which have paid for the engineers, not a desktop OS
It would not take much for a malicious hacker to shut down the Internet, researchers at a meeting of the body that oversees Web address allocation warned on Tuesday. An attack designed to flood the Web’s master directory servers with traffic is capable of bringing down the Internet
, Paul Vixie, a speaker at the ICANN annual meeting
Ofoto, an online photography service, will release new software that aims to streamline the process of ordering digital photographs. The software will auto detect
prints from a digital camera and allow users to order prints before uploading the images
Linux is the long-term threat against our core business. Never forget that!
Microsoft Windows Division Veep Brian Valentine exclaims in a confidential memo to his Sales Brownshirts obtained by The Register
Telstra‘s ADSL service in Queensland is flaking out on users who are enduring connection problems and timeout errors when logging on
Forrester analyst John McCarthy, currently visiting Australia, exposes the flaws in ten common myths about the Internet, including suggestions that the dot-com era is all washed-up
Nokia is allegedly aware that it has been selling mobile phones with inherent design faults, according to a former employee of the company. The allegation has been supported by an independent mobile phone repair service, Melbourne-based Phone Medic
Microsoft Security Manager Scott Culp revealed unilateral steps the company has taken to throttle the exchange of vulnerability information relevant to their famously buggy products, clearly in hopes that patches and fixes can be fed to consumers discreetly, without ever realising they’ve been at risk to attack
Warner Bros, the makers of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, were accused by one of the film’s stars, Zoe Wanamaker, of penny-pinching with the mostly British cast
Pirates have hijacked Harry Potter just hours before his big-screen debut and turned him into a counterfeit DVD
Despite dramatically tighter security at US buildings since the terrorist attacks, a House panel is giving the US Government failing marks for lax protection of federal computer networks
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