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Intel bringing a Dual-Core Prescott to market in 2005? (updated). Intel believes that the Pentium M's pipeline is too short for HyperThreading, and as a result, the company still expects Prescott to be the desktop CPU of choice through 2005. Indeed, these Prescott CPUs will be dual core (!). By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Apple grilled again over advertising claims. The UK-based Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is after Apple for false advertising claims. This is the second time Apple has been grilled by a UK advertising watchdog, and the third time complaints over the G5's presentation have arisen. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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SBC ordered to unbundle DSL service. A Californian judge has ruled that SBC was using its telephone and DSL service bundle as an unfair competitive advantage against a smaller phone service. By Ken "Caesar" Fisher. |
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Microsoft feels price squeeze from Linux. Customers are starting to bring up the L-word in negotiations with Microsoft, threatening to drop Windows for Linux to get concessions from Microsoft. Is it working? By Eric Bangeman. |
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Faster Bluetooth on the horizon with new spec. Bluetooth is about to get a speed bump to 2.1Mbps while maintaining backward compatibility for older devices. Expect the new devices some time next year. By Eric Bangeman. |
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SCO bats .500 in Novell, IBM rulings. Despite splitting a pair of rulings in Federal court, SCO's outlook took a turn for the worse. The IBM trial has been delayed as SCO requested, but IBM's counterclaims will not be separated. SCO's prospects in the Novell case are looking even worse. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Update: Dot-bomb bankruptcy auctioneer goes bust. Andover Consulting -- a dot-bomb vulture that specialized in selling off the assets of bankrupt Silicon Valley tech companies -- has gone bankrupt. Its assets are up for auction. Check out the cache of Herman Miller chairs and the sweet sweet cubicle action.
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0; #1: 1
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Update: Billl sez, "FYI, Andover Consulting is *not* bankrupt or going out of business, according to one of their people I just emailed. I suspect this is just an auction of stuff they're liquidating from other companies." |
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New York Times gets mad at Apartment Therapy blog. Worth reading. A NY Times writer threatens to sic the paper's legal dogs on the Apartment Therapy blogger.
Yesterday the phone rang towards the end of the day and when we picked it up the voice on the other side of the line said, "This is Marianne Rohrlich." It was like getting a call from Elvis. Marianne Rohrlich?! Who we have been reading obsessively and PROMOTING obsessively for the best home section coverage IN THE COUNTRY? She is, however, not happy with us. "Did it occur to you that it is not right to just LIFT other people's work?" she asks me. ("Do you know what blogging is?" I want to ask.) "Our legal department is going to be calling you." Link (Thanks, Keith!) |
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Why Spyware is good: it thins the herd. Nick Douglas sez: "WhereU is asking the court to change its mind on an authoritarian spyware law, albeit via a jurisdiction argument. Spyware sucks, sure, but if I can avoid it with Firefox and the occasional AdAware scan, I'd rather not pay taxes to protect luddites from it. Spyware is a disease in the Darwinian ecosystem of the Internet, and it keeps power users ahead of brain-deaders who click moving banner monkeys."
A New York company that makes Internet pop-up ads has asked a judge to block enforcement of Utah's new Spyware Control Act pending resolution of the firm's challenge to the law's constitutionality.
WhenU.com Inc. claims the law that took effect last month is "arbitrary and Draconian" and violates its free-speech rights.
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Seymour Hersh on Abu Ghraib: "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.". Brad DeLong posted an email message he received from someone who saw Seymour Hersh speak at the University of Chicago a couple of nights ago.
[Hersh] said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, "You haven't begun to see evil..." then trailed off. He said, "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run."
He looked frightened.
