Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat ruphus13 writes "Alan Cox — one of the lead Linux kernel developers at Red Hat — is leaving the company after 10 years and is heading to Intel, where he can focus on more low-level develop

Category :Technology | 7 views | read more | 2008-12-30 10:11:00

New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly RobGoldsmith writes "New images are now available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 being assembled, the images are accompanied with a small update from SpaceX. If there are no unexpected delays, its possible Falc

Category :Technology | 9 views | read more | 2008-12-30 09:25:00

The Fight Over NASA's Future swestcott writes "The New York Times has a interesting article about the transition to the Obama administration and NASA's transition to the new Orion."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-12-30 08:15:00

CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security Sub Zero 992 writes "Heise Security (article in German) is reporting that at this year's Chaos Communications Congress (25C3) researchers in Europe's dedected.org group have published an article (pdf)

Category :Technology | 10 views | read more | 2008-12-30 07:13:00

How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule ScienceDaily at what the future might bring for atomic-scale computing. "Joachim, the head of the CEMES Nanoscience and Picotechnology Group (GNS), is currently coordinating a team of researchers from

Category :Technology | 9 views | read more | 2008-12-30 04:36:00

Avoiding Wasted Time With <em>Prince of Persia</em> Zonk pointed out an interesting video presentation by Shamus Young on the importance of the new Prince of Persia, calling it the most innovative game of 2008. Young brings up the fact that many of tod

Category :Technology | 8 views | read more | 2008-12-30 01:32:00

AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code Michael writes "AMD has just released code that will allow for open-source 3D acceleration on their ATI R600 and R700 graphics cards, including all of their newest Radeon HD 4xxx products. This code c

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2008-12-29 22:27:00

Worlds.com Sues NCSoft Over MMO-Patent Lulfas writes "Worlds.com today sued NCSoft over a patent filed in 2000 (granted this February) over its patent on scalable virtual world. This is a very broad base patent, and there is no reason to e

Category :Technology | 12 views | read more | 2008-12-29 19:38:00

FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challen

Category :Technology | 13 views | read more | 2008-12-29 17:23:00

Resurrecting Old Games, What Works? There has definitely been a resurgence of old games being made new again through various methods. Unfortunately, any time you reinvent an old classic you risk of either alienating the original audienc

Category :Technology | 11 views | read more | 2008-12-29 16:11:00