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Google opens Tokyo research lab. The company hopes the lab will bolster its technical expertise in four countries. |
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Briefly: Google opens Tokyo research lab. Plus: DCML seeks broader standards support...Microsoft delays IM software...Scalix raises $6 million. |
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PCI subsystem gets third major update. The new version supports several variants of conventional PCI connections. |
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IBM storage software extends reach. Big Blue unveils an upgrade to its storage management software designed to handle boxes from rival EMC. But EMC suggests the technology is flawed. |
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Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo |
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JetBrains storms into easy-to-use Java tools fray. Looking to make inroads in the market for easy-to-use Java tools, JetBrains this week launched an Early Access Program for JetBrains Fabrique, a RAD framework for building custom Web and enterprise applications. |
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TCP catastrophe?. Last week's announcement hit the security community like a love tap from a sumo wrestler. Nearly every router on the Internet, even those only distantly connected, was vulnerable to a potential exploit that could shut down whole sections of a network and maybe even the Internet itself. Worse, the vulnerability was something so basic -- the design of TCP itself -- that the problem touches everyone. (You can find a detailed, very technical description at Cisco.) |
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Exclusive: Oblix’s ShareID 2.0 a first-rate authentication middleman. Although it’s not common practice for a company to grant internal network-resource access to employees of another company, it’s not unheard of either. The problem with the practice lies in authentication management. When a business partner requires access to certain resources, the unfortunately common solution is to create accounts for specific employees of the partner within the local directory. Although there are ways to manage this access, maintaining these user accounts is not in the best interest of any IT department, for both security and maintenance reasons. Oblix has just announced ShareID 2.0, a product that aims to fill this gap by providing a means for managing resource access between cooperating entities without the risks. |
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Libya missed, iPod dissed. I’ve figured out how to make my fortune. I’ll invent a technology, let Microsoft “borrow” it, and then sue them for patent infringement. (I’m thinking of a SnarkBar plug in: Highlight text in any Word document and it inserts a smartass comment.) Hey, why not? I could use a spare $440 million. |
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News: U.S. defends cybercrime treaty. Critics contend an international treaty aimed at catching computer criminals anywhere in the world could be abused by repressive governments. |
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BugTraq: [waraxe-2004-SA#025 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Protector System 1.15b1 for PhpNuke]. Sender: Janek Vind [come2waraxe at yahoo dot com] |
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EEYE: Symantec Multiple Firewall TCP Options Denial of Service |
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Network Associates Is Now McAfee |
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Cisco's Rumored IOS Update Welcomed |
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Network Associates Is Now McAfee |
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Et Cetera: Friday sledgehammer. Friday round up with more than you can believe. Just a ton of stuff, all fresh, all certified organic. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Penny Arcade!
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A Matter Of Life And Death.  |
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IPO day may be approaching for Google. Securities law requires companies that meet certain criteria to file quarterly financial data with the SEC. For Google, that deadline is next week. |
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Nanosys files papers for IPO. The reigning celebrity of the nanotechnology market files preliminary documents for an initial public offering, in what will likely be a closely watched saga. |
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Autonomy to power Olympic surveillance. Software from the company will help Greek security forces look for terrorists at this summer's games. |
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DCML seeks broader standards support. The DCML Organization is seeking to partner or merge completely with established standards groups to gain broader industry acceptance. |
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Lindows Expands with Digital Audio, Photo Apps (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - At the Desktop Linux Summit, the Linux OS vendor releases its new Lsong software for digital audio and demonstrates a digital photo application to follow on its heels. |
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CEO: Netflix Plans to Deliver Films Via Web in 2005 (Reuters). Reuters - Movie rental service Netflix Inc.
