Alan Brown makes a short response to the news that ORBS is shutting down.

Andrew Orlowski discusses a report commissioned by the US military about open source and free software.

The MS patch intended to fix a data binding flaw in IE, which enables a script to call executables on your Windows machine using the object tag, does not protect against malicious files launched from a local directory.

Does Redmond fear Linux is ready for prime time?

News article reporting an issue with Mandrake 9.2 and LG CD drives which causes drive firmware to be blanked.

Version 8.1 passes the Register's "Harry Homeowner" test with flying colors.

Japan's consumer electronics and computing giants - and Toshiba - are to co-operate on the development of Linux-based embedded operating system for CE devices.

An attacker can run arbitrary commands on Windows machines with a simple bit of HTML, an Israeli security researcher has demonstrated. The exploit will work with IE, Outlook and Outlook Express even if active scripting and ActiveX are disabled in the ...

Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam.

Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.