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Submission + - Update on the Steam Hacked story

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19, 2007 @05:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: 1UP has an awesome story on the whole Steam being hacked news. They spoke with the hacker, a software security expert, and Valve itself to get the full story. "This looks real to me," said the security expert. "He found a way into [Valve's] Cyber Caf é software." Possibly concerning? "I don't know yet what I am going to do with all the information...yet," said the hacker.

Submission + - Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04, 2007 @03:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: Desperate to hire more engineers and sales representatives to staff its rapidly growing search and advertising business, Google — in typical eccentric fashion — has created an automated way to search for talent among the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month. It is starting to ask job applicants to fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03goo gle.html?em&ex=1168059600&en=4c26f1e0ca0babfd&ei=5 087%0A

Flash Memory HDD for Notebooks Launched 277

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 04, 2007 @02:55PM from the now-put-them-in-ipods-please dept.

ukhackster writes "Traditional magnetic hard drive platters could be on the way out, thanks to SanDisk's launch today of a hard drive based on flash memory chips. The device can store 32GB of data and is meant for notebooks . SanDisk claims that using flash chips means faster access and better reliability, so less danger of a serious system crash wiping out all your valuable data if you drop your laptop. The downside, though, is price. At an extra $600 dollars, are price-conscious consumers going to be interested?"

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