Groklaw publishes an article on how to find prior art for patent-busting. Could
be useful to the fight against Microsoft's XML patent:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050512082946871
The use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer now drops to 88.9% in the US, as
the main contender - Firefox, 6.8% - shows it can be patched in a timely manner:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Microsoft_Internet_Explorer_market_share_drops_below_90_percent_in_U.S.
The entire editorial staff of LinuxWorld resign in protest at the lack of
journalistic ethics from Sys-Con Media following the atack by Ms. M. O'Gara:
http://turner.linuxworld.com/read/1278212.htm
http://dee.linuxworld.com/read/1278292.htm
Reports that hyper-threading on Pentium 4 and Xeon CPUs has a flaw that allows
unprivileged users to steal RSA private keys:
http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/
A loophole is found in the IPsec protocol that allows a successful
man-in-the-middle attack to be mounted:
http://news.com.com/Flaw+found+in+VPN+crypto+security/2100-1002_3-5705185.html?part=rss&tag=5705185&subj=news
Tritton bring out a USB 2.0 SVGA adaptor, the TRI-UV100. Plug in a second
screen to your laptop or mini-Mac:
http://i4u.shopping.com/xPF-SEE2_USB_2_0_To_VGA_SVGA_Adapter
And finally. For those wine affectionados paying 4-figure sums for a bottle, a
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) scanner has bene developed. Fits one bottle:
http://www.primidi.com/2005/05/14.html#a1193
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.