Displaced people struggle for food packets at a relief camp in Nagapattinam, south of Madras in India. The needs of the people are awesome World leaders are stepping up global plans to help millions of survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami which killed more than 124,000 people. UN chief Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State Colin Powell are to discuss co-ordinating the aid effort as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas. Initial relief efforts appear to be disorganised, correspondents say. New Year festivities were cancelled in several affected countries where memorial services were held. Thousands...

Greetings everybody The Suprnova Team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year ! Also, everybody is still welcome to join us on irc (irc://irc.suprnova.org/suprnova.org) or on forums (www.suprnovaforums.net), but please remember, we are no longer offering torrents. You will not find any on IRC or on our forums. Interview with Sloncek about the Exeem project can be downloaded from the here! Right click and choose Save As. Thanks, Sloncek & the rest of the SuprNova team. Happy New Year from The Suprnova Team! IRC Servers: irc://irc.suprnova.org/suprnova.org :: Forums: http://www.suprnovaforums.net

US uses banned weapon ..but was Tony Blair told? US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah. News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world. And last night Tony Blair was dragged into the row as furious Labour MPs demanded he face the Commons over it. Reports claim that innocent civilians have died in napalm attacks, which turn victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh. Outraged...

In late January, we will no longer support the ability for members to sign in to eBay through Microsoft Passport. This means that members currently using this service will have to sign in through eBay directly. Once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with more information, including Help in case you cannot remember your User ID or password. As part of this change, we will also discontinue sending eBay Notifications through Microsoft .NET alerts. If you would like to keep receiving eBay alerts on your...

After Doom 3′s top-class graphics engine made headlines in 2004, it’s hardly surprising to hear it’s being used for a triple-A 2005 release in Quake IV. Continuing the recent industry trend of revitalizing older first-person shooter favorites, Wisconsin-based developer Raven Software is doing the hard work. Quake IV’s project lead Eric Biessman was kind enough to fill us in on the game’s plot, which starts where Quake II left off: “After destroying the Strogg’s collective brain and leader — the Makron — the Strogg have quickly regrouped under...

My GMail cooky expired, so I ended up on the password page, and what did I see? A GMail 2004 recap: 2004 was quite a year for us! Here’s a quick recap: April 1st: Gmail launches. Some thought it was a joke, but we were serious about our gig of free space. (The real April Fool’s jokers wanted to give people the moon.) July 10th: Users can import contacts. Suddenly, keeping in touch with faraway friends becomes a lot easier. October 9th: We finally add ‘Save Drafts.’ No one is more excited than we are about never again having to answer “Why don’t you have a way...

MSN has reached a deal with New York City to provide live, online coverage of its New Year’s Eve festivities. Through MSN Video, people around the world can watch the famous Waterford crystal ball drop from the top of One Times Square for the 96th time, without having to leave their PC. “The Times Square 2005 MSN webcast demonstrates how interactive digital media can enable people to not only share but participate in the excitement,” said Adam Sohn, director of MSN. “It illustrates how digital media can provide coverage of live events beyond what a viewer can get on TV.” MSN...

The BBC is reporting that there has been a 50% increase in the number of viruses released in 2004; as many as 100,000 viruses were seen ‘in the wild’, many of them doing serious damage to their targets. Bot-nets, computers infected with remote control software featured largely in 2004; equally prominent was the use of viruses and these bot-nets for cyber-crime and sending spam. 2004 also saw the release of the first proper virus for mobile phones. For PC’s, in first place on the top ten viruses of 2004 was the Netsky worm variant, Netsky-P. The worm exploited a vulnerability in...