UK games chart: Tom Clancy's Warfighter 2 storms chart

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Warfighter 2 has toppled Final Fantasy XII from the top spot in this week's ELSPA UK Games Chart. The latest installment (Xb360) in Ubisoft's popular squad-based action franchise, features improved graphics and AI, new battlegrounds and Cross-Com 2.0, which lets you view what your friendly forces see in the top left display. ...more

Slew of critical security alerts announced by Microsoft

Anyone who hoped that Windows XP Service Pack 2 would bring an end to the monthly blizzard of security patches is going to be disappointed. This month, Microsoft has issued a whole slew of 'critical' and 'important' patches to its software. All in all the bulletin is reporting seven 'critical' problems found with its software and three 'important' vulnerabilities. ...more

Sweden's Pirate Party cut short

Sweden's recently formed Pirate Party is expected to win 33,000 votes in the country's national elections, failing to gain the one per cent of the total vote that it needed to gain financial support from the state at future polls. Its share of around 0.6 per cent is also long way short of the four per cent that would have entitled it to a seat in parliament. ...more

Monitors pose health risk says report

Monitors could be making people ill, says a new study from Swedish researchers. They found that the flame retardant chemical triphenyl phosphate is released when monitors heat up, causing complaints such as itching, blocked noses and headaches. The effect is only detected in new monitors when they're switched on for the first few times, but the study found that chemicals lingered even after 180 days of continuous use. ...more

Hackers extract AppleTV operating system

No sooner had the first Apple TV units shipped to customers than the first hacks appeared on the Web, including an extracted version of streaming box's OS X-based operating system. The 200MB download was quickly withdrawn by its originator, not least because, wisely, they did not want to risk the wrath of Apple's legal might. But not before at least one downloader discovered that installing it on a Mac was one thing, getting it to boot something else entirely. ...more