And nobody notices Microsoft has cast itself as one of the Good Guys in the battle over intellectual property, unlike those scofflaws over at Google. Which makes one recent Windows bugfix more than a little ironic: it patches a bug that makes Windows 7 the file-sharing gift that never stops giving.…

Out of order A planned presentation about ATM security at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam last week was cancelled following legal pressure from vendors.…

Yahoo on Tuesday launched a news blog, dubbed the Upshot, which will reportedly use popular search queries to guide its reporting.

Funk-rocker and current Jehovahs Witness Prince declared that the Internet is "completely over," in an interview with the U.K. tabloid The Daily Mirror over the weekend.

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It was a big weekend for Justin Bieber-related shenanigans. First it was that YouTube death rumor spam that directed the teenage pop singers fans to porn sites, and now its a 4Chan-led prank suggesting that Bieber chose the famously cutoff nation of North Korea as his next tour destination.

Every once in a while, you come across a website or application with a face only a mother could love, well, its mother was probably a programmer. I am one of those aesthetically challenged programmers so in an effort to reeducate myself I am pretending that I know enough to give you, the faithful reader, some tips to help you design websites that don’t leave the users wanting to scratch their eyes out.

As I write a series of thoughts on the pursuit of excellence in programming, I must preface my essay by asking you to ignore that I wrote these words. I invite you to evaluate the opinions and ideas presented here not ad hominem, but rather on the basis of their own merits. It would be easy to otherwise mistakenly dismiss them with the infamous question posed by Steve Jobs to a blogger: “What have you done that’s so great?”.