A British man has lost his High Court fight against extradition to the US for allegedly carrying out the “biggest military computer hack of all time”. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, of north London, is accused of gaining access to 97 US military and Nasa computers.
Home Secretary John Reid granted the US request to extradite him for trial. (more…)
Apple and Creative Technology have agreed to settle a patent dispute over the iPod’s user interface.
Creative last May filed a lawsuit against the iPod maker, alleging that Apple infringed on a patent that Creative had applied for in 2001 and was awarded in August 2005. The company demanded that Apple ceased all production and sales of its iPod portable media players.
Apple responded with a counter-claim, alleging that Creative had infringed on four of its iPod patents. (more…)
Linkin Park performed a brand new song, tentatively dubbed “Qwerty”, during its appearances at this past weekend’s Summer Sonic festivals in Japan. Listen to the audio of the song at YouTube.com. The track can also be downloaded at the Linkin Park fan site Linkin Park Association.
Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda told MTV.com this past spring that the group wrote something in the neighborhood of 60 songs for its new album, the band’s first since 2003’s “Meteora”.
“When we were making ‘Meteora’, we wrote 70 to 90 songs to come up with the 12 tracks that are on the album,” he said. “For this one, we’re going to write more than that. We’re about halfway into it. But it’ll be out this year. And I can already tell that the record is going to sound a little different than our previous ones.
“Rick [Rubin, SLAYER, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, AUDIOSLAVE] and I are going to be producing it together, and that’s something different too,” Shinoda continued. “We’ve always based who we are on the fact that we all listen to different kinds of music, and we try to mix all those different styles as seamlessly as we can. And Rick’s done everything from BEASTIE BOYS and RUN-DMC to DIXIE CHICKS and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and SLAYER. At the core of his being, Rick understands so much. He doesn’t have to work for it. So in the studio, there’s no thought, there’s just feeling.”