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Virus-proof your PC in 20 minutes, for free. Paul Boutin has written a great piece for Slate about a cost-free 3-step method to keep your PC virus free. Please read it an use it so your PC doesn't end up become a spam and virus spewing zombie. Link |
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Rhythm Science.  Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, has a new book out that melds memoir with pomo ranting. Published by MIT press, Rhythm Science, is the latest in the Mediawork Pamphlets series under the editorial direction of Boing Boing pal Peter Lunenfeld. The Mediaworks Pamphlets pair authors and designers to create works in the vein of McLuhan and Fiore's seminal The Medium is the Massage. Rhythm Science contains a mind-spinning cut-and-paste CD mix of sounds from the Sub Rosa record label archive. Brion Gysin and Tristan Tzara, meet Scanner and Oval. Link
Update: Josh Glenn points us to his recent interview with Miller in the Boston Globe.
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Washington Post on Bush's torture methods. This Washington Post editorial about the methods of torture that the Bush administration approves of is all over the blogosphere, but I think it's important enough to post here.
Before the Bush administration took office, the Army's interrogation procedures -- which were unclassified -- established this simple and sensible test: No technique should be used that, if used by an enemy on an American, would be regarded as a violation of U.S. or international law. Now, imagine that a hostile government were to force an American to take drugs or endure severe mental stress that fell just short of producing irreversible damage; or pain a little milder than that of "organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." What if the foreign interrogator of an American "knows that severe pain will result from his actions" but proceeds because causing such pain is not his main objective? What if a foreign leader were to decide that the torture of an American was needed to protect his country's security? Would Americans regard that as legal, or morally acceptable? According to the Bush administration, they should. Link |
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Power Tool Drag Race in San Francisco. It's time again for the annual Power Tool Drag Races in San Francisco! This Saturday and Sunday...
 "See average schmoes go up agaist GEARHEADS GODS in the age old struggle for Power Tool SUPREMACY! Watch as the finest minds in mutated motors RIP SHRED and BURN the track to TWISTED CINDERS! Nibble your carcinogen-laden fingers in suspense as the competition gets down to the FINAL BLOODY SHOWDOWN!"
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Futures market for outcome of political and economic events. I didn't know there was a futures market for the next president. I read this in an article in Bloomberg:
Some investors are betting Bush will win the election. According to the Iowa Electronic Markets, as of 8:45 a.m. New York time investors were paying 53.2 cents for futures that pay $1 in November should Bush win the election. Kerry futures were quoted at 46.8 cents.
Sponsored by the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the market allows investors to buy and sell futures contracts based on the outcome of political and economic events, such as elections and Federal Reserve interest-rate changes.
They also have a market for who will be nominated as the Democratic candidate. It will cost you two tenths of a cent to buy a share that'll pay a dollar if Lieberman gets nominated.
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Michael sez: I think the Bloomberg article made an error when it claimed,
"investors were paying 53.2 cents for futures that pay $1 in November should Bush win the election. Kerry futures were quoted at 46.8 cents." Notice that Dems are slightly favored over Republicans, which contradicts the Bloomberg article. Here is the prospectus for this future. Bloomberg probably misattributed another futures market to the presidential winner market. This futures market sort of looks like Kerry vs. Bush, but is really on who will be on the November ticket. The most likely being Bush/Kerry. (See the prospectus below.) Of course it's possible that Bloomberg was quoting a market value from several weeks ago, but I doubt it. Although it's true that, as the article claimed, "Some investors are betting that Bush will win the election." *Most* investors are betting that Kerry will win. At least for today. |
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Cybernetic animal photoshoppery. 
Today on Worth1000's photoshopping contest: cybernetic animals.
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German Creative Commons licenses launch with a bang and two books. Janko sez, "The German Creative Commons licenses are introduced today, and my publisher agreed to participate by putting two books out under a BY-NC-ND license. Which is remarkable for two things: a) heise is actually one of the most influential German IT publishers. b) one of the books is mine :)"
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Kill a stupid Internet patent. Got a favorite stupid Internet patent you want to see clobbered? EFF is running a patent-busting contest:
We're currently seeking nominations for ten patents that deserve to be revoked because they are invalid. Sadly, we don't have the resources to challenge every stupid patent out there. In order to qualify for our ten most-wanted list, a patent must be software or Internet-related and there must be a good reason to suspect that the patent claims are invalid. We're especially interested in patents that target tools of free expression, such as streaming media, blogging tools, and voice over IP (VoIP) technology. Most importantly, the patent-holder must be aggressively enforcing its patent and suing (or threatening to sue) alleged infringers. We're particularly interested in cases where the patent-holder is trying to force small businesses, individuals, nonprofits, and consumers to pay licensing fees. Deadline to enter is June 23.
