The International Herald Tribune reveals that “[h]aving nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, the popular online hangout Facebook is about to undergo a housecleaning. Visitors who cannot stand the clutter that has been piling up will be glad to see that the [...]
Those of us who thought maybe Free Software was all about love and peace and breaking with the "tyranny" of copyright and other intellectual property might have been surprised by four recent heavily publicized lawsuits filed by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of BusyBox, a lightweight set [...]
The Register reveals that “[a] new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack.” The [...]
SFGate.com reveals that “[m]any Californians don't understand how businesses are using and selling their personal information, according to a report released today by the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley. The survey found that people tend to assume their information is protected from being sold when [...]
CNetNews.com has a great interview on “the constant search for disruption” with Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, California. AP reports that “Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative [...]