Thursday, June 18, 2009

18-Jun-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Myspace becomes a bit smaller. Quite a bit actually, as 30% of their 850 employees get the boot:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/16/myspace_cuts_30_of_staff/

SCO, the undead company, seeks capital from an Iraq investment firm. If SCO could package & sell delay, they'd make a fortune:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/06/16/sco_finds_investor_before_chapter_7_bankruptcy_hearing/

The organisation that protects web standards, the W3C, is appealing for information to overturn Apple's patent on all automatic updates:
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag/cfpa.html

Freenet, the anti-censorship and anonymization "darknet" package gets an update. Now has a web front end and a Windows Vista installer:
http://freenetproject.org/

And finally. Herminiimonas glaciei, a microbe brought back to life after 120,000yrs under a glacier, skips past sterilization filters:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1935236/Revived-Microbe-May-Hold-Clues-For-ET-Lifeforms?from=rss

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