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A Swedish Internet company linked to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay says it's helping online whistle-blower WikiLeaks release classified documents from servers located in a basement in the Stockholm suburb of Solna. Mikael Viborg, the owner of the Web hosting company PRQ, on Friday showed The A...

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Sometimes, strange stories catch my privacy watchdog eye like when consumer products can stalk their buyer. Today we have a story of two different marketing promotions, one seems cool and one seems creepy, but both are high tech and include GPS. One sets off a privacy red alert by taking marketing pr...

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A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed thi...

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The latest version of Google’s 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world. To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and then zoom in to a location where it’s raining or snowing. Google Earth displays rain and snow only...

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Facebook has taken a lot of heat recently over its security settings and implementation. With the wealth of information some people expose on their profiles for would be identity thieves, it’s a gold mine of information. So when 100 million Facebook pages leak to the web, it’s a security concern....

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Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. He showed the attacks on two systems he had purchased himself -- the type of generic ATM machines typically foun...

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Long-video makers can rejoice, as YouTube has extended the allotted time of user uploads from 10 to 15 minutes. According to a Thursday post on YouTube's blog, increasing the limit was the most requested feature by YouTube users, though it had to be put on hold while the company worked on other projec...

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But wait, there’s more! The infomercial is an art form best appreciated after 2 a.m. — and perhaps after a few beers. The classic examples use over-acting and cliched characters to whip the viewer up into a purchasing frenzy by adding ever-increasing “value” to the product with “free” add-ons. We’v...

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A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has demanded a Russian ISP block access to YouTube because the site hosted “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist video. The court’s decision also applies to the Internet Archive and three online libraries, Lib.rus.ec, Thelib.ru and Zhur...

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Facebook's astronomic rise, staggeringly large user-base, and world's youngest self-made billionaire CEO make it one of the most fascinating companies around today. The 26-year-old discusses his empire in an exclusive interview with Diane SawyWhile everyone knows the basics about the servi...

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Like beauty, sleekness is in the eye of the beholder. It's impossible to define easily, but you know it when you see it. It's that feeling in your gut that says "I don't know what that thing is or what it's supposed to do, but I want one--now." The number of devices attempting sleekness is almo...

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Check out the Cnet video with these topics: Panasonic announces USB-rechargeable 3D glasses that come in a kiddie size too, Verizon may be prepping two new Droid phones for launch within the next month, and your cell phone may be causing that ringing in your ears. http://news.cnet.com/1606-2-500...

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Google's image search product, Google Images, has today received one of its biggest makeovers since the tool launched in 2001. Major features of the update include a new tiled layout which will see the removal of all text from below the images on the search results page, instant scrolling between pa...

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If you think the musical compact disc is dying or dead, you're probably younger than it is. "Show me a teenager buying a Susan Boyle album on CD and I'll show you someone buying a gift for their grandparent -- for Christmas," jokes Billboard senior chart manager and analyst Keith Caulfield...

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As Apple’s latest TV commercials for the iPhone 4’s “FaceTime” functionality dazzle us with blandness, it got us thinking about the company’s ad campaigns of years gone by. Although Apple has had some amazing ad successes in recent years — so much so that the release of a new Apple ad becomes news in it...

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/ufo-over-chinese-airport-prompts-probe-11172511

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Spam continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion messages per day,...

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That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Aside from the fact that he actually referred to himself as "The Dude," the iconic character from The Big Lebowsk ijust had something about him — a kind of pure coolness that's hard to describe. His secret? He didn't try. Tech companies, on the other han...

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A top Microsoft executive today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system. "It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm okay with that," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft's...

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It can be argued that no consumer electronics company has captured the public’s fascination the way Apple has. Over the years it has morphed into more than just a company or corporation, but for many it has become a representation of a lifestyle or culture, and a status symbol complete with a larger fa...

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The legendary Grammy-winning comedian, who died in 2008, was slapped down by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1970s for his "Seven Dirty Words" monologue. The U.S. Supreme Court gravely concluded that the 12-minute monologue was illegal to broadcast. But a funny thing ha...

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He may not have the femme fatale appeal of Anna Chapman, but recently deported Russian spy Alexey Karetnikov had something eve more intriguing: gainful employment at Microsoft. Which might explain a lot about Vista, amIright? The twentysomething Karetnikov actually worked at Microsoft for a ni...

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That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Aside from the fact that he actually referred to himself as "The Dude," the iconic character from The Big Lebowsk ijust had something about him — a kind of pure coolness that's hard to describe. His secret? He didn't try. Tech companies, on the other han...

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France and the Netherlands called Thursday for international guidelines to prevent private firms from exporting high-tech equipment that could be used for Internet censorship. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said there must be "concrete measures taken to ensure that the Interne...

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Over the past few years, technology pundits have been decrying desktop PCs as dead or dying. It’s certainly true that due to the recent bad economy, along with greatly reduced laptop prices, desktop PC sales have dramatically dwindled. As a result the writing is on the wall for the desktop PC...

