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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.

Intel unites the internet with TV
Chip giant Intel signs a deal with Yahoo to make the TV set much more web aware.
New PlayStation and PSP unveiled
A high-capacity PlayStation 3 and a new PlayStation Portable have been unveiled by Sony at the Leipzig games conference.
Web browser to get 'privacy mode'
Hiding what users do online might get easier as Microsoft plans a "privacy mode" for the next release of Internet Explorer.
Intel details new core chip line
Details have emerged of the processor family that Intel will be using in servers, desktops and laptops from 2009.
Sale of bank data alarms Germany
Data protection officials in Germany call for tighter privacy laws amid a scandal over illegal sales of personal data.
Bid for world land-speed record
Two British men prepare to try and break the world land-speed record for a wind-powered vehicle.
Intel cites US education 'crisis'
Intel's chairman tells developers a better education system is vital to the economic well-being and future of the US.
Microsoft loosens code shackles
Microsoft is to make it easier for big customers to move its software onto different machines.
Apple admits iPod Nano 'overheat'
Apple says that a battery fault meant that a small number of its first generation iPod Nanos could overheat.
A spy camera hidden in a teddy bear's eye catches a thief
A forensic science student and her father catch a carer stealing from an elderly relative by hiding a camera in a teddy bear's eye.
Get your up-to-date fix of blog posts about all things digital
dot.life
Will Brits ever be able to turn a buck from blogging?
Numbers game
Bill Thompson is not alarmed by net meltdown fears
dot.life
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Flat-panel fridge
New approach may make fridges more efficient and quieter

BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.

Snail hides from march of history
A snail species from the Mediterranean is found in the UK at historic Cliveden House.
World heading towards cooler 2008
Global temperatures recorded so far this year suggest is likely to emerge as the coolest this century, scientists say.
Black holes 'dodge middle ground'
Black holes come in either big or small sizes, but there appears to be little room for mediocrity, a study suggests.
Machine 'sniffs out skin cancer'
A common form of skin cancer could be diagnosed by the distinctive chemical "scent" it gives off, say US experts.
Navy may help ailing Sydney whale
The Australian military has offered to help rescue a starving whale calf, separated from its mother and trying to suckle from boats off Sydney.
Six key species get woodland aid
A programme is launched to help create a brighter future for six different woodland species.
Birds 'off the pace' with warming
French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough, a study suggests.
Fruit juice 'could affect drugs'
Fruit juices may not be as healthy as thought - they could reduce the effectiveness of some medicines, it is claimed.
Bid for world land-speed record
Two British men prepare to try and break the world land-speed record for a wind-powered vehicle.
Insect fossil bought on eBay found to be new species
A scientist who bought a fossilised insect on the web auction site eBay finds that it belongs to a new species.
Why reforming the economics of food could bring environmental and social bene...
Why reforming the economics of food production and supply would be beneficial for a number of environmental and social ills.
Driving primates to the edge
The decline of primates shows time is running out
Walk on water
Think bridges are built just to cross water? Think again
'We go way back'
Meet Manfred, who claims to have the ultimate family tree
Bobble clouds
What is this weird cloud formation and how is it made?

Slashdot
News for nerds, stuff that matters

kuro5hin.org
technology and culture, from the trenches

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MAC AND CHEESE
YOU THINK YOU KNOW MAC AND CHEESE NO YOU DO NOT WELL MAYBE YOU DO HERE IS HOW IT GOES DOWN
Why You Need to Vote on Stories
We look like them, but there's a difference... Kuro5hin.org looks like a lot of other weblogs you see in your everyday clicking. But there is one important difference in how we operate here, that you may not be familiar with, or even, at th...
Russia did the right thing in Georgia
So the first analyses of the Russia-Georgia tussle over South Ossetia are being published. Don't be fooled by the Western - especially French and German - media consensus (for example, this article on the ever dumb Times screaming OMG Russi...
This god will not perish shamefully
It's late at night and the apartment is silent. Outside, a light rain falls, easily mistaken for fog. You set down your voice recorder, clicking it on, a slight raise of the left eyebrow the only sign of asking for permission. The interview...
The Spoils of... MUST?!
I had to run down a bottle of one step sanitizer for my pilsner I had fermented at 90F. Rather than let it go to waste, when I took the lid off the fermenter there were really neat apple, fruit, apricot notes. I decided that while it wasn't...
Review: The Dark Knight
It is little wonder that The Dark Knight has done so well in modern America, generating huge returns for its investors, and spurring talk even before its release of potential Academy Awards. This is not because the 'dark' setting and overt...
Immigration, health care, corporate malfeasance, and too many attorneys.
This story has got it all. The executive summary: An illegal alien is involved in an auto accident with a severe injury requiring over two years of hospitalization. After he has somewhat recovered, he is shipped back to Guatemala where he n...
FBI ends anthrax investigation after extremely suspicious suicide
The FBI is set to officially end its seven-year investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks after a prime suspect apparently committed suicide. No, it wasn't Steven Hatfill, the FBI's number one patsy, but rather Bruce Ivins, a former gove...
Kuro5hin's spamming shithead: newb4b0
Kuron newb4b0's latest diary is an open invitation for all other members to engage in a bit of troll-sodomy just for the kicks-da-shit fun which can be derived from sledge-hammering the ignoranus that passes for his brain. Have a Free-Trol...

