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Vista's DRM features have been drawing ever more criticism, but it's just the latest step among many that takes liberties out of the hands of users and into the media megacorps. So what are you going to do about it?

What happens when you give Wi-Fi to your retired parents? Well, clearly, they go out and hack the gibson like any sensible well-equipped individual would do.

The recent release of MacFUSE, an OS X port of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) kernel module, has generated a lot of well-deserved hype. But does it live up to the hype and deliver the usable solutions it promses?

Ultra popular MMOG Second Life has taken the step of open sourcing its client application. What will the open source community do with it?

It's not every day you get the opportunity to help purchase and open source a massively multiplayer online game -- but the team behind Free Ryzom certainly tried, raising almost 200,000 Euros to purchase the assets and intellectual property of the Ryzom MMORPG.

The notMac Challenge is offering a prize of $10,000 to the first developer to come up with a open-source dotMac replacement service. Let's be honest. We all need it. Apple's .Mac service is dead in the water.

There's no better exposure than word of mouth, right? Well, there is TV. Four community-made Firefox TVCs will appear on US screens in coming weeks, funded in part by the legion of Firefox fans themselves.

Creammonkey aims to bring the power of Firefox's Greasemonkey extension to Safari. I should tell you that it is nowhere close, but it can still perform tricks that makes Safari more pleasant to use.

Dear Google, great and mighty information overlord, keeper of the sanctified and searched-for bits, and glorious displayer of the Earth for all to see. I have a message for you.

It's not just the bad 'hackers' out there that might try and get in a look in on your machine, perfectly legitimate companies are out to do it too. Here's how to block out unwanted guests.