Monday Morning Links Serving: The April 16th Edition

-How to Reduce Firefox’s Memory Usage? We all know it, Firefox is a memory hog. Here’s a good article listing simple steps you can take to bring down the amount of RAM FF takes. -Test Driving the $100 Laptop’s Interface (Slideshow) As the One Laptop Per Child project works toward a release this year of what [...]

Windows Zero-day “Animated Cursor” Vulnerability

By Matt Pearson Contributing Writer, [GAS]  A lovely new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows has hit the public scene. At the end of March, exploitation of a previously (publicly) unknown vulnerability in Windows’ animated cursor (ANI) processing was detected in the wild. This new vulnerability is now being widely exploited to install Trojan malware into [...]

Online Porn Law Struck Down

Yesterday, a federal court judge struck down the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) declaring that the law is “impermissibly broad and over-vague” and that it violates the principles of the First and Fifth Amendments. The judge also said that if parents wanted to protect their children against pornography, they would be better off using content [...]