NORTH YORKSHIRE, England – A senior scientist was forced to resign from his post with Britain’s National Health Service after a virus-laden pornographic PowerPoint presentation infected his office computer and called higher-ups’ attention to unauthorized use of government...

CYBERSPACE – When the makers of the Firefox internet browser asked users who refused to upgrade to version 3.0 why they were holding on to the older version of their software, the answer they got back was a bit surprising. More than 25% of the holdouts said they rejected Firefox...

CYBERSPACE – If you think you have what it takes to build up a lot of views on YouTube, you might have an opportunity to cash in on those viewers. All you have to do is share a video that goes viral, and you could be getting an alert from YouTube offering to run ads on your...

MONTREAL – Affiliate program Braincash and content producer Channel 69 have teamed up to produce a collection of new websites that will offer gay material never before seen online.According to Pat Cantin, project manager for Braincash’s gay division, the affiliate program already...

CUPERTINO, Calif. – A Trend Micro researcher has discovered a new variant of the JAHLAV malware family that infects Apple’s Mac operating system. The new trojan, detected in the wild, is known as OSX_JAHLAV.I. Like its predecessors, it masquerades as pirated versions of...

CYBERSPACE – A little-known surfer-tracking technique that uses Adobe Flash technology to spy on users’ habits has been documented by academics, who warn that most sites do not inform consumers about the potential privacy invasion.In a research paper called “Flash Cookies and...

CYBERSPACE – The genre of Gay Erotic Romance will have a new entry on September 15th when the novel Laid debuts on the Internet, but author A.J. Llewellyn won’t be stopping with just the digital offering of the book – which will be available through www.eXtasybooks.com. His...

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – What do you do when you’re an adult entertainment company and you’re threatened by attorneys from one of the largest media companies in the world over your upcoming parody? Some might call a recent retreat by Digital Sin / New Sensations a simple case...

CHARLOTTE, NC – Apparently having exhausted the supply of naked people and scandalous discourse in the now-infamous Eric Dane/Rebecca Gayheart sex tape, Gawker.com has turned its considerable snark to inanimate objects.And that has turned out to be … well, some sort of...

PROVO, Utah – Does doing business in a squeaky-clean state improve the reputation of a sleazy industry, particularly if the sleazy industry points an accusing finger at a presumptively even sleazier industry?Possibly, if the state is Utah, the sleazy industry is quick-cash loans...