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Sex offenders who live in the state of Georgia have lost a lot more privacy. A new law that went into effect today requires all offenders not only give authorities their Internet email address...

Brad Sams · Jan 1, 2009 · Hot! with 40 comments

Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher...

Chakkaradeep Chandran · Dec 19, 2008 · Hot! with 7 comments

ABOUT 10,000 Victorian children aged 10 to 14 have been cautioned by police, arrested or ordered to appear in court in the past year, as a surge in youth crime continues. Victoria Police say the...

James Hall · Aug 5, 2008 · Hot! with 44 comments

Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack....

Steven Parker · Jun 11, 2008 · Hot! with 11 comments

Microsoft may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline. In yet another sign of the market's resistance to Windows...

Steven Parker · Apr 25, 2008 · Hot! with 91 comments

Hackers literally turned out the lights in "several regions outside the United States" after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue told utility engineers at...

· Jan 19, 2008 · Hot! with 23 comments

Orwell, eat your heart out: between ads for hamburgers and liposuction, several giant digital billboards on the street flashed an image of Oscar Finch's face taken by a surveillance camera. However, the young man wasn't...

· Dec 13, 2007 · Hot! with 8 comments

It's no secret that printer manufacturers such as HP, Canon, Lexmark, and the rest of the crowd sell their printers for little to no profit in order to attract initial buyers. The real profit comes...

Christopher Vendemio · Jul 2, 2007 · Hot! with 40 comments

In the first quarter of 2007, security firm Sophos PLC identified 23,864 new malware threats, more than double the 9,450 the company found in the same period last year. The company's report said this growth...

· Apr 25, 2007 with -1 comments

The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to easily convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget. Compared to Vista's Gadget library's relatively meager 275 gadgets, Google Gadgets for...

· Feb 6, 2007 · Hot! with 4 comments

Dolby. That's all I have to say and you think of "audio" and "surround sound". What's that company up to recently? Dolby Volume: a technology that equalizes the volume across all audio coming out of...

· Jan 18, 2007 · Hot! with 30 comments

European security software makers are closely, but quietly, watching as Microsoft enters their turf. Companies such as F-Secure, Panda Software and Sophos are taking a low-key approach, unlike their U.S. counterparts. Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec, in...

Steven Parker · Sep 28, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Skype on Thursday announced cordless phones that do not require a running computer to use its Voice over Internet Protocol services. The new class of phones lets users make and receive Skype calls over...

· Sep 1, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

It sounds crazy, but one Canadian net-junky has managed to swap his way to owning his own house, starting out with a simple red paper clip. Kyle MacDonald, 26, took a year to swap 16...

· Jul 11, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

AMD are reportedly working on a sort of 'Anti-Hyperthreading', which could allow multiple physical CPU cores to emulate one physical core. The problem with dual (and soon quad) core processors like the AMD X2 range...

Joe Cashman · Apr 17, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

2006 WILL BE quite the interesting year on the desktop CPU front, with the year starting out firmly in AMD's grasp, and ending in Intel's. If both sides execute on their CPU roadmaps, and that...

Steven Parker · Dec 30, 2005 with -1 comments

Developers using Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft popular Visual Studio .Net software engineering suite were today offered a plug-in that allows them to code Web applications forLinux Latest News about Linux. Referred to as...

· Jul 5, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

Microsoft's Peter Moore says his company's slimmed-down next-gen console will feature a software lineup more in line with the country's tastes. In an interview with Nikkei Business Express, Peter Moore, Microsoft's corporate...

· Oct 5, 2004 with -1 comments

Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch TV on your GBA? Now you can at a pretty low price of Â£10.99. For this price you also get an AV in/out so you...

· Jun 21, 2004 with -1 comments

Recycling a TV or PC monitor has always been somewhat expensive. Mainly due to the long and tedious process involved (separation of recyclable goods). Now a laser technique that can separate materials in...

· Jun 15, 2004 with -1 comments

Intel will ship its Grantsdale chipset this summer with the wireless features turned off by default in an attempt to prevent the spread of unsecured access points. One of the features of Grantsdale is its...

· May 19, 2004 with -1 comments

One in four UK small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use Linux, and more than than half think it robust enough for mission-critical applications, according to a new study. Two in five of the 200...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 8, 2003 with -1 comments

Now geeks can get girls numbers by hacking them :D - ed A potential loophole in security for Bluetooth phones, which could see strangers hacking into your address books, has been...

Tom Warren · Nov 17, 2003 with -1 comments

This is a mod of all mods for the GameBoy Advance. Essentially converting it into a game console with an ability to attach a joystick, output video to a TV or an RGB monitor, and...

· Sep 29, 2003 with -1 comments

Superb- when do we get the cheques! "After the bubble years in which Internet publications burned through a phenomenal amount of other people's money, web journalism is starting to take off. It may...

· Apr 21, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks xStainDx...Well, although not all RADEONs are mod-friendly and we can do nothing about it, we can try to reduce the risks to damage a graphics card when trying to turn the RADEON 9500 into...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 13, 2003 with -1 comments

IXBT REPORTS, based on overclockers.ru, that it's possible to perform modifications to the Radeon 9500 to turn it into a Radeon 9700. There's Russian text and some diagrams about this claim, here . ...

· Jan 5, 2003 with -1 comments

Ever wanted to really really really annoy the neighbours? Good! Heres how. Slashdot posted this nice article on how to build your own sub-woofer - and boy does it look cool! Definatly worth a look:...

· Sep 22, 2002 with -1 comments

For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, who says he's a male college student and declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and...

· Apr 25, 2002 with -1 comments

Warp2search (Thanks Bob) are running a follow up to the story that kind of re-surfaced again this week "Creative Soundblaster Audigy a fake?". They have managed to find a chinese site and translate the main...

Steven Parker · Mar 7, 2002 with -1 comments

From the people who started the graphical user interface revolution, invented the mouse, heck you may as well say the "whole ball of wax", comes news that Xerox will finally turn its famed Palo Alto...

· Dec 11, 2001 with -1 comments

Teens and young adults are flocking to the Web for health-related information as much as they are downloading music and playing games online and more often than shopping online, according to a national survey from...

· Dec 11, 2001 with -1 comments