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The Great Russia Hack 2: How’d They Do It?
Forget what you know about hacking. Nation-state hackers work at an entirely different level. Imagine that you get hacked - the bad guys get the password to your mailbox, say. The next step for most hacking attacks is that the bad guys do something that you will...
DELL BATTERY RECALL
Dell has announced a recall of 4.1 million notebook batteries because of a production flaw that can result in sudden fires. Six Dell notebooks have exploded or burst into flames,...
AUTO-COMPLETE ADDRESSES IN OUTLOOK
When you type a name into the TO: field in a new e-mail message, Outlook looks it up and completes it automatically, if possible.It doesn't look where you think.The list that...
BLOGGING GROWS AND GROWS
Are you reading blogs? Are you contributing to one? Time to get busy, according to this report on the state of the blogosphere. Technorati is currently tracking 50 million...
CORY DOCTOROW ON DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Cory Doctorow, one of the chief contributors to popular web site BoingBoing.net, has written a compelling article about digital rights management for Information Week. It's a...
COLOR LASERS FOR SMALL OFFICES
HP's entry level color laser printer is down to three hundred dollars. The cost of printing a monochrome page on a color laser is the same as printing the same page on a...
ERGONOMICS
As we use our computers more every day, I'm seeing more people looking into ergonomic devices, either because they're already suffering from repetitive stress injury or they want...
MCAFEE SUBSCRIPTION SECURITY SERVICE
Windows Live OneCare continues to be one of the most satisfying products in years - the design is elegant and glitches have been few and far between.For that reason, I don't...
WINDOWS DEFENDER UPDATE
Windows Defender is Microsoft's antispyware program - highly recommended for all computers running Windows XP.Windows Live OneCare is supposed to take over operation of Windows...
NET NEUTRALITY
The telcos and cable companies are close to completing their attempt to take over the Internet. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) almost pushed through legislation that would allow...
ELECTRIC SHEEP
Remember when screensavers were cool? If you're an old-timer, you just thought of flying toasters.This article describes an intriguing screensaver project. The "Electric Sheep"...
AT&T TEAMS WITH WILDBLUE FOR SATELLITE BROADBAND
Broadband Internet access by satellite has been available for years, but it's never been very appealing. Only the truly desperate signed up with Hughes - horrible speeds,...
WINDOWS MOBILE TAKING OVER HANDHELD MARKET
This article highlights a startling statistic - sales of Windows Mobile-equipped handheld devices grew by 90% last year. Not that long ago, the Palm-based Treo 650 was the only...
MICROSOFT PORTABLE MUSIC PLAYER
The tech press is all atwitter over the announcement that Microsoft plans to release a handheld music player to compete with the iPod. Microsoft will be competing with Creative...
DRM HISTORY AND HACKING
Content creators and publishers are engaged in nonstop efforts to lock down the products you purchase from them. This is a fascinating article about the history of digital rights...
UNEXPECTED RESTART
Anybody else get a notice at a random moment in the last couple of days that Windows had installed an update and intended to restart in ten minutes? It was clearly a legitimate...