“SecurityFocus reports that players sharing house designs through Electronic Arts’ Sims 2 Exchange are finding their game behaving oddly: espresso machines mysteriously satisfy all the Sims needs, Sims are suddenly comfortable with open relationships, and the social worker no longer cares how they treat their children. It turns out hacks were spreading invisibly with Sims 2 lots, infecting thousands of downloadable homes, and catching Electronic Arts by surprise. The hackers, who never intended their hacks to be viruses, have even written their own AV scanner to find and control the...

“The new Archos PMA400 is a Linux based portable- entertainment/PDA/DVR/Internet device. It comes with wireless and ethernet LAN connections, plays Mophun and Qtopia and supports Microsoft DRM protected files (WMV, WMA). The company will release a SDK on its dedicated website sometime before the end of January 2005. The device will retail for around US$800.” shashdot

So what do I care if some french company named Titus goes bankrupt you may ask youreself Well, if you must know, Titus Interactive is the parent company for Interplay, wich we all of course know for the superb Fallout games (if you do not know fallout you do not deserve to call yourselve a gamer (< -- just a joke that) too bad they sold the game to someone else :( Although Interplay still has a number of licenses it could sell, including Kingpin, the Baldur’s Gate-free Dark Alliance, and the rights to a Fallout massively multiplayer online role-playing game, the question remains as to...

Mess.be reports: Skype, announced version 1.1 of its Internet telephony service, adding new design and improved instant messaging features to put it better placed compared with other messaging rivals such as MSN Messenger. While Skype has always been superior to its main rivals in terms of voice quality, critics pointed to its rather spartan instant messaging functions. The latest version indeed puts its wealthy rivals to shame with its smart clear interface and total absence of any advertising. Other benefits over other voice chat, instant messaging and file transfer programmes are the Skype encryption,...

It seems like Apple can also be at the receiving end of a lawsuit, too: Californian Thomas Slattery filed suit against Apple because ‘Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice’. With over 200 million songs sold, and Apple controlling over 80% of the hard drive digital audio player market, is this just a case of someone just trying to cash in on Apple’s success? Or is this genuinely an issue of buyer lock-in and monopolistic practices? A few days ago I was wondering...

Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding over 50 ways spyware can enter your PC. The worldwide SpyNetâ„¢ community plays a key role in determining which suspicious programs are...

“The AP is reporting that so called “Spam King” Sanford Wallace has agreed to stop spamming… at least temporarily until the FTC suit is settled” At best this is a precursor of things to come, and at worst it’s a nice break. I got this from Slashdot…Let’s hope it’s a precursor!

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