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Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers'

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September 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 38 vote(s) | User comments: 12

Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported on Saturday.

Immerse yourself in Spanish

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September 18, 2008 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | User comments: 8

I've just returned from my 90-minute commute on the parking lot known as the 405 Freeway. If traffic wasn't exactly flying, time was and instead of hearing about how bad traffic was on my car radio, I was learning a language ...

Switching e-mail addresses doesn't have to hurt

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October 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | User comments: 3

In many ways, changing your e-mail address is harder than changing your mailing address. There's no post office to make sure that your mail gets forwarded and senders are notified of the switch. Plus, you have to deal with ...

Pop-up ad scam led to no laptop, but lots of spam

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September 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2

Question: I foolishly responded to a pop-up ad that promised I had won a free laptop. But after I gave away my e-mail address, I discovered there was no laptop. For a few months I just deleted the few dozen unwanted messages ...

British military staff data drive lost: ministry

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October 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2

A computer hard drive with personal details of some 100,000 serving military personnel, over half the total armed forces, has gone missing, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Friday.

Nobel prize laureate finds winning news on internet

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October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

US scientist Martin Chalfie went on the internet to find out he was one of three co-winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry, he said, after he ignored a telephone ring early Wednesday he thought came from next door. ...

Yahoo opens its doors to hackers

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September 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Hackers armed with laptop computers, camping tents and dreams of software glory invaded Yahoo during the weekend as the Internet pioneer opened its strategy and its doors to outside developers. The "hackathon" was as much ...

Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says

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October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the ...

IBM Accelerates Virtual Desktop With Breakthrough Solution

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September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | User comments: 1

IBM today announced a powerful new solution to help organizations slash virtual desktop infrastructure storage requirements by up to 80 percent, allowing them to take advantage of new cloud computing models at significantly ...

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