Woman hit by car sues Google Maps

A California woman is suing Google after she was hit by a car while following walking directions provided by Google Maps, says AOL.

Lauren Rosenberg claims Google Maps led her to walk from one Park City, Utah, address to another via Deer Valley Drive, a rural roadway also known as Utah State Route 224.

In a lawsuit filed in district court in Park City, Rosenberg claims Google is to blame for a car striking her on the road, an accident she says has cost her $100 000 in medical bills.

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against five people accused of trying to swipe more than $450 000 from a California city, using stolen login credentials associated with its bank account, says The Register.

The five individuals used online bank accounts to launder the stolen loot shortly after it was siphoned out of an account belonging to the city of Carson, in May 2007, according to an indictment.

They then allegedly withdrew, or attempted to withdraw, money from the accounts and funnel it to unnamed co-conspirators. The city bank account was breached using key-logging software that was installed on an official's laptop.

China is ramping up efforts to become the world's supercomputing superpower, as for the first time, a second Chinese supercomputer appears on the list of the top 10 fastest machines, writes CNet.

Its Nebulae machine, at the National Super Computer Centre, in Shenzhen, was ranked second on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list.

Nebulae is currently the fastest system worldwide with a theoretical peak performance of 2.98 petaflops per second. One petaflop/s is one quadrillon calculations per second.

Lists of Britons who infringe copyright are to be drawn up by the UK's biggest Internet service providers, under proposals from the regulator Ofcom, reports the BBC.

The plan is contained in a draft code of practice it hopes will curb copyright infringement.

Names and the number of times individuals infringe will be logged.