Cake resignation
Tendering your cake of resignation lets you leave on a sweet note. Add comment
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Jaiku open sourced
One-time Twitter competitor Jaiku has been open sourced. Add comment
Don’t forget the baby
A horrific, moving report of parents forgetting their babies in the car, a uniquely modern tragedy. Add comment
Jurors tweets may cause mistrial
Pro Tip: Don’t tweet from the jury. Add comment
BBC Click buys botnet
BBC Click buys botnet as part of ongoing investigation. And you Americans thought AIG was wasting your money. Add comment
What does Apple’s little headphone chip do?
CrunchGear is reporting the discovery of a little chip in Apple’s new Shuffle headphone control module — stamped 8A83E3 — that has no documented use in standard part identification channels. We are nothing if not curious, and the lack of information has led to rampant speculation. Is it a DRM chip? Is it merely a […] Add comment
Happy (now official) Pi Day
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring March 14, 2009 (3.14) to be National Pi Day. It encourages schools to engage students “about the study of mathematics” and Pi in particular. How they will do this on a Saturday I do not know. Somehow, it received bipartisan support. To observe this holiday here […] Add comment
Domain dollar store
Think all the good domains are taken? Think again! Add comment
Folding@Home: new projects, new core
Stanford released a new series of work units for the GPU clients. They’re already in use if the client has the -advmethods flag enabled. The new series is 5900 and up. These new work units should reduce the GPU load temperature due to a redesigned process core, Core_14. The new core has rewritten mathematics that […] Add comment
YouTube blocks Britain’s music
As of Monday, YouTube will be blocking Britain’s access to music videos after they failed to reach an agreement with Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music. YouTube said in their blog that PRS was asking for a considerable increase in the royalties they were required to pay. The result was Google’s removal of access for […] Add comment
Layer Tennis: analog
Coudal’s next Layer Tennis match this afternoon will be dueled on paper. Add comment
Details on the ATI Radeon HD 4890
It is not a 40nm part. It is not the RD790 core. There is no RD790 core. It’s 20% faster than the 4870. The 4890 requires minor PCB rejiggering. It may be a new stepping of the RD770 core (HD 4000 series). That is all, so saith the Inq. Add comment
OLPC project encourages Microsoft to port Windows
Friday calls for libations and lulz. Let’s kick the afternoon hours off on an amusing note with the OLPC project’s request that Microsoft port Windows to support the ARM architecture. The request is precipitated by the project’s shift to ARM with the XO-2 model in some 18 months. Current OLPC laptops employ the 5w AMD […] Add comment
BitDefender releases Conficker vaccination
Conficker is a nasty and enterprising worm that has spawned a $250k bounty for the author’s capture and at least one variant that has evaded the efforts of security firms. The race to defeat Conficker may be at an end, however, as Romanian anti-virus vendor BitDefender has announced a tool that will identify and remove […] Add comment
Fallon recruits the web
Anyone else noticed how quickly Jimmy Fallon has brought the web onboard the new Late Show? Add comment
Visualizing SXSW
It’s almost like being there (no it’s not). SXSW tweet visualizer. (What’s SXSW?) Add comment
Liveblog your home breakin
What should you do when someone breaks into your house? Probably live blog it and turn on the webcam. Duh. (via Waxy) Add comment
Group of UK artists oppose criminal penalties for music sharing
A new group known as the Featured Artists Coalition has brought some 140 UK music artists together to develop a charter of musician rights. In addition to specifying that artists should own their own works, the charter also opposes criminal penalties for those accused of downloading music illegally. The group does contain some fairly notable […] Add comment
Stupid password use
Survey by Sohpos reveals 33% of people use the same damn password everywhere. If you’re guilty, FIX IT NAO. (via H) Add comment
Windows 7 x86-32 build 7057 appears
These builds just keep the ball rolling, don’t they? This torrent appeared late Tuesday night on through early Wednesday, but we’re just now getting around to sounding the alert that build 7057 is in the wild. While we don’t know what changes have snuck into this release, we can only assume that this build contains […] Add comment
More changes emerge for Windows 7 RC1
Microsoft is clearly hard at work tinkering with the Windows 7 codebase to prepare it for the first release candidate. The firm already outlined 36 new and altered features back in February, and now Microsoft is back for another round in a recent blog post. The most interesting thing about this new batch of changes […] Add comment
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