On June 30, the Patent Busting Project's team of tough lawyers and brainy geeks will announce the contest winners – or losers, depending on how you look at it. And that's when the real fight for great justice begins. We'll be needing your help to research prior art for each patent and offer your technical expertise or historical knowledge. Using a legal process called "reexamination," the Patent Busting Project will ultimately go to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and attempt to take those bad patents off the books.
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What movies would Walt make today?. 
Great FARK photoshopping contest: Movies Walt Disney would make today.
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(Thanks, Drew!)
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SF museum site. The website for Seattle's science fiction museum is live.
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New Beasties disc has DRM -- Fight! For your right! To cooo-oopy!. The Beastie Boys' new CD, To the Five Boroughs, has DRM on it that prevents you from ripping it or making a copy for your car. I got the MP3s last week -- it's a great album -- and was going to buy the CD while I'm in the US this week, but now I think I'll just erase the MP3s and not bother. If the Beasties wanna treat me like a crook, I don't want to be their customer.
Note that the only thing that this DRM is doing here is pissing off the honest fans who want open CDs; the DRM on the CD didn't stop my source from making me a set of MP3s. In other words, if you plan on listening to the new disc on your iPod or laptop, you're better off downloading a copy made by a cracker and posted on Kazaa -- if you buy it in a shop, you're going to have to go through the lawbreaking rigamarole of breaking the DRM yourself.
I always hear record execs whining that they "can't compete with free" -- but maybe the real competitive disadvantage is that they're selling a product that's less useful than the one being served up on P2P nets.
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(Thanks, Jon!)
Update: Ian sez, "Hi, I'm not sure who posted re: Beastie Boys copy protection, but I just spoke with Mike D and their management and they wanted me to pass along that a) This is all territories except the US and UK -- US and UK discs do not have this protection on them; b) All EMI CDs are treated this way, theirs isn't receiving special treatment; c) They would have preferred not to have the copy protection, but weren't allowed to differ from EMI policy."
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Italy's premier Berlusconi SMS-spams voters' mobile phones. Italy's Berlusconi government spammed the cellphones of millions of citizens with text-messages about voting procedures for tomorrow's EU and local elections. Some call it an unprecedented invasion of mobile privacy for political control. Others argue it's a smart way for the administration to combat absenteeism and ensure that more of Italy's voting public shows up at the polls. Either way, unsolicited text messages don't grow on trees -- the stunt cost around $7M US, and critics want to know who paid for it.
The message, received on cell phones on Thursday and Friday, carried the sender line of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Premier Silvio Berlusconi's office. The message detailed when the polls will be open and what documents citizens need to vote.
"Finally we have recourse to a tool like the text message that is now in everyday use to bring the state closer still to its citizens," said Technology Minister Lucio Stanca. But the political opposition branded the strategy as a political tactic. The government "is trying every subterfuge to recover votes. It's alarming that privacy is violated in such a sensational way," said opposition lawmaker Francesco Martone.
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Field-trips to Great Brain sites. This page details the journeys of a family that set out to find and document places mentioned in John D Fitzgerald's Great Brain novels, a series of kids' books set in 1880s Utah. These autobiographical books about Fitzgerald's precious con man of a brother, Tom, were hugely influential on me -- in fact, the title story of my short story collection, A Place So Foriegn and Eight More, is my attempt to write a science-fictionalized version of the stories that so fascinated me as a boy.