(NFLX.O) plans to do next year what its name has always
promised: deliver a movie via the Internet. |
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Military Develops Liquid Body Armor |
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Siebel expands its scope. Siebel Systems is setting its sights beyond CRM, landing a banking software acquisition and an alliance with analytics vendor Teradata. Siebel last week also released a major update to its Siebel 7 product line. |
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No timetable set for Sun-Microsoft interoperability. SAN DIEGO -- Sun Microsystems Inc. will be "uniquely advantaged" by its interoperability agreement with Microsoft Corp., said Sun CEO Scott McNealy. But when any advantages will become available to users isn't yet clear. |
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NetBeans IDE 3.6 touts windowing, J2EE 1.4. NetBeans IDE 3.6, a major revision to the open source platform, is now available, adding improved windowing, debugging, and backing for J2EE 1.4. |
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HP launches four-way Opteron system. On the first birthday of AMD's Opteron, Hewlett-Packard has become the first major vendor to offer a four-processor server based on the 64-bit chip. |
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BugTraq: EEYE: Symantec Multiple Firewall TCP Options Denial of Service. Sender: Derek Soeder [dsoeder at eeye dot com] |
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BugTraq: RE: [Full-Disclosure] EEYE: Symantec Multiple Firewall TCP Options Denial of Service. Sender: Sym Security [secure at symantec dot com] |
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Vulns: BEA WebLogic Server/Express EJB Object Removal Denial Of Service Vulnerability. WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express are enterprise application server products distributed by BEA Systems.
BEA has reported a vulnerability in both WebLogic Server and ... |
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Vulns: BEA WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Illegal URI Pattern Potential Bypass Vulnerability. WebLogic/WebLogic Express are enterprise application server products distributed by BEA Systems.
A vulnerability has been identified in the WebLogic/WebLogic Express th... |
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IBM infiltrates EMC's storage systems. API swap pays off By Ashlee Vance . |
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Zone-H Defacement: greenpeace.ca |
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Phoney captain fools RAF base for five months |
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Jetsonian relic: the Ready Lady Chair.  Dan sez: "This chair is straight out of a "house of the future" cartoon. It is upholstered in a silky beige vinyl and has a Velcro sealed back flap that opens to reveal a fold-out ironing board, an iron, and a GE hair dryer (the kind with the bag that you put over your head - and the bag is connected by a plastic tube to the hair dryer). There is a label on the inside of the back flap identifying the chair as being a "Ready Lady Chair" made by Castro Convertibles." Link |
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A New Pentagon Papers Case - Newspapers, Blogs and the Diebold/Jones Day Memos. Ernest Miller sez: Last Tuesday it was revealed that Diebold was informed by its lawyers that using uncertified e-voting software in California was probably illegal. Where did this information come from? Leaked legal memos from Diebold's law firm, Jones Day. Last Tuesday afternoon a judge ordered that all documents not already published on the internet be returned to Jones Day. But, if you can't stop newspapers from publishing the Pentagon Papers, why can you stop a newspaper from publishing memos dealing with important issues regarding voting equipment? Perhaps the lesson for newspapers is that if you think the public should be informed, publish as much as possible and don't try to hold back information for 'exclusives.'" Link |
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Ericsson Reports $390M in 1Q Earnings (AP). AP - Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson posted an unexpectedly large first-quarter profit Friday, citing increasing demand from mobile phone operators expanding their networks. |
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PC Makers Sued Over JPEG Use (PC World). PC World - Forgent claims the image compression technology infringes on its patent. |
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Google Appears Ready to File for IPO (AP). AP - Online search engine leader Google Inc. appears to be on the verge of pursuing its initial public offering of stock, ending months of breathless anticipation in Silicon Valley. |
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Video Projector for Home Theater? |
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Compuware, Segue smooth out apps management. Compuware and Segue Software next week are bolstering their application management wares, with Compuware finding ways to boost performance without increasing a user’s equipment expenses and Segue managing application quality. |
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Exploit found for Net flaw, but risks remote |
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TCP Connection Reset Remote Exploit |
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Linux Kernel CPUFREQ Proc Handler Kernel Memory Disclosure |
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IRC_RANDON.CB |
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23 Apr Troj/Banker-S |
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Network Associates New Look Reflects Changing Market |
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California Electronic Voting Crisis |
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How quickly can your unix react to the tcp/ip flaw? NetBSD wins! (updated) |
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TCP Reset Attacks: Paper and Code Now Availble |
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Netegrity SiteMinder Affiliate Agent Cookie Overflow |
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Potential Microsoft PCT worm (MS04-011) |
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Ad Standards Agency sez: video pirates are terrorists!. The Advertising Standards Agency was asked to investigate the anti-piracy ads that run before the UK's movies, in which a link between terrorism and DVD bootlegging is asserted.
