Thursday, July 01, 2004

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Opportunity to get a DRM-free HDTV tuners ending soon. Wendy sez: "EFF launched its one-year countdown to the broadcast flag with a call to action: Buy your HD-capable tuners while you still can get them DRM-free! We're also looking for volunteers to help us write the "cookbook" to help less technical users build HD-PVRs too." Link 11:09:25 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  NYC-based Gothamist launches LA offshoot, LAist. The LA counterpart blog to Gothamist and Chicagoist hasn't been properly launched yet, but -- what's that you say? I can peek behind the kimono here? Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Dell recalls notebook power adapter cords. The adapter on about 38,000 Dell notebooks can produce shocking results if used with the wrong power cord. 3.  Wireless group wants fliers to switch on after takeoff. Trade group says radio transmitter could be shut off, while larger device remained on for gaming, other functions. 4.  Oracle rests case as antitrust trial winds down. An economist says the merger would aid competition. Papers show IBM looking nervous. 5.  Oracle v. DOJ: Ellison cites survival instinct. special coverage Oracle's unwelcome bid for PeopleSoft wasn't about squashing a competitor, Oracle's CEO says--it was about staying alive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Oracle, US Antitrust Case Comes to Close (Reuters). Reuters - Oracle Corp. released IBM documents on Thursday that it said shows IBM feared the competitive effects of an Oracle-PeopleSoft Inc. merger as Oracle finished witness testimony in its quest to gain approval of its hostile takeover of rival PeopleSoft. 7.  IBM Documents Show Discussions on Oracle (AP). AP - Rattled by Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., IBM Corp. considered making defensive investments in other software makers and lobbying the government to discourage other mergers, according to company documents released in court Thursday. 8.  Wi-Fi Security Still Spotty (PC World). PC World - A year after WPA's launch, many products aren't certified. 9.  Search Tangles (PC World). PC World - Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Slashback: Wireless, Gasoline, Prevarication 11.  Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  New iMacs delayed until September.  Apple Computer Inc. will run out of iMac computers before a new model is introduced in September, the company said Thursday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  The Digital Television Liberation Project Starts Its Engines 14.  Cookie Path Best Practice 10:09:05 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  'Fahrenheit 9/11' sparks file-sharing flare-up. Critic of Michael Moore's film posts a link to a downloadable pirated version, says director would approve. 2.  Macrovision closes InstallShield deal. The maker of copy-protection technology spends $76 million on InstallShield, which makes software installation tools. 3.  Briefly: Macrovision closes InstallShield deal. roundup Plus: Microsoft class-action deals OK'd...MPAA picks new chief lobbyist...Dell expands recycling grants. 4.  Dell recalls notebook power adapter chords. The adapter on about 38,000 Dell notebooks can produce shocking results if used with the wrong power chord. 5.  Archos queues up video player. Media player company makes newest version of its portable player a video recorder. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  IBM Documents Show Oracle's Impact (AP). AP - Rattled by Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., IBM Corp. considered making defensive investments in other software makers and lobbying the government to discourage other mergers, according to company documents released in court Thursday. 7.  Apple confirms new iMacs are coming in September (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple on Thursday confirmed that a new iMac is on the way, but stopped short of providing any details about the new system. The company's online store has stopped accepting orders for the current flat panel models, but Apple doesn't plan to have a replacement ready until September -- the victim of "less than perfect" planning, by its own admission. 8.  Yahoo, Ask Jeeves Stocks Dip After MSN Search News (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of Web search providers Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) and Ask Jeeves Inc. fell on Thursday as investors reacted to news that Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) was testing its own search engine in a move that signals competition from the world's biggest software maker. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  MPAA Names Dan Glickman To Replace Jack Valenti ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Sybase expects lower Q2 sales. Sybase Inc. said on Thursday that its second quarter earnings are likely to fall short of Wall Street expectations because of difficulties closing large deals in North America. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  Cookie Path Best Practice 8:34:10 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Free Comic Book Day, July 3. BoingBoing reader Erin says, "July 3rd is the third annual Free Comic Book Day across North America. The website has a handy postal-code locator to find participating stores in your area." Link 2.  Cakemod. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.50914E-123; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2445 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Boingboing reader ticotek says, "Adam and Kinsley Mull got married last week, and their weding cake was designed after his green Ipod Mini." Link 3.  Frankenbananas with genetically engineered flavor. BoingBoing reader Steve Portigal says, "Chiquita is looking at growing nanners with other fruit flavors embedded in them. Seems like they have the technology, but will it fly?" The ethical implications are terrifying. If they can genetically modify crops, humans can't be far off. That means one thing and one thing only: the dawn of banana-flavored babies. Link (via agendainc) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Apple delays new iMac. All-new model won't be available until September, well after stock of current model runs out. 5.  SEC questions phone companies' math. SEC wants more than 20 telephone carriers to explain just how they count subscribers and access lines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Apple: New iMacs coming in September (MacCentral). MacCentral - Visitors to Apple's online Apple Store interested in buying a new flat panel iMac were greeted with the following message on Thursday: "Apple has stopped taking orders for the current iMac as we begin the transition from the current iMac line to an all-new iMac line which will be announced and available in September. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Vulns: D-Link AirPlus DI-614+ and DI-604 DHCP Server Flooding Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The D-Link AirPlus DI-614+ is a wireless broadband router. It contains a DHCP server service to automatically assign addresses to local computers. The DI-604 is similar t... 7:38:01 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Cassini sends close-ups of rings. The international mission to Saturn - Cassini-Huygens - has returned the first close-up images of Saturn's rings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Briefly: Microsoft class-action deals OK'd. roundup Plus: MPAA picks new chief lobbyist...Dell expands recycling grants...Viacom bids for SportsLine.com...Cisco to power Orange Wi-Fi upgrade. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft Cuts Prices As Paris Eyes Linux (AP). AP - In another sign competition is heating up in the software industry, Microsoft Corp. has slashed prices by more than half for Paris City Hall as the French capital considers switching to low-cost open-source programs. 4.  Microsoft revamps search, plans to launch new engine this year (AFP). AFP - Microsoft announced it was revamping its Internet search operation and preparing to launch its own search engine later this year to compete directly with Google and Yahoo. 5.  Mobility Sales Through Dell Halted to Fix Adapter (Reuters). Reuters - Mobility Electronics Inc. (MOBE.O) on Thursday said sales through No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL.O) will be halted temporarily as it helps to modify a Dell power adapter to prevent safety incidents with the device. 6.  Apple Says It Will Delay New iMac Until September (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) said on Thursday its next-generation iMac desktop computer will be delayed until September and that it has stopped taking orders for the current iMac. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  What A Portable Media Center Might Look Like ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  'Industry-wide' memory flaw appears confined to HP. The notebook memory-module flaw that Hewlett-Packard  identified last week as having the potential to cause problems for all notebook manufacturers has thus far shown up only in HP notebooks, according to PC vendors, memory manufacturers, and industry analysts. 9.  Microsoft to pay cash in Minnesota settlement. Microsoft Corp. will pay $5 million in cash and up to $177 million in vouchers to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Minnesota consumers who accused the company of abusing its Windows monopoly to overcharge for its software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  PC World sells "new" hard drive with personal data on 11.  E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible 12.  Linux in Government: Open Source Innovation within the DoD 13.  Layoffs Reported At McAfee 6:27:17 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Google bans Gmail swaps and sales. Gmail members prohibited from trading, selling account names as entrepreneurs seek to profit on clublike demand for the service. 2.  Briefly: Microsoft class-action deal OK'd. roundup Plus: MPAA picks new chief lobbyist...Dell expands recycling grants...Viacom bids for SportsLine.com...Cisco to power Orange Wi-Fi upgrade. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Printers for Every Purpose (PC World). PC World - Different inkjets for different folks: We evaluate 15 models for quality, speed, and ink costs, from snapshot specialists to office workhorses. 4.  New MPAA Leader Committed to 'Net Piracy Fight (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The selection of former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to replace Jack Valenti as head of the Motion Picture Association of America won't result in any changes in the industry's policy of aggressively fighting online piracy, the two men said Thursday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Auto Manufacturers Running Out Of Unique IDs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Court case: E-mail isn't private. WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the vice president of an ISP (Internet service provider) can't be charged with violating federal wiretapping laws for snooping on e-mail sent to his customers, a decision that will give ISPs and other e-mail providers free rein to spy on e-mail, privacy advocates said. 7.  Open source Java debate rages. San Francisco -- Should Java be available under an open source format? The debate is raging this week at the 2004 JavaOne conference here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Columnists: The Allure and Curse of Complexity. The curse of complexity is the bane of every security administrator, so UNIX users take your pick: would you like BSD or Linux? 5:27:02 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Cell phones heading into iPod territory. Can your phone replace your MP3 player? That's what some are aiming for, though it's unclear whether a handset will ever be able to hold 5,000 songs. 2.  Digital rights market to boom, study says. Companies are ready to buy tools that will protect digital documents, according to a recent survey of 800 IT workers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Sony Launches Digital Music Player (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Sony (NYSE: SNE) has announced its first hard-disk drive-based digital music player under the the Walkman brand. The product launch, which marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Walkman, could pose a serious challenge to Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod in the digital music player market. 4.  Siebel Releases Employee Service 7.7 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Siebel (Nasdaq: SEBL) has announced the general availability of version 7.7 of its Employee Service application. 5.  Novell Launches Mono (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) has given Mono 1.0 its official launch. The company's open-source development platform, based on the .NET framework, lets software developers build Linux-based and cross-platform applications. 6.  Product Review: MPC ClientPro 345 (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Built for business use, the Micron PC ClientPro 345 comes equipped with all the hardware an I.T. purchaser needs for day-to-day use. Instead of loading the system with non-essentials and flashy new technology, MPC has stuck to the basics and produced a sensible machine while avoiding the excess goods. 7.  Yahoo, Ask Jeeves Stocks Dip After MSN Search News (Reuters). Reuters - Shares of Web search providers Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. slipped on Thursday, a day after Microsoft Corp. announced a revamped MSN search service with partner Yahoo and began the first test of its own search engine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods 9.  Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Experts debate security through diversity. Boston -- The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.  PC World sells "new" hard drive with personal data on ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Vulns: SLocate User-Supplied Database Heap Overflow Vulnerability. slocate is the Secure Locate program. It is available for various UNIX and Linux operating systems, and is maintained by public domain. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 7.0616E-169; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2435 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} It has been reported that a vulne... 13.  Vulns: Racoon IKE Daemon Unauthorized X.509 Certificate Connection Vulnerability. racoon is an IKE (Internet Key Exchange) daemon included in KAME's IPsec utilities and the Linux 2.6 Kernel port IPsec-Tools. The racoon IKE daemon is prone to a securit... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  On Sun, Java and Open Source. Analysis Fundamentalists clash By Andrew Orlowski . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  Zafi.b Only New Worm In June's Top 10 16.  Gartner Urges Windows NT Users To Migrate Now 17.  JS.Scob.Trojan Source Code Released 18.  Setterm Local Stack Overflow Vulnerability 19.  