The man behind BitTorrent. Also: How new words become part of a language. [CNET News.com]

 

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What happens when you put too many artificially-stupid IRC bots in one channel. [Hack the Planet]

 

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Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems. Yes it's garbage, but it's delivered so much faster! [The Register]

 

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A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code. Why use Google Maps for just directions when you can use it to pinpoint kosher restaurants in Cincinnati, traffic cameras in Dublin, or find coffee shops in Seattle that provide free wireless access? By DAMON DARLIN. [NYT > Technology]

 

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More transportation stuff at autopia...  Mercedes to Unveil Concept Hybrid. German luxury car giant will unveil the F 600 Hygenius concept car at the Tokyo Auto Show this weekend. The company says the fuel cell car's ability to travel 250 miles on a tank of hydrogen is an industry first. From the Wired News blog Autopia. [Wired News]

 

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How many of you work through 'Traffic Impact Studies' in your planning and design process?   The World's Smallest Car. starexplorer writes "Start your Nano-engines? LiveScience.com is reporting that researchers at Rice University have designed the world's smallest car that is no more than 4 nanometers across. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs. Why do it? The team wants to build a fleet of nanotrucks to carry atoms and molecules around minature factories." So it's not exactly self-powered, but it rolls. It's a start! [Slashdot]

 

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Where is browser technology headed?  Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches. daria42 writes "The much-hyped Flock, a new browser based on Mozilla Firefox and integrating features like RSS feeds, blogging tools, the del.icio.us social bookmarking and Flickr photo sharing services has just launched a public developer preview to the world. Flock is being driven by a team of developers being led by Bart Decrem, a well-known open source developer who co-founded the ill-fated Eazel project back in 1999 and has been involved with both the Mozilla and GNOME foundations. On his blog this week he says Flock won't be forking the Firefox codebase." [Slashdot]

 

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If you are a 'wannabe' DIY office security person, then...  Rootkit Creators Turn Professional. pete richards writes "Signalling a trend towards increased 'outsourcing' of some elements of malware creation, worm authors are increasingly turning to commercially available rootkits to help their creations slip past virus detection engines. Those root kits in the mean time are becoming more professional. Antivirus vendor F-Secure reported last week that it had detected a first rootkit designed to bypass detection by most of the modern rootkit detection engines." [Slashdot]

 

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Coming to a local government near you?  Open-source software seen gaining in Europe. Study found that nearly 49% of local government authorities are using open-source software and that most of those using it would like to increase its use. [Computerworld News]

 

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