First-Sale Doctrine hits Supreme Court Today It’s been five years since I’ve last covered the antics of the MPAA and RIAA on this blog. Since then their attacks have been even more insidious to the point that you’d think you’re reading a satire piece from The Onion. Their repeated attempts to block the resale of [...]

Received this email late yesterday. Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer: Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have [...]

For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the fixes. General operating system fixes provided for: an issue that caused data to be deleted when using [...]

Macheist is running another contest, but this time it is totally free. Yes, no money down, nothing to buy, ever (if you don’t want too.) The apps that they have are ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterrific, TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs, and if enough people register, Mariner Write which I am personally looking forward too. I’ve used Twitterrific [...]

In the latest round of issues with Facebook, users of the popular OS X chat program Adium are now having issues connecting to their Facebook chat. Apparently Facebook made some changes to their chat interface without warning anyone. The Adium blog reports that the plugin’s Author is working on the problem but currently no ETA. [...]