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On today's show:

A serious vulnerability in Apple's new Mac OS X Tiger, and an easy way to block it.

Nuclear batteries in your cell phone? It's what's next.

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Today's news items

Microsoft has revealed the details of the new Xbox, code named Xenon. It's officially the Xbox 360 and it's much more than a gaming platform. Interesting irony: videos of the Xbox are being displayed by Macs. Turns out the G5 is better at emulating the Xbox because it's running PowerPC.

Apple is also hosting the trailers for the new Harry Potter film out this Fall.

Microsoft also announced a subscription-based security service. OneCare is aimed at home users who don't have an IT department to fix their computers. Trust Microsoft to figure out a way to make money on its lax security model.

And Bill Gates is on the offensive against the iPod. He told the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "I don't think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be. I think you can draw parallels here with the computer — here, too, Apple was once extremely strong with its Macintosh and graphic user interface, like with the iPod today, and then lost its position." Sour grapes?

Two security flaws in Firefox have been patched. Click the update button to the right of your address bar to update your copy to 1.0.4. With that said CNN reports that Internet Explorer usage dipped below 90% a 6% drop since June of last year while Firefox had a 3 % increase as of October of last year. Firefox has roughly 6.8% of the internet browser market share.

The MPAA introduced a new round of lawsuits aimed at bittorent tracker sites according CNET.com 6 Bittorent Tracker sites have been targeted: ShunTV, Zonatracker, Btefnet, Scifi-Classics, CDDVDHeaven and Bragginrights with most of these sites homepages displaying notices of closure.

And a Massachusetts judge shut down America's largest spam gang. It's another success for the CAN-SPAM act.

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