We think we found the exact spot where JD, TD and their dad went fishing up Beaver Canyon. It was papa Fitzgerald's secret spot, not far up the canyon, and had great fishing in the river and an open meadow. It must have been at what is now the Little Cottonwood campground (#5). We tried to stay there, but all the sites were full.
In the story, the secret got out one year, and the location was crowded with other campers. JD's dad decided to go further up the canyon, maybe to Kents Lake (#14).
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The Electras: John Kerry's high school band rocks out. Luke Francl sez: "It's a little known fact that John Kerry was in a high school band called The Electras (he played bass). The site KerryRocks.com has lots of photos, the liner notes, and an MP3 melange of some of their songs.
"Due to increasing intrest, RCA has re-released the Electra's album and you can buy it for $14 (previously, it was nearly impossible to find). It's crazy that RCA kept the masters in their catalog for all this time. But you never know when the bass player from some shitty garage band might get nominated for President." Link
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Alternate history in bite-sized chunklets. "Today in Alternate History" is a site that racks, in "today in history format," several alternate history timelines. It's nice skiffy narrative in bite-sized chunks:
in 1862, the Human League takes credit for a series of bombings against Mlosh citizens of Britain. The Crown vows to catch them, but there are sympathetic elements in Scotland Yard that slow the investigation.
in 1934, Pascal, LLC, with the assistance of Carla Lambert, persuaded Congress to fund a system of linking Eddies together such that they could share information constantly. Using telegraph lines and radio frequencies set aside for them by the Congress, Pascal constructed a Knowledge Railroad that made the almost instantaneous transmission of information possible across the nation.
in 1958, Buddy Holly reunited with his old band, The Crickets, for a successful US tour. This reunion produced such hits as I'll Be Lovin' Her, Puerto Rican Mama, and their remake of I'll Be Seeing You.
in 1977, President Reagan enacted sweeping tax cuts, mostly aimed at the well-to-do, but with some at lower ends of the economic spectrum. They didn't prove to be the stimulus he expected, though, and the nation plunged into a deep recession.
in 1982, King Charles of England called on all exiled nobles of England to return and take their rightful place at his side. He announced a general amnesty for those who had supported the Nazis, and declared that England would rise again to its former glory.
in 1992, filmmaker Oliver Stone releases JBR, in which he attempts to give credence to People's Attorney Presley's arguments that Comrade President Rosenberg was killed by a conspiracy rather than a lone counter-revolutionary. The film is a huge success, prompting the Communist Party to call for its banning.
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Vampire Hunter transforming board game. 
I'm at DreamCon, an sf con in Jacksonville, Florida, and I just spied this super-cool board-game in the dealers' room: it's called "Vampire Hunter," and the gimmick is that the tower in the middle shines different coloured lights on the board depending on the state of play -- the light reveals different details on the board, so that normal cits turn into werewolves and other monsters. No idea if the gameplay is any good, but what a great gadget! Holy crap, Amazon has it for less than six bucks on clearance:
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Ian McDonald's brilliant new novel, River of Gods: Bollywoodpunk. 
I just finished reading Ian McDonald's latest novel, "River of Gods," and my mind is whirling. River is the story of India's 100th birthday, when the great nation has fractured into warring subnations on caste, religious and cultural lines. Like McDonald's other great novels, the story is beyond epic, with an enormous cast of richly realised characters and a vivid, luminous vision of techno-Hinduism that beggars the imagination. Take, for example, Town and Country, a soap-opera acted out by AIs (or "aeais") who lead double-lives -- each AI character has another role, as the actor who plays the character, in a "meta-soap" where their squabbling, indiscretions and marriages are tabloid fodder for the soapi magazines that dote upon them.
This is just one of dozens of conceits in a novel that combines the best themes from books like Out on Blue Six and Desolation Road, handles them with the masterful hand visible in Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone and the Sturgeon-award-winning Tendeleo's Story, and folds in all the contemporary themes in sf like the Singularity and the cratering of cyberpunk memes and spits out a 575-page epic that I couldn't put down until I'd finished it.