The advertisers said the commercial had been given a "U" certificate by the British Board of Film Classification; they believed it did not appeal to fear unduly or without good reason. They said they could not send all the substantiation they held about the link between piracy and terrorism because it was confidential. The advertisers sent a report, published on the European Union website, that stated "Terrorist groups also commonly become involved in counterfeiting and piracy as a mean of financing their activities". They sent the Executive Summary of a report, by the Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, entitled "Proving the Connection"; that report claimed "There is evidence of proscribed groups in Northern Ireland using intellectual property fraud as a fund raising activity for their criminal activities.
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Mystery meat haute cuisine. Slate reviews The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating, a trendy new English cookbook devoted to the preparation of offcuts, snouts, rectii, marrow, and bladders of all description.
One reason seems to be the frisson of naughtiness associated with eating such things. Due to the crackdown on the consumption of various meat byproducts in a post-mad cow U.K., lambs' brains are still illegal in England. (But this hasn't stopped Henderson from jotting down a few recipes, "so that when lamb's brain is freed from its sentence we shall be ready to celebrate its liberty.") Wondering about the legality of lambs' brains—given that I'd eaten them, or at any rate trace quantities of them, at Babbo—I went to Ottomanelli's butcher shop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Frank Ottomanelli told me that lambs' brains are legal in America. "What happens is you buy the whole head, and then I'll get the brains out for you, as a courtesy," he smiled. I ran through a list of other Henderson ingredients I was curious about: pig's head? pig's spleen? pig's feet? "The only thing on the pig that we don't have is the squeal," Frank said. So, tally your ingredients, intrepid chefs, and get thee to a butcher shop. And for those of adventurous tastes but milder temperament, just head to your local restaurant. I hear the Testa's good.
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Infineon to boost memory-making capacity. The German chipmaker will add a new RAM-manufacturing line to its Richmond, Va., facility, as part of a $1 billion expansion. |
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AT&T Wireless readies recovery strategy. CEO John Zeglis outlines the troubled wireless carrier's plans to rebound from one of its worst financial quarters ever. |
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Microsoft delays IM software. The software giant postpones the release of MSN Messenger 6.2 until next week. |
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For AT&T, Baby Bells, the real fight begins. Telecommunications players are divided over the meaning of an FCC ruling that says AT&T must pay Verizon fees to complete long-distance calls that are routed, in part, over the Internet. |
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IBM Jumps Into Search-Technology Fracas (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is set to unveil an upgraded version of its enterprise-level search
technology. Code-named "Masala," the new software is an improvement on
Big Blue's DB2 Information Integrator released last year. It is
expected to enable simultaneous search of the Web, internal
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Network Associates Is Now McAfee (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Network Associates (NYSE: NET) is going back to the future, changing the corporate moniker back to McAfee and spinning off a company division as part of a strategy to focus more tightly on security products and services. |
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Sun To Sell Java Desktops via Wal-Mart Site (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Sun says it has finalized its agreement with Microtel Computer Systems to sell machines loaded with Sun's
Java Desktop System on Walmart.com. And Sun is confident that its JDS version 2.0 will be another nibble toward its goal of taking a big bite out of
Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows dominance. |
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Activism Goes Digital (PC World). PC World - From e-mail to meet-ups, women's march organizers extend their reach online to plan this weekend's event. |
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Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever |
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E-marketplaces make a comeback. Quadrem, a global marketplace for industrial MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) products for the mining and metal industry, announced this week that it expects a 100 percent increase in revenues and a doubling of the number of transactions over 2003. |
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CA said to appoint Kenneth Cron interim CEO. Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) board member Kenneth Cron has been asked to be the company's interim chief executive officer (CEO), according to articles Friday in several publications. |
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Infineon increases capacity at US chip fab. DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY - In a move to meet growing demand for memory chips, German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies AG has decided to ramp up capacity at its U.S. plant to produce advanced DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips on 300 millimeter wafers beginning early next year, the Munich company said Friday. |
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BugTraq: TCP Reset Attacks: Paper and Code Now Availble. Sender: [sullo at cirt dot net] |
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JPEG patent holder renews royalty offensive. 'We will never Forgent' By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Security holes force firms to rethink coding processes |
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Mandrake: xchat Improper execution vulnerability |
