An article from Wired describes a recent bill that has made it through committee and in to the full assembly in California which would require that subpoenas made to ISPs for user information be forwarded to the customer within 14 days of receipt and that the customer have 30 days …

Apple apparently had a bug in their AppleID (used for common log in to Apple's services, including the new Apple Music Store). The bug enabled a crafty web surfer to change the password on any user's account with merely their email address as the key. The folks at Wired report …

A thought-provoking article from Wired give a number of different people's take on the appointment of Nuala O'Connor Kelly (formerly of DoubleClick) to the position of Chief Privacy Officer at the Department of Homeland Security. The reviews so far are mixed, but she hasn't really had the opportunity to do …

An interesting article from The Ottawa Citizen has a Canadian interpretation of the latest comments by the US in a recent terrorism action report. In it, the US claims that Canada could be doing more to curb terrorism and sites lack of police and overly-protective privacy laws as part of …

With all of the discussion around these days about The Santa Cruz Organization (SCO) suing people over using bits of UnixWare in their Linux, at least one company, SuSE is claiming that they have an existing cross-license agreement with SCO that will protect them from the legal assaults. According to …

An interesting contest comparing the results of optimization by hand and optimization by optimizing compilers. I'll spare you the suspense, the article shows that the human is a better optimizer than the machine.

Looking for a Macintosh developer? Or are you a developer looking for somebody to hire you? The Mac Developer Directory may be the place for you.

40 teams will be competing in the American Open on the way to the international RoboCup (to be held in Italy this coming July). The contest pits teams of robots against each other to see who comes out on top in a soccer game. Coverage of the event is from …

It's plugged in to your phone and it's displaying stuff on your TV anyway, so why not? The most recent upgrade downloaded to UltimateTV boxes has this feature. If you haven't turned it on, give it a whirl. It's pretty cool. Settings in the Preference section.

With the growing concern about privacy and security for online services and databases, security engineers are using a series of fake data to catch the errant crackers. Much of this isn't news or new, but the term "honeytokens" appears to be. Coined earlier this year on a mailing list, it …

Friday saw a larger-than-normal group headed out to see the first major action film of 2003, X2. In the end, I ended up enjoying the film on a number of levels and I'm certain the rest of the crew did as well. However, if you are looking for the one …

An article in the Seattle Times speculates that Sun's price surge on Friday was predicated on their being open to acquisition. The paper speculated that IBM, HP, and Dell may be the suitors. My question is: Will IBM buy them in order to (among other things) take Java to where …

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is on the warpath and they are now preparing all sorts of "special ops" to attack their enemies (the consumer). An article on the New York Times site describes a set of technologies and techniques (many of them believed to be illegal under …

For Amateur Radio enthusiasts who are interested in communicating using voice over the internet, check out EchoMac from Dog Park Software. It integrates with the EchoLink service (available for PCs originally) and seems to work pretty well. Particularly nice for those of us wimps who only have our technician's license …

Airostep has a series of programs and services that allow Macintoshes to communicate with SMS, MMS, and other GSM- style mobile services. Check out XMobile, which sends SMS messages to over 100 services. I haven't used it, and it appears to require the Airostep service, but it looks very nice …

Check out Terrabrowser from Chimoosoft, it allows you to look at the USGS satellite and topo maps from Microsoft's TerraServer.

It isn't much surprise, but here is the first article I've seen (from Wired) that has evidence of the decline of DSL prices under the pressure of the cable companies.

"It's a beautiful day on my asteroid... a beautiful day.." er.. maybe not. However, an article on MSNBC is reporting that asteroid #26858 is now Misterrogers.

An article on The San Francisco Chronicle shows that the Motion Picture Association of America (industry organization) is outrunning the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a digital privacy and rights advocacy organization). This should be of concern to everyone.

As part of their ongoing attempt to sue their way to profitability, The Santa Cruz Organization is now claiming that they have found code that has been copied "line by line" from their UnixWare source (acquired from Novell who acquired it from AT&T). As a hedge, they claim that …