en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/tech/file/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/tech/fake_media_file_snares_pc_users/ Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee. The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims. McAfee said the fak news tech 2008-05-09 08:26:44 http://www.newsique.com/tech/fake_media_file_snares_pc_users/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7389529.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/fake_media_file_snares_pc_users/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/p2p_researchers_use_a_blocklist_/ The old cliché "You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you" turns out to apply quite nicely to the world of P2P file-sharing. A trio of intrepid researchers from the University of California-Riverside decided to see just how often a P2P user m news tech 2007-10-11 13:28:04 http://www.newsique.com/tech/p2p_researchers_use_a_blocklist_/ Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071010-p2p-researchers-use-a-blocklist-or-you-will-be-tracked-100-of-the-time.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/ars_technica/ 97 Interesting [3] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/p2p_researchers_use_a_blocklist_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/warning_of_data_time_bomb/ The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned. Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs news tech 2007-07-07 20:23:47 http://www.newsique.com/tech/warning_of_data_time_bomb/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/6265976.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/warning_of_data_time_bomb/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/could_youtube_piratebay_and_file/ We could soon learn more about whether illegal file sharing is a friend or foe to a movie debut. Sicko, the documentary about the health-care industry from director Michael Moore is due to be released on Friday. To several thousand fans of YouTube, Goo news tech 2007-06-21 09:27:01 http://www.newsique.com/tech/could_youtube_piratebay_and_file/ CNET http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9731818-7.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnet/ 92 Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/could_youtube_piratebay_and_file/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/sun_ceo_jonathan_schwartz_zfs_to/ Sun's homegrown operating system, Solaris, followed Darwin down the open-source path a few years ago, and since then, Apple's demonstrated some interest in adopting some of the code from that other Unix-ish OS. For example, Apple has already publicly anno news tech 2007-06-06 23:21:10 http://www.newsique.com/tech/sun_ceo_jonathan_schwartz_zfs_to/ Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/06/06/sun-ceo-jonathan-schwartz-zfs-to-be-the-file-system-in-leopard http://www.newsique.com/sources/ars_technica/ 97 Interesting [4] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/sun_ceo_jonathan_schwartz_zfs_to/#comments