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Debian: ident2 Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Red Hat: kernel Buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Mandrake: utempter Update to patch MDKSA-2004:031 |
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Red Hat: IA64 kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Red Hat: XFree86 Denial of service vulnerability |
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Trustix: kernel Integer overflow vulnerability |
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Fedora: kernel Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Red Hat: kernel Privilege escalation vulnerabilities |
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Openwall: kernel Privilege escalation vulnerability |
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Elsewhere: Expert: Gaps still pain Bluetooth security |
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Elsewhere: Taking a Second Shot at Spammers |
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News: Network Associates sells Sniffer |
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HP remains top chip buyer. Hewlett-Packard tops the list of chip buyers in 2003 as PC sales began picking up again, according to market researcher iSuppli. |
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Graphics patent suit targets Dell, others. Forgent Networks targets 31 computer and electronics vendors, seeking damages related to its claim to technology underlying the widespread JPEG file format. |
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Scalix raises $6 million. The software maker receives $6 million in second-round funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures. |
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Briefly: Scalix raises $6 million. Plus: Microsoft names new pricing chief...Amazon gets into jewelry business...AMD joins Linux lab. |
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HP goes green with handheld discount. The device maker says it will offer discounts of $50 on Pocket PCs, if customers return their old PDAs for recycling. |
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Can You Get an eMac for $25? (PC World). PC World - Japanese Web site mistakenly offers Apple's computers at a steep discount. |
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China's TCL Probed for Proposed Spin Off (AP). AP - Chinese electronics maker TCL Corp., a partner with France's Thomson in the world's biggest television set production venture, said Friday that stock market regulators investigating the disclosure of the company's plan to spin off its mobile phone business. |
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Postfix 2.1 Released |
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Family's text lifeline. An 81 year-old man has taught himself to text so he can communicate with his disabled daughter. |
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Elsewhere: Expert: Gaps still pain Bluetooth security. VANCOUVER, British Columbia--The latest specification of Bluetooth, a popular short-range wireless technology, has left serious security issues unfixed, according to a wi... |
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Elsewhere: Taking a Second Shot at Spammers. Spammers who get caught flooding American inboxes with junk mail could find themselves facing prosecution twice -- once at the federal level and once at the state level -... |
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News: Network Associates sells Sniffer. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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Vulns: CiscoSecure ACS for Windows NT Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Depending on the data entered, CiscoSecure ACS for Windows NT can be made to crash or arbitrary code execution can be made possible if an unusually long packet is sent to... |
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Vulns: Cisco Catalyst Memory Leak Denial of Service Vulnerability. Cisco Catalyst is a high speed switch implemented in local area networks.
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Spiders inspire eight-legged Post-it notes. Arachnid molecular adhesion By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Telescopes at the ready, it's Astronomy Day. Stargazing extravanganza By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Network Associates adopts new name |
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Linux/Windows security debate rolls on |
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Hacker profile: Peiter Mudge Zatko |
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Spamhaus breaches great firewall of China |
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Code exists to exploit TCP flaw |
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Who Should Keep Out The Hackers? |
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Linux Advisory Watch - April 23rd 2004 |
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Widely used method not best way to judge computer security |
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Your Next Mission-Critical Application |
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Installing Nessus 2.0 on SuSE 9.0 Pro with KDE 3.1 |
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Reducing Spam |
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Super worms on the way? |
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Network Associates adopts new name |
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Linux/Windows security debate rolls on |
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Hacker profile: Peiter Mudge Zatko |
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Spamhaus breaches great firewall of China |
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Wacked MP3: Murray Saul "It's Friday!". BoingBoing reader Keith points us to an entry on a very cool underground MP3 blog, which I won't name here because I don't want to kill them with a traffic flood.
[They posted a link to an MP3 of] the lunatic radio ravings of a guy named Murray Saul, who is just SO GODDAMNED HAPPY that it's Friday! I dare you to listen to him scream about the "CHOCOLATE COVERED WEEKEND!" and not immediately feel happier to just be alive.
