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After one too many games of Dungeons and Dragons, surly robot Bender goes on a fantasy-fueled bender in the latest Futurama movie.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/futuramas-anima.html

The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card driver for Linux from Creative Labs was awful. That's simply the nicest way to put it. The driver was home to many bugs, initially only supported 64-bit Linux, and it was arriving extremely late. The open-source drivers supporting the Creative X-Fi drivers have also been at a stand still. However, Creative Labs today has finally turned this situation around and they have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fi driver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=creative_xfi_gift&num=1

Circuit City Stores Inc, the No. 2 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy on Monday just weeks before the start of the holiday shopping season, becoming the largest retailer to file for Chapter 11 since Kmart in 2002.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A936V20081110?pageNumber=...

Apple's 3G iPhone will soon gain a feature that it currently lacks compared to most other 3G smartphones – the ability to act as a modem for the computer it's attached to. At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega said that a firmware update would soon be available to allow "tethering" – in other words, for the phone to make its data connection available to a PC or Mac. Generally, notebook owners use this for getting a fast data connection when out of reach of Wi-Fi.

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/networks/iPhone-to-add-wireless-modem-feat...

iiNet managing director Michael Malone has warned a Senate Committee that the federal government's national broadband network is doomed to be a huge monumental failure and a waste of $5 billion of taxpayers money.

http://www.wabusinessnews.com.au/en-story/1/68044/Broadband-network-wast...

Netflix has expanded its "Watch Instantly" movie-streaming player to include Macintosh-owning subscribers.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10080842-93.html

Computer makers are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp. after 40 reports of overheating, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission notice Thursday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/31/sony.laptop.recall.ap/index...

The clocks went back last weekend, which means that the nights are darker, the days are colder and it's only a few days before children start banging on our front door expecting chocolate. It also means that another Ubuntu release is due, since their releases always take place in April and October. In anticipation of this, we thought we would address a few pertinent questions: like is it any good, what has changed since the last release and what artificially alliterative name will they use this time?

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/static/ubuntu810.html

This week, we're really happy to be sharing some work we've commissioned to deliver BBC content (mainly radio shows from the BBC Audio & Music team) on demand for users of GNU/Linux.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/research_on_bbc_content_f...

Microsoft has been hinting that even though it had no plans to make major changes to the Windows kernel, it did have a scheme up its sleeve to make Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server better suited to working on multicore/parallel systems. Now details are becoming clearer as to how Microsoft plans to do this.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1687

The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet, which experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4738363a28.html

Apple this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.6, the next in a running series of updates planned for the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, which could prove to be the most extensive yet.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/23/apple_begins_testing_mac_o...

Google has introduced version 2.0 of Gmail for Mobile for BlackBerry and mobile phones that support J2ME. They do note however, that not all features are available for all phones, but version 2.0 is available in over 35 languages.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/10/23/google-launches-gmail-20-fo...

With just 20 days until the launch of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the early effects of the undead's looming arrival have manifested as a zombie invasion.

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1538825009;fp;4194304;fpid;1

Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City has been hit by a virus causing players to turn into zombies.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55532