POPclient DoS Due To An Off-By-One Overflow Condition 4:26:40 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Microsoft offers a peek at new search engine. A technology preview of Microsoft 's new search engine is unveiled. Meanwhile, searching at MSN gets a new look By Eric Bangeman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Update: I F*CKED ALEC BALDWIN IN HIS A*S. Page Six and Fleshbot both have updates today on Ms. Dessarae Bradford -- the smiling Hollywood creature I met at last week's Erotic LA convention who self-published a tell-all book about purported sexcapades with Alec Baldwin. I FU*KED ALEC BALDWIN IN HIS A*S is 57 pages of hot, totally unverifiable literary magnificence with chapter titles like "Stumbling Into His Chest Hairs." Snip from the FB interview, in which the former sex worker utters the unforgettable and timeless plea, "Tell them I am not a trannie!" Fleshbot: They quote Alec Baldwin as saying he never met you. DB: Oh God, of course he would say that. But it happened, trust me. I still have the vibrator. Maybe I can scrape off the evidence and get a DNA sample or something? Fleshbot: But not the Hershey bar, right? DB: No, he ate that (laughs). X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 6.65723E-130; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2434 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Link to Fleshbot's update, Link to previous BoingBoing post, Link to book website, "Blessed Adventure Publications." I shot some snapshots of Ms. Bradford, including the one at left: Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Texas Instruments claims win in Qualcomm dispute. The Texas chipmaker says that it will likely be allowed to continue manufacturing products that rely on Qualcomm patents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Back-To-School Seen a Boon for Electronics Stores (Reuters). Reuters - Electronics retailers, facing slower same-store sales growth, should benefit from the back-to-school shopping rush by selling more gadgets like digital cameras and notebook computers, industry analysts said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  UML, PostgreSQL Get Corporate Support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  IBM, Delta Airlines add more buzz to RFID tagging. Adding to the growing buzz surrounding RFID (radio frequency identification) tagging technology, IBM Corp. on Thursday officially opened its RFID Testing and Solution Center in La Gaude, France, while in a separate move, Delta Air Lines Inc. said it is planning to invest $15 million to $25 million on the technology. 7.  Experts debate security through diversity. Boston -- The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  BugTraq: Re: php codes injection in phpMyAdmin version 2.5.7.. Sender: Marc Delisle [DelislMa at CollegeSherbrooke dot qc dot ca] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  10 W32/Netsky-C 10.  9 W32/Sober-G 11.  8 W32/Netsky-Q 12.  7 W32/Bagle-AA 13.  6 W32/Netsky-B 14.  3 W32/Sasser 15.  1 W32/Zafi-B 3:26:18 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Porno patents. Hothothot barely legal XXXX trademark action! Fleshbot probes the depths of the US Patent Office registry for a penetrating view inside the kinky world of sex devices that haven't crossed over from whiteboad fantasy to production line reality. If software that fails to come to market is vaporware, what, pray tell, is an anal orgasm monitor that never materializes? Don't answer that. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Microsoft banks cash for EU fine. Microsoft has set aside 497m euro to pay a record fine imposed on the firm by the European Union for abusing its market position. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Dell ups bucks for recycling programs. Twenty-two grants of $10,000 will go to recycling efforts in the United States and Canada. 4.  Briefly: MPAA picks new chief lobbyist. roundup Plus: Dell expands recycling grants...Viacom bids for SportsLine.com...Cisco to power Orange Wi-Fi upgrade...PalmOne spreads out Treo update. 5.  Apple offers iTunes goody bag. Mac maker will give away 20GB iPods, other prizes as its music service nears the 100 million download mark. 6.  Sony challenges Apple with 20GB music player. Sony hopes its upcoming music hardware, combined with its music service, will unseat Apple's market leadership. 7.  Cisco router makes Guinness World Records. Cisco Systems' CRS-1 core Internet router is recognized as the highest capacity router ever developed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Microsoft to Pay Up to $241.4M Settlement (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. will pay up to $241.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Minnesota computer users who claimed the software company overcharged them. 9.  Apple Seeks Rendezvous with Windows, Linux Developers (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple announced updated versions of developer tools designed to boost acceptance of its Rendezvous zero-configuration networking software in the Windows and Linux communities. 10.  Court Refuses to End TI-Qualcomm Deal (AP). AP - A Delaware court has ruled that Texas Instruments Inc. violated an agreement with cell-phone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. but that Qualcomm is not entitled to break off the deal, the companies said Thursday. 11.  Microsoft Enters Search Market (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp. plans today to make its much-anticipated foray into the high-stakes battle for computer users searching for information online, posing a new challenge to Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., the two dominant search engine companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Vulns: PowerPortal Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities. PowerPortal is a web-based portal implemented in PHP. PowerPortal is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities. The issues result from insufficient sanitization of user-... 2:25:57 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Retropod = iPod inside a Walkman body. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.08094E-205; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2432 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} John Young sends word of a retro-riffic iPod mod: "The Retropod is an iPod case made from a vintage Sports Walkman, from which the guts have been removed. Cases and do-it-yourself kits are available, for those Billyburg hipsters that want to make their own." Link. A timely diversion, given the fact that today is the 25th anniversary of Sony's 1979 release of the first Walkman: Link. (Thanks, L. Smith!) 2.  Nanowires with built-in transistors. For several years now, researchers around the world have fashioned tiny nanowires from carbon nanotubes. Now though, Harvard University nanotech pioneer Charles Lieber and his team have made a nanowire--10,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper--that contains a string of transistors. While traditional nanowires are notoriously difficult to connect with each other or conventional silicon electronics, Lieber's nanocircuits are essentially pre-wired. The work was reported in the journal Nature and summarized in an article on the magazine's Web site: "At this stage the chain does not actually do anything useful. 'But it's an important proof of principle,' says Lieber. He says that by applying a more elaborate mask to a woven network of silicon nanowires it should be possible to create complex circuits in one go. To prove his point, he hopes to make a much more sophisticated structure that can perform complex calculations. 