The machine identification code of your printer may be being embedded on every single page you print, including the date, the time, and your printer’s serial number. Is our technology spying on us?

eBay’s Giving Works and MissionFish may be a dream for charities, but it’s a nightmare for participating eBay sellers. It’s bad enough we have to worry about the charity scams, now we have to worry about the “good guys”?

American Airlines, along with Continental Airlines and Delta Airlines, have been ordered to stop operating free wireless hotspot locations by Logan Airport. The wireless hotspot locations compete with Logan’s Internet access service, for which they charge $8.00 a day.

Internet service providers Level3 and Cogent are feuding, and Level3 has blocked all traffic from Cogent, causing both Cogent’s and Level3’s customers to lose Internet connectivity. Industry experts are not amused.

A typo (typographical error) in an IP address led to Brian and Sarah Doom being wrongl accused of child pornography. “Oops,” said Cox, the fumble-fingered ISP. “See you in court,”, said Brian and Sarah Doom.

FEMA has put up a barrier to Hurricane Katrina survivors attempting to apply for assistance from FEMA. If they don’t use IE 6.0 or higher, with Javascript enabled, they can’t apply for FEMA aid online. Tsk tsk, FEMA.

A Korean man has hung himself while video chatting with his girlfriend. After the two got into an online argument, police say, the young man suddenly got up, and hung himself while his girlfriend was watching.

Hurricane Katrina email hoaxes are already starting to fly, to add insult to the horrible injury already suffered by the thousands of people in Katrina’s path. This first Hurricane Katrina email hoax claims that the Red Cross will donate money for each email sent.

Rapex is a new anti-rape device which is worn like a diaphragm, only it has sharp teeth which clamp down on any foreign object.

Nintendog Hot Biscuit mod rumours are flying. Did someone really create a Hot Biscuit mod for the new Nintendogs, much like the Hot Coffee mod for GTA: SA? Or is it all just an elaborate spoof?

Downloading MP3s illegally really does take money directly out of the artists’ pockets, it turns out. This article lays it out on the table, with the real facts, from an industry insider.

A man in Japan has just been arrested for virtual mugging. Really. He set up a player-bot – a virtual virtual gamer, if you will – and had his player-bot beat up other online gamers’ virtual characters, and steal their lunch money. Ok, I made that last bit up. It…

As I believe I’ve made abundantly clear before, I’m not big fan of Blue Security’s Blue Frog. Just like the Lycos ‘Make Love not Spam’ DDOSing screensaver, and the bandwidth-stealing Mugu Marauder, Blog Frog is founded on the concept that DDOSing is ok if you’re doing it to someone you…

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has just released the results of a three-month long probe during which they confirmed that there has been a boon in the trading of both endangered species, and endangered animal parts (sigh), in online markets. On eBay alone, the International Fund for Animal…

People seeking to take advantage of the Federal Copyright Office’s recent rules allowing an online preregistration of copyright may find that they can only preregister their copyright if they use Internet Explorer.