Opera disses MSN muppets

Browser-maker Opera Software renders MSN unusable with specially tailored Bork browser. Based on the Swedish chef muppet character Bork, the special edition is a dig at Microsoft's MSN site which was revealed to serve up different and inferior HTML files for Opera users. 'Hergee berger snooger bork,' said Mary Lambert, product line manager desktop, Opera Software. ...more

AMD adds new security logo to its processors in a box

Following recent discoveries of widespread counterfeiting of its chips in Taiwan, AMD is to add a new holographic security label to its processors available at retail. The new holographic logo will appear on all 'processor in a box' packaging for retail versions of the Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64, Opteron and AMD Sempron products. Recently AMD uncovered a series of operations in Taiwan where AMD Athlon, Athlon XP and Opteron processors had been 'remarked' with different clock speeds or model numbers or both. ...more

Google's Search History reveals full Web trail

Google has expanded its Search History service so you can track track not only your Web searches but also every page on the Internet that you visit. To reflect the change, the service has been renamed Google Web History. Web History is available to anyone with Google Toolbar installed in their browser and the PageRank feature enabled. ...more

Sophos warns of new backdoor trojan security threat, Uproot-A

Sophos is warning PC users to aware of a potential new threat, the back door trojan Uproot-A. Although there have been no reports of the virus in the wild yet, Uproot has the potential for a malicious user to remotely access infected computers. So that it can run automatically when Windows starts up, Uproot copies itself to the windows/system as uprootkit. ...more

Microsoft no longer 'pioneering marvel'

Graham Brant, Microsoft's top executive in Hong Kong, has quit, insisting that the software giant is not the 'pioneering marvel' it once was, reports the South China Morning Post. Brant has become disillusioned with Microsoft, saying that it has become a different company to the one he joined, less adventurous and more concerned with defending its market dominance. People, he said, are getting tired of the company's flagship products: 'How many more Windows and Office upgrades do you think people will want to go through? I love the stuff, but it even starts to turn me off after a while. ...more