Apache to tempt new talent with salaries

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the body behind the widely adopted open source Web server among other projects, is considering hiring full-time, paid staff. Currently a volunteer organisation, the extra staff are seen as necessary for future growth. Positions up for grabs would include an executive director, according to Brian Behlendorf, a co-founder and director of the ASF. ...more

Two more 'vertical' domains near final stages of approval

Two potential new second level domains have taken a step nearer. ICANN, which oversees the development of the internet and the naming conventions on which it is based, has said that two candidate registries .travel and . ...more

Adobe flags vulnerability in Creative Suite 2

Adobe has warned of a security issues in the Creative Suite 2 suite and two of its applications, Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Illustrator CS2. The vulnerability is caused due to insecure default file permissions being set on the installed files and folders. This allows any non-privileged users on the system to remove the files or replace them with malicious binaries. ...more

FBI pounce on software piracy gang

Reuters reports that the FBI has indicted 19 members of an international piracy gang thought to have cracked software, games and films worth some $6.5m. 'Operation Jolly Roger', focused on the RISCISO gang, believed to number as many as 60 and led by 26-year-old Sean O'Toole of Perth, Australia. ...more

Intel Q&A: Homework for motherboard makers

Sunil Kumar, Intel's director of chipset marketing, discusses Intel's latest desktop platform advances and current trends in PC technology Dual-core: chipset arbitration is necessary Q: Dual-core processing is probably the most anticipated technology in the IT industry now. How do you plan to support it with chipsets? Will new dual-core supporting Intel chipsets incorporate any arbitration functions? A: This quarter, we're going to introduce the 945 and 955X chipsets to support the first generation of our dual-core desktop processors, codenamed Smithfield. Yes, there are some arbitration mechanisms in the chipsets, but, of course, there are some others in the processors themselves. ...more