Opinion: The RIAA Has Got to Stop (PC Magazine)

The RIAA, whose officers are generally reviled, continues to do a disservice to its members—if research data is correct.

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Palm Announces Pre Price, Ship Date (PC Magazine)

The Palm Pre will be available on Saturday, June 6 for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and $100 mail-in rebate, Sprint and Palm announced today. The groundbreaking WebOS phone will appear that day at a range of retailers: Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart and online, which bodes well for Sprint having a lot of Pres available to sell.

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Web attack that poisons Google results gets worse (Network World)

A new attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links is spreading quickly, the U.S. Computer Emergence Response Team warned on Monday.

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Reinventing Star Trek's VFX (Film & Video)

Director J.J. Abrams demanded, and Industrial Light & Magic delivered -- more story from every shot of the summer blockbuster, Star Trek. Amimation director, Paul Kavanagh reveals how.

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Hands on: Windows XP Mode works -- but is it worth the trouble? (Reuters)

Windows XP Mode, one of the most hyped features of Windows 7, was designed to integrate XP with Windows 7 so that you can run XP applications from directly inside Windows 7. Businesses that need to run XP applications but want to upgrade to Windows 7 may want to use it, but for many consumers the problems with Windows XP Mode will likely outweigh its benefits.

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Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs (Ars Technica)

Those behind the Zeus botnet recently decided to press the big red button, bluescreening 100,000 computers around the globe. Security experts aren't sure why yet, although they have some ideas.

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