Cody Taylor

Security experts warn of holes in the popular microblogging service.

Those who can’t do, teach. Second Life, the most overhyped virtual world, has been abandoned even by its most fervent journalistic promoters, like Reuters and Wired. It’s now pitching itself as an online schoolhouse.How fitting, since Second Life, a piece of software which allows users to move “avatars” representing themselves around in a 3D

lou ibmix XI submitted an email written by Bill Gates a few years ago and turned over to the feds as part of the government anti trust case. Great quotes like ‘Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?’ and ‘The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind.’ We like to think of him as an abstract, but I think this is interesting stuff.

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Ben Burtt was robbed of his overly deserved Oscars for the sound on Wall-E, and Heath Ledger’s Joker unsurprisingly got a posthumous statue, but the big winner for the night was Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire with Picture, Director, Song and 5 others. Go ahead movie nerds: talk amongst yourself.

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angry tapir writes “Suspicious phone conversations on Skype could be targeted for tapping as part of a pan-European crackdown on what law authorities believe is a massive technical loophole in current wiretapping laws, allowing criminals to communicate without fear of being overheard by the police. Eurojust, a European Union agency responsible for coordinating judicial investigations across different jurisdictions, has announced the opening of an investigation involving all 27 countries of the European Union.”

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