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Three people have died from rabies after receiving organ transplants from an infected donor, the first time the deadly disease has spread this way, reports the Houston Chronicle. An Arkansas man who had shown no symptoms of rabies, such as...
Social networking company Affinity Engines has filed a lawsuit alleging that Google engineer (and former Affinity employee) Orkut Buyukkokten stole code to create Google's Orkut social networking site. Wired News broke the story. The suit also alleges that Buyukkokten promised...
Reuters has a story today about an LA-based "Hacker College," where people pay 4K to learn how to be "ethical hackers."This is somewhat of an oxymoron, since the word "hacker" started out with only the most ethical of implications. I'm...
Great news, you net Libertarians! By a 5-to-4 majority, the US Supreme Court has thrown the 1998 Child Online Protection Act back to the lower courts, arguing that the law would dumb-down public speech on the Internet and force Web...
Movie director Sam Raimi, of Spider-Man fame, wants to set up time-lapse photography of American urban centers--for the next thousand years. Cameras centered above U.S. cities would take one picture every day at noon. In 1,000 years, people could watch...
Hundreds of websites have been targeted by a new virus that allows hackers to steal passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal information when users merely visit an infected site, according to this Washington Post story (free registration required). The...
An excellent op-ed by Paul Krugman recounts the story of William Krar, a terrorist who was discovered in April 2003 in Texas. (Krar was sentenced to 11 years in May, a point that Krugman forgot to make...)According to Krugman, "In...
Bloomba is a search-based email client that gives you all the power of gmail in a privacy-friendly, ad-free environment. It was recommended to me by my friend VB. He loves it. I'm just pleased that more developers are taking up...
You may know Orrin Hatch as that persnickety, Republican senator from Utah. Oh but this chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee is much, much more. He's the crooner behind albums including Heal Our Land, Freedom's Light, and Put Your Arms...
The good news is that the insider got caught! According to this AP news story, a 24-year-old man sold more than 92 million different AOL screen names to a spammer for $52,000. The list was then used for “marketing herbal...
