2006 Mitakai

The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell items from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the huge ship sank in the North Atlantic in 1912. Now aged 96 she plans to raise £3,000 by selling items in an auction such as a suitcase packed with clothes given to her as a gift by people in New York after her rescue back in 1912.

Mr Dan Kaminsky exposed a way for malicious hackers to hijack DNS and re-direct people to fake pages even if they typed in the correct address for a website. The founder of the flaw said, speaking for the first time in a conference in Las Vegas, “Every network is at risk. That’s what this flaw has shown.”

At the conference, Mr Kaminsky discussed 15 other ways for the flaw to be exploited, making it easier for those with the knowledge to take advantage of it.

Educational seems to be fundamental in making the net a safer place.

Despite it not being popular or politically correct to say so, men and woman are not equal. Continually research shows that there are very real differences in the sexes and how we process information, make decisions and now how we commit information to memory.

Men have a better capacity for facts and figures yet struggle to recall birthday and anniversary dates. Researchers from Kings College in London believe that it’s all got to do with men and woman using different genes when creating memories. The findings could have significant implications for research into Alzheimer’s.

Stores offering music downloads such as apple’s i-tunes could soon be able to operate one shop dedicated to the whole of Europe. Current different regulations apply and this is not possible and must be negotiated differently for different societies.

New ruling will also allow different societies to license music in more than one country.

The idea of the new proposals for the societies to compete against each other and end clauses in their cross-border contracts.