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Last Updated: Friday, September 3, 2010, 06:01 AM PST.
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OpenOffice.org Conference 2010: preparing the next ten years
Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown
Finally We Get to Read the Mobility Assets Sale Agreement with Darl McBride
8 of the Best Free Linux Personal Information Managers
ApacheCon 2010 is Open for Registration
CodeWeavers open invitation to Wine-Doors and other closed projects users
No Need Get Excited About Steam On Linux Again!
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed?
The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home
Use Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop as Alarm Clock
Oracle Squelches Open Source Spirit
Samsung unveils Android tablet with 3G telephony
Linux machines with no rebooting? Is this what we want?
SECURITY: Best Practices with sudo on Linux
ArtistX 0.9 Screenshots
Three locks for your SSH door
KDE 4.5: KDE 3.5's Stability + KDE 4.0's Promised Features
Qt and Layouts
Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9?
Microsoft Argues That Android Isn't 'Free'
SCO gets more time to file appeal brief regarding its loss to Novell
Valve is Looking For Someone Who Can "Port Windows Games to Linux"
7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows
New Breed of Patent Claim Bedevils Product Makers
Automating your Android Phone with SL4A
Writing simple, real-time games for GNOME
Installing Liferay 6.0.5 Community Edition Bundled With Tomcat On Ubuntu 10.04
Comment: The hype is over
Step By Step Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LAMP Server Setup
Reviewed: KDE 4.5
This was the year of desktop Linux
Play .mkv and .xvid Files on Your Android Phone
IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet
7 Providers of Pre Installed Linux Laptops/PCs
Startup Offers Angry FB Users an Alternative
A snapshot of a Lan party.
Python Multimedia: Animations Examples using Pyglet
Unigine Announces Its OilRush Game For Linux
Using Spell Checking in Vim
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Murdoch Reporters' Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
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Exoplanet Shows Gas Giants Start as Dusty Behemoths
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Video Artist Transforms YouTube's TOS Into Paranoid Nightmare
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Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech
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Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast
Houston, We Have a Winner
MoonBots Challenge Winner Announced
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Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride
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Official Twitter App for iPad Feels Smooth as Butter
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Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress
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Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
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Best Sci-Fi Books for Kick-Starting Your Brain Fry
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Blackjack Whiz Riffs on Fantasy Sports, Statgeeks and Yahoo
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Reboots Superman's Roots for the iGeneration
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Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM Starts Doling Out Dollars
DIY Friday: Make an Altoids Mini-BBQ. Perfect For S’Mores!
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Heroscape Proves Fun For All Game Types
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Review: Save the Humans???6th Mega’s Puff Pufffor iPhone
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Top 10 Obscure Superheroes Who Deserve Their Own Movies (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
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Pentagon Bulks Up Yemen’s Arsenal as Shadow War Grows
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Best Exploitation Flicks: Machete’s Over-the-Top Ancestors
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From Canada To Mexico On 12.4 Gallons Of Diesel
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The JVN Design Challenge: VEX Marvels
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Alt Text: Make a Nasty World Nice With Virtual Rewards
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Wii Party Gets Physical
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September 3, 1976: Viking 2 Lands on Mars
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“Impossible” Soccer Kick Leads to New Physics Equation
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New Circuit Unveiled For U.S. Grand Prix
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New ARG Tasks You With Tracking Down Mythical Canadian Creatures
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Shopping Site ‘Thefind’ Finds Its Facebook Way, Carefully
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‘Evil’ Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Google Privacy
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Video: Museum Teases Battlestar Galactica Exhibit
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Murdoch Reporters’ Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
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Video Artist Transforms YouTube’s TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare
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Why You (Still) Can’t Cut the TV Cord: It’s Not Technical, It’s Just Business
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Plan For Nationwide Free Wireless Broadband Finally Shot Down
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Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
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Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio
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Why Bomb-Proofing Robots Might Be a Bad Idea
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Decade-Old Easter Egg Unearthed in GameCube Wave Race
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Exoplanet Shows Gas Giants Start as Dusty Behemoths
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Mobile Devices Need Custom Maps
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast
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Ford Focus EV Will Use Liquid-Cooled Battery
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Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
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First Look: Official Twitter App for iPad Feels Smooth as Butter
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Chrome 6 Arrives, Just in Time for Cake
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How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
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Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride
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For Printers, ‘All-In-One’ Really Means ‘Way-Too-Much’
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String Theory Finally Does Something Useful
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Super Mario All-Stars Gets Budget Disc Release on Wii
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Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer
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Samsung Introduces 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad
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Heavy European Snowfall Caused by ‘Weather Collision’
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Earth One Reboots Superman’s Roots for the iGeneration
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Sailors, Contractors Face Off Over ‘Hostage’ Network
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Harry Potter and the Return to Lego
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Geek Cookbook: Recipes Wanted!
