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Submission + - EFF stops accepting Bitcoin, regifts all donations (eff.org)

Submitted by Gendou on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:26AM

Gendou writes: The EFF issued a statement that it will no longer accept Bitcoin donations, has not used any of the donations, and will transfer all past donations to The Bitcoin Faucet. See additional forum threads here and here.

Submission + - Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans in Two Weeks (itworld.com)

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @09:39AM

itwbennett writes: "The rumors have converged and now it appears that Verizon will be dropping its unlimited data plans on July 7, says blogger Peter Smith. Droid-Life lists pricing, starting at 2 GB for $30/month and going up to 10 GB for $80/month. 'The one ever-so-slightly bright side,' says Smith, 'is that 4G LTE will cost the same as 3G. Of course, you'll be able to burn through your data even faster.'"

Submission + - Endeavour launch scrubbed for 48 hours

Submitted by shuz on Friday April 29, 2011 @12:22PM

shuz writes: At 10:15 am Eastern time the launch of Endeavour has been scrubbed for a minimum of 48 hours. The scrub is due to 2 failed Axillary Power Unit heaters.

Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops 294

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 20, 2007 @08:01PM from the cool-looking-paperweight dept.

Ian Lamont writes "A security researcher calling himself porkythepig has published attack code that can supposedly brick most HP and Compaq laptops. The exploit uses an ActiveX control in HP's Software Update. It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files, making the laptop unbootable, or with a little more effort, allow hacks that would result in a PC hijack or malware infection.' The same researcher last week outlined a batch of additional vulnerabilities in HP and Compaq laptops, for which HP later issued patches."

The Worst Bill You've Never Heard Of 630

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday June 06, 2006 @05:38AM from the double-dipping dept.

AWhiteFlame writes "IPAction.org is reporting on a section of the Reform Act of 2006 that's very shocking and surprisingly not that publicized. From the article: 'This will be a busy week in the House -- Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That's the way Big Copyright and their lackey's want it, and it's bad news for you. Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license.'"

Into the Core - Intel's New Core CPU 178

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 06, 2006 @09:28AM from the one-hard-core dept.

Tyler Too writes "Hannibal over at Ars Technica has an in-depth look at Intel's new Core processors. From the article: 'In a time when an increasing number of processors are moving away from out-of-order execution (OOOE, or sometimes just OOO) toward in-order, more VLIW-like designs that rely heavily on multithreading and compiler/coder smarts for their performance, Core is as full-throated an affirmation of the ongoing importance of OOOE as you can get.'"