Airport scanners may violate laws – rights group | Top News | Reuters. “The use of full-body scanners at British airports may breach human rights laws, the country’s equality commission said on Tuesday, potentially undermining the latest weapon against terrorism….”

Google mystery server runs 13% of active websites • The Register. “The Google Web Server – custom-built server software used only by Google – now runs nearly 13 per cent of all active web sites, according to the latest survey data from the web-server-tracking UK research outfit Netcraft….”

Harald Welte’s blog. “Two days ago, Netgear has announced the so-called “Open Source” WNR3500L router, together with an equally “Open Source” MyOpenRouter community. The problem with this Open Source router is: It ships with binary-only kernel modules. Not only is this extremely Closed Source, but it also….”

Microsoft is hell-bent on killing the Netbook – The Next Web. “The fact is, people don’t care that the computer they’re buying is cheap and running an old OS; it does what they need it to. That must hurt Microsoft. Killing netbooks by strangling them with licensing restrictions and poor marketing is their desperate attempt [...]

Behind the scenes with Google Street View | News | TechRadar UK.

Apple more closed than Microsoft • The Register.