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Google antitrust probe: Is Microsoft the puppetmaster?

"It appears that our large competitors are injecting themselves into complaints by smaller firms against Google, likely in order to learn more about our business practices and use that information to develop a broader antitrust complaint against us," Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich told seattlepi.com. Microsoft denied to comment specifically on the Texas investigation, though a source said the company has not received any formal requests for information from the attorney general s office. (No formal request is needed -- investigators can call

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General Hugh Shelton Elected Chairman of Red Hat Board of Directors

Red Hat, Inc., the world s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced General H. Hugh Shelton (U.S. Army Retired) has been elected to serve as chairman of Red Hat s board of directors. A member of Red Hat s board of directors since April 2003, General Shelton previously held the position of Lead Director and currently serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees. He succeeds Matthew Szulik, former Red Hat CEO. "General Shelton is an individual of the utmost integrity. He has

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Rather Than Whine About Used Markets, Why Not Enable Them Yourself?

We were recently talking about how so many in the video game industry seem so antagonistic to the used video game market, despite widespread evidence that a healthy secondary market helps the primary market in a variety of ways. Reader Johnny points us to the news that retailing giant Ikea is now planning to experiment with used goods sales itself via a website in Sweden. The company says that it won t make much money from the offering, but

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Security vendor demonstrates insider attack on VMware ESX

The VMware ESX hypervisor could let IT staff steal sensitive data by abusing administrative access, particularly if customers fail to implement role-based access controls, the security vendor BeyondTrust argued last week at VMworld. IT staff with root access to VMware ESX can steal virtual machine disk files and then erase log files and other traces of the illicit activity by manipulating the service console, a Linux-based instance that manages the VMware hypervisor, BeyondTrust says. This could make it easy to steal

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DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network

The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, monitors the Einstein intrusion-detection sensors on nonmilitary government networks, and helps other civil agencies respond to hack attacks. It also issues alerts on the latest software security holes, so that everyone from the White House to the FAA

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UK MPs to hold emergency debate on phone hacking

The Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure as it was announced

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Using Python to Encode Cassette Recordings for my Superboard II

Since the only input port available on the machine was a cassette audio port, the proposition seemed simple enough: could I write a Python script to convert a normal text file into a WAV audio file that when played, would upload the contents of the text file into the Superboard II? Obviously, the answer is yes, but let s look at the details. - Dabeaz

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Court Says Govt May Need To Get A Warrant To Get Cell Phone Location Data

Considering that our government has regularly abused requirements for oversight and due process in getting private data about people, it s always nice to see the courts push back at least some of the time. The latest is that an appeals court has ruled that a court can deny the government s request for cell phone location data if the government fails to show probable cause. The

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Report Released by BP Reveals Causes of Gulf Oil Spill

A four-month investigation shows that poor decision-making and judgement led to the explosion

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Dev Team Says Don’t Accept iOS 4.1, “It’s a Trap!”

The infamous iPhone Dev Team has updated its blog to advise the jailbreak community against installing iOS 4.1, in case Apple decides to finally release the software update today. iOS 4.1 is the first major update to iOS 4, adding new iTunes features, Game Center, HDR photography, and more, for iPhone and iPod touch users. Restoring to the new software should also cancel any current jailbreak or unlock hacks users may have enabled on their devices, hence the Dev Team’s latest blog

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