Two U.S. agencies tasked with distributing $7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants and loans over the next 15 months have released an official list of funding rules, imposing net-neutrality clauses on grant applicants. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9135081&source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-07-02

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Unless all the mice actually did survive, in which case, I guess you shrug, report the result, open a split of the good champagne and proceed to human trials, as these folks are apparently doing. http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Global-Challenges/So-Goes-Cancer-Not-with-a-Bang-but-a-Whimper/?kc=STNL07022009STR3

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Paglo announced a new service that lets IT send and store logs in the cloud. Logs can be searched and analyzed on demand. Paglo Logs is a new SaaS application that lets IT administrators transfer logs into Paglo’s data center. Paglo stores and indexes the logs, making them available to authorized users for instantaneous search [...]

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Zer01 Mobile has launched its nationwide mobile voice and data service, and the company said it can compete with the major carriers by offering unlimited voice, text, and data plans for about $70 a month. The company purchases mobile data connections from GSM carriers in the United States, and it uses that to provide Voice [...]

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U.S. District Court Judge George Wu granted a defense motion for a directed acquittal of Lori Drew, 50, who was convicted last November on three misdemeanor counts of unauthorized computer access. After reviewing transcripts of the case, Wu overturned the jury’s verdict, saying that if Drew were found guilty then anyone who violated MySpace’s terms [...]

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Whether you want to target politicians, your employers, or companies that have done you wrong, there are a variety of sites across the Web that will help you voice your complaints. But beware that not all of them will actually solve those problems. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10278209-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 https://tips.fbi.gov is the one that I used to use.

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Due to now living in a KMS-enabled world, at least on the Intel and ATI side (the NVIDIA side is still slowly but surely coming via Nouveau), it’s rather easy to get the X Server running without any special rights. Intel’s Jesse Barnes explains on the X.Org mailing list that only a small patch is [...]

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Well, it really seems as if Psystar is committed to continue its business, no matter what. The company entered chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, and many wondered if this meant the end of the clone maker and the legal case between Apple and Psystar. Well, today the clone maker announced that it is emerging [...]

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Beijing-based KnownSec gathered the viruses and other information with a crawler that scans nearly 2 million Chinese Web sites each day, Zhao Wei, CEO of the security company, said in an interview in Beijing. He planned to give a presentation on the subject at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) security conference [...]

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Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now. Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, pictured in an artist’s rendition above, with a mass at least [...]

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