Civil

An EU committee has drawn up a proposal that requires future cars to be equipped with an emergency braking system. The police could thus remotely switch off the engine of a stolen car or a vehicle that is being chased. Civil rights…

A US government privacy regulator says the bulk collection of phone call metadata must stop. According to the regulator, the program has limited value and there is no legal basis.According to the US government's Privacy and Civil…

Gamers who spent a lot of time on Sid Meier's Civilization, which was released for DOS by Microprose in 1991, should be careful not to get addicted again. Since 1995, a group of developers has been working under the name Freeciv to make…

Wine's usual biweekly development build was released on Friday. Wine, regular visitors to the Meuktracker know by now, is an open source implementation of the Windows api. This makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux,…

On Tuesday, version 1.122 of Xfire was released. This program ensures that game enthusiasts can chat with each other via text and speech, both indoors and outdoors. In addition, in a number of games it is possible to take screenshots and…