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The Pirate Bay just can't catch a break these days. Fresh of the heels of more European regulatory action against their previous hosts, German private ISP Cyberbunker, the infamous torrent aggregation portal is facing a cyber-attack that is exposing sensitive information. According to...

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Over the holiday weekend, one developer managed to game iTunes in a way that put his apps in 42 of the 50 top sales spots in the App Store’s book category. An Apple rep has just confirmed to Engadget that one developer, Vietnam-based Thuat Nguyen, violated the Program License Agreement in a w...

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Several hours ago, someone found an HTML injection vulnerability in YouTube's comment system, and since then sites such as 4chan have had a field day with popular videos. The bug is triggered by placing a

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Sooo true! Please enjoy this and be safe this holiday season! Embrace Life

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The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It's a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800. But the icon wasn't Steve Jobs and the tablet wasn't th...

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	Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Join Forces (Preview) A Swedish Internet company linked to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay says it's helping online whistle-blower WikiLeaks release classified documents from servers located in a basement in the Stockholm suburb of Solna. Mikael Viborg, the owner of the Web hosting company PRQ, on Friday showed The A...	barney	1	212	Aug 7, 2010 by Vindicated
	Marketing Gone Wild: One Product Helps You Stalk, One Stalks You (Preview) Sometimes, strange stories catch my privacy watchdog eye like when consumer products can stalk their buyer. Today we have a story of two different marketing promotions, one seems cool and one seems creepy, but both are high tech and include GPS. One sets off a privacy red alert by taking marketing pr...	barney	0	218	Aug 7, 2010 by barney
	Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered (Preview) A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed thi...	barney	0	175	Aug 7, 2010 by barney
	Google Earth Now Displays Real-Time Rain and Snow (Preview) The latest version of Google’s 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world. To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and then zoom in to a location where it’s raining or snowing. Google Earth displays rain and snow only...	barney	0	177	Jul 31, 2010 by barney
	100 million Facebook accounts exposed (Preview) Facebook has taken a lot of heat recently over its security settings and implementation. With the wealth of information some people expose on their profiles for would be identity thieves, it’s a gold mine of information. So when 100 million Facebook pages leak to the web, it’s a security concern....	barney	1	210	Jul 30, 2010 by Vindicated
	ATM hack gives cash on demand (Preview) Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. He showed the attacks on two systems he had purchased himself -- the type of generic ATM machines typically foun...	barney	0	205	Jul 30, 2010 by barney
	YouTube bumps video limit to 15 minutes (Preview) Long-video makers can rejoice, as YouTube has extended the allotted time of user uploads from 10 to 15 minutes. According to a Thursday post on YouTube's blog, increasing the limit was the most requested feature by YouTube users, though it had to be put on hold while the company worked on other projec...	barney	0	186	Jul 30, 2010 by barney
	10 Best “Worst” Infomercials on YouTube (Preview) But wait, there’s more! The infomercial is an art form best appreciated after 2 a.m. — and perhaps after a few beers. The classic examples use over-acting and cliched characters to whip the viewer up into a purchasing frenzy by adding ever-increasing “value” to the product with “free” add-ons. We’v...	barney	0	185	Jul 30, 2010 by barney
	YouTube Banned in Russia Over Racist Video (Preview) A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has demanded a Russian ISP block access to YouTube because the site hosted “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist video. The court’s decision also applies to the Internet Archive and three online libraries, Lib.rus.ec, Thelib.ru and Zhur...	barney	0	169	Jul 30, 2010 by barney
	10 Fascinating Facebook Facts (Preview) Facebook's astronomic rise, staggeringly large user-base, and world's youngest self-made billionaire CEO make it one of the most fascinating companies around today. The 26-year-old discusses his empire in an exclusive interview with Diane SawyWhile everyone knows the basics about the servi...	barney	1	195	Jul 28, 2010 by estraya_01
	Hello, Gorgeous! 15 of the Greatest Tech Designs Ever (Preview) Like beauty, sleekness is in the eye of the beholder. It's impossible to define easily, but you know it when you see it. It's that feeling in your gut that says "I don't know what that thing is or what it's supposed to do, but I want one--now." The number of devices attempting sleekness is almo...	barney	0	181	Jul 21, 2010 by barney
	Video: Can cell phones cause tinnitus? (Preview) Check out the Cnet video with these topics: Panasonic announces USB-rechargeable 3D glasses that come in a kiddie size too, Verizon may be prepping two new Droid phones for launch within the next month, and your cell phone may be causing that ringing in your ears. http://news.cnet.com/1606-2-500...	barney	0	181	Jul 21, 2010 by barney
	Google Images gets a new look (Preview) Google's image search product, Google Images, has today received one of its biggest makeovers since the tool launched in 2001. Major features of the update include a new tiled layout which will see the removal of all text from below the images on the search results page, instant scrolling between pa...	barney	0	172	Jul 21, 2010 by barney
