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Submission + - Facebook Assists Israel to Blacklist Air Traveller (google.com)

Submitted by Jeremiah Cornelius
Jeremiah Cornelius writes: According to a report by the Associated Press, protesters have been stopped in their tracks after Facebook aided Israel in cracking down on the group of activists from the UK, France and Belgium who planned their event using the popular social networking site. Facebook allowed government agents to track the activists activities and then create a black-list of people who participated in the planning of the protests. The black-listed group was then forwarded to airlines with instructions to prevent the activists from boarding air flights to Israel. Over 200 activists were prevented from flying after being added to the airlines terrorism watch list, according the the AP report. Was Julian Assange correct, when he warned that Facebook was a giant, 'appalling spy machine'?
Apple

Submission + - NYC 'Artist' visited by Secret Service

Submitted by oxide7
oxide7 writes: A New York City "artist," who installed spyware onto public computers to snap photos of customers in Apple stores was visited by US Secret Service this week. Kyle McDonald used the built-in cameras on Macbooks and other Apple products to capture images of about 1,000 people as they examined new Apple computers.
Politics

Submission + - Double Jeopardy Loophole: Anthony Can Be Re-Tried (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Mortamer2k
Mortamer2k writes: "To recap: we have a Florida prosecution in a Florida Court for Florida crimes. Because the Supreme Court has decreed that the United States has its own interest in prosecuting violations of its laws, Casey Anthony may not be safe from a re-trial for murder by a federal prosecutor in a federal court for federal crimes." Double Jeopardy does not apply just because it is the same "criminal conduct" because the state is a sovereign and distinct government from the federal government.
Security

Submission + - Malware Deniers (mrpogson.com)

Submitted by iiiears
iiiears writes: Ed Bott has been around a while. He did some useful work tracking down a report that 50% of PCs in the world were infected with malware.
AI

Submission + - IBM Watson to replace salespeople and cold-callers (extremetech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After conquering Jeopardy! and making inroads into the diagnosis of medical maladies, IBM's next application for Watson is improving sales and customer support. Companies will be able to simply fill Watson (or rather, DeepQA) with domain-specific information about products and services, and sit back as it uses its natural language processing skills to answer the queries of potential customers.

The potential benefits are huge. Watson could either augment existing sales and support teams, or replace them entirely.

Also, in a beautiful and self-fulfilling twist, the first application of this re-purposed Watson will be be internally, at IBM, to help sell more IBM Watsons to other companies...
Technology

Submission + - JAILBREAKME 3.0 RELEASED TODAY! (blogspot.com)

Submitted by FizzaNawaz
FizzaNawaz writes: Comex has just released the impatiently awaited JailbreakMe 3.0 for iPad 2 and iOs 4.3.3 Earlier we posted about the leaked version of JailbreakMe 3.0 which was leaked by MultimediaWill. He has apologized to Comex
and also deleted the YouTube videos and the files.

JailbreakMe 3.0 which has ben released today works on all iOs devices such as iPhone 4, iPhone 3Gs, iPad 1, iPad 2, iPod touch 3G and iPod touch 4G.

Thanks to Comex, Chpwn, Saurik and others in Jailbreaking community.

Submission + - Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Steve Green writes that on June 20 District Court Judge Philip Pro found that Kentucky resident Wayne Hoehn was protected by fair use in posting a Las Vegas Review-Journal column on a sports website; and that Righthaven didn’t have standing to sue over the post. Now Hoehn’s attorneys have submitted a $34,000 bill to Pro and asked that Judge Pro require Righthaven to pay it. "At this point, the court must consider whether to grant Hoehn his attorneys’ fees as a `prevailing party,’” his attorneys wrote of the Vietnam War veteran. "If the court fails to do so, a terrible injustice will be done, and the moral of Mr. Hoehn’s story will be that standing up for what is right will bankrupt you – so better to give your money to any bully with a summons in hand. The fact is, when Mr. Hoehn stood up for fair use, he stood up for all of us. His contribution to the public good should not be met with indifference." The $34,000 could be just the tip of the iceberg for Righthaven, should the Democratic Underground prevail in what likely will be a far larger fee demand. At least three other defendants whose cases were dropped or dismissed – Brian Hill, Michael Leon and Denise Nichols – are also demanding their fees be paid."

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