Ian McDonald has been one of my favourite writers for some 15 years now, and the amazing thing is, he's getting even better.
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Dilbert for 11 Jun 2004.  |
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Dilbert for 12 Jun 2004.  |
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The Gang.  |
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Gamers take to pirated software. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
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Net games lure women. Middle-aged women are getting hooked on card games and puzzles online, says a report. |
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China creates web vigilante site. A site for reporting "unhealthy information" is set up, as web writer Du Daobin is found guilty of "subversion". |
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19th Century news going online. The British Library is to make part of its archive of 19th Century newspapers available online. |
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Arrests in Half-Life 2 theft case. The FBI has arrested several people suspected of stealing source code for the Half-Life 2 video game. |
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Apple Power Mac ads 'misleading'. Apple's claim that its G5 was the "world's fastest personal computer" is unjustified, says the UK's ad watchdog. |
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Lara Croft creator speaks out. One of the most iconic figures of video games might not have made it off the drawing board. |
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Suffering offers prison horrors. The Suffering video game rewrites the prison experience. |
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Top UK innovation prize for IBM. IBM software described as the oil of e-commerce has won the prestigious MacRobert engineering prize. |
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OBE for online news pioneer. Mike Smartt, who headed BBC News Interactive for eight years, is made an OBE for services to broadcasting. |
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Briefly: The Body Shop buys HP gear. roundup Plus: Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley for Portland...Microsoft files suits against spammers...HP researcher wins technology prize. |
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Microsoft file patent faces exam. Public-interest group wants FAT file system patent yanked for the good of Linux. |
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Airgo wins Wi-Fi following. Customers wooed with technology allowing them to hit up to 108mbps. |
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HP seals open-source e-mail deal. Longtime Microsoft Exchange partner "going steady" with Sendmail. |
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Oracle judge won't bar disputed witnesses. Neither Oracle nor Justice Department manage to keep other's witnesses off the stand. |
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Apple's Power Mac Speed Claim Rebuffed (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - A complaint about Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) claim in a high-profile British ad that its Power Mac G5 is the "world's fastest personal computer" has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK's advertising regulator. |
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Some Investors Are Betting On Oracle To Win Antitrust Case (TechWeb). TechWeb - With the trial heading toward its second week, investor sentiment that Oracle will prevail in its efforts to acquire PeopleSoft is reflected in share price increases at both companies. |
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Outsourcing Row on Jobs Easing - Infosys (Reuters). Reuters - The controversy in the United States
over job losses from offshore outsourcing is showing signs of
easing, the chief executive officer of Indian software
bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd said on Saturday |
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SCO Ordered To Explain Damages In Novell Suit (TechWeb). TechWeb - In a statement, Novell says it was "encouraged" by the judge's order for an amended suit from SCO. |
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Verizon Wireless Sees Life With Viva In Hispanic Media (AdWeek.com). AdWeek.com - With cell-phone use among Hispanics approaching the same levels as the general population, Verizon Wireless, now the largest mobile carrier in the U.S. with 39 million subscribers, last week named Viva Partnership as the first Hispanic media agency on its estimated $20 million account. |
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Could Your New PC Be Patchless? (PC World). PC World - PCs may sit for months before sale, missing software updates against viruses and worms. |
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The Funny Odds of Online Dating (Reuters). Reuters - Rick, a Web site developer from
Columbus, Ohio, remembers his divorce nearly four years ago
with an extra tinge of bitterness: His ex-wife remarried the
same day, to a man she met via the Internet. |
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FBI: Arrests Made in 'Half-Life' Game Hacking Case (Reuters). Reuters - Arrests have been made in the theft
last year of source code for Valve Software's highly
anticipated PC game "Half-Life 2," an FBI spokesman in Seattle
said on Thursday. |
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Microsoft, IBM to Enter Business Software -Witness (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp.(MSFT.O) and IBM
(IBM.N) both plan to move into the market to supply software to
run key business functions, a government witness in the
antitrust trial against Oracle said in a San Francisco federal
court on Thursday. |
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Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio Copying Limits (Reuters). Reuters - Digital radio broadcasts that bring
CD-quality sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song
copying if protections are not put in place, a
recording-industry trade group warned on Friday. |
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Five Short-Range Wireless Standards Seen Combining (Reuters). Reuters - Five short-range wireless connection
technologies are fighting for the industry limelight, but
sector specialists said on Friday that companies would
eventually combine the five to make life easier. |
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Mutant Scooter May Be 'Next Big Thing' for Kids (Reuters). Reuters - The unlikely quest to make a mutant
scooter into the "Next Big Thing" for kids and hipsters has
