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Cigarette smoke could void your Apple Warranty

Siverlight develops a Windows Bias

Lawyers want banned Xbox livers to file Class Action

MS Denies NSA Backdoor

Why IE9 is going to cause a lot of frustration

AOL asks for 2500 redundancy volunteers

Twitter says Murdoch should be more open

MS ordered to stop selling XP in China

Are Microsoft to blame for hidden malware costs?

SSL Renegotiation Bug Exploited

Keyless Win 7 Actiation possible

MS admits GPL bviolation

MS to open Win 7 Themes for advertising

Win 7 DoS Flaw Uncovered

Attackers use Twitter to conceal Drive by downloads

Commentard loses Anonymity

Youtube trials skippable ads

US Patent system could hang on one ruling

Changes to Libel law requested

Flash AhAhhhh

New rootkit protection

MS Violate GPL Again

How malware can seriously ruin your life

Mandriva 2010 Released

Worms returning

Southwark Council Sues IBM

TalkTalk to challenge Disconnection plans in Court

Government to clarify Copyright Extensions with Model Contracts

Ignoring P2Pers costing Music Biz dearly

Another Drugs advisor quits

Gmail Outage

Cannabis Advisor sacked

Facebook Scammer fined 711 Million Dollars

Norway warns Amazon about Kindle

Value of Copper Rises

A report on Climate Fools Day

Facebook to share more user data with Advertisers

UK gets last warning over Phorm

Stating the bleeding obvious about size 0 girls

Win 7 Ad not sincere

Arnie fires fantastic F*ck you

Dont Disconnect Us

Mandy Still Wants to Disconnect People

Koala due for release in 2 Days

The French get something right

Bloggers complain about non existent tax change

MS pull out of Family Guy

Games Developers want Tax breaks

US DoD Corrects a few open source myths

China accuses Google of Censorship

Idiot musicians sue Google again

Danger lurks in the clouds

Mckinnon case put on hold pending investigation

LHC Cooling Begins

Don't use Windows for Internet Banking

Compulsory IWF Plans Dropped

TalkTalk demonstrate stupidty of Filesharing Disconnections

Stripsearch scanner in Manchester Trial

Snow Leopard causing massive data losses

Hack Idol coming soon

China bans foreign companies from online game scene

Latest iPhone OS Jailbroken

NASA hits the moon with LCROSS

Ralph Lauren cops to Photoshop cock up

Drowing Dog CO2 cost 6Million

Patent Troll brings new suit

Paypal banishes White hat

Neutrons could be used to communicate with subs

Remote Controlled Beetles

Evolutionary image banned from school as religous

Software owned not licensed

Hotmail users fall for Phishing attack

ICAAN becomes independant of US Govt

Americans reject behavioural advertising

National ID to get nice cartoon advert

Phishing hits 2 year high

France OKs Three Strike Law

Bank sends confidential data to Gmail account

Broadband Tax to become law before election

Tweeting Medics breaching Patient Confidentiality

DoJ urges court to reject Googlebooks Pact

Google to allow crawling of Google Apps Documents

Facebook hacking service probably a scam

Windows 7 Sins goes Global

Scammers pose as BT and Ofcom

Two Year hole in Yahoo Webmail remains unfixed

Stop Phoul Play drops off the Interwebs

Ex BT Chief Quits Phorm

RBS WoldPay downplay security issue

Turing gets PostHumous Apology

Sky Petition Defaced

Some Twitterers Sad pathetic and downright dangerous

Filesharing figures unreliable

Incompetence bigger security risk than Malign users

Lad gets certificate for boarding bus

DDoS Target Blogger blames Kremlin

Malaysia considering Green Dam Twin

New Eco TLD to come in 2010

Tree Huggers suggest peeing in shower

Copyright Cops raid Filesoup

Obamas Cybersecurity Director Quits

Scareware mimics BSOD

Tenebaum receives 700000 Dollar fine

MS update breaks Office for Mac

Smartphones still susceptible to SMS attack

Mckinnon loses appeal

EU and US to renegotiate bank scrutiny deal

Windows 7 Activation Code leaked

Guinness Is Good For You

Pirate Bay faces new challenge

Star Trek metal brought to life

ASDA tries to avoid breaking the law. Father complains

MS suggests Ballot screen

Pirate Bay still controversial

Karoo disconnecting suspected priates without due process

Police and ISP cock up leads to Innocent being called a pedophile

7 ready for RTM apparantly

Adobe Flash Attack in the Wild

Redmond almost closes SoapBox

MS Open Source Release due to GPL Violation

Top CCTV Cop wants no more cameras

Music Industry drops a disk over jukeboxes

New XSS Attack Vector

MS GPL 20000 Lines of Kernel Code

Visa Bills Teenagers 23 Quadrillion Dollars

O2 Withdraw the TG01 after Malware is discovered

New Zealand to begin Net Censorship

MS announce free web based Office

State Deot Workers ask Clinton for Firefox

Eavesdropping Keystrokes through the mains

