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EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding
Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites
G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip
Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd?
State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online
Toshiba Going After Blu-ray?
Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy
Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction
Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans
Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM
Psystar Will Countersue Apple
Knights Templar Sue the Pope
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015
Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!
Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites
Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVDs by Year End
Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori?
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL
Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution
Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia
Should IT Unionize?
Lessig Bets On the Net To Clean Up Government
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change
Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot
IsoHunt Petitions Canadian Court For Copyright Blessing
New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google
China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air
Command Line Life Partner Wanted
Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
Microsoft Working On "Post-Windows" Cloud Computing OS
NASA Plans Probe to the Sun
Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search
China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City
Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key
Kernel Builders Appeal For Open Source Drivers
LGP To Introduce Game Copy Protection
MPAA Wants To Prevent Recording Movies On DVRs
MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates
McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly
NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
Nvidia Rumored To Be Readying X86 Chip Release
Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles
Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn
Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th
30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging
AMD Wants to Standardize PC Gaming
Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers
Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court
Getting The Public To Listen To Good Science
How Can Nerds Make a Difference In November?
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
NZ Judge Bans Online Publishing of Accuseds' Names
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System
Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies?
Successful Moonlighting For Geeks?
Will Amazon Get a Visit From the Tax Man?
A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers
Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Microsoft Decides To Take On Linux On Low-Cost PCs
RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud
Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA
Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies
Will DRM Exterminate Spore?
Bill Gates Calls for a 'Kinder Capitalism'
Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss
Linux Foundation - We'd Love to Work with Microsoft
MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA
Newspaper Ad Network Shuns Google, Yahoo, MS
Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning?
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
Don't Count Cobol Out
EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion
FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access
GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case
HP May Be Developing Its Own Version of Linux
How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution
How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam?
IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem
New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced
New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy
Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Sci-Fi Channel Merging TV Show with MMO
Senators OK $1 Billion for Online Child Porn Fight
Sequoia Threatens Over Voting Machine Evaluation
Sony CTO Starts New "Buy Once, Play Anywhere" Group
Study Suggests Music Industry Embrace Piracy
U. Maine Law Students Trying To Shut RIAA Down
US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement
Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience
Washingtonpost.com Wants Identities of Posters
Would You Rent a Song For a Dime?
A Chinese Challenge To Intel
California Lawmaker Proposes Music Download Tax
Courts May Revisit Software Patents
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
EU Wants Removable Batteries In iPhones
Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea
Google Scoops Microsoft w/ Mesh Applications
Massive WiMax Network for India
McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire
PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat
Public Request For Microsoft To Release Deprecated File Formats
RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied
RealNetworks To Introduce a Simple DVD Copier
Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival
Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware
Why Microsoft Won't Have Blu-ray on the Xbox
20 Features Windows 7 Should Include
A Copyright Cop In Every Zune
A Tech Lover's Call to Arms
Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction
Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs
Best Buy + Windows Guru = Apple Store Experience?
Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider
Blu-ray Gone In Five Years, Samsung Claims
Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net
City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website
Dealing With a GPL Violation?
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
Fire Your IT Boss
Fresh Air For Windows?
Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids
How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7
How Nvidia Wants To Bring 3D Glasses Back
ISPs To Filter Traffic For Copyright Holders?
Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista
Leaked ACTA Treaty to Outlaw P2P?
Linux Foundation Promises LSB4
MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China
P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments
PhD Research On Software Design Principles?
Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen?
Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone?
Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names
Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use
Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney
Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet
RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM
Blockbuster Working on Set-Top Box
Consumer Groups Advocate for 'Do Not Track' Registry
Fixing US Broadband Would Cost $100 Billion
New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced
Red Hat Seeks Limits on Software Patents
U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders
UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools'
Vista Service Pack One Almost Here
What the MPAA Still Isn't Telling Us
"Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced
3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review
A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw
A Windows CE Shell For Netbooks
Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third-Party Systems
Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate
Amusement Park Bans PDAs and Smartphones
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer
Best Buy Coughs Up $54 Million For Napster
Canada Considering A Three Strikes And You're Off The Internet Policy?
Canadians Organizing a Rally For Net Neutrality
Chinese Professor Sues Google, Yahoo Over Search Exclusion
Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty
De Icaza Pleads For Mono/.Net Cooperation
Dell Tries To Trademark "Cloud Computing"
DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone
Doctorow Tears Up ISP Contract Over Net Neutrality
Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded
FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel
Free Games As a Solution To Game Piracy
Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com
HD Radio Recording In the US?
Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins
How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft?
How Do You Find Programming Superstars?
How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism?
IE 8 To Include New Security Tools
IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker
ISO Calls For OOXML Ceasefire
Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores"
Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced
Inventor to Launch Pop Bottle Rocket into Space
Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat
MPAA Plans To Launch Movie Links Site
MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems
MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com
McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate
Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription
Microsoft Says Not All Ad Clicks Are Created Equal