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Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's former CEO and current chairman, has been in semi-retirement for the past two years, but you'd never know it from listening to his interview with the BBC's Peter Day. Szulik, ever the revolutionary, talks up open source's opportunity to disrupt conventional software and promote social reform.

As he does so, however, he inadvertently describes Red Hat's winning… Continue

In a few days time Global Gaming Factory is supposed to have gathered millions of dollars in funding so they can acquire The Pirate Bay. But according to Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster who was involved with GGF recently, this is unlikely to happen. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is giving GGF a week before they cancel the deal.

Last month the BitTorrent community was shaken up when GGF publicly annou… Continue

Spiderman, Spiderman, does everything a spider can! Including, it seems, using home-made vacuum gloves to stickily scale the walls of the BBC’s White City building, a vertical drop of 120 vertigo-inducing feet.

In this case, Spiderman isn’t the meek Peter Parker but engineer and TV presenter Jem Stansfield. Looking more like a low-rent steampunk Doc Ock than Spidey himself, Jem clanks his way to the top, in front of a cheering crowd. There’s even a dramatic slip a few yards… Continue

There's no short supply of vocal people around these parts who didn't enjoy Resident Evil 5. Why? My guess is they didn't find it scary enough, it was too similar to Resident Evil 4, and it also wasn't as good as its predecessor. Does that make it a ridiculously horrible game that no one should ever play? Apparently.

But for those who found Resident Evil 5 to be the game equivalent of a summer action flick, or just plain liked hearing D.C. Douglas say the word "uroboros" again and again, here a… Continue

We heard rumblings of this last week, but we didn't want to believe it was true -- Ubisoft has pushed the releases of Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2 into 2010.

In its First-Quarter 2009-10 Sales report, the publisher confirmed the delays, along with confirmation that the fourth fiscal quarter will see the release of a new Ghost Recon, as well as the mysterious I Am Alive.

In fact, the second quarter of fiscal 2009-10 sees very few Ubisoft releases. The publisher only plans to release… Continue