Peter Kafka of AllThingsD has reported this weekend that the upcoming iPad-only newspaper "The Daily" will launch on January 17th.

Citing multiple sources, Kafka says that date is pretty set in stone, dispelling most past rumors that had the newspaper launching in December.

The Daily will sell for .99 a week, will use mixed media content such as video in most articles, and will even have 3D effects in some articles.

News Corp. has already hired over 30 writers for the Daily.

The Daily will be the first subscription-based paper on the iPad that will be billed automatically by iTunes.

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Google has added a new layer of protection to search results, alerting users if they may be about to click on a site that has been hacked or compromised.

If the search giant believes a site has been hacked, your search result will have the sentence "this site may be compromised" below it.

Google users will find the warning to be very similar to what the company already uses for sites that spread malware.

Says Google of the update (via eW):

"We've provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page. Now we're expanding the search results notifications to help people avoid sites that may have been compromised and altered by a third party, typically for spam. When a user visits a site, we want her to be confident the information on that site comes from the original publisher."

If you click on the warning, more information is available about the site. If you still want to visit the site despite the alert, you can click-through.

Concludes the search giant:

"We use a variety of automated tools to detect common signs of a hacked site as quickly as possible. When we detect something suspicious, we'll add the notification to our search results. We'll also do our best to contact the site's webmaster via their Webmaster Tools account and any contact email addresses we can find on the webpage. We hope webmasters will also appreciate these notices, because it will help you more quickly discover when someone may be abusing your site so you can correct the problem."

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The eBay user "moonlightflyer" has put an extremely rare Apple Lisa 1 computer up for sale via auction this week, giving Apple fans a chance to purchase a piece of history.

As of writing, the computer is selling for $25,100 with two days remaining.

Reads the description:

Unfortunately I do not have a mouse or the Lisa system software.

• It has authentic Lisa 1 and Twiggy ROMS.
* It has the Keyboard
* It has the original TWIGGY Floppy Disk Drives. I assume they work.
* Anti-glare silk screen for the CRT. No holes or tears
* The plastic has yellowed some but as you can see there's no chips,
cracks, or dents anywhere on the case.
* The CRT is bright and sharp with no burn in.
* No problems with the power supply.

It has some very minor corrosion from the battery. I have removed the batteries.

I can not find a serial number anyplace. I believe this may have been a very early production Lisa my brother use internally at Apple.

Apple began development of the Lisa 1 in 1978 and launched the computer in 1982.

Pushed out of the spotlight by the original Mac in 1984, the Lisa 1 supported some mutitasking, a GUI, protected memory and could handle up to 2MB of RAM.

The computer sold for $10,000 in 1982.

Check the auction here: Rare Lisa 1 auction

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