The Register reports that the “Russian Business Network (RBN) - the [c]ontroversial hosting firm fingered by many as a nexus of malware exploits and cybercrime more generally - has suddenly dropped offline.  According to Trend Micro, the Register says, “the infamous network dropped off the net at around 0200 GMT [...]

According to the International Herald Tribune, Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony Tuesday at a heated U.S. congressional hearing on the company's role in jailing the man.  Members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs repeatedly attacked Yang [...]

Slashdot writes that “[a]n Arizona State University researcher named Michael Kozicki claims that nanotechnology will replace disk drives in ten years. The article mentions three approaches: Nanowires (which replace electrons/capacitors), multiple memory layers on silicon (instead of a single layer), and a method that stores multiple pieces of information in [...]

The Seattle Times reports that “[h]igh-tech workers [in the U.S.] on federal permits are speaking out — many for the first time — over rules that leave them in personal and professional limbo. […] Legal immigrants who feel squeezed by limits on the number of green cards issued each year [...]

An article on c|net yesterday exclaimed that “Red Hat voices concern over Microsoft patent Model”.  Apparently, Red Hat is not altogether satisfied with Neelie Kroes’s announcement that Microsoft would offer a licensing discount of over 99.3% for patents related to interoperability.  Presumably, nothing short of $0 would suffice. Is this [...]