A pair of researchers has discovered a way to use modern browsers to more easily build darknets–those underground, private Internet communities where users can share content and ideas securely and anonymously.
Forget the new cyber security czar position that President Barack Obama announced last week.
At a table in Las Vegas, a town fueled by big bets, IBM software chief Steve Mills outlined one he doesn’t want to make: Buying application provider SAP.
Every year, Microsoft puts on a bash for Web designers and programmers in Las Vegas called Mix. At this year’s conference, the company focused on its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, but it also took a not-too-subtle dig at Steve Jobs, with a send-up of prima donna executive antics.
Users of iPhones beware–state gaming agents are watching you. California gaming authorities tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player.
Though U.K. start-ups PopJam and Huddle may be doing relatively well, everything else I’ve heard from British Web company founders since I got to town has been terrifyingly negative. But I’ve realised that, for an expert in dot-com failure, the recession is a seller’s market.
Dell called a bunch of reporters to a room at the Palms hotel in Las Vegas and gave them a sneak peek at a widely rumored laptop called Adamo. It was literally just a peek; the stylish, thin notebook PC was held up briefly by a stylish, thin fashion model who goes by the single name Hollis. A small mob of photographers was allowed to snap away for a minute or two, and then the Adamo was hustled out of the room.
Intel has never been much associated with glitz. The chipmaker, after all, essentially sells high-tech widgets that few people think much about these days. But nearly everybody at times has a question or a complaint about PCs–the inspiration for an Intel-sponsored Web site that plans to add to the star power in Las Vegas next week.
One of the proving grounds for artificial intelligence is games. Classic games have a fixed set of rules, and these make it easier for researchers to develop new techniques and algorithms that enable computers to play (and hopefully win) various games.
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