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Skype Messages Monitored In China
Date : 2008 10 02
SlashdotPickens writes "Human-rights activists have discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives Internet tex read more »
Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken
Date : 2008 10 02 Slashdotsteveit_is writes "Yesterday it was reported that Microsoft's revised CAPTCHA had been cracked. Now it's Google's turn. In a move read more »
New Nintendo DSi Announced
Date : 2008 10 02 Slashdotjustme8800 writes "The DSi has a bigger screen, an SD card expansion, a 0.3 megapixel camera, is thinner (no GBA slot), and has im read more »
Cheaper Car Insurance For Gamers
Date : 2008 10 02 SlashdotI know your first reaction is that this story is gonna be an ad, but SpuriousLogic's story is actually about insurers considering read more »
Schneier On Scareware Vendor Lawsuits
Date : 2008 10 02 SlashdotBruce Schneier's blog says "This is good: Microsoft Corp. and the state of Washington this week filed lawsuits against a slew of ' read more »
Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros?
Date : 2008 10 02 SlashdotFanboi Killa writes "Apple is investigating damning claims, published in a leading French newspaper, that its computers emit a tox read more »
Google Lively To Be an Online Gaming Platform
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotGamesIndustry.biz recently interviewed Kevin Hanna, creative director for Google Lively, about the virtual environment's beginning read more »
Roku To Go Open Source
Date : 2008 09 30 Slashdotruphus13 writes "Time-shifting via Tivo changed the way we consume television programming. Now, Open Source enters the fray. Roku, read more »
RealNetworks, Film Industry Headed To Court
Date : 2008 09 30 Slashdotnetbuzz writes "Apparently tired of waiting to be sued by the movie studios over its new DVD-to-PC copying software, RealNetworks read more »
Managing Personal Electronics and Software In the Workplace
Date : 2008 09 30 Slashdotdarien writes "Last night Symantec hosted a round-table discussion on the topic of consumer devices in the workplace. John Brigden read more »
Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotLinzer writes "In this blog entry, Fred Crozat (head of Mandriva's engineering team in France) explains in great detail how his te read more »
Russian Police Know Who Wrote Gpcode Virus
Date : 2008 09 30 Slashdotrifles only writes "Russian police almost certainly know the identity of the programmer responsible for the frightening 'ransomwar read more »
MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotBarence writes "In what's turning out to be a bad week for security in the UK, confidential MI6 documents, fingerprints and photos read more »
WiMax Is Finally Coming — Here's How It Performs
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotGMGruman writes "Carriers have promised WiMax networks for years. But will they deliver the goods, or be slow like many early 3G n read more »
New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotSelikoff writes "I just noticed Cablevision's Optimum Online service has begun hijacking DNS Error pages with, you guessed it, ad- read more »
The 23 Toughest Math Questions
Date : 2008 09 30 Slashdotcoondoggie sends in a Network World post that begins "It sounds like a math phobic's worst nightmare or perhaps Good Will Hunting read more »
First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne"
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotWhite Yeti writes with news of the reentry breakup of the ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle. All went as planned, and the ESA blog read more »
Sending Excess Load To the Cloud?
Date : 2008 09 30 SlashdotTristanBrotherton writes "Cloud computing seems to be a good choice for startups like ours, looking to scale easily with users. (W read more »
Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf
Date : 2008 09 29 Slashdotrrohbeck writes "The Independent reports brand-new results of high concentrations of methane — 100x normal — above the read more »
CSRF Flaws Found On Major Websites, Including a Bank
Date : 2008 09 29 SlashdotAn anonymous reader sends a link to DarkReading on the recent announcement by Princeton researchers of four major Web sites on whi read more »
Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct
Date : 2008 09 29 SlashdotKentuckyFC writes "Just when you thought it was safe to switch on the LHC (though it won't be for a while yet), another nightmare read more »