The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT

Bush makes last-minute grab for civil liberties
'I'm still in the White House you know'
US citizens could be investigated without just cause under a new plan from the Justice Department, while those who choose to leave the country will have their records kept for 15 years and available t
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Dabs.com founder accused of attempted rape, drugs offences
Remanded in custody
The founder of Dabs.com, David Atherton, has been charged with attempted rape and possession of Class A drugs.?
Logic-gate 'supermolecules' play noughts & crosses
Chemical nanobrains 'clever as kids'
The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded a Belfast-based boffin a prize for developing "intelligent supermolecules" which are on an intellectual level with (some) human children - able to win games of
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JavaFX preview highlights critical weaknesses
Potential riches uncertain
Review Sun Microsystems recently released the JavaFX Preview SDK. I decided to revisit what is Sun's last, best hope to recapture both the desktop and the browser in the face of stiff competition.?
Reg server and chip hack molested by Gray Lady
'They'll never take away my typos!'
Lady and gentlemen,?
NASA's Ares V may crush Kennedy crawlerway
Heavy lifter too heavy for road to the stars?
The budget for NASA's Constellation programme - comprising the Orion and Ares vehicles - looks like it may have run to a few billion cubic metres of road surfacing after the agency admitted the
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Microsoft's Photosynth falls out of cloud
'A little overwhelmed'
Microsoft today released a free photo-stitching tool that runs in the cloud ? sadly for Redmond, at time of writing Photosynth is having a little lie-down.?
Ericsson ST move helps consolidate wireless chip makers
Mobile platforms merge with wireless
The announcement this week that Ericsson would merge its Mobile Platforms division into the ST-NXP Wireless business sent shock waves around the industry.?
Opera update draws the curtain on seven security vulns
Keeping schtum on XSS bug details, though
Opera users should upgrade their browser software following the discovery of multiple security bugs.?
Scientists unravel galactic spaghetti monster
Magnetism maintains his noodly appendages
Scientists believe they have deduced what sustains the noodly appendages of a galactic "spaghetti monster" - actually Galaxy NGC 1275 in Perseus - which displays "a mammoth network of spaghetti-like
...
Royal Navy plans world's first running-jump jet
Carrier flyboys to descend on a wing and a prayer nozzle
British boffins and test pilots are continuing to work on a new deck-landing technique, to be employed by Blighty's upcoming generation of supersonic stealth jumpjet drivers when comi
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Hacker unearths young Chinese gymnast scam
Underage and under the radar
A search engine hacker has uncovered fresh evidence that the Chinese women's gymnastic team cheated by fielding underage competitors.?
Nokia's Tube touchphone to be out in time for Xmas?
Exec talks up touchscreen handset
Nokia?s eagerly anticipated Tube phone could appear before Christmas. One of the Finnish firm?s executives has certainly confirmed that the company plans to launch a touchscreen mobile by the end of 2008.?
eBay changes anger smaller sellers
Goodbye Mom and Pop
Online tat bazaar eBay is changing how it charges to encourage more fixed price sales instead of auctions.?
FCC pelts Comcast with rotten veg
Order, order
Having put the company in the stocks two weeks ago, the FCC heaped a load of rotten vegetables over US cable giant Comcast yesterday.?

Ars Technica

Seinfeld to sing the praises of Windows Vista

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is expected to be the star of Microsoft's upcoming $300 million advertising campaign meant to resurrect Windows Vista's image and fight back against Apple's Get a Mac ads. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Re
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Comcast to slow down heaviest 'Net users to DSL speeds

Comcast is offering more details about the "protocol agnostic" throttling solution that will replace its current, FCC-denounced approach to network management. Heavy users will be "deprioritized" for 10 to 20 minutes at a time.
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Hands on with the next wave of search aggregators

New search tools are making it easier to get to the content and communities you need, and they're presenting results as more than just boring lists of links. Ars Technica goes hands on with two search aggregators with the hope of spending l
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Fair use gets a fair shake: YouTube tot to get day in court

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Universal for its DMCA takedown notice involving video of a dancing toddler. The judge held that copyright holders must take fair use into account before demanding the removal of onli
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Microsoft buys another $100M in certificates from Novell

Microsoft and Novell have extended their controversial interoperability agreement. Microsoft still espouses unsubstantiated patent rhetoric, but nobody seems to be listening.
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Verizon: we need freedom to delay P2P traffic when necessary

Verizon's Chief Technical Officer talks about his philosophy of network management and why building a network that delivers every bit without delay is, in his view, impractical.
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Winning at 3D: an interview with Intel's Pat Gelsinger

