Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July

Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley -- It's official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. Beta 1 of Vista Service Pack 1 is coming -- with shut-down, CPU performance and other fixes -- earlier than expected. And the final Vista SP1 is looking like November 2007.

The dark side of search engines

The dark side of search engines by ZDNet's Ryan Naraine -- As a malware researcher, I spend the majority of my days days studying the dark side of the web and one of the most interesting things I get to see are the weird, and sometimes wonderful, search engine queries that result in dangerous Web sites.

Open source security arrives with Untangle

Open source security arrives with Untangle by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn -- Even with paid updates on signatures and code we're talking here about a security solution small businesses can finally afford, from which small VARs can finally profit.

Google Earth UFO (Actually strange stuff found)

Google Earth UFO - Click here for more blooper videos

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Linus contradicts OpenBSD founder on Intel TLB issue

Linus contradicts OpenBSD founder on Intel TLB issue by ZDNet's George Ou -- OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has been making a lot of noise over a change in Intel’s current generation Core 2 microprocessor goes as far to claim that this will lead to serious security flaws. Linus Torvalds by contrast has given a completely opposite view of the situation while other CPU analysts like David Kanter [...]

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