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I know – I’m boring. For my primary desktop I stick with the released version of OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111b) and I live vicariously through all you cowboys out there that run along the edge. The development builds of OpenSolaris provide access to some great new features, but they also commonly bring with them some great [...]

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Recipients are told they are due a tax refund and asked to fill in an online form with bank or credit card details. Victims have their accounts emptied or card limits used, and risk having the details sold to other criminal gangs. Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has warned taxpayers not to respond to the “phishing” [...]

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Togo have been banned from the next two Africa Cup of Nations following their withdrawal from this year’s tournament. The Confederation of African football (Caf) also fined the Hawks $50,000 for quitting the competition in the wake of a gun attack on the team bus in Angola. Two members of their delegation were killed in [...]

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The plane, provisionally called T-50, is the country’s first fighter jet based on the stealth technology and is viewed by military experts as the Russian answer to the American F-35 and F-22 jets. The flight lasted for 47 minutes and was successful, being piloted by Sergei Bogdan, one of Russia’s best test pilots, Sukhoi corporation [...]

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Mozilla has officially released the first mobile Firefox, a condensed version of the popular open-source browser that runs on Nokia’s Maemo platform. Codenamed ‘Fennec,’ Firefox 1.0 for Maemo was previously available only as a beta. Mozilla calls this the first mobile web browser to accomodate add-ons – long a staple of the Firefox desktop browser. [...]

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Underscoring a little-known web vulnerability, hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat. Using a piece of javascript embedded into a web link, the hackers force users of the open-source browser to join IRC networks and flood [...]

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I wish I had written this comment but I didn’t. === AL154 Genius_badge said, about 14 hours ago IF AL GORE HAD BEEN BORN BEFORE 1912 GLOBAL WARMING COULD HAVE SAVED THE TITANIC!

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Security companies are warning consumers and Web site operators to be wary of iPad related search scams. “This is just the kind of opportunity fraudsters like to exploit by poisoning search terms,” said Symantec’s Candid Wueest. Wueest also warned about “iPad-related spam and phishing attacks hitting consumers hard over the coming weeks.” In an interview, [...]

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Nobody spoke above a whisper as we waited for the first glimpse in half a century of one of the world’s most extraordinary gems. The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond was last seen in public at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels. After that, it disappeared and its whereabouts remained a mystery until Laurence Graff, a billionaire diamond [...]

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