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Wired (kudos Malcolm)

Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the US intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other multiplayer games, according to the Director of National Inte

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MediaPost

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION HEARING about net neutrality this week was so crowded that police had to turn away an estimated 100 people from the Harvard Law School classroom where the event was held.

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AP

A major service outage afflicted users of the popular, addictive BlackBerry smart phones across the United States and Canada. Officials with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless said BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. told them customers of all wirel

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HEMA

Officials say HEMA, Netherland's online version of Ikea, has developed massive inventory problems, crippling their web presence. [due to the website's design, you can watch the problems in real time as they develop]

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by Gene Bromberg (Ultimate Bet)

Of course we all know that the United States Trade Representative made a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada over America's ban on online gaming. What we didn't know were the terms of that deal. What concessions did the U.S. make

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www.khaleejtimes.com

Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables. However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were also affected. Now it is said to be 5 cables severed.

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Ed Brayton

[You] have no right to know how many billions of tax dollars they've spent with no legislative authorization in order to buy the cooperation of other nations and prevent American adults from gambling in the privacy of their own home.

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The Jerusalem Post.com

No ships were present when two marine cables carrying much of the Middle East's internet traffic were severed, announced Egypt's Ministry of Communications Sunday, contrary to earlier speculation....

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AP

At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide. Two cables that carry Internet traffic deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped, disrupting service Thursday across a swath of Asia and the Middle East.

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Yahoo News.com

An MIT initiative called "OpenCourseWare" makes virtually all the school's courses available online for free — lecture notes, readings, tests and often video lectures.

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Mike Dugger

Web sites come and web sites go, but with a little effort you can pull one out and show it off. Kind of like a grand parent’s brag book I suppose. Where were you when Republican’s were touting a Revolution instead of trying to quash one?

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CNET

There was a time--2004 to be precise--when spam "only" consumed 70 percent of all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as Barracuda Networks' annual spam report shows, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam. In 2001, the nu

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PC World

An early municipal Wi-Fi network in Tempe, Arizona, has only 500 subscribers, but it may have a buyer. A mobile operator, Telscape, wants to buy the 40-square-mile network, which consists of about 1,000 access points in a mesh. With the proper mar

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The Agitator

Another broadly-written bill would expand asset forfeiture laws to include copyright violations. Scary passage summarized by CNET: "Any computer or network hardware used to 'facilitate' a copyright crime could be seized by the Justic

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