You can learn more about Murray Saul, an eccentric Ohio salesman and radio announcer, here. Our friend Leonard Lin has kindly offered to host the file on a BoingBoingable server, so have at it. It's pretty goddamned funny. I think some of it might be obliquely pornographic. It's just off the hook. Link. |
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Nanowire nanomemory.  This image depicts a novel design for a nanomemory device that its inventors believe can store 40 gigabits of data per square centimeter. Developed by scientists at the University of Southern California and the NASA Ames Research Center, the self-assembled molecular memory consists of a nanowire coated with a layer of transistors. In traditional computer memory chips, each transistor holds one bit of information. The beauty of this nano-enabled approach is that the transistors can be put in three distinct states depending on the voltage applied. That means each "memory cell" can hold three bits of data. Link |
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Microsoft, Amazon results brighten sentiment on Wall Street (AFP). AFP - Microsoft shares were surging in pre-opening Wall Street trade after the world's biggest software firm beat analysts' profit expectations with sales that rose a better-than-expected 17 percent. |
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Amazon Says France Probing Its DVD Sales Practices (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. online retailer Amazon.com Inc.
(AMZN.O) said on Friday that French authorities are probing its
sales practices of DVDs in France. |
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Telmex to Launch Online Gaming Service with Microsoft (Reuters). Reuters - Mexico's leading telephone company,
Telmex (TMX.N) (TELMEXL.MX), said on Friday it plans to launch
an online gaming service with Microsoft in a move to boost
broadband usage. |
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Army Confronts Enemies Within in Cyber War Game (Reuters). Reuters - The mission: to secure an
entire computer network for the United States and its allies
against a vague enemy force. |
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Man Pleads Innocent to Internet Stalking (AP). AP - A South Carolina man arrested on an Internet stalking charge has pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court. |
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Ethanol From Waste Straw |
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The Woz to Keynote at Next HOPE Conference |
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Linux Advisory Watch - April 23rd 2004 |
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Linux Advisory Watch - April 23rd 2004 |
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Widely used method not best way to judge computer security |
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Your Next Mission-Critical Application |
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Installing Nessus 2.0 on SuSE 9.0 Pro with KDE 3.1 |
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Reducing Spam |
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Red Hat: kernel Privilege escalation vulnerabilities |
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Openwall: kernel Privilege escalation vulnerability |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Samba Share Local Privilege Elevation Vulnerability. A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been reported to affect the 2.6 Linux kernel.
The issue appears to exist due to a lack of sufficient sanity checks perform... |
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Vulns: Xine Bug Reporting Script Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability. xine is a multimedia player for Unix/Linux variants.
The xine bug reporting scripts (xine-bugreport and xine-check) create temporary files in an insecure manner.
The ... |
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Vulns: Softwin BitDefender AvxScanOnlineCtrl COM Object Remote File Upload And Execution Vulnerability. BitDefender is a freely available web based virus scanning application. It is designed to run on Microsoft Windows systems through the Internet Explorer web browser.
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Vulns: Softwin BitDefender AvxScanOnlineCtrl COM Object Information Disclosure Vulnerability. BitDefender is a freely available web based virus scanning application. It is designed to run on Microsoft Windows systems through the Internet Explorer web browser.
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Swazi King gives PM SMS order of boot. U R sakd, now push off m8 By Tim Richardson . |
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Super worms on the way? |
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Network Associates adopts new name |
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Oplichter heeft goudvoorraad voor weeshuis |
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Nieuwste specificatie Bluetooth nog steeds lek |
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Super worms on the way? |
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Network Associates adopts new name |
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Linux/Windows security debate rolls on |
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NetSky.Z valt educatieve websites aan |
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Fusion news "id" Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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artmedic hpmaker Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability |
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Photo-Journey through Buddhist Hell. 
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Juergen points us to:
"Photo documentation of dioramas depicting the 6 different buddhist hells. Contains abused people, chopped off limbs and pee filled ponds. Of course this place is in Japan, where else can you find something like this?"
