The official website en.beijing2008.cn had its main headlines in blue this morning, but smaller headings were all in orange, as were some other elements of the design - a reference to a campaign by Danish human rights activist and artist Jens Galschiot.

Normally, unpowered DRAM memory chips lose their contents after a several seconds. But a team of researchers have discovered if those chips can be kept very cool, then they might retain their contents for up to an hour or more. According to the researchers’ findings, that gives someone plenty of time to read the memory in the chips and recover a user’s encryption keys.

Microsoft’s Windows Update can already be extended to update other Microsoft products through Microsoft Update. Why not open this up for any program on your system?

Gary McKinnon, a 42-year-old unemployed systems analyst, admits accessing 97 US military and NASA computers, but insisted that he was only seeking information on UFOs and aliens. He faces at least 10 years in a US jail if he is successfully extradited from the United Kingdom.