Another Mozilla developer jumps ship to Google

A second member of the Mozilla development team has announced he is taking a job at Google. Darin Fisher, who manages the cookie and permissions sections of the browser development, has written in his blog that he is to join the search engine. He follows fellow open source browser developer Ben Goodger who announced his departure for Googleearlier this week. ...more

Robot submarines continue their advance across the world's oceans

The Met Office has announced that it is halfway towards its goal of a network of 3,000 robot submarines patrolling the world's oceans. The Argo Programme now has 1,500 of the planned instruments at sea - known as Argo Floats - with the aim of monitoring the salinity and temperature of the oceans. Each Argo drifts beneath the waves at a depth of between 1,000 to 2,000 metres. ...more

British hacker faces US extradition

A British man accused of causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to US military computer systems has been granted bail prior to extradition hearings. Gary McKinnon, 39, an unemployed computer systems administrator from Wood Green in North London was arrested on Tuesday. He appeared in court yesterday following a request by the American authorities that he should be extradited to the United States to face charges of hacking into Pentagon computers. ...more

NEC-Mitsubishi launch budget-priced TFTs

NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics has introduced a new range of 15in TFT screens starting from ?289 excluding VAT. The three models: the Multisync LCD1550V, Multisync LCD1550M and Multisync LCD1550X replace the LCD1530V, LCD1525M and LCD1525X respectively and are certified to the ISO-13406-2 standard, ensuring a minimum number of dead and faulty pixels. The units also come with a native resolution of 1,024x768 - a lot of detail to pack into a 15in screen - which is why they come ready with LiquidView software, allowing the user to adjust the size of navigational items such as dropdown menus, icons and shortcuts to make them easier to see. ...more

ISPs struggle under the burden of worm-generated traffic

The costs of handling virus-infected traffic is growing by nearly 30 per cent each year and will cost European ISPs about €160mn next year, according to figures from Sandvine. The network company reckons that around 5 per cent of all Internet traffic handled by ISPs is 'malicious', rising dramatically in the event of fast spreading worms such as the network aware Sasser. But it's not just the volume of infected traffic generated by virus outbreaks, denial of service attacks and spam mass mailings that make up these extra costs. ...more