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Ericsson Posts Unexpectedly Large Profit (AP). AP - Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson posted an unexpectedly large first-quarter profit Friday, citing increasing demand from mobile phone operators expanding their networks. |
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Factory Testing of Airborne Laser Cannon Completed |
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EU Releases Microsoft Antitrust Report |
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Disney adds tracks to iTunes. Movie studio Disney adds its classic film soundtracks to Apple's iTunes music download service. |
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Microsoft adds games, MSN Toolbar in Messenger update. Microsoft Corp. is rolling out an update to its MSN Messenger instant messaging client that bundles in the MSN Toolbar browser add-on. The software giant is also introducing a subscription gaming service in the U.S. for MSN Messenger users. |
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IDC: Pressure continues to build on IT managers. SINGAPORE - IT managers are facing a period of unprecedented pressure as their challenges increase but senior company executives try to hold down IT budgets, according to Peter Hind [cq], manager, end user programs, IDC South Pacific. |
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LINX links smaller ISPs. 'Piggy-back' valign="top">9. |
Open Sourcerers get UK trade body. 'Great synergies' expected By Lucy Sherriff . |
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AOL and Its Cable Sibling to Cross-Promote (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - More than two years after the AOL-Time Warner merger, America Online Inc. and Time Warner Cable yesterday took a small first step toward promoting each other's high-speed Internet services. |
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31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent |
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IDC: Consolidation to Windows won't happen. SINGAPORE - Microsoft Corp.'s domination of the client operating systems market will fade over the next few years, according to Avneesh Saxena, vice-president for Asia-Pacific computing systems research at IDC. |
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TCP flaw threatens Net data transmissions |
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Livre : Optimiser et sécuriser son trafic IP |
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DHS alert closes router holes |
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La grille scientifique américaine se fait percer |
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Gérard Roucairol (RNTL) : « Le RNTL a donné une assise industrielle à plus de cent projets de recherche » |
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Sicherheitslücke in Personal Firewalls von Symantec |
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Consumer grade *nix: powder keg |
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Network Associates sells Sniffer |
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New Phatbot worm may be on the loose |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions April 19, 2004 |
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TCP flaw threatens Net data transmissions |
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Ad-aware referencefile 01R298 20.04.2004 |
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Norton Virus Definitions April 20, 2004 |
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The Cleaner Database v3551 |
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Trend Micro Pattern File April 20, 2004 |
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AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 665 |
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Trend Micro Pattern File April 21, 2004 |
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McAfee DAT 4352 |
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McAfee SuperDAT 4352 |
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Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions April 21, 2004 |
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Norton Virus Definitions April 22, 2004 |
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BKDR_SDBOT.RC |
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Stumbler: NetStumbler 0.3.30, MiniStumbler 0.4 released |
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Windows for Devices: 'Camera in a lightbulb' "sends live video to cell phones, Pocket PCs" |
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Earnings alert: Ericsson sees strong profits. Plus: PeopleSoft, SAP slightly disappoint...AT&T earnings fall...SBC profits drop...EarthLink sees narrow loss. |
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IBM expands search push with Masala. One query from IBM's upcoming version of its DB2 information integrator will pull data from multiple databases, applications and Web sites. |
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Google's chastity belt too tight. Despite claims of "advanced proprietary technology," the search giant's opt-in porn filter proves no better than the primitive tools of the last decade, blocking many harmless sites, a CNET News.com investigation shows. |
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Network Associates to adopt McAfee name (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Network Associates announced a sweeping restructuring Thursday that includes changing its name to McAfee, its well-known brand of anti-virus software, and selling its Sniffer network-management software unit. |
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New on DVD (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - This week, Mike Clark takes Master and Commander for a spin, along with Call Me Madam, 3 Women, Reefer Madness, A Perfect Candidate, Roxie Hart and The Playboys. |
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AOL, Time Warner do cross promotion (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Corporate siblings America Online and Time Warner Cable called a truce Thursday in their battle over broadband customers with an agreement to push Time Warner's Road Runner service and AOL's premium content. |
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International Space Station Gyroscope Fails |
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Sony's EyeToy wins more plaudits. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Toshiba debuts dinky 100GB disk. Low-power job for notebooks By Tony Smith . |
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419er Struck By American Headline Disorder. Allah Be Praised By Lester Haines . |
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What has IT ever done for business?. Apart from the roads and the aqueducts... By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Amazon opens online bijouterie. Profits up for diamond geezers By Tim Richardson . |
