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Microsoft takes 3 months to patch the latest headline vulnerability in its 'safe' browser only for a security researcher to reveal another huge hole as the patch is being released. Nice. When will the hoi polloi realize it is time to dump this pile of steaming code?

Having already arrived pretty late to the 'freedom is important party' to make threats it cannot actually follow through without committing commercial suicide, Google now discovers that kicking China in the Android nuts is a Steve Martin/Iron Balls McGinty scenario.

What do you get if you combine a computer company with a group of Vegans and someone who used to present a popular children's TV show? The less than obvious answer is a Linux computer designed especially for old people.

Now that's what I call an Android phone. Actually, that's what I call an Android phone that might just kick some iPhone @ss.

According to one leading security research lab, Windows 7 is vulnerable to an astonishing 8 out of 10 viruses it was exposed to during testing. But wait a minute, just how astonishing is this, really?

Microsoft has filed for a patent for ‘Time-Based Licenses’ and the application abstract reveals this to be a method and system for “issuing a number of different types of time-based licenses associated with software products”.

[So if you can't make your Windows payments on time they turn your computer into a paperweight and/or make it illegal to use? - Scott]

It's always fun to stand and watch as two big names slug it out, and they don't come much bigger than Microsoft. Sophos, it has to be said, is no small fry either when it comes to the world of IT Security. So when a Sophos blog posting from it's Chief Technology Office, Richard Jacobs, started with the playground taunt equivalent of 'I've been kissing your mum' by saying "Windows 7's planned XP compatibility mode risks undoing much of the progress that Microsoft has made on the security front in the last few years and reveals the true colours of the OS giant" you kind of new things would get nasty, and quick.

A lot has been said across the web about how this will affect Microsoft's market share. An equal amount has been said about how damaging this will be to Linux in the netbook market. It could push the Mac even further into the minority system ghetto. None of this even touches what's going to be Google's biggest problem if it goes ahead with the announcement as planned...

Facing up to 70 years in a US prison, self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon is now getting desperate as extradition beckons.

It would appear that spam has managed to hit a new low by reaching a new high, and what a high: up 5.4 percent on the previous month to peak at representing some 90.4 percent of all email by volume. That really does suck elephants through a straw backwards, only 1 in every 10 emails not being some unwanted junk mailing. Sigh.

Adobe confirms zero day vulnerability in all shipping versions of Acrobat and Reader, on all platforms including Unix - so is it time to leave Adobe behind and find an alternative which is not on the bad guy radar yet?

As a security consultant gets four years in prison for helping to build a botnet which infected a quarter million computers, his IT company boss says he will give him a job when he is released.

[I guess if you want "the best" you have to wait for them right? ;-) - Scott]

Steven Sinofsky, the Senior Vice President for the Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, in an attempt to quell a beta tester rebellion over a perceived lack of feedback concerning bug reporting has made an astonishing confession: Windows 7 has at least 2000 bugs.

Apple has had marked success with the 'I'm a Mac' advertising campaigns, and Microsoft is back banging it's head against a seeming brick wall of indifference with the ongoing 'I'm a PC' marketing drive that has featured both Bill Gates and Steve 'Monkey Dancer' Ballmer. Now, it would appear, that the Linux Foundation is feeling left out and so has decided to join in the fun with an 'I'm Linux' advertising run.

A public beta has started for the latest version of the BBC iPlayer desktop download manager which supports Linux, Mac and Windows. This represents a huge, and hugely overdue, move forward for the BBC which previously only allowed Windows users to download programmes using the iPlayer.

The T-Mobile G1 has been jailbroken, or at least root has been obtained in a few simple steps to provide full read and write system access to the device. It's easier than you might imagine.

Steve Ballmer is many things: Microsoft CEO, 43rd richest person on the planet, monkey dancing video star. Wikipedia says that he has "been known to be very passionate in expressing his enthusiasm." We have 10 reasons to suggest he should be in a rubber room eating soft fruit...

You wait ages, well minutes, for a new open source web browser client then a bunch all come along at once. So what's new in Firefox Shiretoko Alpha 2 then?

"To the degree that Linux on the traditional desktop succeeds, it will need to approach the Apple Mac in usability and attract more graphic designers for design"

The Open Source Security Study has just been published and reveals that some of the most widely-used open source software used within the business environment are leaving users exposed to a "significant and unnecessary business risk."