The Macintosh virus count increased by one last Monday when a new virus called either MDEF or Garfield was found at Cornell University. Contrary to an article in MacWEEK, the virus was found by Gordon Suggs of Cornell Information Technologies and Adam Engst of TidBITS

The chill is returning to the air as autumn moves on (well, at least in the Northern Hemisphere), and it appears that some Macs have caught two new bugs, viruses actually

Pro Conflicts -- Early reports indicate that some software compatible with System 7.1 may not work properly with System 7 Pro (see article below), and that some older software may need to be upgraded to the current version

Chris W. Johnson at the University of Texas recently released an update to his free Gatekeeper antiviral utility, version 1.2.8. The new version is a maintenance release, and doesn't address new viruses, but all Gatekeeper users should obtain this update. Some earlier versions of Gatekeeper may comment that they are out of date, and suggest that the user find an update

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers Gene Spafford of Purdue University yesterday released a joint announcement for the various antiviral utility publishers, describing a newly-discovered virus (dubbed INIT-M) and a suite of new versions of the popular antiviral utilities. INIT-M is a MALICIOUS virus and can result in irreparable damage to your files, folders, and file systems

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers In a joint bulletin released today by Gene Spafford of Purdue University, the various Macintosh antiviral developers announced the discovery of a new virus earlier along with new utility versions to combat it. The new virus, dubbed INIT 17, infects the System file and most applications as they run, and is likely to spread quickly once a machine is exposed to the virus

A judge has rejected a sweeping settlement of lawsuits against Google that would have given the search company a kind of monopoly, and created a cartel for pricing by authors and publishers. Good.

At a special event in Cupertino, Apple talked about what users can expect to see in iPhone 2.0, and officially announced the release of the iPhone software development kit. The iPhone 2.0 software is scheduled for release in June 2008, a year after the original iPhone shipped. However, a beta of 2.0 is available immediately for selected developers and enterprise customers; it includes support for the iPhone SDK along with new enterprise features.

The T-Mobile G1 with Google isn't as impressive today as it will likely be in several months. The first Android-based smartphone release shows potential because its lack of constraints, but it's not all there yet.

After a day of astonishment and disgust on blogs, Twitter streams, and technology news sites, Apple has removed the Baby Shaker iPhone app from the App Store. The app displayed drawings of a crying baby and urged users to "find a way to quiet the baby down."

In which we learn how multitasking on an iPhone 4 is just like how a scientist takes a trip to Jupiter. Or something.

After watching a Google video in which people in Times Square prove almost entirely incapable of answering the question, "What is a browser?", Adam muses about where this lack of technological literacy came from and what it means for the future.