Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, Aug. 2. The company said that it is satisfied with the quality of the "out-of-band" ... (more)

If your government had decided to install a national, open-access fiber-to-the-home network to 93 percent of all residents, if the installation was free, and if the fiber hookup had ... (more)

Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they're using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites. The ... (more)

When it comes to preservation, video games are problematic. Hardware becomes outdated and the media that houses game code becomes obsolete, not to mention the legal issues with emulation. ... (more)

Cutting off internet connections for illegal downloads is akin to cutting off power or phone access, the Commerce Select Committee was told this week. The committee sat this morning ... (more)

The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The lawyer group sued thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly file-shared motion pictures belonging ... (more)

TalkTalk, the UK’s second largest internet service provider, has admitted secretly monitoring the web usage of its 4.2 million customers. The company began generating a list of ... (more)

Account information for millions of Facebook members has been scraped from the social network and published on a BitTorrent site. The names of 100 million Facebook members, along with ... (more)

Android now comes with an API allowing applications to phone home to check for a licence when launched, locking out pirates and anyone with an unreliable data connection. The "Licensing ... (more)

Google did not grab "significant" personal details when collecting data from wi-fi networks, according to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO). The finding came after the ... (more)

It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, ... (more)

A federal appeals court has ordered Virginia’s attorney general to back away from threats of suing a privacy advocate who publishes Social Security numbers of elected officials on ... (more)

Long-video makers can rejoice, as YouTube has extended the allotted time of user uploads from 10 to 15 minutes. According to a Thursday post on YouTube's blog, increasing the limit ... (more)

A local court in far east Russia has banned YouTube as well as four other sites, according to multiple reports. The court, which is in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, ruled that local ... (more)

Last year, a security researcher was forced to cancel his talk scheduled for two hacker conferences about weaknesses in ATM software after the ATM vendor complained. This year the ... (more)

At the Black Hat USA 2010 conference, Microsoft reviewed the impact of several security initiatives, partnered with Adobe to distribute security information, and attempted to promote ... (more)

A High Court has ruled that devices that allow gamers to play pirated video games are illegal in the UK. The ruling specifically targets a range of popular devices which can be used ... (more)

If you need a reminder of just how big China is - and just how important the Internet has become there - consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband ... (more)

A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion ... (more)

A new research breakthrough from Intel combines silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at 50 gigabits per second - and someday, maybe as fast as a terabit per second. The 50-Gbps ... (more)

Music labels want Congress to force radio stations to pay up for the music they play, but radio stations argue that they actually provide necessary publicity for artists. Despite their ... (more)

It is a ruling that teenagers around the world will regard with a certain amount of envy. Parents in one Chinese city are to be prevented from snooping on their children's online activity ... (more)

The results from Ofcoms latest research into UK fixed-line broadband ISP speeds has today been published. The study, conducted in partnership with Samknows (a broadband monitoring specialist), ... (more)

At a crime lab in Dublin, Microsoft's (MSFT) Donal Keating uses a custom-built microscope to take 72 high-resolution images of a counterfeit software disc. Just as police use ballistics ... (more)

The game follows on from the 1998 release of StarCraft, putting the player in command of a group of humans battling for survival against an insect horde and telepathic aliens. The ... (more)

"Looking to please and to be pleased," said the ad, posted on Craigslist's Oklahoma area website in the “casual encounters” category on June 25. It detailed various sex acts the ... (more)

Internet radio star Pandora has topped 60 million users and most new members are joining the service using mobile devices, its founder said Saturday. "We're definitely on a steep ... (more)

The World Trade Organisation has ruled that EU import duties on certain gadgets imported from the US, Japan and Taiwan are illegal. An agreement reached in 1996 removed import tariffs ... (more)

Twenty-five years ago on July 23, a new personal computer was unveiled at a black-tie, celebrity-studded gala at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York's Lincoln Center. It debuted ... (more)

Today, OnStar and General Motors announced a plan to bring mobile phone-based controls to 2011 Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC automobiles. The service will be included in OnStar's ... (more)