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Laptop + bath = death?. Letters No idea. Any volunteers? By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Exploit code voor TCP vormt geen bedreiging |
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Osama Bin Laden e-mail downloadt Trojaans paard |
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Linux / Windows security discussie duurt voort |
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Spamhaus gaat Chinese spam aanpakken |
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BSD-games mille Potential Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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PostNuke Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
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BSD-games mille Potential Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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PostNuke Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities |
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Linux/Windows security debate rolls on |
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Mac Skeptic: A Computer Store With Heart? (PC World). PC World - Of course, profit is the motive for Apple's spiffy retail stores--but they're more boutique than big box, and the service makes a difference. |
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Report: Google Seen Announcing IPO Plan Within Days (Reuters). Reuters - Within days, Internet search firm
Google Inc. is expected to announce it will carry out an
initial public share offering, the Wall Street Journal reported
on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. |
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Sales rebound in sight at Marconi. The fallen electronics giant is continuing with its efforts to turn itself around, reporting a 1% increase in quarterly sales. |
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Father and daughter's SMS lifeline. An 81 year-old man has taught himself to text so he can communicate with his disabled daughter. |
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Legal costs hit Microsoft profits. The cost of a seemingly endless string of legal settlements weighs on the US software giant's results. |
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Bigmouth McBride turned us off SCO, says investor. BayStar boss speaks By Andrew Orlowski . |
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Nvidia acquires network processor maker. High-end content creation By Tony Smith . |
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Will Opteron's first birthday be its most memorable?. Analysis Dream on... By Ashlee Vance . |
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VIA NET.WORKS UK to axe 40 staff. 'Realigning skills base' By Tim Richardson . |
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Consumer grade *nix: powder keg. Desktop time-bomb By Daniel Hanson, SecurityFocus . |
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ATI R420 slips from April to May. Even as piccies appear on Web By Tony Smith . |
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U.S. Moves Against Online Pirates. The FBI seizes more than 200 computers in a worldwide operation aimed against Internet piracy. Suspects, including more than 100 Americans, are implicated in the thefts, which amount to $50 million. |
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No Privacy for the Poor, Homeless. Tracking the homeless using government-mandated databases would endanger battered women and rob the poor of their privacy while not improving services, experts say. Ryan Singel reports from Berkeley, California. |
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Diebold Machine May Get Boot. A voting panel urges California officials to stop using a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems, and recommends that the state consider filing civil and criminal charges against the company. Kim Zetter reports from Sacramento. |
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Seeking Riches From the Poor. South African entrepreneurs have discovered a stunningly large and lucrative market: Africa's poor. By providing services that the developed world takes for granted, the entrepreneurs are making money -- and making lives easier. Part 3 of a three-part series. Megan Lindow reports from Cape Town. |
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Damaging Drug Study? Bury It. Pharmaceutical companies may have been hiding data that shows some antidepressants might actually hurt depressed kids rather than helping them, according to a new study. By Kristen Philipkoski. |
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Taking a Second Shot at Spammers. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. Can-Spam Act leaves states a lot of leeway to make laws of their own to target junk e-mailers. But will the one-two legal punch keep your inbox clear? By Amit Asaravala. |
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Dems Hold the High Ground Online. The presidential election of 2004 may come down to who wins the most swing states -- and does the best job organizing and campaigning online. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Waarschuwing voor recente Windows lekken |
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Consumenten en Linux vormen explosieve combinatie |
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McAfee wil weer McAfee heten |
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cisco-sa-20040420-tc..> |
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cisco-sa-20040420-tc..> |
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advguest.txt |
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eEye.yahoo.txt |
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unrealEngine2.txt |
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umodpoc.zip |
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WORM_AGOBOT.GM |
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Juniper Networks Products TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service |
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Juniper Networks Products TCP Connection Reset Denial of Service |
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[CERT] TCP protokolü güvenlik açýklarý |
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Miniature Khutu's Pyramid turns your Japanese mobile phone into a PVR. Engadget reports on a really cool-sounding, complicated and hard-to-explain device from Japan: a 1/2000 scale model of Khufu’s Pyramid with a Secure Digital slot in it. You put the pyramid atop your television and it turns your TV's video feed into 3GPP -- the file-format used by Japanese videophones. The idea is that you can load these into your camera phone's SD slot and watch TV on the way to work.
