More grim reading on the security of biometric systems courtesy of German technology site c't. Calls into question the potential effectiveness of the US requiring biometric identification for overseas visitors.

News of a potential approach to combating malaria spread by mosquitos by releasing hordes of GM mosquitos into the wild that are immune to the parasite carrying malaria. The article does note that it is nowhere near feasible yet to do this, but the idea raises a lot of interesting issues about this sort of approach.

Interesting article on BBC News detailing how researchers found easy and cheap methods for fooling 80% of fingerprint security systems.

Tony Hawks responds to skateboarding queries (the tony-hawks.com domain is owned by the British comedian Tony Hawks, as opposed to the skateboarder Tony Hawks).

Doing the rounds at the moment are the pictures obtained from Hubble's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) - see the pictures and explanations here.