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Category: Technology

  • Firefox Preview Release 1.0

    I downloaded Firefox PR1 the other day, and as much as I liked the previous versions, this version surpasses them all. Not only to I have the option of tabbed browsing, popup blocker built in and assorted other handy things, but a built in RSS detector and aggregator now too. Go get it.

  • Passport radio chips send too many signals

    Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.”, writes in todays IHT. He discusses the future use of RFID technology in passports. I think he is right to be wary of technology that is not as secure as it should be. This is a very…

  • Using GMail to Blog

    Ah what a great twist in the tale of blogging. Using the 1000Mb of free Google Mail storage to host your own blog. Wonderful. I have a GMail account, just not really bothered about using it.

  • Wikipedia != Authoritative?

    Slashdot covers some recent controversy about how reliable Wikipedia is. I have often wondered just how accurate some of the coverage is, and the fact that five errors inserted over five days and all of them stayed there until they were removed by the author at the end of the experiment, is pretty damning. But…

  • Microsoft's War on Bugs

    Wired have an interview with Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s security program manager. He admits to using Mozilla Firefox. At least he has some balls I guess. Does anyone with sense use Internet Explorer anymore anyway?

  • Five photons linked

    Quantum computing another step closer: error correction. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have entangled five photons. “Our experiment demonstrated for the first time the ability to manipulate five-particle entanglement,” said Jianwei Pan, a physics professor at the…

  • Grokster Wins in Appeals Court

    An important decision has been reached. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Grokster (along with other vendors of decentralized P2P systems) is not liable for the copyright infringement of its users. Today’s decision upholds a lower court decision, which had been appealed by a group of music and movie companies. The Court…

  • Breakthrough Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Digital Data Storage Disks

    A 100 terabyte 3.5inch disk? Yes, and in the forseeable future…And the technology it uses: The small size of ferroelectric transparent structures makes it possible to fabricate nano-optical devices, such as volume holographic storage, having both positive and negative index of refraction that will allow molecular particles of an atomic size to be modified, controlled,…

  • New Statesman XML

    Congrats to the New Statesman, they have added XML feeds! http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscontents.xml http://www.newstatesman.com/nsfronthalf.xml http://www.newstatesman.com/nsfreetoview.xml http://www.newstatesman.com/nsbackhalf.xml Man I love Sharpreader.

  • North Korean hybrid missiles 'could threaten US'

    New Scientist is reporting that North Korea may be developing sea-based nuclear weapons: Ballistic missiles capable of striking the US mainland are being developed by North Korea from decommissioned Soviet hardware, according to a UK military journal. The report in Jane’s Defence Weekly suggests North Korea has modified technology used in old Soviet submarines to…