brought together a Brazilian engineer, a California
trendspotter and a cross-country trekker. |
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486 Turns 15 Years Old |
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DotGNU Ported to PocketPC |
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Flashing Back to the Dotcom Era: 24 Hour Dotcom |
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RIAA Protests Digital Radio |
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19th Century News Coming Online |
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phpstack - A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server in PHP |
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Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles |
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Stanford Learns a Software Lesson |
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Matsushita Designed Sleep Room |
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Comcast Gets Tough on Spam |
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Oracle trial judge calls for more disclosure. SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the U.S. government's case to block Oracle Corp.'s proposed takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. has grown weary of the amount of material being filed under seal and is pushing both sides to make more information public. |
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ASAP spec proposed for delayed Web services. OASIS is working on standard technology to enable Web services to function in situations in which business process communications have a delayed response, as opposed to the quick responses normally associated with Web services, an OASIS official said this week. |
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HP revamps its Web sites. MIAMI - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has finished a major redesign of its public HP.com and its private customer extranet, the first time in about 18 months that such an effort hasn't focused on integrating the HP and Compaq Web properties, an HP executive said this week. |
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Internet Explorer holes causing alarm. BOSTON - Four new holes have been discovered in the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that could allow malicious hackers to run attack code on Windows systems, even if those systems have installed the latest software patches from the Redmond, Washington company, security experts warn. |
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Court ruling questions SCO copyright claims. SAN FRANCISCO - The question of whether or not The SCO Group Inc. actually owns the copyright to the Unix System V operating system is still up for debate, according to a U.S. District Court ruling issued Wednesday. |
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Security vendors preach convergence. Network Associates and Sourcefire issued what each calls its next generation of intrusion detection and prevention products. ADVERTISEMENT  Enter to Win a Sharp Zaurus Handheld! Sponsored by Novell
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HP after the merger: Time for a breakup?. Hewlett-Packard’s annual financial analyst conference started on shaky ground last week, as Merrill Lynch had published a report calling for the breakup of HP just the day before. |
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Google boosts enterprise search appliance. Google is expanding its presence behind the firewall with an updated version of its Google Search Appliance featuring expanded capacity and improved security. |
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Security vulnerabilities cited in Oracle E-Business Suite. Using the National Cyber Alert System, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week warned users of critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite 11i and Oracle 11 applications. |
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IBM gets small in a big way. IBM’s PC division continues to think small in a big way, announcing last week a desktop system that is 35 percent smaller than its predecessor, giving it a smaller footprint than some of the company’s laptop machines. |
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Internet Explorer holes causing alarm. BOSTON - Four new holes have been discovered in the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that could allow malicious hackers to run attack code on Windows systems, even if those systems have installed the latest software patches from the Redmond, Washington company, security experts warn. |
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In search of standards. A few days ago I met with Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys, to discuss an upcoming test of his company’s product. As we talked about the test parameters, he mentioned that he would be able to demonstrate how his product would interface with an IDS (intrusion detection system), but only if we could find one that his product could exchange data with. |
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Security vendors preach convergence. Network Associates and Sourcefire issued what each calls its next generation of intrusion detection and prevention products. |
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Security vulnerabilities cited in Oracle E-Business Suite. Using the National Cyber Alert System, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week warned users of critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite 11i and Oracle 11 applications. |
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Linux Advisory Watch - June 11th 2004 |
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Linux Advisory Watch - June 11th 2004 |
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Techie alert: Even you can be hacked |
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CSO survey: Companies lack plans in case of terrorist attacks |
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Security holes splatter Open Source |
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Leader: Linux "jihad"? Less hysteria please... |
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Elsewhere: MasterCard: Risk is in the cards. Instead of a jargon-filled dissertation, MasterCard's new regional head for security Tim Morris gave a cheerful and low-tech answer when asked how he tackles security in ... |
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Elsewhere: Antivirus vendors await first Linux worm. Although some Linux antivirus software is now available, vendors are waiting for a major attack before pushing their wares.
