The Pirate Bay has been surprisingly quiet lately compared to the hype that they got last year from the police raid. It looks like they want to turn the tables back in their favor by launching two new things that are sure to make your hairs stand up on end.

The first thing that they are doing is creating a music sharing site called Playble.comin hopes of generating

Microsoft’s annual Mix Conference is wrapping up in Las Vegas, and lots has been said about Silverlight, including the announcement that Netflix would be developing a solution for movie subscribers to stream movies to their PC’s using Silverlight.

With all the fuss about Silverlight has come a few hints about what we can expect with Internet Explorer 8, which will provide the user interface for the new technology.

It’s

Practice what you preach has never been more true as in this situation.  Business 2.0 which is a magazine published by Time, just had the unfortunate situation of losing their entire June issue due to a system crash.

In their very own magazine, Business 2.0 has written about the importance of backing up your important files, saying backups are like flossing– “everybody knows it’s important, but few devote enough thought

Yesterday, Ryan pointed out a QuickTime bug that affected Java-Enabled browsers. The bug affected those using Firefox and Safari on Macs, and those using IE7 on Vista. Very few people were immune to this issue, and all it took was visiting a malicious website and the user’s computer could have been compromised.

Thankfully Apple got on the issue pretty quickly, and today they released QuickTime 7.1.6 which patches the

Can you just imagine all of the power that the Google servers eat up in a days time. I’m sure their electric bill isn’t pretty. Google is usually on top of things though, and they are in this situation with the use of solar power, in particular “solar trees.”

Google has started a massive project of covering their campus with solar panels. Solar trees as they’re called, are solar panels

If any of you were beta testers for Windows Live Hotmail, did you get your gift yesterday? I’m not writing this for the sake of it being news, but more for the sake of how cheesy it actually is. I think they meant well, but a Beta Badge? Maybe I’m under-estimating the power of a badge. The subject was “A Big Thank-you” and when I opened it up, it said “It’s our launch party but you

The Digg community has been known to throw a fit when other sites have implemented a “Digg-like” interface. They threw temper tantrums and rattled off obscenities when Yahoo launched their “Digg-like” suggestion site. They’ve done the same countless other times, but now they’ve turned on their very own Digg.

It all started when Digg decided to pull a story that revealed the HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number. The story had received over 15,000 diggs and was still