US Assertions that Islamic groups are using video games to recruit are
shown to be untrue, so the US is still the leader at using recruiting games:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31545
Sun licences Microsoft's RDP allowing it to legally connect its new Sun
Ray 2FS terminal as a thin client to a Microsoft server farm:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1959110,00.asp
Ubuntu release a 6.06 beta version of the Flight 7 release, destined for long-term support. Full release expected in June: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperFlight7
Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton says he's checking to see if Linux is
getting buggier, and if it is he'll put kernel development in bug-fix only mode:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8779577691.html
A thoughtful piece on why microkernels are becoming a good idea - as if
they ever were not:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/menuitem.5d61c1d591162e4b0ef1bd108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=computer_level1_article&TheCat=1005&path=computer/homepage/0506&file=cover1.xml&xsl=article.xsl&
Quantum computing researchers manage to read a 12 qubit device, but
can't program it yet:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/pift-1ri050806.php
And finally. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency starts
creating large robots with grippy tentacles they call "Octarms":
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9124-robotic-tentacles-get-to-grips-with-tricky-objects.html
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.