Many have developed Unix antivirus products, ... |
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News: MS sues 200 for spamming. Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits in the US against nearly 200 accused spammers, saying that the defendants had used false information to conceal themselves, and had deceived consumers. Each of the lawsuits "names" at least 20 unidentified defendants, as well as one John Hites, identified by anti-spam campaigners at Spamhaus as one of the world's ten most prolific spammers. |
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News: German hate mail spam attack stuns experts. Mailboxes in Germany and the Netherlands were flooded yesterday with spam containing German right-wing propaganda. Spammers used the Sober.G virus - a mass mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses harvested from infected computers - to spread their messages as widely as possible. |
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News: Report: Computer intrusion losses waning. But denial-of-service attacks take a multi-million dollar toll in the latest CSI/FBI survey. |
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News: Backdoor program gets backdoored. Popular malware author pulls a fast one on his underground user base. |
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BugTraq: [FMADV] Subversion <= 1.04 Heap Overflow. Sender: ned [nd at felinemenace dot org] |
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BugTraq: Re: Potential Security Flaw in Symantec Gateway Security 360R. Sender: ed p [firewall1e at netscape dot net] |
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BugTraq: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?". Sender: Nick FitzGerald [nick at virus-l dot demon dot co dot uk] |
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BugTraq: RE: Multiple vulnerabilities PHP-Nuke. Sender: Jeruvy [jeruvy at shaw dot ca] |
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Vulns: Cisco CatOS TCP-ACK Denial Of Service Vulnerability. CatOS is the operating system used on Cisco Catalyst switches, which are commercial-grade network switches.
It has been reported that Cisco CatOS is vulnerable to a deni... |
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Vulns: AspDotNetStorefront Access Validation Vulnerability. AspDotNetStorefront is a web based e-commerce solution.
AspDotNetStorefront is reportedly prone to an access validation vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to... |
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Vulns: AspDotNetStorefront ReturnURL Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. AspDotNetStorefront is a web based e-commerce solution.
AspDotNetStorefront is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue exists due to insufficient sani... |
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Vulns: Apache Mod_SSL SSL_Util_UUEncode_Binary Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. mod_ssl provides an interface for accessing the OpenSSL libraries from within Apache.
A stack-based buffer overflow has been reported in the Apache mod_ssl module.