Larrabee in the Playstation 4? Nehalem copying Barcelona? Today I had a one-on-one with Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, where we touched on these topics and more.
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States rush to dump touch-screen voting systems

States are increasingly abandoning touchscreen voting, scrapping multimillion-dollar systems purchased since 2000.
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Ruling says federal courts can hear no-fly lawsuits

A federal appeals court has ruled that individuals on the government's no-fly list can challenge their detention in federal court. But the fact that a Malaysian woman who was detained in 2005 can go forward with her lawsuit doesn't mean she
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eBay downplays auctions in favor of fixed-priced listings

eBay announced a number of changes today that will change how both buyers and sellers use the site from here on out. The site is beginning to look less like an auction house and more like an online flea market.
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Intel announces dual-core Atom, chains it to 945C chipset

Intel has announced it will follow the current Atom 230 with a dual-core, HyperThreading-enabled Atom 330. The new processor should drop in September, and is expected to run at the same 1.6GHz clockspeed while offering a few additional plat
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Apple hit with class-action lawsuit over iPhone 3G flakiness

It's hard to read about the iPhone 3G these days without reading about its unreliability on the 3G network. Now, a lawsuit has been filed against Apple over the issue, which may eventually be approved as a class-action.
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FCC Order scolds Comcast for changing story on P2P blocking

"Surrender, Comcast!" declares the FCC in its Order on P2P blocking. The agency also calls on the public to stay vigilant on the issue and aligns itself more closely with the net neutrality movement.
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Baidu cache offers more evidence of underage Chinese gymnasts

Gumshoe hackers have found cached data in Chinese search engine Baidu that supports charges that some of their medal-winning gymnasts are under the IOC-mandated age of 16.
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Microsoft: grokking search intent will help close Google gap

Microsoft hopes that focusing on users' search intent when using Live Search will lead tailored results to that user's specific needs?and more search market share.
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LWN.net
LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from and about the Linux community.

SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims (ZDNet)
ZDNet reports that SCO has been fined by a German court. "SCO Group has been ordered to pay a €10,000 (£7,900) fine in Germany for making claims that Linux includes intellectual property from Unix. SCO has repeatedly claimed that Linux is ...
Thursday Security Updates
Debian has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated pdns-recursor (DNS cache poisoning).
Mandriva has updated yelp (format string vulnerability), mtr (buffer overflow), xine-lib (buffer overflow) and xine-lib (multipl
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Linux popularity across the globe (Royal Pingdom)
Royal Pingdom has published an analysis of global Linux usage. "The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distr...
openSUSE to add SELinux
The openSUSE project has announced that, starting with openSUSE 11.1, SELinux will be supported for those who want it. "While our customer experience shows that AppArmor is the best solution for the vast majority of users, applications, an...
Kernel prepatch 2.6.27-rc4
The 2.6.27-rc4 prepatch is available. Along with lots of fixes, it includes support for the multitouch trackpad on new Apple laptops, more reshuffling of architecture-specific include files, a number of XFS improvements, interrupt stacks ...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2008
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2008 is available.
Standards, the kernel, and Postfix
Standards like POSIX are meant to make life easier for application developers by providing rules on the semantics of system calls for multiple different platforms. If operating system developers decide to deviate from the standard, but fai...
Stable kernels 2.6.26.3 and 2.6.25.16
The 2.6.26.3 and 2.6.25.16 stable kernel updates are out. Both contain a long list of fixes for a wide variety of serious kernel problems.
VMware exec says Windows days are numbered (ComputerWorld)
Stephen J. Vaughan Nichols discusses Paul Harapin's predictions for the end of Windows. "Seriously. In an ITWire tale, Paul Harapin, VMware's managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual ...
Wednesday Security Updates
Mandriva has updated kdegraphics (poppler vulnerability) and kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated postfix (unauthorized append).
The SFLC's Guide to GPL Compliance
The Software Freedom Law Center has released A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance, a document which appears to be aimed at corporate management. It is a detailed and clear discussion of the issues as seen from the SFLC point of view. "The ...
Microsoft and Novell do it again
Microsoft and Novell have announced that, since their deal turned out so well, they will be expanding it. "The investment focuses on enhanced programs from Novell to provide tools, support, training and resources for customers seeking an e...
In defense of Ubuntu
Criticisms of the Ubuntu distribution and Canonical, its corporate sponsor, are not hard to come by. Depending on who is speaking, Ubuntu and Canonical are guilty of profiting from the free software community without giving back to it, fo...
Federal Judge Throws Out Gag Order Against Boston Students in Subway Case (Wi...
Wired covers the lifting of an injunction against three MIT students regarding their research into Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) security. The ruling comes just a tad late for the students to give their planned talk at ...
Leaked: Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini Note) Specs and Release Date (Gizmodo)
Gizmodo takes a look at Dell's upcoming Inspiron 910 mini notebook. "A few weeks ago we ran some rumored specs of Dell's answer to the Eee, the Dell Inspiron 910 (aka Mini Inspiron and Inspiron Mini). Now we've gotten our hands on the full...

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