A developer, not satisfied with using his iPhone for podcasts, video podcasts, YouTube videos and phone calls, has ported the InfoNES core to the iPhone, along with Mario, Zelda, and other NES roms.
While it demonstrates the¬†computing and gaming capabilities of the iPhone,¬†even the developer¬†admits that the use of virtual controllers for gaming “…while cute, sucks.”

An unusual ruling in Finnish courts appears to have declared that it’s open season for hacking DRM’d media.
In an unanimous decision, the Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of [...]

The movie industry is considering changes to HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc licensing agreements that would formally give consumers the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they’ve purchased. The agreement would let buyers make a backup copy in case their original disc is damaged and another copy for [...]

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s recently released operating system appears to let an audio¬†podcast hack Windows Vista. Vista’s speech recognition feature can let attackers run malicious programs using recorded audio commands.
Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability:
Microsoft’s initial investigation reveals that this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use the speech recognition feature in Windows Vista to verbally [...]