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A hacker who identified himself as “Anonymous Coward’’ stole personal data of 6 million Chileans _ reportedly including a daughter of the president _ and posted it briefly on the Internet, authorities said Sunday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border. The documents — more …
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Former space shuttle payload specialist Ronald Parise died at his home in Silver Springs, Md., Friday after a three-year battle with brain cancer. He was 56. An astronomer and computer specialist, Parise was a developer of the UltraViolet Imaging …
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Social networking sites posing data dilemma?Dubuque Telegraph Herald - 41 minutes agoBy Martha Irvine AP CHICAGO — Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can.Google to […]
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Apple Is Far Behind In The Environmental RaceeFluxMedia - 42 minutes agoBy Michael Todd According to Climate Counts, a nonprofit group, Apple trails far behind when it comes to climate friendliness. The environmental group, funded by organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, used publically available information in order to …Environmental Group Hits Apple InformationWeekApple Slammed on […]
In the movies, a corporate insider secretly transfers millions of dollars to a Swiss bank account via computer, then cleverly covers his tracks. But Jason Bergerson, of computer search firm Kroll Ontrack in Eden Prairie, is a data detective who finds …
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A minivan crossed an interstate median, flipped and was hit by another vehicle in western Pennsylvania, killing six of seven people on board, state police said Sunday. After the van came to rest, it was hit by an oncoming car, whose driver was …
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Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspectsCNET News.com - 1 hour agoA remote desktop access feature found in some Macintoshes is being credited with leading police to two suspects in the burglary of an apartment in New York.Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects New York TimesStolen laptop is Apple of her eye Boston HeraldFOXNews - AHN - […]
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) — A minivan crossed an interstate median, flipped and was hit by another vehicle in western Pennsylvania, killing six of seven people on board, state police said Sunday. After the van came to rest, it was hit by an …
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Making Facebook safer for childrenTewksbury Advocate - 46 minutes agoAttorney General Martha Coakley’s Office and 49 other Attorneys General this week reached an agreement with Facebook to better protect children from predators and inappropriate content on its Web site.Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web CNET News.comCan Facebook Build a Better Passport? New York […]
There’s been no shortage of opinion about what went wrong with Microsoft’s “failed” $47.5-billion takeover of Yahoo (I’m hedging because a lot of people still think the deal could go through, once cooler heads prevail). But amid all the analysis and …
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Michael Richardson, center, and his mother, Betty Lawson, right, carry a crib from Richardson’s home in Picher, Okla., Sunday, May 11, 2008, as his sister, Corissa Lawson, looks on at left. Richardson’s home was destroyed by a tornado Saturday …
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Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border. Ecuadorian soldiers look at weapons and equipment …
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DETROIT - A minivan carrying a group of Indian computer programmers and their wives on the way to a Niagara Falls vacation flipped and crashed in western Pennsylvania, killing six of seven people on board, officials say. The programmers worked for …
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The voice that launched a thousand trips — on Thursday alone — was about to launch another. Sheila Herriott, sitting in a dimly lighted control room with a microphone in her hand and hundreds of commuters at her beck and call, spoke in a throaty …
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