'We're trying to make a programmable series of literally thousands of these transistors.' Link 3.  Inkjet printer for fingernails. Another fine art lost to technology.... ImagiNail's NailJetPro squirts out nail polish designs in millions of colors. "Your imagination is the only limiting factor with the NailJet Pro! No matter your taste or lifestyle, the NailJet Pro offers selections for everyone, in millions of colors and virtually any design you can dream of. From mild to wild, crazy to conservative, the NailJet Pro will decorate your nails in vivid color and photographic clarity. You can even add your own artwork or digital photographs!" Link (via FARK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Hospitals 'should allow mobiles'. Doctors say they should be allowed to use mobile phones in hospitals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Microsoft easing into antivirus efforts. Security specialist at software giant skirts speculation on possible acquisitions but says: "We're quite happy with what we've got." 6.  Texas Instruments claims win in Qualcomm dispute. The Texas chipmaker says that it will likely be allowed to continue manufacturing products that rely on Qualcomm patents. 7.  Resource center for Novell 8.  Resource Center for Hewlett-Packard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Microsoft Simplifies Search Web Site (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp., seeking to play catch-up in a market where it admits it's been late to the party, has launched a new version of its search Web site with a simple interface that mimics rival Google Inc. 10.  It's Official: Network Associates Becomes McAfee (PC World). PC World - Name change reflects the company's renewed emphasis on its security products. 11.  Guinness World Records Recognizes Cisco Router (Reuters). Reuters - The same book that boasts the world records for most glasses balanced on a chin, the tallest snowman and longest continuous clapping session, now includes Cisco Systems Inc.'s (CSCO.O) new machine that directs Internet traffic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? 13.  Appeals Court OKs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Vulns: CuteNews Multiple Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities. CuteNews is a news management system implemented in PHP. It is reported that CuteNews is affected by multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due... 15.  Vulns: FreeS/WAN X.509 Patch Certificate Verification Vulnerability. FreeS/WAN is a free, open-source implementation of an IPSec VPN for Linux. It implements X.509 certificate based authentication. Openswan, strongSwan and Super-FreeS/WAN ... 16.  Vulns: OSTicket New Ticket Attachment Remote Command Execution Vulnerability. osTicket is an open source support ticket system. osTicket is reported prone to a remote command execution vulnerability. The issue is reported to present itself because... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Junk mail host nations named and shamed. Axis of Spam By John Leyden . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18.  Network Associates to Be Renamed McAfee 19.  Unprevileged user can change quota on Domino 20.  (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and Security bugs 21.  Network Associates Renames Itself McAfee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Internet/Network Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.  INDUCE Act Drops Link To Child Pornography. Senator Hatch and his compatriot Senator Leahy must have been inundated with criticism about trying to link their RIAA fight to child pornography. They dropped the acronym for INDUCE (Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act) and changed the name... 1:25:37 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  retropod = iPod inside a Walkman body. John Young says: X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.06075E-297; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2431 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} The Retropod is an iPod case made from a vintage Sports Walkman, from which the guts have been removed. Cases and do-it-yourself kits are available, for those Billyburg hipsters that want to make their own. Link ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Microsoft tries to quell acquisition talk. A company security specialist won't directly address Network Associates speculation but says: "We're quite happy with what we've got." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Orange to launch 3G in Britain this month (AFP). AFP - French cellphone operator Orange said it would launch third generation (3G) mobile telephone services in Britain on July 19, though customers will have to wait until later this year for the new handsets. 4.  Microsoft Needs 'Clarification' of EU Ruling (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) top legal counsel said on Thursday the software giant needs further clarification from the European Union executive before it will be able to comply with an order to remove Media Player from its Windows software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  StorageTek's new tape rack: same size, double capacity. Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) has produced a new 100TB tape library that slots into a standard rack size but provides twice as much capacity as competing products.The StreamLine (SL) 500 is a 30 to 577 slot rack-mount tape library that supports the Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., and Seagate Technology LLC linear tape open (LTO) format and, soon, DEC/Quantum Super Digital Linear Tape (SDLT) format.It can have Fibre Channel or SCSI connectivity and offers capacity on demand. Additional drives or slots are delivered and enabled by an electronic key. The SL500 main advantage though is its capacity -- at 90 slots per square foot, it is far denser than ADIC's Scalar 100 with 36 slots/sq ft, or Overland's Neo family with 40 slots/sq ft.StorageTek believes customers want rack-based and modular libraries in the mid-range area. Standard racks fit in their data centers and in-rack expansion with a single controller/robotics module preserves reliability whilst providing scalability. (Robotics and other components can be duelled for increased reliability.)The SL500 is an intrinsic part of its Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy, the company said. It may have additional functionality offered in the future as part of this, such as a disk cache or virtual tape system.It is positioned below the SL8500, a much larger library with 1,000 to 300,000-plus slots and up to 2,043 drives. The SL500 also comes in a smaller deskside cabinet with 2 drives and 30-50 slots. The SL500, like the SL8500, can have any tape format in any slot; partitioning is logical rather than physical.StorageTek said that competing Quantum M Series and Overland Storage Inc.'s Neo are monolithic because expansion adds more components and decreases reliability and, eventually needs a cabinet change.Sun Microsystems Inc., which already resells the SL8500, "will evaluate the SL500," according to Christopher Jones, Sun's EMEA business manager for networked storage. Sun and StorageTek also announced a much expanded partnership, going beyond the existing OEM relationship. Jon Benson, StorageTek's general manager for its automated tape solutions group, expects that its high-end Powderhorn libraries will eventually be replaced by the Streamline line and that a low-end Streamline model will be introduced. No end-of-plan exists for Powderhorn though and availability throughout 2005 was confirmed.BRM software was also announced which monitors backup status from servers, across the SAN, and on to StorageTek tape libraries such as the L Series and StreamLine family. There are indications that StorageTek may announce a NAS product, possibly later this year and enter the content-addressed or object storage space.The SL500 will become available later this year, possibly Q4, when its price will be announced. With just two basic components, controller and slot/drive modules, don't expect premium pricing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Network Associates changes name back to McAfee. McAfee is McAfee once again. After a seven-year stint doing business under the name Network Associates Inc., the company formerly known as McAfee Associates Inc. has readopted its founder's name and will be known as McAfee Inc., effective Wednesday. 