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Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA
Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite
EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable
Bad Math Causes Explosion at CERN Collider
The Simpson's Movie Confirmed
UK ISP PlusNet Accidentally Deletes 700GB of Email
Geologists Angry About New 'Pluton' Definition
The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day
Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean'
Vista Beta 2 has Major Problems
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
So You've Lost a $38 Billion File
Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
A $1 Billion Email Gaffe
AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets
Cancer Drug Found; Scientist Annoyed
Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable
NMR Shows That Nuclear Storage Degrades
Photos of the Damage To the Large Hadron Collider
Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft
Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk
Apple Safari On Windows Broken On First Day
Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B
Evidence Surfaces That MS Violated 2002 Judgement
Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney
Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500
Microsoft Recalls Small Business Server
North Korea Missile Launch Fails
One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX
Unisys Smoking Hot Demo at Linux World Boston
AOL's Embarassing Password Woes
Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl
Bone-Headed IT Mistakes
Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices
China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days
Council Sells Security Hole On Ebay
Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation
Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?
IRS Leaves Taxpayer Data Largely Unprotected
IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship
Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers
LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer)
Leaked Microsoft Dossier on Journalist
Malware Hijacks Windows Update
Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox
Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
Netscape Dumps Critical File, Breaks RSS 0.9 Feeds
Police Lose National High-Tech Crime Unit Website
SP1 Unsuccessful in Preventing Vista Hacks
Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison
US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles
Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming
Video Games and the Hi-Def Format Wars
Visual Basic on GNU/Linux
WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes
Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari
What Do You Do When the Cloud Shuts Down?
Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV
The 50 Year History of Play-Doh
U.S. Cities Don't Make the Intelligence Cut
Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet
"Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set
18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves
A Different Kind of WGA 'Problem'
ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act
Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras
Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show
Apple's Windows Apps Not Ready For Vista
Asus Ships Cracking Software On Recovery DVD
Audit Finds FBI Abused Patriot Act
Blu-ray BD+ Cracked
California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL
Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars
Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents
Contractor Folds After Causing Breaches
CoreCodec Apologizes For CoreAVC Takedown
Cracking the GPS Galileo Satellite
DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption
Delete Cookies, Inflate Net Traffic Estimates
Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability
FBI Agents Don't Have Email Access
FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations
Fake E-Mail Results in Angry Apple Shareholders
Fingerprint-Protected USB Sticks Cracked
Firefox Quickies
Flaw Found in Apple Bug-Fix Tool
Font Raid Spells Trouble for Publisher
Fresh Security Breaches At Los Alamos
Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky
G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords
Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next 4 Years
German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records
Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds
Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA
Google Unofficially Announces GDrive By Leaked Code
Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987
Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays
Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art
Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold
Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim
India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program
Indian Satellite Lost in Launch Explosion
MS Awarded "Best Campaigner Against OOXML"
MS06-049 Causing Silent Data Corruption
MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation
Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook
Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating
Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
Microsoft Re-Re-Releases IE Patch
Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional
Microsoft To Dump 32-Bit After Vista
Microsoft's OOXML Formulas Could Be Dangerous
Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House
More PDF Blackout Follies
NASA Can't Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails
NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test
NC Man Fined For Using Vegetable Oil As Fuel
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit
New Type of Fatigue Discovered in Silicon
Next-Gen Mars Rover Mission Delayed 2 Years, To 2011
No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys
No New Series of Futurama
Note To Criminals — Don't Call Tech Support
Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran
Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains
Pentium Computers Vulnerable to Attack?
Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car
Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site
Privatization Limiting Access To Information
Protected Memory Stick Easily Cracked
Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS
RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named
RIAA Not Sharing Settlement Money With Artists
RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds
Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida
Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator
Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted
Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight
Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability
Spectrum Fees May Preclude US Low-Cost Cellular
Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete?
Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent
Supreme Court to Rule on 'Obvious' Patents
TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy
The Failure of Information Security
Third Undersea Cable Cut
TiVo Says It Could Suffer Under GPLv3
US Has Been In Recession Since December 2007
Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive
Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses
Verizon Rejected iPhone Deal
Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret
Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6
Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files
Vista SP1 Is Even Less Compatible
Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users
Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless
W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic
Why South Korea Is Shackled To Windows
Windows Media Player 11 and Urge
Women "Advertise" Fertility
Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses
Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media
AT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information
Best Buy 'Geek Squad' Accused of Pirating Software
Billions Face Risks From Climate Change
Book Publishers Abandoning DRM
CA Solar Use Falling Because of Economics
Cisco Routers to Blame for Japan Net Outtage
Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working
Firefox Spoofing Bug Puts Passwords At Risk
Fixing US Broadband Would Cost $100 Billion
Gateway Customer Sues to Get His PC Fixed
Google in Trouble for Suggesting Illegal Software
Googling for ATM Master Passwords
Hacker Resells VOIP For Profit
High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista
Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers
Jury Rules That H.264 is Not Patented
Linus Speaks Out On GPLv3
Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film
Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured
Mars Global Surveyor Died from Single Bad Command
Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire"
Microsoft Flubs Patch, Putting Users At Risk
Microsoft Gives MVP Award to Adware Pusher
Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label
Microsoft in Talks To Acquire Ebay
Microsoft's IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware?
Mobile Phone Transmitter Causes Brain Tumours?
Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen
Music Execs Say Apple's DRM Hurting Industry