mrspoonsi writes “The BBC reports “Home broadband in the US costs far more than elsewhere. At high speeds, it costs nearly three times as much as in the UK and France, and more than five times as much as in South Korea. Why?…’Americans pay so much because they don’t have a choice,’ says Susan Crawford,…

There’s a lot to love about Kumobius’ new game. CNET Australia talked to Gotye touring musician Tim Shiel about how he created Duet’s amazing soundtrack…….

Company racks up nearly 25 million more iPhones sold this fiscal year than last, and other metrics. Here’s the full list…….

Ops View version pre 4.4.41 suffers from multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities…….

Need more FireWire or an optical drive? There’s still a MacBook for you…….

Google adds referrals as well as a trade-in program for its Google Glass Explorer program. New hardware on tap soon…….

astroengine writes “A deadly bed of icy javelins — known as penitentes — could be awaiting any spacecraft that tries to land on some parts of the ice-covered world Europa, say researchers who have carefully modeled the ice processes at work on parts of the Jovian moon to detect features beyond the current low resolution…

Not as good as last year, not as bad as had been projected……

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-262 – In PyCrypto before v2.6.1, the Crypto.Random pseudo-random number generator exhibits a race condition that may cause it to generate the same ‘random’ output in multiple processes that are forked from each other. Depending on the application, this could reveal sensitive information or cryptographic keys to remote attackers…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-261 – Possible memory exhaustion denial of service due to the size of decompressed payloads in dropbear before 2013.59. Inconsistent delays in authorization failures could be used to disclose the existence of valid user accounts in dropbear before 2013.59…….