Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet
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Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster might follow.
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A FEW WEEKS back I spent three days locked up in a room full of Internet experts, pioneers, and thinkers to contemplate the question of how to prevent what the conference&#39;s convenors grandly called the &quot;Internet meltdown&quot;. I was hoping for a particularly ...
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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roundup Free-roaming source code breeds new Netsky pest. Also: From IE to Opera, browsers are a likely prey.
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An attack combining malicious codes on Web sites and end-user laziness could compromise millions of routers still configured with their out-of-the-box defaults.
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Doomsayers predict pandemonium as computer clocks make the switch from 99 to 00. Count on it: The whole rotten structure is going to tumble like the walls of Jericho.
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Scientists are warning would-be slimmers to be careful about using 'DNA-diets' on the internet.
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Someday soon, if the inexorable march of technology continues apace, we'll all be voting over the internet. What a perfectly depressing thought. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Amsterdam has the world's busiest   Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and   mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs   with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
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Lecturing on mathematics isn't Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's cup of tea. Imagining a world populated by skittish rabbits, hookah-smoking caterpillars and a Red Queen: That's his cup of tea. And maybe that's where he goes after dying on this day.
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Amsterdam has the world's busiest  Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and  mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs  with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
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In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it's hard to know which information is reliable and which isn't.
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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The net is having to grow in order to meet fresh demands such as high definition video on the web.
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Plans to combat spam are in trouble because Microsoft wants too much power, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. The internet relies on a large number of technical standards which define in precise and