Eye-O-Sauronâ¢ spy towers still buggy
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DHS huddled masses tracker further delayed The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s plan to build hundreds of all-seeing networked surveillance towers along American borders has run into further problems. The project in question is the technology portion of the Secure Borders Initiative (SBI).â¦
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A program that offers a special security checkpoint for frequent travelers hasnât rolled out at nearly the pace originally predicted.
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By Carilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Scripps Howard News Service. Natalia Rudiak of Carrick could not figure out why her trusted laptop was acting sluggish and sometimes unresponsive.
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The new PlayStation 2 game makes ingenious use of the gimmicky EyeToy controller, but glitches and repetition keep it from taking off. By Chris Kohler.
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Windows update doesn't play well with all applications, even Redmond's. Also: CNET Reviews on security work still to be done.
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Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited. In Monkey Bites.
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More bundled software madness A second bug in HP laptop utilities creates a means for hackers to turn PCs into "unbootable" bricks.â¦
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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Adobe's Creative Suite 3 programs are not fully tested with 'Leopard.'
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Bug Labs moves closer to shipping. Yesterday they announced pricing for their component, open source gadget hardware kit.  NY Times: "Neuros Technology International, creator of a new video recorder, has decided to go in a different direction. The company, based in Chicago, is providing full documentation of the hardware platform for its recorder, the Neuros OSD (for open source device), so that skilled users can customize or 'hack' the device -- and then pass along the improvements to others." Phil Torrone, a longtime champion of open source hardware, must be happy. Me, who's always looking for, and never finding the perfect podcast player, has more hope if the users get to develop the products.
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In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby.  I also promised I&#8217;d follow up on them.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on so far.
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PC Magazine - Opinion: CPUs, like software, have always had bugs. The security implications of this are a relatively new problem, and open-source users may be at a disadvantage.
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From screens that mysteriously black out to search that's limited by default, here are the things that really bug us about Microsoft's new operating system.
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Update fixes crashes caused by incompatibility with hidden advertising app.
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Company is still fiddling with its "trusted" PC security technology but says some version of it will be in new Windows.
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Tycho:  It's floating around now, out there on the Wub, and it calls to you.  Or maybe it does, I don't actually know.  In any case, it can be got from 3D Downloads, the Fileplanets, GamersHell, or WorthDownloading.  Download it from mulltiple sites simultaneously for a naughty thrill.  God only knows how this would run on my Vista rig at home, but it's a Vista rig, so you can probably guess.  (CW)TB
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Release makes tweaks in performance and stability, but there's still another beta to come before launch of server OS.