Australian Democrats table a motion that makes software companies liable
for $10,000 fines for spreading spyware:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Democrats-seek-to-outlaw-spyware/2005/05/12/1115843300334.html?oneclick=true
Sun and Microsoft cooperate further on their Web Single Sign-On Metadata
Exchange, and support of Java under Windows:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3504976
Microsoft still have not decided if the Xbox 360 will be backwards compatible.
If not, games for it will be in short supply:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050514-4904.html
Out of 300 invalid security certificate alerts presented to BankDirect web
customers, only one backed out of the transaction:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/FCC8B6B48B24CDF2CC2570020018FF73?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
HP To offer laptops installed with Ubuntu Linux, with paid support from
Canonical, but only in Europe, the Middle East and Africa:
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050512_124421.html
Greasemonkey allows the virtual embedding of user DHTML scripts inside remote
web pages, allowing the user to customise any web page:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
The Xbox 360's triple-core, dual-threaded PowerPC gives the machine a teraflop
of performance:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163101760
Flocks of flying Linux clusters are the aim of Gridswarm and Ultraswarm, using
small fixed and rotary wing unmanned aircraft:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2142584362.html
Space weather warning issued - a K 9 event, which is the highest magnitiude
warning issued. Expect power and satellite disturbances:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2437.htm
And finally. Hong Kong experiences the invasion of the bun-snatchers:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8494273
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.