BT Dumps Phorm

Governments should not try to restrict web

Taxpayer Money Wasted on Bloggers

Swiss Gov allowed to buy MS Software

Mcaffe Knackers Windows Computers Across the Globe

Can Ringtones be Classed as Public Performances

Virtually embezzled cash exchanged for 6300 AUD

MS Considering Next OSS Excursion

Apple Patenting Improved Karaoke Singing

MySpace not liable for Pedophiles

iPhone Remote Exploit using SMS

Green Dam Ships

Bing Indexing Twitter in Real-Time

DVD Sales Plunge

Spam Levels Climb back up

MS Withdraw vomit ad

Twits can buy followers of their tweets

Green Dam not being Demolished

More Innocents Accused of Filesharing

Media Defender Advertising Copyrighted Content Via P2P

Green Dam getting netizens riled

TPB to pay Filesharers

Greek Anti-Smoking Legislation Unlikely to be Obeyed

Kaspersky allowed to classify Zango as Undesirable

Mobile Networks Incapable of Net Snooping

Solving Routing Problems when Disaster Strikes

Mobile Pollution Sensors Deployed

Pirate Bay DDoSd as Sellout accusations fly

China delays Green Dam

Idiot condems Password Masking

Swedish Child Porn was Hidden

Stallman criticises the use of Mono in Debian

Obama goes Flash

Long live Medea

Europeans more sugar sensitive

BioFuels to clean up Chernobyl fallout

A 1200 Dollar Toaster

Google Mocks Bing

Net gives Pirate Radio the last laugh

Using Trustees to harden Webmail Security

How talentless celebs stay famous

Consumers don't know the difference between a notebook and a netbook

Social Networking Sites are Data Controllers

Bank Charges case goes to House of Lords

KCOM outsources Network Infrastructure to BT

Streamed music could be added to Top 40

Cashpoints to become Wireless Access Points

Florida workers must wear underwear

Inside the iPhone 3G

Microsoft set up ten grand IE Treasure hunt

Ballmer not overconfident about Bing

Parcelforce becomes latest dataleak

12 Year Old allowed to play GTA, father upset when he finds ecstasy

Phorm burns 15 Mil in 12 Months

MS Still havent closed Januarys Win 7 Vuln

SCO not quite dead yet

Couple begin legal battle against automatic lights on grounds of religous discrimination

Carter adds Broadband Tax to cost of Phone Line

ISPs Common Carrier Status Weakening

RyanAir requires Web check in and then takes site down

Green Dam also contains stolen OSS code

Green Dam contains stolen code

Microsoft Fanboy wants Opera Boycott

Linux first to support USB 3.0

Behind Microsofts Internet Explorer Ploy

The real reason Phorm got 76% Approval for Discover

More Mac Malware

Phorm adds more polish to its turd

For better or worse, Pricewerts LLC Links cut

Ballmer and Obama clash over taxes

Twitter filled with Micro-blog junk

Microsoft Sues John Does for cheating Bribery Machine

The BBC plugs an otherwise Interesting article with Climate Change - Again!

Douglas Bader to be honoured with a blue plaque

Women have never had it so good

Netbook Windows 7 will run more than 3 apps concurrently No Media though

Microsoft and Asus launch Linux Netbook Smear Campaign

Video over IP coming to Xbox

Areas with lowest Broadband speeds revealed

Ex BBC Science Man Slams Corp

How to fit 300 DVDs onto one disk

Couple given 10 Mil and flee New Zealand

Ex NebuAd Staff Target Websites

BBC Hacks again, but gets permission

Government Responds to Phorm petition

Security flaw found in Open SSH

Credit Management meets Computer Automation

BBC Tech Boss wants to expand TV Licence Online

Microsoft leave Macs at risk

PRS Study suggests that P2P should be embraced

Fetish Club Scanning Prompts Major CLimb Down

Film and Music Industry give Lord Carter some questionable figures

Fantastic Response to Pirate Bay Trial

Overly broad law convicts Swinger of Hacking

Davenport Lyons drops Harrasment letters

Two Cultures of Internet User

Facebook Denies Denying Holocaust Deniers

US Journalism school lists Iphone as a requirement

How Damaging is File Sharing

Calls to cut off File Sharers, Again

Conficker Hype Obscures botnet growth

Apple brands The Sun as Pornography

GCHQs Non Denial Denial

Obama declares war on Tax Havens

IP Infringement Fines to increase Tenfold

Torpig Hijacking Highlights 70GB of stolen Data

NoScript and Adblock Plus go to War

Apple upsets Nine Inch Nails

GCHQ Not planning to Monitor All Internet Usage

GCHQ measuring capacity of DPI Equipment in Metric Tonnes

EU Debates the validity of Software Patents

Windows XP Mode Reviewed

Police want Remote Hard Drive Search Powers

Virgin not backing out of Phorm Yet

IFPI Ddos'd in wake of TPB trial

Times Top 21 are marblecake, also the game

Wikimedia bans Phorm

Pirate bay founders found Guilty

Pirate Bay Verdict Due 11 Am Today

UK Scores an F for Users Copyrights

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