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Submission + - $500 Million Dollars in Colonial Coins Found

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a modern day (and underwater) version of Indiana Jones, the AP is reporting (NYTimes, reg. or bugmenot required...) that Odyssey Marine Exploration has recovered an estimated $500 Million of colonial coins from a 400 year old shipwreck in the atlantic. The exact location of the wreck is still undisclosed. Odyssey is a for-profit, publicly traded company. One wonders how well they treated the ship archeologically in their rush to extract the valuable currency.

Feed AT&T names new CEO: Randall Stephenson (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We don't expect any but the most devoted of telecom nerds to know the name of Ed Whitacre, long time CEO to AT&T -- now America's largest communications business (so far as we know). Well, at this point all you really need to know about the man is as of June 3rd he's stepping down, and a new chap by the name of Randall Stephenson, Whitacre's "understudy" and AT&T COO, is set to step up. We'll save you the corporate backstory here (that's what Wikipedia is for, or, if you've got the subscription, follow our link to The Journal), but all we can say is we sure do hope when we settle down our retirement package is at nearly $160 mil, like Whitacre's. Ed, baby, we're free for lunch -- it's on you, though. [Warning: link requires subscription]

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Feed ChangeLog: HP clarifies warranty under Linux (slashdot.org)

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We received the following today by email from Hewlett Packard, which clarifies their warranty policy for customers running Linux on HP hardware, at least in the specific case we reported on recently.
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Submission + - France opens secret UFO files spanning 50 years

Submitted by Radon360
Radon360 writes: PARIS (AFP) — France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists. Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption.

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