22nd November 2009 Archive

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• Apple voids warranties over cigarette smoke, users say

  No repairs for 'biohazard' Macs

  A Mac user claims that Apple voided her warranty and refused to repair her machine because it was "contaminated" with cigarette smoke. The claim mirrors a similar report from last year, when another user complained that the Jobsian cult wouldn't service a system due to the "health risks of secondhand smoke." Both complaints …

  Hardware 22 Nov 2009, 06:13

• Is data overload killing off human initiative?

  Book Review Time to add a delete button to the internet

  Delete – The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age is one of those high premise pseudo-techy works that appeals to the chattering classes – not least because it beguiles them with a false sense of "doing technology". As modern technology has enhanced our ability to remember everything, no matter how inconsequential, the time …

  Government 22 Nov 2009, 09:02

• eBooks: What to read on which reader

  Your pre-Christmas guide to what's on

  eBook readers will be everywhere this Christmas, in the shops if not under the trees, but even publishers don't seem to know what books one can read on the things. Amazon's Kindle makes things simple: one store with 296,947 books available, and if it's not there then you can't have it. But competitive hardware can get content …

  Media 22 Nov 2009, 10:02

• First malicious iPhone worm slithers into wild

  Jailbreakers under assault

  A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet. The worm, according to XS4ALL, targets jailbroken iPhones whose owners have carelessly failed to change the default password. In addition to connecting to a Lithuanian master command channel, …

  Security 22 Nov 2009, 22:57

• Atlantis astronaut flying high over baby's birth

  Houston, we have a daddy

  NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik ventured out on his first spacewalk on Saturday, just hours before his daughter was born 220 miles below. Waking up early this morning aboard the International Space Station to the song "Butterfly Kisses," mission specialist Bresnik was informed that his wife Rebecca had given birth to daughter …

  Science 22 Nov 2009, 23:28