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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

October 5, 2011

R.I.P http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44794300/ns/business-us_business/t/visionary-apple-co-founder-steve-jobs-dies/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/steve-jobs-apple-computer-co-founder-dies/2010/09/21/gIQAc14aOL_story.html

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WikiLeaks

August 30, 2011

http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108261633859649536 Spiegel OnLine http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783084,00.html nakedsecurity http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/30/wikileaks-suffers-its-own-data-loss-incident/

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Wikipedia Losing Contributors

August 5, 2011

Speaking with The Associated Press, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the nonprofit company that runs the site is scrambling to simplify editing procedures in an attempt to retain volunteers.’ ‘We are not replenishing our ranks… It is not a crisis, but I consider it to be important.’ http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/2011/08/wikipedia-says-it-losing-contributors Comments at Slashdot. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/05/1621200/Wikipedia-Losing-Contributors-Says-Wales

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Patent War of Words

August 4, 2011

Tech Crunch Earlier today, Google came out swinging. Seemingly sick of being continuously slapped in the face by the patent issue, Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, wrote a blog post calling out several of Google’s rivals for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy Android. Chief among the rivals called out was [...]

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Spam by any other name

June 20, 2011

Two times now. No. http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/na-d.marketo.com

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50,000 BitTorrent users sued

June 10, 2011

Alleged illegal downloads Nearly 50,000 users of BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer downloading software have been targeted in a sting over the past few months, accused of illegally downloading one of two movies. Voltage Pictures, the studio behind 2009′s The Hurt Locker, is suing almost 25,000 BitTorrent users who allegedly illegally downloaded the flick. That came just weeks [...]

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AT&T T-Mobile merger

March 21, 2011

Joe Wilcox @ betanews As the new work week opens up, AT&T and T-Mobile USA customers have plenty to say about the proposed merger. Yesterday, Deutsche Telekom agreed to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T for $39 billion — $25 billion of it in cash. Last night I posted a long analysis about what the merger could [...]

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Play.com customer emails leaked?

March 21, 2011

That’s what people are asking. http://twitter.com/search?q=play.com%20spam http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3122462&page=3 http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/03/21/play-com-customer-emails-leaked.html

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Egypt Unplugged

January 28, 2011

The Wall Street Journal With events moving rapidly in Egypt, the Obama administration sharply shifted its tone Friday, expressing “deep concern” over “unfolding” actions and urging “open communications” after Egyptian President Hsni Mubarak shut down Internet and cell services in the world’s largest Arab country. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703956604576110010191338884.html Egypt Deploys Military On Cairo’s Streets KrebsOnSecurity I’ve been [...]

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Alleged Russian spam king held in US jail

December 6, 2010

Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year-old Muscovite arraigned Friday morning in Milwaukee, is being held without bail on federal charges. Brian Krebs, ‘Krebs on Security blog’ posted the criminal complaint (PDF) and updated his original article. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/111169714.html Nikolaenko pleaded not guilty.

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