Archive for December 10, 2007

U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com for purchasing records

Newly unsealed court records have revealed that the U.S. government issued a subpoena to Amazon.com seeking to obtain the identities of customers purchasing books through the Amazon marketplace.

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Top 10 Worst Computer Worms of All Time

The Internet is an Internet lover’s paradise, a gamer’s haven, a business’s lifeline, and a hacker’s playground. Over the past two decades, hundreds of worms have devastated the infrastructure of millions of computers around the world, causing billions of dollars of damage-and the life of the worm is far from over.

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The Pirate Bay Launches Last.fm Powered Music Section

The Pirate Bay just launched their new music section where artists are categorized utilizing tagging data from the popular music community, last.fm. Together with the previously released music discovery feature, it makes it easier than ever to

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Picasa 2.7 for Linux

Google has a preview release of Picasa 2.7 for Linux. The previous version launched last year didn’t include the features from Picasa 2.5+ for Windows (like the Picasa Web integration), so this is a good opportunity to add these features to Linux. Here’s what is new in Picasa 2.7 for Linux

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AdBlock for Safari 3 with Leopard support.

This is the first Safari 3 AdBlock plugin that I have found to have support for Leopard.

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Ubuntu 7.10 on PS3

Here’s how you get Ubuntu 7.10 to run on PlayStation 3

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New Aibo PS3, PSP Compatible?

The Aibo PS will appear with its own avatar within Home and react in the real world as he does in the PS3’s upcoming interactive environment, according to the article. The rumor article goes on to say that you will be able to download new personalities for the dog from the Playstation Network and that the dog will be fully controllable using a PSP

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Huge ‘Ocean’ Discovered Inside Earth

Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.

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New TF2 Stats Released by Valve (Including death heat maps)

TF2 includes a reporting mechanism which tells us details about how people are playing the game. We’re sharing the data we collect because we think people will find it interesting, and because we expect to spot emergent problems earlier, and ultimately build better products and experiences as a result.

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Firefox 3 beta goes portable

Want to test out Firefox 3 beta without messing up all of your precious Firefox 2 settings? Easy, just install the portable version.

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Why Portal is perfect

“If you’ve read the discussion GamesRadar had with several mag editors, you’ll know how most journalists feel about ‘perfect’ games and ‘perfect’ scores. Short version - such a thing doesn’t exist. But I don’t agree. And here’s why I reckon Portal is perfection…”

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