A coffee-mug-sized server?
Plat'Home is a curious Japanese company that seems intent on cracking the US market with its weird brand of tiny Linux servers, says The Register.
This week, it offered the land of the free and the home of the brave the KANSHI Blocks Pro 6.0.1 device, which is a coffee-mug-sized monitoring server.
The product is meant to be used to keep track of up to 255 servers, checking they are alive and kicking. Thanks to a pair of Ethernet connections, two networks can be monitored at the same time. The KANSHI BlockS unit allows for remote monitoring and will also send out e-mail alerts and the like to administrators when it senses a problem.
Fix found for Net flaw
Computer experts have released software to tackle a security glitch in the Internet's addressing system, says The BBC.
The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake Web pages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser.
Internet giants such as Microsoft are now distributing the security patch.
Beijing scales back RFID plans
RFID technology won't feature on every ticket for the forthcoming Beijing Olympics, but those that do have it will contain an embedded chip with the holder's home address, passport details and e-mail address, reports The Register.
Initial plans for embedding an RFID tag in all 6.8 million tickets have had to be scrapped, along with futuristic ideas about tracking every visitor to the games via the tags.
However, the most sought-after tickets to the opening and closing ceremonies will be RFID-enabled.
Senate grapples with Web privacy issues
Consumers worry about their Internet privacy. Politicians vow to investigate. And two of the US's biggest tech companies, Google and Microsoft, support federal legislation for data collection, reports Washington Post.
So why isn't much happening? One reason is that legislators find the subject confusing.
At the end of a two-hour Senate committee hearing yesterday on Internet advertising and privacy, senator Byron Dorgan, who led the discussion, said the affair had chiefly served to emphasise "how little we do understand".
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