New OS X security flaw identified

A new security flaw in Mac OS X has been identified, in which a series of 'seemingly innocuous' default settings can cause an affected machine to trust a malicious machine on a network for user, group, and volume mounting settings. According to www.carrel. ...more

Want some three-way action?

There's a new MOD in town (almost) and it comes with a little twist like this: it offers players the chance to enter into some 'Quake III Arena Capture The Flag' action, but with three teams. Welcome to the world of Tribal 3-Team CTF. Although the MOD is still in development, the first release is imminent, so we thought we'd fill you in on a few details in preparation. ...more

Comment: PowerPC remains key to the gigahertz Mac

The likelihood of a Power Mac clocking one gigahertz in the near future remains low, despite reports this week that Motorola, the G4 PowerPC chip manufacturer, has successfully produced such chips running at 1.2GHz. Unfortunately, large numbers of these chips are not performing at this level and this reflects ongoing problems that Motorola has with its manufacturing facilities. ...more

Fujifilm goes 9 megapixel with the FinePix

Fujifilm has released three new cameras in its FinePix range. The FinePix E900 Zoom features a 9 megapixel 5th Generation Super CCD HR, 4x optical zoom and sensitivity ranges between ISO 80 and ISO 800. The uncompressed RAW image format is supported, too. ...more

MSN to roll out Microsoft's new search engine

MSN is on the brink of rolling out a beta of its long awaited search engine tomorrow according to reports. Microsoft is preparing to launch two new products - a search engine capable of competing with Yahoo! and Google - and a desktop search tool. The desktop search product is slated to be released later this year. ...more