If you know any Norwegian-speaking hackers, give them a call and let them know that we’ve got a job for them. The man who maintained the archives at Norway’s National Center of Language and Culture recently died — having never divulged the password to the computer system that houses the archive. Not to anybody. So […]

If this is true, it looks like someone has got a hell of a lot of explaining to do: CNN.com – Bush briefed on hijacking threat before September 11

Hey kids… If you’re a user of the popular file-sharing program Kazaa, you need to know this. CNet News.com is reporting that the makers of the software, Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE), have embedded software within Kazaa that turns your PC into part of a distributed stealth network that BDE can activate to host any kind […]

For all the brouhaha that has surrounded the Microsoft antitrust trial, it’s a little surprising that there isn’t more mention of the other great monopoly in the PC industry — the CPU headlock held by Intel Corp. Over the years, over 15 companies have challenged Intel’s dominance in this sector, and each one has gone […]

My congratulations go out to the New England Patriots, whose 20-17 victory over the St. Louis Rams in Sunday’s Super Bowl XXXVI showed us all how determination and creativity can overcome all sorts of handicaps. Consider: here was a team that was universally considered a sure loser, whose coach even admitted in pregame interviews that […]

When is a CD not a CD? When it doesn’t play in a CD player, duh.