Whether you’re an anti-gamer scouring the blogs for evidence of yet more interactive torture porn, or a hardcore gamer who’s getting bored of all that pretend violence and is considering a move into joining the Parents’ Television Council, these are the rules for you. Learn them, love them, oppress the world with them.
“Kraken Botnet Infiltration Triggers Ethics Debate
…Researchers seize control of one of the world’s largest spam-spewing botnets, but there is disagreement about what should happen next.”
Now that the year’s biggest video game has arrived, it may be time to add a new feature to this column: Who’s Mad at “Grand Theft Auto IV” This Week?
The first supported first version of Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud.
How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading? Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the ISPs and backbone providers in the middle, and they aren’t telling or sharing raw data).
Vodafone’s just got a tiny, minor, insignificant announcement to make this morning: it’s signed with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten markets, including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy (so much for Telecom Italia), India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Expect the phone later this year — that’s all we know for no
Blu-ray player sales dropped 40 percent earlier this year and do not seem to have recovered yet. Aside from soaring PlayStation 3 sales, Blu-ray is struggling to take advantage of HD DVD’s demise.
Over the weekend, CoreCodec, the company behind the high-performance CoreAVC video codec, sent a DMCA takedown notice to Google over an open-source project intended to provide a Linux compatibility layer for the CoreAVC codec.
Thanks to the wisdom of Homeland Security and the TSA, travellers may now be asked to allow screeners access to your laptops when you fly.
Deb Richardson from Mozilla has written up her latest introduction to Firefox 3’s upcoming new features, this time describing the “Site Identity” button. Is this the death of the padlock?
Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has begun offering direct downloads of select PC titles via a new portion of its online store.
Furthermore, owners of certain Blizzard efforts can now register their CD keys on the site to add the titles to their Blizzard Account and download them for free at any time.
After the first activation, SecuROM requires that [Mass Effect PC] re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez’d and gets banned),” said French in a post on the BioWare forums.