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Used cellphone market taking off. The NYT reports on the growing US market for refurbished, used cellphones.
Many customers for these retreads are more interested in price tags than multimedia messaging or games of Snake II. "They say, 'I just want to make a phone call,' " said Jay Ellison, executive vice president of U.S. Cellular (www.uscc.com), a wireless carrier based in Chicago, which operates in 26 states and maintains a small inventory of refurbished handsets in its stores.
But there is also the cellphone equivalent of the preowned BMW. ReCellular, a company based in Dexter, Mich., resells about four million handsets in bulk worldwide each year. Of the 1.5 million it resells domestically, mostly for use in prepaid wireless plans, "plenty are higher-end with cameras and bells and whistles," said Eric Forster, an executive for the company, which finds buyers for phones collected by charities, as well as retailers' overstocks and trade-ins.
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McDonald's advertising materials. 
MrPromo is an Internet-based custom signage supplier to McDonald's restaurants. You apparently need to prove that you're a real McD's to actual get an order fulfilled, but it's really fun to poke aorund on the site and see all this disembodied greasebomb promo material and graphic elements.
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Petition against the Canadian DMCA. There's a petition against Canada's proposed DMCA-like copyright law up at the Digital Copyright Canada Wiki:
We, the undersigned residents of Canada draw attention of the House to the following:
THAT the Copyright Act is properly recognised as being a careful balance between the rights of creators and the rights of the public (including viewers, readers and listeners);
THAT the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously affirmed this view in CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada;
THAT digital technologies have recently given copyright holders the ability to upset the balance in the Copyright Act by preventing Canadians from accessing works for purposes that have been legally granted to them;
THAT the creation of original works is nourished by wide accessibility of earlier works, including a vibrant public domain;
THAT dissemination of cultural ideas requires that they be preserved in a form that is accessible to future generations; and
THAT historically, consultations regarding changes to the Copyright Act have mostly taken place with creators, intermediaries and only some special users (such as educators and librarians)
THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to ensure generally that users are recognised as interested parties and are meaningfully consulted about proposed changes to the Copyright Act and to ensure in particular that any changes at least preserve all existing users' rights, including the right to use copyrighted materials under Fair Dealing and the right to make private copies of audio recordings. We further call upon Parliament not to extend the term of copyright; and to recognise the right of citizens to personally control their own communication devices.
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Ericsson Shows Strong First Quarter (Reuters). Reuters - The world's biggest maker of mobile
phone networks, Ericsson, beat expectations with strong
first-quarter profits on Friday and said its main market would
grow faster than expected. |
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RIM to License BlackBerry on Motorola Phones (Reuters). Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM.TO)
(RIMM.O) said on Wednesday it struck a deal with Motorola Inc.
(MOT.N) to license its popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail
service on some of Motorola's mobile phones. |
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Software maker plays mobile hand. Germany's SoftMaker hopes its productivity applications for handheld computers will draw customers to the PC versions. |
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Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken. Hundreds of photographs of flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base were released on Thursday on the Internet by a Web site dedicated to combating government secrecy. By Bill Carter. |
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A Patriarch's Shadow at Troubled Software Maker. That Charles Wang, former head of Computer Associates, has remained off the radar of prosecutors seems to stem from the direction the investigation has taken. By Alex Berenson. |
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PC Sales Aid Microsoft, but Legal Expenses Hurt Profits. Microsoft reported solid quarterly gains in revenue and income, but the company's net income was held down by legal payments. By Gary Rivlin. |
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Cisco Router Flaw Could Snarl Net, Officials Say (Reuters). Reuters - A flaw in traffic-routing computers
made by Cisco Systems Inc. could knock Web sites offline, snarl
e-mail and disrupt other Internet activity, U.S. cybersecurity
officials warned on Wednesday. |
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Software To Stop Song Trading |
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Network Associates to sell off products, change name. Network Associates plans to sell off its Sniffer family of network management products and change its name to McAfee, part of an effort to cut costs and boost profitability by focusing squarely on security products and services, the company announced Thursday. |
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