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Audit Finds FBI Abused Patriot Act
DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy
Microsoft Excludes GPLv3 From Linspire Deal
Next-Gen Graphics Might Not Sell Games
PowerPoint Bad For Learning
Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista
Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web
Kids 'Unaffected By Game Violence' Says Study
Report Indicates Workers Play A Lot of Games On the Job
Smarter Teens Have Less Sex
Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You
Why Emails Are Misunderstood
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
Ethanol Demand Is Boosting Food Prices Worldwide
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud
Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent
Don't Believe What You See at the Movies
Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams
Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True
Study Claims Men Play Female Avatars to 'Win'
Study Finds Cost Major Factor In Outsourcing Positions
Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming
Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code
Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap
DRM Causes Piracy
Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy
Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs
How to Win on Ebay: Snipe
Pentagon Manipulating TV Analysts
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional
Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware
SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits
Study Finds IE7 + EV SSL Won't Stop Phishing
Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy
A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista
AOL 9.0 Called Badware
Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel
Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
Billions Face Risks From Climate Change
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers
Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test
Congress Must Make Clear Copyright Laws
Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution
DRM Free Music is Everywhere
Do We Really Need a Security Industry?
Dragon's Lair Remastered in HD
Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
EA - Wii Caught Us By Surprise
FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data
FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity
Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism
Fewer People Copy DVDs Than Once Thought
FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust
Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years
Hackers Find Use for Google Code Search
IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India
IT Workers Face Dangerous Stress
Jobs Says People Don't Want to 'Rent' Music
Learn How UNIX Multitasks
Meetings Make You Dumber
Nano Safety Worries Scientists More Than Public
New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die'
Nice Performance Tuning For UNIX
Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant
Open WAP = Probable Cause?
People Suck at Spotting Phishing
Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace
SQL Injection Attacks Increasing
School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
Science Ability Down in U.S. High Schools
Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft
Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks
Social Networking Sites Full of Security Holes
Steve Jobs Hates Buttons
Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity
Study Finds P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales
Study Says Kids Like 'M' Rated Games
The US Rural Broadband Crisis
U.S. Copyright Lobby Out of Touch
US Lags World In Broadband Access
Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share
Viacom Vs. YouTube, Beyond Privacy
Virtualization Is Not All Roses
Vista Beta 2 has Major Problems
iPhone Keyboard Leads to Typso
100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering
2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever
A CIO's View of Ubuntu
AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers
Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption
African Americans and the Video Game Industry
Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?
Are In-Depth Articles Better Than Blog Postings?
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?
Bad Signs For Blu-ray
Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments
Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries
Boeing-Skyhook Airship Faces Technical Challenges
British Police Use Facebook to Gather Evidence
Can Peer-To-Peer Finance Work?
Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap
DIY Solar Resources?
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana
Delete Cookies, Inflate Net Traffic Estimates
Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast
Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing
Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation?
Drugs In Our Drinking Water
Early Testers Say Vista RC1 Not Ready
Eavesdropping on a Botnet
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked
Failing Our Geniuses
Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic
Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger"
Gaming Gear Showdown, Simplicity vs. Hype
Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify
Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful
Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop"
Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed?
Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners
Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform
Hackers Clone E-Passport
Halo 3 Causing Network Issues
Hardware Headaches Inevitable?
Have Spammers Overcome the CAPTCHA?
How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions
Humans Not Evolved for IT Security
IE 8 To Include New Security Tools
Ian Murdock: Debian "Missing a Big Opportunity"
Immaturity Level Rising in Adults
In Some Places, Local Search Beating Google
Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop
Internet to Blame for Lack of Close Friends
Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music
Linux/Mac/Windows File Name Friction
Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You
MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum
MS Giving Exploit Writers Clues To Flaws
Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise
Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users
Microsoft to Open Source FoxPro
Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M"
Multitasking Considered Detrimental
NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World
NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS
New Kind of Spam 'Un-Training' Filters?
New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback
Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked
Open Source — Selling Software That Sells Itself
Patent Threats In OOXML
Personal Firewalls Mostly Useless, Says Mail & Guardian
Physicists Find Users Uninterested After 36 Hours
Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear
Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them
RIAA Says CDs Should Cost More
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar
Seagate Announces First Hybrid Hard Drive
Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices
Social Networks Attract Malware Authors
Store Says DRM Causes 3 of 4 Support Calls
Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls
Sun to Release Java Source Code
TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy
TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems
The Death of Privacy
The Death of Windows XP
The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough
The Secrets of Firefox about:config
Thinking of Security Vulnerabilities As Defects
Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind
Top Microsoft Execs Moonlighting For a Patent Bully
US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work
US's Slow Embrace of Information Technology
Ubuntu's Power Consumption Tested
Urine Passes NASA Taste Test
Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright
Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files
Want Security? Make The Switch
What Tech Workers Need To Know About Overtime
Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20
Why Popular Anti-Virus Apps 'Don't Work'
Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy
Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends
Women "Advertise" Fertility
You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source
eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past?
'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies
AMD's Hybrid Graphics Unveiled, Tested
Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu
BBC Rules That Wi-Fi Radiation Findings Were Wrong