Court fines Mirror Group and Associated NewspapersTwo British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts because they violated French privacy laws. The publishers were liable because the articles were viewed in France on the internet....
Net party invite prompts rampageA Brit-owned £4.4m Spanish villa has been laid waste by 400 rampaging teenagers after the owners' 16-year-old daughter posted invites to the mother of all wrecking parties on Bebo and Facebook, the Times reports....
Corrspiracy theory9/11 conspiracy theorists will be delighted to learn that they've gained some poptastic backing from Corrs guitar-botherer Jim Corr, who's declared that there's "overwhelming evidence" the Twin Towers attack was perpetrated by "rogue elements in the Bush neo-con administration"....
Digital forensics turns smartphones into supergrassesAnalysis It's been 20 years since a UK drug dealer discovered too late the folly of keeping all his records on a Psion Organiser, helpfully providing police with names and addresses of customers and suppliers,
For all your Web 2.0 ills - except people and FacebookGoogle I/O A decision on whether to press ahead with a re-usable architecture from Google to simplify the development of applications spanning multiple social networks is due in the next
Discovery relief mission blasts off tomorrowRelief is at hand for the cross-legged ISS crew in the form of spares for the clapped-out Russian ASU toilet, which have been stowed aboard Space Shuttle Discovery due to blast off tomorrow....
Major studios signed up, claim sourcesApple is rumoured to be on the cusp of launching a movie downloads service through iTunes right here in the UK....
House owner alerted by disappearing foodA Japanese woman has been cuffed for "sneaking into a man's house and living in his closet without him knowing", the AP reports....
Barracuda circles security tools firmSourcefire has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from Barracuda Networks. The firm, which develops a commercial version of Snort, the popular open source intrusion detection tool, said Barracuda's $187m bid "substantially undervalues" Sourcefire....
Should have used Google DocseBay Australia's decision to force customers from next month to use its own payment service, PayPal, has infuriated a good number of individuals and organizations steamed....
HackedFear-mongering hacks at The Daily Mail have been caught mistaking footage from a popular video game series as proof of al-Qaeda's "terrifying vision" for a nuclear attack on Washington....
Coppers called over demo unit downloadFour teens in Palo Alto, California, say they were detained and photographed by an Apple store after they downloaded a third-party application to an iPhone demo unit....
The new beta version 1.1 of the AMD Stream development environment incorporates support for Linux . The software development kit (SDK) allows current AMD graphic chips to be used for carrying out processor-intensive tasks. The new Stream version is already
Apple has done some spring cleaning. Security update 2008-003 and the update to Mac OS X 10.5.3 close a total of 26 security holes. Nine of them could be used to inject arbitrary program code.
Just before midnight on 28 May, crackers calling themselves "KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBK" managed to break into Comcast's Network Solutions account and change its DNS entry to point to a rogue site. Comcast responded swiftly, and the tampered DNS entry
Students at the Ruhr University of Bochum , Germany, say they have found a way to steal security tokens in Microsoft's new CardSpace authentication framework. Attackers can apparently get access to protected, encrypted user data - such as passwords, credit
Google has produced a version of its virtual globe, Google Earth, that runs in a browser. Google is aiming the plug-in at developers, giving them an opportunity to add 3D views of the world to their web sites. It doesn't
