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U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More
CBC News Interprets GPL - Poorly
The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent
The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law
Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved
Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
Berners-Lee Claims Web "Still In Infancy"
US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia
PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics
TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA
Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music
Linux Wireless Driver Violates BSD License?
Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users
Adobe Joins Linux Foundation, Develops AIR For Linux
Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status
The Death of High Fidelity
Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission?
RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs
State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney
Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages
Apple, New York City In Legal Dispute Over Logo
Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts
Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East
Is id Abandoning Linux?
Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot
Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists
Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World
Paramount to Drop HD DVD?
Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels
Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor
Top Solid State Disks and TB Drives Reviewed
Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM
American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross
Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail?
Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida
'Over 30' Section For Games Stores?
FCC Plan Will Result in Freedom Of or From the Press?
New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced
iPhone SDK Rules Block Skype, Firefox, Java ...
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps
Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data
How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7
IBM Wants To Patent Restaurant Waits
Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop
Lax TSA Website Exposed Travelers' Information
Lecture Notes Considered Infringement
Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
Microsoft Threatens Startups Over Account Info
Multi-Channel Communication Patent Up For Sale
NPD Group Says "Wait! HD-DVD Isn't Dead Yet"
P2P Scammers' Lawyers Attack Open Source Team
Space Shifting DVDs to Cost Extra?
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
Windows Home Server Corrupts Files
Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare
10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here
5 Cool Wireless Reseach Projects
8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives
Apple, the RIAA, and Ringtones
Australia Plans to Censor the Internet
Beryl User Interface for Linux Reviewed
C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances
Clandestine Operations at Google
Class Action Suit Against RIAA Can Proceed
Comcast Blocks Web Browsing
Concerns Over Increased 802.11n Power Usage
Did SCO Get Linux-mob Justice?
Domain Resale Market Is Phisher Heaven
Exploding Cell Phone Battery Kills
Facebook Interviewer Heckled at Web Conference
Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week
Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime?
Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
Is the Dell XPS One Better than the Apple iMac?
Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs
KDE and KOffice Rebuke OOXML, GNOME Dithers
KDE's Version Timing Drops It In Ubuntu Support Priority
MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX
Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface
Microsoft Disses Windows to Sell More Windows
Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight
Microsoft to Spy on Employees
Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari
Pogue and the Bogusness of Advanced Gadget Reviews
Police swoop on 'Hacker of the Year'
Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes
RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict
Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial
Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album
Sacha Baron Cohen Wikipedia Entry Creates Circular References
Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval
Symbian Blasts Google's Phone Initiative
The Completely Fair Scheduler
The REAL Reason We Use Linux
The Shadow Space Race
This is How We Catch You Downloading
Top Linux Developers Losing the Will To Code?
Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share
Ubuntu Servers Hacked
Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming
Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives
Where the Wii Fits In
Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV
Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device
Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks
Google Launches First YouTube Ads
Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor
House Declines To Vote On Telecom Immunity
Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray
A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon
A Telescope as Big as the Earth
African Americans and the Video Game Industry
An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life
Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over
Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo
Apple 10.4.11 Update Can Brick Macs With Boot Camp
Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs"
Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship
Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans
Boing Boing Founder Warns of "Internet AIDS"
Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year
CES 2008 Hall of Shame
Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way?
Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats
College Librarians Urged To Play Video Games
Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets
Data Center In a Shoe Box
Dealing With a GPL Violation?
Debian Not Looking For Commercial Fortune
DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone
EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard
EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable
ExtJS 2.1 AJAX Library Switches To GPL
FSF Rattles Tivo Saber At Apple
Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses
Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals
Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition
Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan
GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?
GPL Hindering Two-Way Code Sharing?
George Lawrence Photography Revisited
German Police Raid 51 CeBIT Stands Over Patent Claims
Google's Continued Growing Pains
Google's Evil NDA
Google's Shadow Over Firefox
HP Disables VT On Some Intel Laptops
Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
Halo 3 Causing Network Issues
Has Ron Paul Quit?
IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior"
Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist
Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause
Lawyer Trademarks "Cyberlaw"
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police
Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice
Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes
Microsoft Retracts Patent
Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS
Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China
Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora
NBC Direct Launches With Free Downloads
NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS
New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together
Newmark Denies Craigslist Is Killing Newspapers
Note To Criminals — Don't Call Tech Support
OLPC's Negroponte Wants To Scrap Linux
OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF
Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem?
Origin of Cosmic Rays Confirmed
Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller
PlayStation 2 Game ICO Violates the GPL
RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered
RealPlayer 11 Is a Real Rip Contender
Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel
Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux
Samsung to Produce Faster Graphics Memory
Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid
Scientists Look at Martian Salt for Ancient Life
Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
Separation of Church and Microsoft
Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later
Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability
Some Anti-Spam Vendors Blocking and Slowing Gmail
Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray?