Google has released versions of its Chrome web browser for Mac OS X and Linux, however the outfit has warned that they are rough developer previews and are still being worked on.

It is a little odd that Google, which is an Open Sauce enthusiast, is so slow when it comes to a Linux version of its Chrome browser.

If you like the Web content offered by German public broadcasters ZDF and ARD, you can thank the German newspaper industry for the upcoming reduction in offerings. Because of a loud outcry over unfair competition, public broadcasters have agreed to reduce the amount of stuff they put online, as well as the amount of time it stays online.

But, in the case of German newspapers, they would rather convince public broadcasters to take down their offerings than refit their business models to more effectively compete.

Trustwave uncovers malware on 20 ATM machines in Russia and Ukraine designed to allow hackers to swipe everything from cash to PIN codes.

ccording to the company, roughly 20 ATMs were infected with malware that captures magnetic stripe data and PIN codes from the private memory space of transaction-processing applications installed on the compromised ATM.

Each of the compromised ATMs studied by Trustwave ran Microsoft Windows XP.

"The other piece is following security best practices on the system itself, having anti-virus installed on it, having (locked) down USB ports, making it very difficult for someone to actually-if they were to open up the machine-to do anything to the operating system itself," he said.

June 4 isn't just the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, it's also known as Chinese Internet Maintenance day.

Despite that censorship, the country is still very interested in the events of 20 years ago, when the government crushed an unprecedented pro-democracy protest in Beijing by unleashing the army on unarmed students.

"It's hard to talk about censorship because the word for censorship gets censored," MacKinnon said.

A new privacy study says that Google-controlled web bugs are tracking users on 92 of the net's top 100 sites and about 88 per cent of almost 400,000 other domains.

Google Analytics was used by over 71 per cent of the domains, Google AdSense by over 35 per cent, and Google DoubleClick by over 26 per cent.

"Within the same privacy policy, we often found that a site would say 'We don't share your information with third-parties' but then elsewhere in policy they'd say 'We do permit third-party tracking via web bugs,'" Brian Carver, the professor who oversaw the study, tells The Reg. "To the average web user that's a contradiction."

In terms of new media, do you still feel that in China censors could control everything that's happening in this area - you once said that if they shut off twitter, for example, it would be very easy, and information will just not get out.

The block seems to be a URL keyword filter. Googling for "twitter.com" resets the connection, as does including the string "twitter.com" in any other URL. Access to the service is fine through proxy or VPN.

We've seen so many stories about movie theaters that have no problem treating customers like criminals that it's surprising to see one finally get in trouble for it. JJ sent over a story about a movie theater in Quebec that has been fined $10,000 for an unnecessary search of customers.

The theater owner acknowledges that they can still search bags, but have to do so with much stricter rules. Or, you know, they could treat paying attendees like they're customers rather than criminals, and perhaps people would feel a lot better about going out to the movies.

The Internet has brought new hope to reformists in China since the country crushed pro-democracy protests in the capital 20 years ago.

China has stepped up monitoring of dissidents and Internet censorship ahead of June 4, when hundreds were killed in 1989 after Beijing sent soldiers to its central Tiananmen Square to disperse protestors.

This month, a blogger who had been detained for writing about corrupt village elections had charges against him dropped after he continued posting about the poll online, pushing himself into the public eye.

Around seven million people in the UK are involved in illegal downloads, costing the economy tens of billions of pounds, government advisers say.

Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy said the report put into context the impact illegal downloads had on copyright industries and the UK economy as a whole.

Dame Lynne Brindley, SABIP Board member, said: "This report gives us some baseline evidence from which we can develop a clear research strategy to support policy development in this fast moving area."

DRM is so rage-inducing, even to ordinary, legal users of content, that it can even drive the blind to download illegal electronic Bibles.

The study confirms what anyone who has ever wanted to rip a DVD to their computer or iPod could have told you: DRM, coupled with anticircumvention laws, makes pirates of us all.

Of course, as Bright points out, the massive lobbying, legislative, legal, and technical effort that underlies all these DRM regimes does so little to stop piracy that we'd be tempted to laugh at the folly of it all if we weren't already weeping.