Let the games begin
Worfaire 2000, a hotly contested multiplayer gaming event hosted by the Gamers League of SA, kicks off today at the Kyalami Conference Centre. The virtual bloodbath attracts hundreds of gamers, supporters and PC enthusiasts. It has solid support from big name brands including Intel, Rectron, SMC and Comztek, and serves as a qualifying round for the World Cybergames held annually in Korea. Gaming titles used in the competition include Counterstrike, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, Tribes2 and the long-awaited strategy game WarCraft III. The tournament ends on Sunday.
Hackers back off DeCSS case
Ending years of DeCSS litigation, the publisher of hacker Web site 2600 yesterday announced it would not appeal against a US ruling that prohibits the posting of links to software that unlocks digital copyright protection on DVDs. In a statement on the site, the publisher said it believed that pushing for a US Supreme Court appearance would serve no purpose and it had been advised by its legal team that the higher court would not favour the appeal. The two-and-a-half year battle against eight motion picture studios involves linking to code written by a Norwegian teenager that unscrambles the copyright protection on DVDs.
Apple`s new Jaguar OS ahead of schedule
The long-awaited update to Apple Computer`s Mac OSX is now expected to appear more than a month ahead of its original schedule. Code-named Jaguar, Mac OS X 10.2 is widely expected to ship in early August. Although the company will not officially comment on the early release of Jaguar, it is expected to announce the new product at the MacWorld Expo which starts in two weeks. Major changes in this new release include improvements to the Quartz engine which controls font rendering, interface improvements that in previews have already proved popular, as well as increased and improved control over hub devices such as video cameras and music players.
Web more susceptible to attacks
A Netcraft study has found that the majority of Internet sites are accessible to remote attacks. This follows the recent publication of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache. Conditions are therefore ideal for an epidemic of attacks against both IIS and Apache-based sites, Netcraft says. However, worms do draw administrators` attention to vulnerable servers and allow them to fix them to protect against similar attacks. [Full report]
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