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MI6 chief's cover blown by wife's holiday pics on Facebook (330 diggs) The new head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, is at the centre of a security breach after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on the Facebook website.

Microsoft drops vomiting ad after complaints [VIDEO] (412 diggs) A controversial Microsoft ad campaign featuring a vomiting woman has been dropped by the software company after customer complaints

OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay (449 diggs) On Friday Jamie King, director of the Steal This Film documentaries, speculated here on TorrentFreak that the brand new OpenBitTorrent tracker could prove to be a replacement for The Pirate Bay if certain conditions were met. Now, just 48 hours later - has that dream already become reality?

P2P Collection Costs Man Huge Fine, Suspended Sentence (444 diggs) A man who downloaded 12,591 music tracks, 426 movies and 16 full TV-series has been sentenced in France. The police searched the 55 year-old’s house in connection with an unrelated matter and stumbled across his collection. The man was sentenced to 33,000 euros ($46,200) in damages and a 2 month suspended jail sentence.

What Your Gadget Really Costs (592 diggs) Market research company iSuppli takes it upon itself to tear down popular gadgets to find out the price of the component parts and the vendors supplying those ingredients. A rundown of several recent iSuppli teardowns follows...

Why iPod Touch Owners Shouldn't Upgrade to OS 3.0 (656 diggs) With all the hoopla about the iPhone 3GS's speed, what about its little non-cellular brother, the iPod touch? We upgraded the touch to OS 3.0, then ran a variety of real-world tests. The results were convincing.

Ads Spotted on Twitter (433 diggs) These first ads probably aren't going to bring in enough cash to fuel a micro-app acquisition spree by Twitter, but this is the first clear public indication of one way the company is bringing in revenue.

IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life (499 diggs) The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life -- but its battery isn't one of them.

13 Magnificent Free Wordpress Portfolio Themes (423 diggs) Wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. All of these themes are free. Hope you will like them.

Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites (256 diggs) A fire at downtown Seattle's Fisher Plaza has interrupted service at some top Web sites, including Microsoft's Bing Travel and Authorize.net.

Walkman named top music invention of last 50 years (798 diggs) The Walkman, the clunky portable cassette player, has been named the best musical invention of the last 50 years, by a leading gadget magazine.

Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now! [Pic] (2,452 diggs) Well at least according to Dell's website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft's latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!

Wine 1.1.25 Released (556 diggs) - A ton of translation updates. - Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad. - Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL. - Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically. - Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation

Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On | To (894 diggs) Responses have been overwhelmingly negative to the news that The Pirate Bay will soon be sold to Global Gaming Factory. But what if there is a method to the apparent Pirate Bay madness — one that, as Peter Sunde has hinted, could actually be good for the P2P community?

25 Brilliant Bookmarklets to Boost Your Browsing (351 diggs) Speed up your productivity with these simple JavaScript applets.

Jammie Thomas' lawyer says she will appeal against RIAA (543 diggs) Joe Sibley, one of Thomas-Rasset's two attorneys said that will appeal and argue the $1.9 damages she was ordered to pay are unconstitutional.

Chinese Web Crawlers May Bypass Filters with Mac/Linux (456 diggs) Apple and Linux computers appear to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country. PCs that do not meet the software's technical requirements are excluded, according to one manufacturer. And as of now, there is no version of the web filter software for Mac or Linux.

Ten ways to smooth the switch to Linux (562 diggs) Without sending users on some sort of boot camp, changing the preconceptions of users may seem a daunting task. But there are ways to ease the pain of learning Linux.

Apple prepares iPhone SMS patch (506 diggs) Security experts have discovered a flaw in the way Apple's iPhone handles text messages, prompting the company to ready a patch to fix the issue.

The Best Web Browser for Secretly Watching Videos at Work (459 diggs) Double Vision is one of the best web browsers for this kind of thing - it lets you view and interact with two applications at the same time, without having to switch windows again and again. So, you could be working on your presentation and watching your favorite video or even better - a related tutorial at the same time.

NY thieves want iPhones, victims fight back (409 diggs) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed

Blind man sees after having a TOOTH implanted in right eye (2,341 diggs) A blind man is able to see his wife for the first time - after having a tooth implanted into his eye.

The true cost of online privacy (390 diggs) Do you like your privacy? I bet you do. What about being able to read all kinds of stuff on the internet without having to hand over your credit card number -- do you like that, too? I bet that's another yes. But which do you like more? You'd better figure that out quickly, because, if you don't, Congress just might decide for you.

MacBook Pro Only Displays Thousands of Colors (1,945 diggs) In a machine labeled a “MacBook Pro,” you’d think they’d cater to, well I don’t know, professionals?

Moblin: a First Look at Intel's Open-Source OS (479 diggs) Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and people who use them. On a technical level this means Moblin is built for the Atom x86 chip found in many netbooks, while on a practical level it means Moblin is an Internet- and multimedia-focused operating system.