There are many popular BitTorrent sites on the Internet that are sorely missed when they go offline, but of course, the larger the site, the larger the disappointment.One major site having serious technical issues at the moment is Demonoid. At the beginning of September, TorrrentFreak reported that the Ukranian-based site would go down for possib [...]
Archive for September, 2009
All search results shows a few lines of text to giving us an idea of what the page is about, a “search snippet.” Recently, Google enhanced this search snippet with two new features that make it easier to find information buried deep within a page. Read more…
It’s Google’s 11th birthday on Sunday, September 27th: to celebrate, the company has changed its logo to a version that turns the letter “L” into the number 11. The logo is already viewable in Europe. Read more…
A California federal judge has ordered Google to temporarily de-activate a Gmail account after a bank mistakenly sent sensitive data to the account. U.S. Read more…
Graphing calculators have long inspired geeks. But, sadly, rather than celebrating the hobbyists that love their programmable calculators, Texas Instruments has set the lawyers loose on them, invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Researchers used distributed computing to perform a brute-force cryptanalysis of the public keys… Read more…
In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature’s hardiest creatures — the ant. Read more…
Social networking website Twitter confirms it has closed a “significant round of funding” from five investment firms. Read more…
Europe’s planned rover mission ExoMars is given an “eye-test” b y its engineers at a quarry in the south of England. Read more…
A judge postpones a settlement hearing between Google and US authors and publishers after a raft of objections. Read more…
NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this image of Earth’s moon. It is a three-color composite of reflected near-infrared radiation from the sun, and illustrates the extent to which different materials are mapped across the side of the moon that faces Earth. Small amounts of water [...]