Did you know that some record companies have added a copy protection spyware program to their music CD-ROMS? The copy protection goes far beyond simply not allowing copies. It actually “phones home” ...

Quick_cleaner is a potentially unwanted program that states it can clean a computer of temporary and garbage files in order to free up space. When launched, it will extract a batch file called ...

[Tech Time Traveller] has a lot of voices in his head this week, and most of them are worried about his wife’s reaction to him buying other people’s garbage. We don’t blame him, though. He bought it ...

Your Editorial “Steering the future of computing” (Nature 440, 383; 200610.1038/440383a) explores the future potential of the computing industry. Interesting though this is, I am concerned by the ...