	Is the death of the CD looming? (Preview) If you think the musical compact disc is dying or dead, you're probably younger than it is. "Show me a teenager buying a Susan Boyle album on CD and I'll show you someone buying a gift for their grandparent -- for Christmas," jokes Billboard senior chart manager and analyst Keith Caulfield...	barney	0	155	Jul 21, 2010 by barney
	10 Vintage Apple Ads That Time Forgot (Preview) As Apple’s latest TV commercials for the iPhone 4’s “FaceTime” functionality dazzle us with blandness, it got us thinking about the company’s ad campaigns of years gone by. Although Apple has had some amazing ad successes in recent years — so much so that the release of a new Apple ad becomes news in it...	barney	0	162	Jul 18, 2010 by barney
	UFO Spotted Over Chinese Airport (Preview) http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/ufo-over-chinese-airport-prompts-probe-11172511	barney	0	180	Jul 17, 2010 by barney
	The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets (Preview) Spam continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion messages per day,...	barney	1	197	Jul 17, 2010 by NicKnayme
	The 10 most uncool moments in tech (Preview) That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Aside from the fact that he actually referred to himself as "The Dude," the iconic character from The Big Lebowsk ijust had something about him — a kind of pure coolness that's hard to describe. His secret? He didn't try. Tech companies, on the other han...	barney	0	173	Jul 16, 2010 by barney
	Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple's Vista (Preview) A top Microsoft executive today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system. "It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm okay with that," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft's...	barney	0	175	Jul 15, 2010 by barney
	10 Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know About Apple (Preview) It can be argued that no consumer electronics company has captured the public’s fascination the way Apple has. Over the years it has morphed into more than just a company or corporation, but for many it has become a representation of a lifestyle or culture, and a status symbol complete with a larger fa...	barney	0	181	Jul 14, 2010 by barney
	Court: FCC 'indecency' rule doesn't make tech sense (Preview) The legendary Grammy-winning comedian, who died in 2008, was slapped down by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1970s for his "Seven Dirty Words" monologue. The U.S. Supreme Court gravely concluded that the 12-minute monologue was illegal to broadcast. But a funny thing ha...	barney	0	155	Jul 14, 2010 by barney
	The 12th Russian Spy Worked at Microsoft (Preview) He may not have the femme fatale appeal of Anna Chapman, but recently deported Russian spy Alexey Karetnikov had something eve more intriguing: gainful employment at Microsoft. Which might explain a lot about Vista, amIright? The twentysomething Karetnikov actually worked at Microsoft for a ni...	barney	0	168	Jul 14, 2010 by barney
	The 10 most uncool moments in tech (Preview) That Jeff Lebowski was one cool dude. Aside from the fact that he actually referred to himself as "The Dude," the iconic character from The Big Lebowsk ijust had something about him — a kind of pure coolness that's hard to describe. His secret? He didn't try. Tech companies, on the other han...	barney	0	157	Jul 14, 2010 by barney
	France, Netherlands seek to halt Internet censorship (Preview) France and the Netherlands called Thursday for international guidelines to prevent private firms from exporting high-tech equipment that could be used for Internet censorship. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said there must be "concrete measures taken to ensure that the Interne...	barney	0	162	Jul 11, 2010 by barney
	The Desktop is Dead! Long Live the Desktop! (Preview) Over the past few years, technology pundits have been decrying desktop PCs as dead or dying. It’s certainly true that due to the recent bad economy, along with greatly reduced laptop prices, desktop PC sales have dramatically dwindled. As a result the writing is on the wall for the desktop PC...	barney	1	206	Jul 10, 2010 by Vindicated
	Pirate Bay hacked, sensitive user information exposed (Preview) The Pirate Bay just can't catch a break these days. Fresh of the heels of more European regulatory action against their previous hosts, German private ISP Cyberbunker, the infamous torrent aggregation portal is facing a cyber-attack that is exposing sensitive information. According to...	barney	0	154	Jul 10, 2010 by barney
	Apple Boots Fraudster from iTunes Store (Preview) Over the holiday weekend, one developer managed to game iTunes in a way that put his apps in 42 of the 50 top sales spots in the App Store’s book category. An Apple rep has just confirmed to Engadget that one developer, Vietnam-based Thuat Nguyen, violated the Program License Agreement in a w...	barney	0	175	Jul 6, 2010 by barney
	YouTube Hit By HTML Injection Vulnerability (Preview) Several hours ago, someone found an HTML injection vulnerability in YouTube's comment system, and since then sites such as 4chan have had a field day with popular videos. The bug is triggered by placing a	barney	1	217	Jul 5, 2010 by Vindicated
	Embrace Life Video (Preview) Sooo true! Please enjoy this and be safe this holiday season! Embrace Life	barney	0	162	Jul 3, 2010 by barney
	How Microsoft foresaw--and still missed--the iPad (Preview) The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It's a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800. But the icon wasn't Steve Jobs and the tablet wasn't th...	barney	0	178	Jun 27, 2010 by barney
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