8.  China remains haven for spam Web sites. The number of unique new unsolicited e-mail (spam) messages has risen 42 percent from 350,000 per day at the end of 2003 to 500,000 a day by the end of June, according to anti-spam vendor Commtouch Software Ltd. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.  Linux in Government: Open Source Innovation within the DoD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  BugTraq: Re: php codes injection in phpMyAdmin version 2.5.7.. Sender: Marc Delisle [DelislMa at CollegeSherbrooke dot qc dot ca] 11.  Vulns: CGIScript.net CSFAQ Script Path Disclosure Vulnerability. csFAQ is an automated system for displaying FAQs. A vulnerability has been identified in the application that may allow an attacker to disclose the installation path. It... 12.  Vulns: PHPMyFamily Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. phpmyfamily is a web based genealogy application. phpmyfamily is prone to an authentication bypass vulnerability. This issue occurs when the registers_globals PHP con... 13.  Vulns: FreeBSD execve() Unaligned Memory Access Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The execve() system call is a POSIX defined standard call used to execute binaries in unix operating systems. It is reported that FreeBSD running on the Alpha architectu... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  Orange sets date for 3G data debut. 19 July. Stick it in your diaries By Lucy Sherriff . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.  ZyXEL Prestige Routers Denial of Service Vulnerability 12:25:16 PM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Road rage fuels game success. The driving-and-shooting genre of video games will never get tiresome, says a top games programmer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  At Delta, tracking bags with radio tags. The airline plans to spend up to $25 million on an RFID system to put an end to lost luggage. 3.  SportsLine.com reports Viacom bid. The online sports news company receives an acquisition proposal from Viacom, its largest customer. 4.  Briefly: Viacom bids for SportsLine.com. roundup Plus: Cisco to power Orange Wi-Fi upgrade...PalmOne spreads out Treo update...Amazon to cut jobs in France...Matsushita names new CEO of U.S. unit. 5.  Brightmail tackles zombies. Antispam vendor releases new version of software to try to keep zombie PCs at bay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Microsoft pays 497-million-euro fine (AFP). AFP - US software giant Microsoft has paid a fine of 497 million euros (605 million dollars) imposed on it by the European Commission in March for having abused its dominant market position, a commission spokeswoman revealed. 7.  Mono Arrives, Brings .Net to Linux (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - At long last Mono has arrived and it brings .Net programming to Linux and other Unix-style opearating systems. 8.  Taiwan eyes record DVD recorder shipments in 2004 (AFP). AFP - Taiwan is expected to export a record three million DVD recorders in 2004 thanks to falling prices and a series of international sporting events, a research body revealed. 9.  Microsoft revamps search, plans to launch new engine this year (AFP). AFP - Microsoft said it was revamping its Internet search operation and preparing to launch its own search engine later this year to compete directly with Google and Yahoo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player 11.  Cassini-Huygens Reaches Orbit Around Saturn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxSecurity.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  BugTraq: (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and Security bugs. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eEye dot com] 14.  Vulns: MPlayer GUI File Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. MPlayer is a multimedia video and audio application. It is freely available for Unix and Unix variants as well as Microsoft Windows. Mplayer includes a graphical user int... 15.  Vulns: McMurtrey/Whitaker & Associates Cart32 GetLatestBuilds Script Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Cart32 is a web-based shopping cart system. This software runs on Microsoft FrontPage, QuickBooks, and Macromedia Dreamweaver. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.7417E-147; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2430 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} Cart32 is reported prone to a cross-site ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.  WestJet disputes industrial espionage charge. Websites probed, garbage rifled, suits filed By John Leyden . 17.  Sony refutes PlayStation Portable delay claim. 'On target' for Q1 2005 US, Euro launches By Tony Smith . 18.  Nigeria failing to tackle 419ers. Lads cuffed, 500 : Convictions, 0 By Jan Libbenga . 19.  ICSTIS in meltdown - MPs. Clean up premium rate industry - or else By Tim Richardson . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20.  Network Associates to Be Renamed McAfee 11:24:57 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Cassini returns images of rings. The international mission to Saturn - Cassini-Huygens - has returned the first close-up images of Saturn's rings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Delta will use RFID to track luggage. The airline will spend up to $25 million on the system, which eventually may let passengers track their own bags. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Apple iTunes giveaway features iPods, PowerBook, more (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple is getting ready to mark the sale of the 100 millionth song from its iTunes Music Store, and the company is marking the occasion with 50 iPod giveaways and a giveaway package that includes a PowerBook, iPod and a 10,000 song gift certificate. The giveaway will be open to iTunes Music Store users in the US, UK, France and Germany. The company also announced that it's moved 1.5 million songs since its European iTunes Music Stores opened two weeks ago. 4.  Court: TI Didn't Breach Qualcomm Deal (AP). AP - The Delaware Court of Chancery indicated Texas Instruments Inc. didn't materially breach its cross-licensing deal with cell-phone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments said. 5.  Sony takes aim at iPod with new hard disk Walkman (MacCentral). MacCentral - Sony Corp. has unveiled its first hard-disk drive-based digital music player to bear the Walkman name. The device was launched on Thursday as the Walkman brand marked its 25th anniversary. 6.  Microsoft Enters Search Market (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp. plans today to make its much-anticipated foray into the high-stakes battle for computer users searching for information online, posing a new challenge to Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., the two dominant search engine companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  BugTraq: Unprevileged user can change quota on Domino. Sender: Andreas Klein [Andreas dot C dot Klein at physik dot uni-wuerzburg dot de] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Apple punts prizes as iTunes nears 100m-song target. Plus: latest Euro stores' sales figures By Tony Smith . 9.  STMicro confirms Hynix JV talks. And Infineon-Nanya JV starts making chips By Tony Smith . 10:24:36 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Arrest over Spider-Man piracy bid. A teenager in California is arrested after he is spotted allegedly recording Spider-Man 2 on a camcorder. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Google Sued Over Orkut Code (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc. said late on Wednesday that it has been sued by Affinity Engines, which alleges that Google's Orkut social networking site is built with code stolen from its company. 3.  It's Official: Network Associates Becomes McAfee (PC World). PC World - Name change reflects the company's renewed emphasis on its security products. 4.  DVD Recorder Prices Expected to Plunge (PC World). PC World - Devices will be as much as 50 percent cheaper later this year, researcher says. 5.  Viacom Offers to Buy Sportsline.com (Reuters). Reuters - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. (VIAb.N) has offered to acquire the shares in online company SportsLine.com Inc. (SPLN.O) that it does not already own, SportsLine.com said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Top News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Network Associates changes name back to McAfee. McAfee is McAfee once again. After a seven-year stint doing business under the name Network Associates Inc., the company formerly known as McAfee Associates Inc. has readopted its founder's name and will be known as McAfee Inc., effective Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Download Strategic Value of Moving to Linux Business White Paper Find out how your company can reduce IT costs or improve efficiency, you are probably considering Linux and what role it will play in your company. 8.  BEA favors making Java open source. SAN FRANCISCO -- BEA Systems Inc. on Wednesday cast its vote in favor of Sun Microsystems Inc. making parts of its Java technology open source, ratcheting the debate up a notch. 9.  Microsoft enhances MSN search engine. Microsoft Corp. will roll out on Thursday enhancements to MSN Search that collectively represent the most significant upgrade in that search engine's history, the company said in a statement late Wednesday. 10.  China remains haven for spam Web sites. The number of unique new unsolicited e-mail (spam) messages has risen 42 percent from 350,000 per day at the end of 2003 to 500,000 a day by the end of June, according to anti-spam vendor Commtouch Software Ltd. 11.  Aspect-oriented programming forum draws crowd. SAN FRANCISCO -- If attendance at JavaOne sessions is any indication of what's on the minds of developers, then aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a technology whose day is coming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  1,000 exchanges get go-ahead for broadband. Green light gets the thumbs-up By Tim Richardson . 13.  EC demands more wireless R&D. Building a competitive mobile data sector By electricnews.net . 14.  UK premium rate phone complaints rocket. 'Not everything in the garden is rosy' By Tim Richardson . 15.  Talking toilets - whatever next?. It was five years ago today... 1 July 1999 By Team Register . 16.  MSN makes its move on search. Faster, cleaner By Drew Cullen . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Internet/Network Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.  Book Review: Defend I.T.- Security By Example. Defend I.T.: Security By Example is the latest book from Ajay Gupta and Scott Laliberte and is a great compliment to their previous book Hack I.T.. Where Hack I.T. went into much greater detail about how various attacks work and... 9:24:17 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Colt Telecom hit by profit alert. A profits warning from Colt Telecom sees nearly a third of its share price wiped out. 2.  Sony plans Walkman to rival iPod. Sony is to revamp its famous Walkman by launching a digital music player to rival Apple's iPod. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Defense bill could stifle computer trade. If section of House bill stays, any PC with a chip more powerful than a Pentium 3 would be classified as a weapon. 4.  Will phones get smart before pigs can fly?. Well before that, according to Microsoft's Ya-Qin Zhang, whose task it is to put real intelligence into smart phones. 5.  Dear Sir: The letter is back. E-mail was supposed to conquer all in its wake. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos explains why computer users had other ideas about that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Apple's Rendezvous comes to Windows, Linux, Java (MacCentral). MacCentral - Since Mac OS X v10.2's release, Apple has promoted a zero-configuration networking technology it calls Rendezvous. Now Apple is further promoting the standard more with the release of Rendezvous technology for Java clients, POSIX platforms including Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD, and a "technology preview" for Windows. Developers for those platforms interested in finding out more can do so on Apple's Developer Web site. 7.  Interception of E-Mail Raises Questions (AP). AP - In an online eavesdropping case with potentially profound implications, a federal appeals court ruled it was acceptable for a company that offered e-mail service to surreptitiously track its subscribers' messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Ellison takes the stand. The Peoplesoft v. Larry By Lucy Sherriff . 9.  No nudes on .nu: official. Niue reps gets litigious over porn hosting claim By Lester Haines . 10.  All quiet on the malware front. Zafi tops viral charts in placid June By John Leyden . 11.  Intel to debut low-end Grantsdales soon. VIA, SiS, ULi, ATI Socket-T chipsets scheduled too By Tony Smith . 8:23:57 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Star Wars to reward keen players. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. 2.  Orange 3G gets July launch date. The mobile giant launches with a 3G card for laptops, but handsets will follow later in the year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Comcast forecasts digital TV, PC, phone convergence (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The dream of digital convergence of the TV, PC and telephone is closer than many people think. At least, that's the message that executives at No. 1 cable operator Comcast offered in a presentation Wednesday in which they described services coming soon that they say satellite and phone companies can't match. 4.  No more `There' there: Firm stops online updates (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - The Menlo Park entertainment start-up has stopped developing updates for "There," its interactive online world, and will concentrate instead on licensing its technology. The company has laid off an undisclosed number of employees and is in the midst of closing a new round of financing, an executive said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  Adaptec grabs RAID technology from IBM. In brief Closer fit By John Leyden . 7.  Canadian ISPs not liable for content royalties. Providers judged to be 'common carriers' By Tony Smith . 