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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore — Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate …
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Picture Exclusive: Palm Centro Leaked Official Shot — The Palm Centro has been courting much attention lately thanks to a host of blurry pictures and news of its diminutive stature. Today we have the first (leaked) press photo shot of the device and it does not look half bad.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Janus Friis on Joost: adult content, charging and not paying ISPs over bandwidth — Joost co-founder Janus Friis has outlined future possibilities for the web TV service including charging users, introducing adult content and never going down the "slippery slope" of splitting ad revenue with ISPs.
NEWS.com.au:
Student cracks $84m porn filter — A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes. — Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday. — Tom, a year 10 student …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Attack Of The Fake Bloggers — Whilst Fake Steve Jobs has gained the most attention in the fake personal blog scene, a number of other fake blogs have been launched this year. Here's a quick run down of a few that might be worthy of adding to your feed reader...or maybe not. — The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Researchers Crack KeeLoq Code for Car Keys — Slashdot had a small post about this yesterday but I've spoken with one of the researchers about it so thought I'd add a little more detail. — A group of Israeli and Belgian researchers found a vulnerability in the algorithm that is used …
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Anything But iPod:
SanDisk Announces the Sansa Clip — SanDisk has answered back to the Creative's Zen Stone with the Sansa Clip. Around the same size as a matchbook, the player features an OLED screen (the same one found on the Express) and flexes 15 hours of battery life.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Internet is Dead and Boring — A lot of people are all up and upset about my comments that the Internet is dead and boring. Well guess what, it is. Every new technological, mechanical or intellectual breakthrough has its day, days, months and years. But they don't rule forever.
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
VC Roundup: FM Publishing, New Leaf & Nixon Peabody — Some scattered VC notes as we head into the weekend: — * FM Publishing, the online ad network run by John Battelle, has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Return backers include New Enterprise Associates and Omidyar Network.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Report: Major Apple event coming Sept. 5 — With rumors of new iPods heating up, fresh news comes of a trademarked Apple "special event" to be held in two weeks. — Ars Technica's Infinite Loop is reporting that unidentified Apple sources have brought word of an upcoming Apple event scheduled for September 5.
Sam Diaz / Washington Post:
Consumer Innovations to Inform Web Site for Spies — Government agents may soon find valuable information through an online-recommendation system like the one on Amazon.com: Spies who read this report, it might say, also found these reports useful. — That is one of several features …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Regal Cinemas Make Example out of Teen for 20 Second Transformers Recording — Sejas, an Arlington Virgina teenager, recorded a few seconds of the movie on her cell-phone to show her brother. Under a new Zero-Tolerance Policy, police responded to the call from Regal Cinemas who promptly arrested Sejas.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Check This Guy Out — Bill Snitzer, one of the tech guys at BitGravity, is driving to Los Angeles and showing it live on the Internet. He's got a webcam up showing the drive and a Google Map mashup with a GPS device showing his progress. — Bitgravity, located in Burlingame, California, hasn't officially launched.
Truman Lewis / ConsumerAffairs.com:
Ohio Man's Dell Laptop Bursts into Flames — A computer network administrator at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital is the latest consumer to encounter the flaming laptop syndrome. — Douglas Brown said his Dell 9200 wide-screen laptop's batteries exploded into flames, it "looked like fireworks …
Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld:
Google's Blogger fixes bug, adds video uploading — (InfoWorld) - Google's Blogger team solved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service this week and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to their sites.
