If you're a parent, you should definitely do your best to safeguard your kids. The Sopranos will be the first TV series to go to HD DVD. Symantec is picking away at Microsoft Vista.

Vista includes several barriers designed to prevent malicious code from gaining access to the operating system core or kernel. These enhancements are "quite substantial" and result in a "dramatic reduction" of the overall attack surface of the operating system, Symantec said in a report published Tuesday.