Not even 24 hours after the release of the latest update for the iPhone firmware 1.2.0 (or 2.0, as The Steve calls it,) the iPhone Dev Team sent us this picture showing that they have again pwned it, confirming what they already said: it’s going to be extremely difficult for Apple to relock the iPhone. Check the new separate Contact application.
The long awaited 2.5 release of the great blog engine is out!
I just updated the blog to Wordpress 2.5. Sorry for the downtime.
We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that deliver more of the original functionality that was found in the equivalent XP packages for those sound cards. In principle we don’t have a problem with you helping users in this way…
In what might be the first physical attack over the Internet, hackers bombard an epileptic patient forum with images intended to trigger seizures.
After being blown off by the Norwegian police, MPAA lawyer Espen Tøndel is now demanding that ISPs disconnect Norwegian file-sharers from the Internet. According to IKT Norway, an interest group for ISPs, the lawyer has sent a letter to Norwegian ISPs on behalf of The Norwegian branch of the MPAA.
Ubuntu claims to be a “Linux for Human Beings,” and for the most part they actually do a good job of it. One place they fail miserably is in their release notes - they’re just too damn complicated for anyone who doesn’t know what all the different component names stand for. I decided to rewrite the release notes in simple language.
Vista’s successor will sport a radically revised XML-based interface with elements of Office 2007’s ribbon, as Microsoft literally rewrites the rule book on the Windows UI.
Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few year. While much of the success will depend on unit numbers, sources told TG Daily that Atom will be big cash cow for Intel.
Google mobile “LCB” was uncovered by picking apart a publicly available file containing a list of all pages that crawlers shouldn’t be able to see. Essentially, LCB is an interesting move away from Google’s typical offerings.
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated one part of an molecular level system that might one day enable cell phones to keep watch on their owners’ health. The proposed phone will contain “DNA chips,” capable of analyzing molecules from the user’s body, to provide a warning about a possible virus, high-levels of stress, and other health factors.
Savetheinternet profiled in the Washington Post! Go net neutrality! 
