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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Homeland Security: Fix your Windows — In a rare alert, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system. — The agency, which also runs the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) …
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dhs.gov:
DHS Recommends Security Patch to Protect Against a Vulnerability Found In Windows Operating Systems — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recommending that Windows Operating Systems users apply Microsoft security patch MS06-040 as quickly as possible.
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft to Tighten the Genuine Advantage Screws — In a further expansion of its anti-piracy program, Microsoft is building more 'Genuine' checks directly into Windows Vista, and is expanding the program to target not just consumers, but PC makers and system builders.
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USA Today:
Children less likely to encounter online predators — Despite the rise of social networking sites such as MySpace, a smaller percentage of young people are being sexually solicited online than five years ago. — But children ages 10 to 17 are being increasingly bombarded with online porn …
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
CDs Find Their Way Into Papers — A Santa Monica company is packaging movie previews, music samples, interviews and ads with Sunday editions. — Most newspapers have built their long-term growth strategies around the Internet. But a Santa Monica company is betting that an old piece of new technology …
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Howard W. French / New York Times:
Chinese Tech Buffs Slake Thirst for U.S. TV Shows — For the past year and a half, said Ding Chengtai, a recent university graduate, friends have wondered why he seems to have disappeared. — Mr. Ding, 23, an Internet technology expert for a large Chinese bank, chuckled at the thought.
Rocky Mountain News:
Sony Fights to Define the PSP — The PlayStation Portable was born a thing of entertainment convergence, a portable gaming device that would let people play games, watch movies, listen to music and surf the net. — But somewhere on the way from announcement to the hands of gamers, the PSP dropped the multimedia ball.
Jeffrey Burt / eWEEK.com:
Engineers: DC Power Saves Data Center Dough — Engineers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and about 20 technology vendors this month will wrap up a demonstration that they said shows DC power distribution in the data center can save up to 15 percent or more on energy consumption and cost.
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Michael Calore / Wired News:
Flash Turns 10 — Flash, the premiere platform for presenting audio and video on the web, turns 10 years old Tuesday. Over the last decade, the technology has grown from a simple sketch tool to a near-ubiquitous rich media application used by sites like MySpace.com, YouTube and Google Video …
Bob Parsons / Hot Points:
GoDaddy pulls its IPO filing! Why I decided to pull it. — We just finished our best quarter - ever! — This decision comes after the best quarter in the company's history. During this 2nd quarter The Go Daddy Group Inc. had GAAP revenue of $56,985,000, a net accounting loss of $733,000 …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
AMD not eliminating ATI brand, reports false — One of the unforeseen ramifications of the AMD-ATI hookup is the new hyper-rumor-transport bus, a new technology whereby unsubstantiated rumors become fact at an alarming rate. I lamented this sad state of affairs a few weeks ago …
Michael Sippey / Everything TypePad:
Introducing TypePad Mobile — Today we're excited to announce the release of TypePad Mobile, a free application for your Palm, Windows Mobile or Symbian Series 60 smartphone that lets you post photos and entries to your TypePad blogs and photo albums with just a few clicks.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman - Part 1: Web history and future, P2P — To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, today I interviewed two distinguished people from Sun Microsystems - Tim Bray (Director of Web Technologies) and Radia Perlman (Distinguished Engineer).
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
EBay lawsuit reveals foibles of site feedback — When does a $2.33 transaction turn into a superior court case? — When it happens on eBay. — A dispute over a piece of smoky quartz normally would have been of little consequence to Kiel Sturm, who was selling the stone on eBay.
