An anonymous reader writes to tell us that while 60 Mbps may be enough to get us excited in the US, Korea is making plans to set the bar much higher. The entire country is gearing up to have 1 Gbps service by 2012, or at least that is what the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) is claiming. 'Currently, Koreans can get speeds up to 100 Mbps, which is still nearly double the speed of Charter's new 60 Mbps service.

The RIAA's claim that it'll stop suing people may have serious consequences... for the RIAA. When it dropped its attack on seven University of Michigan students, Recording Industry vs. The People wondered if the move was linked to three investigations, with MediaSentry as the target, before Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Growth.

Is there anything the RIAA can do to reduce illegal file-sharing without generating massive amounts of bad publicity?

It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves.

Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.

Swiss coppers using Google Earth accidentally found a huge marijuana plantation.

Investigation of the Google image location resulted in the arrest of 16 people and seizure of 1.2 tons of dope as well as cash and valuables worth 900,000 Swiss francs ($780,000).

A fired Fannie Mae contract employee allegedly placed a virus in the mortgage giant's software that could have shut the company down for at least a week and caused millions of dollars in damage, prosecutors say.

The virus was set to execute at 9 a.m. Jan. 31, first disabling Fannie Mae's computer monitoring system and then cutting all access to the company’s 4,000 servers, Nye wrote. Anyone trying to log in would receive a message saying "Server Graveyard."

From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros, Nye wrote. Finally, the virus would shut down the servers.

Frank Zappa's widow, Gail Zappa, has been rather aggressive over the years in "protecting" the intellectual property associated with Frank Zappa and his music. Most recently, she tried to stop the very popular Zappanale festival, held each year in Bad Doberan, Germany.

Gail Zappa apparently was quite upset by this, and sued the organizers for trademark infringement, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars for daring to celebrate her husband's music without a license.

We've been hearing about a Google Drive online storage solution for years, but lately some tell-tale signs seem to point toward GDrive becoming a reality.

You might be thinking, what's the big deal? Why is TGDaily so excited they want you to throw away your hard drive (recommended only for hyperbolic journalists)?

It's one thing to trust your e-mail to Google, it's another thing to trust the company with the entirety of your digital life. Forget problems of security and privacy, even the basic issue of server downtime leaves many people cold.

TGDaily's fantasy of a network bootable GDrive will be great when fiber optic lines reach our doorsteps, but, in the mean time, most of us have work to do, and unless you want to spend all day booting up, we suggest hanging onto your hard drive.

The defense industry giant on Monday said tests of its Laser Avenger system in December marked "the first time a combat vehicle has used a laser to shoot down a UAV," or unmanned aerial vehicle.

Boeing didn't go into much detail about the shoot-down. A representative of the company said the kilowatt-class laser "burned a hole" through the UAV.

With this news, it seems their "crazy plan" was a success - and why wouldn't it be? After all, most of their sketch material is tailor made for the typical Youtube viewer, and it's not as if they would have been better served by a traditional television marketing campaign.

Could it be, despite all of the RIAA and MPAA's clamoring about piracy killing their business, that free and less restrictive content is actually the answer to their woes?

Treating your consumers like criminals may not be the best way to convince them to buy your shit. Just sayin.

Job site Monster.com acknowledged a breach of its user database late Friday, warning that online intruders made off with an unspecified number of job seekers' names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, log-in names and passwords.

"We don't comment on investigations in progress or specific security measures," a Monster.com spokesperson stated in an e-mail sent to SecurityFocus on Saturday. "Immediately upon learning about this, we chose to notify all customers and job seekers as part of our ongoing effort to keep users informed about Internet security."