Th... |
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Vulns: Microsoft Windows Private Communications Transport Protocol Buffer Overrun Vulnerability. Various Microsoft Windows operating systems are prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun via the PCT (Private Communications Transport) protocol. PCT is included ... |
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Vulns: Samba SMB/CIFS Packet Assembling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Samba is a freely available file and printer sharing application maintained and developed by the Samba Development Team. Samba allows file and printer sharing between ope... |
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Dabs.com threatens legal action over its own pricing cock-up. Irish IT firm refuses to be 'bullied' By Tim Richardson . |
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Seattle ferries to offer Wi-Fi. Surf'n'ship By Tony Smith . |
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Sony Vaio VGN-X505VP. Review The world's most desirable notebook? By Trusted Reviews . |
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Microsoft delivers 'the Facts' about Linux. UK roadshow By John Leyden . |
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Alzheimer's patients to trial MS labs life-blog gadget. Aide memoire By Lucy Sherriff . |
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Orange punters face more mobile misery. Number's up By Tim Richardson . |
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EMC squares up for on-target year. Holding steady By electricnews.net . |
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Oracle e-biz suite needs patching. Get to it, sharpish By John Leyden . |
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HP maps growth path. And here's how By Datamonitor . |
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NTL builds bigger worm trap. Port blocking plan By John Leyden . |
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GlassHouse bids for Euro storage business. Says it's the end of the line for the storage boutique By Bryan Betts . |
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HP gets vague about Opteron and Itanium blades. On the agenda By Ashlee Vance . |
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IT still matters - just not how it used to. It's what you do with IT By Datamonitor . |
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Biometric DRM is 'empowering' says iVue maker. Finger on the future By Andrew Orlowski . |
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What 2007 means to your data center. Part I: The SMP revival By Ashlee Vance . |
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Wired News
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Dogs Understand Human Language. A bright border collie exhibits the ability to learn the meaning of words, mimicking the 'fast mapping' process seen in children as they begin to speak, researchers say. |
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New Nuclear Program Sidelined. A key congressman moves to withhold funding for the development of new atomic arms, in a blow to the Bush administration. But the programs won't go away without a fight. By Noah Shachtman. |
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Half-Life Code Thieves Nabbed. Game developer Valve Software says authorities have arrested multiple suspects in connection with the Half-Life 2 code theft. The game code was stolen and posted online last year. By Noah Shachtman. |
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Antitrust Smackdown. Europe's swat only amplifies the fact that Microsoft needs to solve its antitrust problems, and soon. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. |
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German Spam Floods Inboxes. German nationalists have found the perfect way to blast their propaganda to the masses: spam. Technologists say it's just a sign of things to come. By Amit Asaravala. |
| 124. |
Riddick Riddled With Silliness. As an action flick, The Chronicles of Riddick has it all -- cool graphics, eye-bending effects and decent fight scenes. But it sinks under the weight of its silliness and self-importance. A review by Jason Silverman. |
| 125. |
Car Dealers Feel Net Effect. Auto dealers have been forced to deal with a new animal -- the Web shopper -- and are changing their sales strategies to compete. By John Gartner. |
| 126. |
Smut Sites Fear Credit Crackdown. Thanks to skittish companies, it's getting harder than ever to charge users for all those $19.95 monthly memberships. Webmasters fear Visa could be the next to cry uncle. By Randy Dotinga. |
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Subversion svn Protocol String Parsing Vulnerability |
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VP-ASP Shopping Cart "shop$db.asp" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability |
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German spam source found, Real services vulnerability |
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HTML_JUNKSURF.B |
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Trojan.Ascetic.A |
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Can XOR Eliminate Copyright? |
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Trend Micro OfficeScan Help System Privilege Escalation |
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Mac OS X DiskArbitration Removable Media Initialization Weakness |
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Mac OS X Help URI Script Execution |
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Eudora SPAM Issues.. |
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WORM_KORGO.G |
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Forensics: Computer Forensics Articles, Links, and Whitepapers |
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Security Focus: Backdoor program gets backdoored "The author of a free Trojan horse program favo... |
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Security Focus: Cisco CatOS TCP-ACK Denial Of Service Vulnerability |
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Security Focus: cPanel Passwd Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability "malicious user may influence d... |
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About Internet/Network Security
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Data Security Debacle. Processor Magazine from Sandhills Publishing is a weekly magazine aimed at data centers providing product reviews, information and news on technology and technology concerns. This article from Douglas Schweitzer takes a look at the struggle to keep your data and... |
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Interview With Gary McGraw. Between writing books, performing his duties as CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Cigital and various other obligations Gary McGraw is a fairly busy person. I managed to get a little bit of his time to talk about the book he... |
