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Lawmakers,
U.S. attorney join HP leak probe House committee and Department of Justice each investigate the methods Hewlett-Packard used to nab the source of media leaks. |
Video
blogger gets two days to return to prison Josh Wolf now has more time to spread the word about what he calls an assault on First Amendment rights. |
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Federal
judge orders halt to NSA spy program Warrantless surveillance program authorized by Bush administration is ruled unconstitutional and must cease immediately. 
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Controversial
spy bill advances in Senate Civil liberties groups and Democrats argue a new bill extends its blessing to an unchecked surveillance regime. |
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Google
forms political action committee Company says it wants to strengthen political influence on decisions Washington makes regarding the Internet. |
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Electric
sports car packs a punch, but will it sell? Tesla's Roadster is quick and quiet off the line, but customers must weigh its price against the rising cost of gas. |
Off
to the eco-races, with fuel cells Dutch company Formula Zero is on a barnstorming mission to get fuel cells into go karts--and then into big-time race cars.
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Homeland
Security: Fix your Windows In rare alert, department urges people to plug a worm hole in the Microsoft operating system as soon as possible. >>> C|Net | Read full story
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Homeland
Security: Fix your Windows In rare alert, department urges people to plug a worm hole in the Microsoft operating system as soon as possible. |
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FCC
pushes for broadband over power lines Regulators say they're trying to address interference concerns while encouraging rollout of alternative to cable, DSL.>>> C|Net | Read full story
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Feds
appeal loss in NSA wiretap case Bush administration asks the 9th Circuit to halt a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of illegally opening its network to the NSA. |
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Perspectives
Net
neutrality or Net censorship?ACLU's Caroline Fredrickson says Dick Armey's criticism of the Christian Coalition misses the point.
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Senator
blasts Homeland Security's Net efforts Sen. Tom Coburn says government still isn't ready to handle a "cyber Katrina," calls for immediate change. |
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Attorney
general: Bush blocked review of spy program Alberto Gonzales also presses for controversial law that would permit secret court to review NSA spy program. |
Attack
code puts Windows PCs at risk Two new exploits that could help hackers create attacks have been released onto the Internet. |
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Microsoft:
Here's how to halt WGA alerts Legal experts think popular video-sharing site obeys law but could still face court challenges to its growing business.
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News.com Extra
Surfing
the Web with nothing but brainwavesAlso: Campaign '08 preview: Podcasting politicians Read it now... |
WGA
'spyware' lawsuits against Microsoft probably meritless On the heels of what I believe can best be described as a faux pas on Microsoft's behalf (and I've already said as much), the Redmond, WA-based company is now the subject of two separate class-action suits due to the behavior of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software. But the lawyers and others who have it in for Microsoft shouldn't get their hopes up. While the company could have done a much better job rolling WGA out, mediocrity and typos -- ultimately the source of all the consternation in this case -- are probably not enough for Microsoft's foes to win financial judgements against the Redmond,WA-based company. 
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House
votes yes on Net-gambling crackdown Republicans win approval of controversial bill, calling online gambling a "scourge," warning of wireless betting.
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Critics
blast bill proposing NSA spy changes Civil liberties advocates say a draft bill developed by the Bush administration and a Senate Republican is a "sham." |
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Senator
falls into Net neutrality misinformation trap |
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House
panel votes for Net neutrality In surprise result, handful of Republicans joins Democrats in voting for antidiscrimination bill backed by Net companies.
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Sen.
Clinton: Feds must help parents on video games Hillary Clinton, a longtime critic of video games, calls on the government to do more to find out how electronic media harms kids. |
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Defense
agency to use Microsoft's Virtual Earth ISP
snooping plans take backseat Antispammer
surrenders to spammer |
Web
inventor says brainchild ready for big leap If cybercrime and anticompetitive behavior are kept in check, collaboration on Net should soar, say Tim Berners-Lee. Word
flaw used in cyberattack waits for fix Online
gamblers targeted by scams |
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Appeals
court takes dim view of Net-tapping rules Panel suggests FCC can't order wiretapping backdoors for ISPs, but Net phone companies may be covered. 
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Net
neutrality missing from sweeping telecom bill Draft represents the most significant rewrite of laws dealing with video, satellite and broadband communications in 10 years. |
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Bill
aims to school judges in patent law Politicians call for decade-long "pilot programs" designed to expand expertise among federal judges handling the thorny cases.
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Bush,
senators grapple over taps Senators promise hearings after report of millions of Americans' phone records being given to the NSA.
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Videocast:
Electric car: victim of hit-and-run?"Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a documentary set to hit theaters this summer. The film's makers trace the rise and disappearance of electric cars in California. Here's one man who owned General Motors' EV-1. Watch the videocast |
NSA
spying comes under legal, political attack Republican senator threatens to cut funding to Bush's surveillance program, while a federal judge sets a hearing date in related suit.
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U.S.
cybersecurity due for FEMA-like calamity? Security experts say Homeland Security's cybersecurity division ill-prepared to handle major cyberattack. Customers
squeezed, as ISPs close in on viruses
Security
tool aims to stop drive-by installs
Justifying
the Intel inside government contracts |
Democrats
pledge fight over Net neutrality House Democrats pledge to fight for FCC's right to regulate Internet. Meanwhile, a turf battle.
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Dan
Rather on the state of American media |
More News:
| Russia
dominates computer-programming contest Country takes four of the top 10 spots in the 2006 International Collegiate Programming Contest. A U.S. team slid in there, too.
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High-tech for border security
Thursday rally aims to 'save the Internet'
Online extortion battle takes a mortal hit
What if Microsoft was truly evil
Rootkit-spyware pusher ContextPlus shuts down
Final Vista prices? Don't buy that bogus list |
My
colleague George Ou clearly thinks the dirt he keeps finding under the
Craigslist/Net neutrality rug amounts to a story that's stranger than fiction.
Craigslist, despite being legimately stripped of its status as Net neutrality
poster child, is still being paraded around (now by a U.S. Senator, no less) as
an example of the evil that awaits us if something isn't done about neutrality.
Stranger than fiction? Politicians building their arguments on fictional
information and the media regurgitating those arguments sounds to me like
business as usual...