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Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore
iPhone Not Running OS X
Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East
Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax
Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
The Complete History of Format Wars
10-Year Anniversary of Open Source
Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs?
Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy"
Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of
BioShock Installs a Rootkit
Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job
KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
Wii Can't Replace Actual Exercise
Dispelling BSD License Misconceptions
Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful
IE7 Blocking Google Image Search?
Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions
Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid
Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features
'Over 30' Section For Games Stores?
Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient?
Ericsson Predicts Swift End For Wi-Fi Hotspots
Heavily Discounted Zune Outpacing iPod Sales
Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status
Microsoft Applies For Patent On Private Browsing
Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update
National ID May Have Killed Immigration Bill
Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft
Sony BMG Says Ripping CDs is Stealing
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
Toshiba Going After Blu-ray?
Why the iPhone Keynote Was A Mistake
Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries
Apple's Leopard Will Exclude 800MHz G4 Processors
China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS?
Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization
Linux Wireless Driver Violates BSD License?
No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps
Puretracks Music Store Drops DRM
Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage
You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source
CBC News Interprets GPL - Poorly
Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten
HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints
Long Live Closed-Source Software?
MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac
Name-Your-Cost Radiohead Album Pirated More Than Purchased
RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs
Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS
Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps
"Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design
Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo
Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port
Apple Is Now the #1 US Music Retailer
Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment
Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix
Doctor Who To Be Axed, Again
Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore
GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML?
Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information
H-P's Dunn Enters No Plea, Charges Dismissed
Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools
Hummer Greener Than Prius?
Kaminsky DNS Bug Claimed Fixed By 1-Character Patch
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In
Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update
Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn"
Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS
NVidia Reportedly Will Exit Chipset Business
Nokia's iPhone, No Seriously
ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does
Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail
Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register
RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity
Senate Majority Leader Takes On File Sharing
Serenity Trounces Star Wars
Storing Wind Power In Cold Stores
Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market
The Blackest Material
The SEC Is Getting Closer To Jobs
Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files
Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users
Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss
Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks
iPods Don't Run OS X
Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
Videogames Really Are Linked to Violence
"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World
48% of Americans Reject Evolution
AMD Announces Triple-Core Phenom Processors
Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices
Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs
Beryl User Interface for Linux Reviewed
Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs
Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy
Breakpoints have now been patented
Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems
C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances
Comcast Charges $1000 Per Wiretap
Community vs. Corporate Linux, The Coming Divide
Computer Science or Info Tech?
Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief
Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues
Did SCO Get Linux-mob Justice?
Do Women Write Better Code?
Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
Exploding Cell Phone Battery Kills
GCC 4.2.1 Released
Gallery of the Lamest Technology Mascots Ever
Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
I Will Derive
ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients
Is id Abandoning Linux?
It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
Linus on Kernel Version Numbering
Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix
Malware Hijacks Windows Update
McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire
Microsoft Doesn't Care About Destroying Linux
Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode!
Most Spam Comes From Just Six Botnets
Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install
Must Nintendo Make a Mobile Phone?
Netscape Dumps Critical File, Breaks RSS 0.9 Feeds
One Less Reason to Adopt IPv6?
Paramount to Drop HD DVD?
Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus
Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP
SCO Fiasco Over For Linux, Starting For Solaris?
Spore, Mass Effect DRM Phone Home For Single-Player Gaming
The Kremlin Tightens Its Grip on the Internet
The Linux Identity Crisis
The REAL Reason We Use Linux
The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes
Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air'
Trending Low-Volume Google Searches with Gootrude
US Register of Copyrights Says DMCA Is 'Working Fine'
Undocumented Bypass in PGP Whole Disk Encryption
United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality'
Why Apple Should Acquire AMD
Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo
Wikipedia Breeds Unwitting Trust (Says IT Professor)
Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income
World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit
iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours
Repair Computer, Repurchase OS?
What is the Best Console Controller of All Time?
UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever
4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot
99% of Australians With Broadband By 2009?
A Mighty Number Falls
AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box"
AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only
Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake
Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer
Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law
Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch
Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week
Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs"
BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures
Bird Flu Pandemic Could Choke the Net
Brazil Appeals OOXML Decision
Bussard Gets Navy Funding For Fusion Research
Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer?
City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website
Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats
Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations
Dealing With a GPL Violation?
Denmark Becomes Fourth Nation To Protest OOXML
Diamonds Are a Fuel Cell's Best Friend
DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone
Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel?
Does IE8 Really Pass Acid2? [Updated]
EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory
Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies?
FSFE Releases Fiduciary License Agreement
Farewell To the Floppy Disk
File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security
Finding New Code
Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan
First Dynamically Balancing Biped Robot
Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux
Fork the Linux Kernel?
Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design
Getting the Best Deal From Dell — Or Not
Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux