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Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A federal court in Massachusetts has ordered three college students to cancel a presentation at a computer hackers' conference in Las Vegas that would have shown security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's major transportation system.
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Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack
Sun, Aug 10, 2008 (12:39 p.m.) A federal court in Massachusetts has ordered three college students to cancel a presentation at a computer hackers' conference in Las Vegas that would have shown security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's major transportation system.
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Card-counting whiz eyes Facebook football fantasy
Sun, Aug 10, 2008 (12:27 p.m.) By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about.
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Card-counting whiz eyeing Facebook for his next jackpot
By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about.
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Man sentenced on child porn charges
A Central Missouri man was sentenced Friday in federal court on charges related to downloading child pornography over the Internet.
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Unzip and unwind, says National Sex Day organizer
Here's one holiday you won't want to miss. A Vancouver student has launched an Internet campaign to create a National Sex Day.
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Royalties statistics show CDs on wane
Songwriters made 15% less money from CD sales in the first six months of the year as consumers choose to download music from the internet, figures today reveal.
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Nehalem = i7: Intel unveils new Core processor brand
Intel today unveiled the brand of its upcoming processor: Nehalem, the successor of the Core 2 Duo CPU series, will be introduced as “Core i7” later this year and the company hopes that the new brand will be easily recognized and remembered by customers when they walk into a store to buy a new PC.
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MNS men at it again, disrupt I-T exam
The Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's activists on Sunday created a ruckus at Mulund, where staff selection exams for the post of income tax assistants were being held.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc aims to take a majority stake in eBank eventually, Rakuten President Hiroshi Mikitani said.
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Intel Core i7 CPUs sport energy saving feature
Intel Corp. will describe a new technique to drive energy efficiency in its upcoming Nehalem 45nm desktop processors which it will dub the Core i7 family at the Intel Developer Forum Aug. 19.
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Card-counting whiz eyes Facebook football fantasy
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about.
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Card-counting whiz eyes Facebook football fantasy
By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about. His card-counting prowess at blackjack tables during wild weekends in Las Vegas and Atlantic City won him and his college buddies millions of dollars, inspiring a best-selling book and the recent movie "21." Now 35 years old, Ma thinks he can hit his next jackpot in a different fantasy land - the fanciful ...
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Student lobbies for National Sex holiday
OTTAWA - Here's one holiday you won't want to miss. A Vancouver student has launched an Internet campaign to create a National Sex Day. And while it won't be an official holiday, it's sure to be fun.
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Homeland Security probes MnDOT official's hiring
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says it will now check potential employees' backgrounds on the Internet after the department
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Area traveler unravels mysteries of cemeteries, local history, online
It's a hot morning in June.
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Man charged with uploading porno
A 25-year-old Gozitan has been charged with allegedly uploading pornographic material featuring him and his girlfriend on the internet. He was exposed by the woman who saw the pictures publicly exposing her initimate life after she ended the relationship.
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Next-Generation Intel PC Chips to Carry Intel Core Name
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company's upcoming new microarchitecture will be formally branded "Intel® Core™ processor."
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States that hold sales tax holidays
Alabama: Aug. 1-3 _ clothing, computers, school supplies, books Connecticut: Aug. 17-23 _ clothing and footwear District of Columbia: Aug.
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Pandia Weekend Wrap-up August 10
Here are some of the articles we have found interesting this week: Big Update to Webmaster Tools Live Search has launched a significant update to the Webmaster Center and brought the Center out of Beta (Live Aug 6 2008) Has Google Blocked WebPosition Ranking Software for Good? Google has finally closed its doors on one of the most popular [...]
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Craigslist experiences listings outage
The Internet bulletin board experienced a brief outage that prevented users from accessing listings pages.
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Mind over mouse: thought-controlled computing on the way
Want to lift that virtual boulder or blast that alien? Think hard.
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Zune to Pursue Original Content
Microsoft executives have been making the rounds at talent agencies and production companies in recent months in hopes of licensing exclusive original video programming for the portable media player, which has struggled to get traction in the marketplace.
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India Transact to install self-service kiosks
In an attempt to enhance the role of e-commerce in the retail space, India Transact, a kiosk maker, plans to install multi-function kiosks to help customers carry out transactions.
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New Tool to Automate Cookie Stealing from Gmail, Others
LAS VEGAS, NEV. -- If you use Gmail and haven't yet taken advantage of a feature Google
unveiled last week to prevent hackers from hijacking your inbox, now would be an excellent time to do that. A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Saturday demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox even if you are accessing your Gmail over a ...
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