7:23:36 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Oracle defends middleware (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - Oracle is pursuing its $7.7 billion hostile tender for PeopleSoft. 2.  Branson set to float Virgin Mobile (TheDeal.com). TheDeal.com - It will be the third major European telecom offering this year after a long drought in the sector. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Last call for spam poetry. Gigacycle huckleberry whoop contour By Lester Haines . 4.  Sony unveils HDD Walkman. Reg Kit Watch Watch out, iPod By Tony Smith . 5.  MS baits .Net with CE 5. Fishing for mobile apps developers By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wired News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible. A book seller who provides e-mail service to his customers did not violate the law by copying and reading their private messages, an appeals court rules. By Kim Zetter. 7.  Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code. A small software company says Google got a big start in the social-networking business by stealing its source code for orkut.com. The company claims a former engineer took the code with him when he got a job at Google. By Daniel Terdiman. 8.  Shaky Notes From the Underground. It's the sweet spot of the San Andreas fault, the perfect place to build the ultimate earthquake science lab. It's also two miles straight down. By Brendan I. Koerner from Wired magazine. 9.  Tech Company Gets Hypersensitive. An Israeli company says its sensor blows away anything available today. Some tech heavyweights are trying to get a piece of the action. By Kristen Philipkoski. 10.  One Awesome Media Vault, to Go. The ultra-portable Archos AV400 transforms your pocket into a media mecca. It plays almost any digital file you can throw at it, and it's the world's smallest digital video recorder. A product review by J. L. Kim. 11.  To Be Cool, Tech Taps the Past. Facing a glut of competition on retailers' shelves, consumer electronics makers are wrapping their latest technology in the designs of the past. A digital camera that looks like a prop from a Fellini flick sells for $1,000, for example. By Rachel Metz. 12.  Europe Eclipses U.S. Solar Shift. Demand for solar power in the United States is beginning to climb, but now the supply of solar cells is plummeting as manufacturers ship their wares to more-profitable Europe. By John Gartner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Net Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.  Internet security: Who needs it? (You do) 14.  $1.5m 'hacker's heaven' for poly students 15.  Hacker coughs up advice 16.  Viruses putting small business off internet 17.  Viruses, viruses everywhere 6:23:17 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Lucas Arts makes a Make-A-Wish kids-with-leukemia game. A kid with leukemia worked with the Make A Wish foundation and Lucas Arts to produce a leukemia-themed kids-game. X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.2067E-130; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2424 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} The game he created is about fighting cancer, and it reflects Ben's own battle with leukemia. It takes place inside the body, on a playfield of mutating cells. The hero, a boy on a hovering skateboard, uses high-tech weapons to destroy these cells by collecting the seven shields that protect against common side effects of chemotherapy. It's not easy to get the shields -- they're in the hands of monsters that have to be zapped. FireMonster guards the fever shield and hurls molten lava. VampMonster guards the bleeding shield and sends out vampire bats. Robarf guards the vomit shield "with big smelly green globs." And QBall, guardian of the hair-loss shield, shoots out billiard balls. Link (Thanks, Adam!) 2.  New original sf on Futurismic. Futurismic, the excellent sf writers' group blog that's been publishing original fiction, has just published a new story by Ruth Nestvold, an excellent up-and-comer. Jeremy sez, "Also, we opened up our second reading period for new fiction from now until July 31. We pay US$100 per story. Guidelines are at http://www.futurismic.com/about/guidelines.html and the submission form is at http://www.futurismic.com/contact/index.html#submit" The reasons I volunteered were hardly simple. When are our motivations ever straightforward? I wanted to prove my own theories of gender and identity, solve one of those big riddles of the universe — are men and women really from different planets? is it nature or nurture? — but there was also the simple element of curiosity. No one had ever acquired both the body and the brain of the opposite sex. And I admit, being the first had a strong attraction for me, doing something that would earn me a place in the history books, put me next to Doreen Kimura and Sigmund Freud. Link (Thanks, Jeremy!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Cyber crime law needs updating. An influential group of MPs has published its recommendations for cyber crime reforms. 4.  Cassini enters into Saturn orbit. The Cassini-Huygens probe is captured by Saturn's gravity to begin a four-year science tour of the ringed planet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.  In These Games, the Points Are All Political ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SecurityFocus Vulns ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.  BugTraq: RE: Microsoft technologies. By default, non-HIPAA compliant?. Sender: Boring, Andrew [Andrew dot Boring at millerzell dot com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Dell debuts iPods-for-cash trade-in. Get $100 back - eventually... By Tony Smith . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Virus hits offshoring giant's operations 9.  Experts agree on method, not scope of IIS attacks 10.  Could search sites spawn worms? 11.  Miss. deploys new homeland security system with help from IBM 12.  Confessions of a War Driver 13.  Experts outline e-voting security requirements 5:22:56 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Boing Boing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  10 Internet patents that are going DOWN. EFF has picked its list of ten dumb-and-bustable Internet patents after a public competition, and we're saddling up to gather invalidating prior art we can submit to the US Patent and Trademark Office to have them struck down: X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.56044E-263; #1: 1 X-NAS-Classification: 0 X-NAS-MessageID: 2423 X-NAS-Validation: {E681C936-E9F0-4DDC-9901-74301AF33E67} 1. Acacia Technologies' digital media transmission patent, which the company defines as covering "the transmission and receipt of digital content via the Internet, cable, satellite and other means." The EFF is worried that Acacia, which has already sued several large communications companies, is unfairly targeting small audio- and video-streaming websites. 2. Clear Channel's Instant Live patent, which covers technology used to produce instant recordings of live concerts. The media giant recently bought the patent and is now going after artists who choose to give fans CDs of their shows. 3. Acceris Communication's voice over IP technology patent. Schultz said Acceris is targeting smaller VOIP players. "They're sending (the) patents to investors," said Schultz, "trying to intimidate the investors." Link 2.  Fahrenheit 9/11: read it again for the first time. Here's what purports to be a verbatim transcript of Fahrenheit 9/11 (the movie hasn't opened in the UK yet, so I haven't seen it). NARRATOR: Sooner or later this special relationship with a regime that Amnesty International condemns as a wide-spread human rights violator (cut to video of public beheading) would come back to haunt the Bushes. Now, after 9/11, it was an embarrassment and they preferred that no one ask any questions. CAROL ASHLEY: The investigation should have begun on September 12th; there's no reason why it shouldn't have. Three thousand people were dead, it was a murder, and it should have gotten started immediately. NARRATOR: First, Bush tried to stop Congress from setting up its own 9/11 investigation. PRESIDENT BUSH: It's important for us to not reveal how we collect information; that's what the enemy wants. And we're fighting an enemy. Link (via Waxy) 3.  Braille PDA. This is a new Braille-outputting, Bluetooth-enabled WiFi PDA that runs WinCE: Link (via Engadget) 4.  Artificial sweeteners screw up appetite. Artificial sweeteners disrupt your body's ability to accurately guage your caloric intake and regulate your appetite accordingly. Professor Terry Davidson and associate professor Susan Swithers, both in the Department of Psychological Sciences, found that artificial sweeteners may disrupt the body's natural ability to "count" calories based on foods' sweetness. This finding may explain why increasing numbers of people in the United States lack the natural ability to regulate food intake and body weight. The researchers also found that thick liquids aren't as satisfying – calorie for calorie – as are more solid foods. Link 5.  New original sf on Futurismic. Futurismic, the excellent sf writers' group bloog that's been publishing original fiction, has just published a new story by Ruth Nestvold, an excellent up-and-comer. Jeremy sez, "Also, we opened up our second reading period for new fiction from now until July 31. We pay US$100 per story. Guidelines are at http://www.futurismic.com/about/guidelines.html and the submission form is at http://www.futurismic.com/contact/index.html#submit" The reasons I volunteered were hardly simple. When are our motivations ever straightforward? I wanted to prove my own theories of gender and identity, solve one of those big riddles of the universe — are men and women really from different planets? is it nature or nurture? — but there was also the simple element of curiosity. No one had ever acquired both the body and the brain of the opposite sex. And I admit, being the first had a strong attraction for me, doing something that would earn me a place in the history books, put me next to Doreen Kimura and Sigmund Freud. Link (Thanks, Jeremy!) 6.  Cory on holiday for the weekend. Cory's off for the rest of the weekend -- I won't be answering email or the phone again until Monday morning. See you then! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.  Dilbert for 01 Jul 2004. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC News | Technology | UK Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.  Road rage games still a recipe for success. The driving-and-shooting genre of video games will never get tiresome, says a top games programmer. 9.  Military research 'to save lives'. Mine detection technology could reduce accidents in MRI scan rooms in hospitals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.  Sun Tosses Open-Source Challenge Back To IBM (TechWeb). TechWeb - CEO and chairman Scott McNealy says IBM has yet to match his company's intellectual-property contributions to the Java platform. 11.  Trapeze Compliant With IEEE 802.11i Wireless LAN Security Standards (TechWeb). TechWeb - Company embraces standards it help set in wireless LAN security to support multi-vendor environments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoWorld: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.  Cisco buys Actona for remote backup apps. Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday announced it has agreed to buy Actona Technologies Inc., a maker of software that manages the backup and storage of files from remote offices. Cisco will pay about $82 million for the Los Gatos, Calif., firm. 13.  Bell Labs: Enabling mobile Internet is key challenge for the enterprise. As president of Research and Advanced Technologies at Bell Laboratories, the R&D arm of Lucent Technologies, Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe is charged with helping Lucent's business units develop and deploy new technologies. InfoWorld Senior Analyst Wayne Rash spoke with Jaffe about the work his company is doing to identify and advance the next big advances for network communications in the enterprise.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Register ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.  This is what is happening to Iraq's Internet domain. Analysis ICANN's head reveals all By Kieren McCarthy . 15.  Consumer groups rally against Hatch's Induce Act. Faxed your Senator yet? By Andrew Orlowski . 16.  Heads roll but Blueprint stays - Sun. A few good men By Andrew Orlowski . 17.  Novell releases Mono. .NET goes gold By Andrew Orlowski . 4:22:37 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ars Technica ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Saturn gains a new moon. Cassini is successfully placed into orbit around Saturn. First pictures should arrive later this morning. By Fred "zAmboni" Locklear. 2.  The Ars Guide to PCI Express. PCI Express has generated a lot of excitement in the PC enthusiast scene in a short amount of time. And with good reason, since it promises to rid the PC of its bandwidth woes and enable a new class of applications. By Hannibal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger 3:22:17 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Sony challenges Apple with 20GB music player. Sony hopes its upcoming music hardware, combined with its music service, will unseat Apple's market leadership. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.  Investment Group Sues Computer Associates (AP). AP - A group led by Texas investor Sam Wyly, who lost a proxy fight against Computer Associates International Inc. three years ago, has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion paid to executives at the software company. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slashdot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NewsIsFree: Security ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.  Lawsuit accuses Google of code theft 2:21:56 AM    comment [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CNET News.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.  Ellison: 'Radical' industry shift drove bid. Oracle's CEO testifies that competitive pressure made necessary the hostile acquisition offer for PeopleSoft. 2.  Oracle v. DOJ: Ellison cites survival instinct. special coverage Oracle's unwelcome bid for PeopleSoft wasn't about squashing a competitor, Oracle's CEO says--it was about staying alive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! News - Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.  Microsoft Settlement Upheld on Appeal (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the three-year-old antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department, ending efforts by the state of Massachusetts and two computer trade groups to win tougher sanctions against the software giant for its monopolistic behavior. 4.  Sony Debuts 20 Gigabyte Walkman to Silence IPod (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp. unveiled plans on Thursday to launch a Walkman digital music player capable of storing 13,000 songs, aiming to reclaim the top spot in a market now dominated by Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. 12:30:16 AM    comment []

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