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With Arc Touch and XBox Play & Charge, Microsoft Makes Mighty Morphin’ Power Peripherals
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Review: Find Your Next Letterbox With the Clue Tracker iPhone App
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Intervention — A Showcase for Web Comics
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GeekDad Guitar Lesson: The Firefly Theme
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Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD
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Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM Starts Doling Out Dollars
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Jeff Ma, Former MIT Blackjack Whiz, Riffs on Fantasy Sports, Statgeeks, Yahoo
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Exclusive Gallery: 1983 Nintendo Family Computer Teardown
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Google Testing Full-Featured Google Apps
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A Syllabus and Book List for Novice Students of Science Fiction Literature
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iPod Touch Camera Is Less Than One Megapixel
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Final Fantasy XIV Beta Begins, Belatedly
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Christopher Lloyd Plays Doc Brown in Back to The Future Game
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Furor Erupts Over Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolution
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Life in a Day Movie-in-Progress Goes Live on YouTube
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5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring
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Apple Redefines Remote Control — Now, It’s Your Cellphone
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Apple’s ‘Ping’ Social Network Is Already Too Big to Fail
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Vail’s EpicMix App Brings Location Tracking, Social Networking to Ski Slopes
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FCC Delays Net Neutrality Over Mobile, ‘Managed’ Services
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Hands-On With New Apple iPods
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Futurama’s Comic Cosmonauts Recall Best Bits From First 100 Episodes
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Sci-Fi Spoof Videos: Terminator 2: The Opera and RoboCop: The Musical
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Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery Channel
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Firearms, Boots and Dirty Cars as Canvases
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Giant Skull Is Made of Thin Slices of Brain
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Electric Motorcycle Entrepreneur Killed In Crash
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Aston Martin’s Cygnet Microcar Headed to America
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Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery
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Ugly Vegas Carpets Want You to Keep Playing
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Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to Leaks
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A Month In, Pakistan Flood Relief Efforts Stuck at 1.0
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Can You ‘Bip Bop’? Apple Wants To Know
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Spin War Shift: Military Now Bragging About Afghan Air Strikes
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New Approach Chart For ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Landing
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Aviation Thinks Outside the Black Box
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Sept. 1, 1974: New York to London in Less Than 2 Hours
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White House: Iraq Troops Are Coming Home In 2011. Period.
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GM Wants to Trademark ‘Range Anxiety’
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Matrix Fight Wizard Yuen Woo-Ping Feted at Fantastic Fest
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Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works
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Review: Dead Rising: Case Zero a Bite-Sized Zombie Massacre
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For Young Athletes, Concussions Pose a Growing Problem
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Obama’s Commerce Secretary Talks Tough on Music Piracy
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For Photo-Geek Eyes Only: Famous Developer Trays
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Darpa’s Star Hacker Looks to WikiLeak-Proof Pentagon
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Hallucinatory Art Snags Attention at Ars Electronica Festival
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9 Netflix Classics Worth Streaming on Your Puny iPhone
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Video: Federer’s Incredible Shot Wows US Open Fans
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Parody RPG Fantasy University Targets Serious Facebook Gamers
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Like Lost In Shadow, Send Cash to Child’s Play
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China’s Secret Satellite Rendezvous ‘Suggestive of a Military Program’
Danger Room
Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio
Murdoch Reporters’ Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
Earth’s Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast
Earth One Reboots Superman’s Roots for the iGeneration
Decade-Old Easter Egg Unearthed in GameCube Wave Race
Video Artist Transforms YouTube’s TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare
Futurama’s Comic Cosmonauts Recall Best Bits From First 100 Episodes
A Syllabus and Book List for Novice Students of Science Fiction Literature
Ugly Vegas Carpets Want You to Keep Playing
How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
Chrome 6 Arrives, Just in Time for Cake
Why You (Still) Can’t Cut the TV Cord: It’s Not Technical, It’s Just Business
Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD
Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride
Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
String Theory Finally Does Something Useful
Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery
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Samsung Introduces 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad
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Microsoft updates security toolkit for Windows apps
Samsung lifts lid on Galaxy Tab specs
ViewSonic launches Android/Windows dual-boot tablet
Skype adds multi-call video for up to 10 users
Samsung lines up Android Honeycomb for tablets
Facebook boosts security with remote log-out feature
Dell rallies to second place in global PC market
Toshiba unveils Android-based Folio 100 tablet
Sony and HP show off 3D laptops
Google Chrome marks two-year anniversary
Phishing scam targets McDonald's customers
IBM to ship world's fastest production processor
Dell concedes defeat in 3PAR bidding war
ITU urges governments to aid broadband development
HP raises 3PAR offer to $2.4bn
Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturing
Innovation key to UK broadband take-up
Google slapped with Nexus One lawsuit
Stephen Carter calls for greater network investment
BT tempts multinationals with Onevoice updates
Samsung Galaxy Tab finally unveiled
Nokia brings Swype to Symbian smartphones
Apple overhauls iPod Shuffle, Nano and Touch
Salesforce pieces together Jigsaw for CRM
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Government crowdsources spending cuts suggestions
VMworld: Paul Maritz warns of shift to new IT stack
Google adds free voice calls to Gmail
Chancellor takes the axe to IT spending
MoD review points to cyber security shortcomings
Innovation key to UK broadband take-up
SAS offers easy-to-use predictive analytics
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Viewsonic's Tablet Dual-Boots Android, Windows
Researcher Warns of New 64-Bit Windows Rootkit
Adobe Delivers Flash 10.1 to Android Market
Apple Expected to Bump Up iOS 4.1 Release
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Microsoft Scores Virtualization Win Over VMware
If You're Online, You're Working for Google
Why We Need a Real iPad Killer, Fast
How 'Unemployable' Are U.S. IT Pros Really?
HP's Unix OS Gets an Overhaul
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Picking the Right SSD for Your Enterprise Storage Network
iPad is Coming to Enterprises, Like it or Not
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Google's Newest Service Not So Buzzworthy?
More Security Holes in Software, Fewer Patches
Chip Sales, Revenues Surge Ahead
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CIOs Look to Cautious IT Hiring Plans
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Windows Phone 7 Heads to Manufacturers
Google Adds Auto-Filtering Feature to Gmail
VMworld: In the Cloud, It's Storage's Time to Shine
AMD Bids Adieu to ATI Brand
IBM Talks Up Enterprise Cloud Plans, Benefits
Viewsonic's Tablet Dual-Boots Android, Windows
Google Snags Angstro, DoJ Still Mulling ITA Buy
Yahoo Begins Microsoft Search-Ad Integration
Visitors Value Transparency On Gov't Websites
Red Hat Talks Cloud App Management Tech
Digg Dinged for Site Redesign
Dell Sweetens Offer for 3PAR; Will HP Respond?
Booking Travel Gets Social; Cisco, Sabre Team Up
Say What? The Week's Top Five IT Quotes
IT Security Pros Fall for 'Friendly' Ruse
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SecurityFocus
Change in Focus
Google: 'no timetable' on China talks
Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details
MS uses court order to take out Waledac botnet
Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle
Almost 2,500 firms breached in ongoing hack attack
Two Chinese schools implicated in Google Aurora attacks
Adobe pushes out Flash security fix
Most consumers reuse banking passwords
CIA, PayPal under bizarre SSL assault
Time to Squish SQL Injection
Lazy Workers May Be Deemed Hackers
The Scale of Security
Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little
A Botnet by Any Other Name
Projecting Borders into Cyberspace
Celebrity Viruses Improve Security
Good Obfuscation, Bad Code
Facebook, Privacy and Contracts
Act Locally, Pwn Globally
EWeek
NewScientist
Why your brain flips over visual illusions
Nano-engineered cotton promises to wipe out water bugs
Why the 'sixth extinction' will be unpredictable
Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found
Briefing: How bad is the new Gulf oil rig fire?
Physicists divided over life extension for US collider
Ancient bacteria could improve anti-ageing cosmetics
Space ribbon deployed to surf Earth's magnetic field
Smart USB speakers pump up the volume from laptops
Hawking hasn't changed his mind about God
Photo competition: Science in motion
Can US Congress overturn stem-cell funding freeze?
Weird water lurking inside giant planets
Laser-powered helicopter hovers for hours
Swine flu drug in narcolepsy probe
Is criminal profiling flawed and disorderly?
'Brain training' may just hide symptoms of dementia
Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle
Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle
Psychoactive drugs: From recreation to medication
Weird water lurking inside giant planets
Zoologger: Death by world's longest animal
Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers
Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle
Infinite doppelgängers may explain quantum probabilities
Weird water lurking inside giant planets
Psychoactive drugs: From recreation to medication
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