12th November 2011 Archive

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Mozilla promises more speed with Firefox 9 beta

It’ll need to be a lot better to win back punters

Mozilla has released the first beta of Firefox 9, just days after the release of the eighth build of the popular open source browser. The Firefox 9 beta, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, promises to be faster than previous builds thanks to type inference technology now built into Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine …

Applications 12 Nov 01:24
Tour de France winner sentenced for hack of doping lab

Trojan siphoned 1,700 confidential files

Floyd Landis, the disgraced US cyclist who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory for doping, was handed a suspended 12-month prison sentence for his part in a hack of an anti-doping lab computer. Arnie Baker, Landis's former trainer, also received a suspended 12-month term from the same French court in Nanterre, near …

Crime 12 Nov 06:00
Ten... best Blu-ray movies of 2011

Round-up Disc Assessment

If you’ve recently migrated to Blu-ray, or are already a dyed-in-the-wool evangelist, you’ll doubtless have developed an uncontrollable compulsion to build a collection of 1080p platters. But what releases deserve your attention? To provide answers of a sort, I’ve compiled this invaluable (and not at all off-the-cuff) guide to …

reghardware 12 Nov 08:00
Bloke gets wedding tackle trapped in ring

Firemen bearing grinder tackle Southampton hampton shocker

A Southampton man who got his wedding tackle wedged in a metal ring was freed from his todger vice in the traditional local fashion: by trained fire brigade operatives wielding a grinder. Sawbones at Southampton General Hospital called in the professionals after failing to extract the meat and two veg from the ring. Two crews …

Bootnotes 12 Nov 10:32
NASA: 2012 solar flares could DEVASTATE CITIES!

OMFG 'Not capable of destroying Earth', though. Yay

In an attempt to defuse internet hysteria regarding the purported end of the world next year as the Mayan calendar long-count completes, NASA has stated that next year's solar maximum will see solar flares which are "a problem the same way hurricanes are a problem". That's a very big problem, then. As the US National Oceanic …

Space 12 Nov 12:31