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Hackers breach ATM network and gain access to PINs
n Scam targeted Citibank's ATMs located inside 7-Elevens, netting millions for thieves
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Recent Original Stories
A recent blog post on ZDNet contends that Firefox is not as secure as promised by counting exploits. Joseph Huang contends that severity and the number of unpatched vulnerabilites matters, not just the number of exploits discovered.
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The potentially historic Microsoft-Novell pact announced last week, whereby Microsoft would grant patent peace to users of Novell's Suse Linux software in exchange for royalty payments paid by Novell to Microsoft, will be dead by mid-March, promises Eben Moglen, the general counsel of the Free Software Foundation.
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Citibank ATM Pin Numbers Hacked
Customer PIN codes from Citibank ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores stolen.
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Capture power with your curtains
Imagine every time you closed your curtains, you were capturing enough solar energy to power your laptop. The technology is available, but no one's packaged it up in a handy DIY kit at your local hardware store.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Jun 2006 14:26 UTC
Xandros has announced the immediate availability of Xandros Desktop 4. You can get the two different version from their online store . A set of screenshots is also available.
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The ReactOS project has released version 0.3.5 of their ambitious operating system. ReactOS aims to be a "ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system.
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"The KDE desktop of SUSE Linux 10.1 (and the future enterprise products built on it) will contain a KDE frontend for Beagle called Kerry . For this Beagle has been split into non-GUI and GUI parts, some backends are now in sub-packages (Evolution, Firefox) and the libbeagle API has been improved in parts.
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Orbitz travel sites replace Expedia at MSN
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Orbitz Worldwide Inc said on Tuesday its Orbitz.com and ebookers.com websites have replaced Expedia Inc as the travel agencies for Microsoft's Internet arm MSN.com in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Commercial installer adds Windows game emulator — May 15, 2008 — Linspire has announced that its "one-click" software installation service for Linux desktops now supports Transgaming's Cedega 6.0 emulator.
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Graphics board vendor touts faster Linux drivers
AMD has released faster new ATI Catalyst drivers for Linux customers of its ATI FireGL professional graphics cards. The 8.49.7 Linux driver provides 33 percent faster OpenGL performance than the previous driver, claims the company.
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Gates bids teary farewell to Microsoft
Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.
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Qwest Joins Fight Against Child Porn
Qwest is joining the ranks of ISPs that are going after child pornography on the Web by blocking certain Web sites compiled by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Do browsers need a 'best-before' date?
Security researchers have suggested that like food, browsers should have a best-before or expiry date. This comes after revealing that 637 million internet users are surfing with outdated and unpatched browsers, which puts them at risk from web-based attacks.
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"Microsoft Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years," Randall Stross reports for The New York Times. "Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame.
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AdSense Referrals? AdWords Pay Per Action? Not Anymore
Google has decided to shut down its AdSense Referrals program effective the last week of August. read more
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Razer Lycosa Review
Gaming PCs nowadays are as much about the look as they are about performance. Take a glance at anything from Alienware or at Dell's XPS line and you get a sense of the style associated with home computers built specifically to play the latest games.
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ASUS confirms intent to drain Eee brand with Eee Monitor
Filed under: Desktops , Displays No, no -- this isn't the Eee-branded HDTV . That's another Eee monitor. Seriously ASUS, you deserve some kind of award, nay, banquet to celebrate this crowning achievement. You've single-handedly managed to drive a lust-worthy name six feet below the surface, and now the mere mention of " Eee " just puts us in a foul mood. Nevertheless, we'll ...
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Embed Remember the Milk on Your Windows Desktop [Remember The Milk]
Weblog Third Error suggests a clever use for your Windows Active Desktop: Embed your Remember the Milk to-do list on your wallpaper. In all it's pretty standard use of the oft-disregarded Active...
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Sarkozy rebuke becomes web hit
VIDEO footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy reprimanding a TV technician who did not greet him when he arrived at the studio for an interview drew more than 300,000 hits on the internet today.
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Sarkozy rebuke becomes web hit
VIDEO footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy reprimanding a TV technician who did not greet him when he arrived at the studio for an interview drew more than 300,000 hits on the internet today.
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Sarkozy rebuke becomes web hit
VIDEO footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy reprimanding a TV technician who did not greet him when he arrived at the studio for an interview drew more than 300,000 hits on the internet today.
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Recent Original Stories
P.A. Semi , a 150-employee chip startup, wants to make name for itself through attention to detail. The Silicon Valley chip startup, run by chip legend Dan Dobberpuhl-Dobberpuhl, its CEO, presided over the development of the Alpha processor while at Digital Equipment Corp.
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Aaron Digulla established the Amiga Research Operating System or AROS in 1995. He discusses the early days and the development through the years of AROS.
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