There's little anonymity left in rioting these days. Thanks to cameraphones and tagging, police will be able to identify some of the Vancouver hooligans who set fires, smashed storefronts and overturned cars in Stanley Cup related rioting.
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Firefox add-on restores words filtered from Google’s Autocomplete.

There’s a new Firefox add-on called “Gee! No evil!” that circumvents Google’s Autocomplete search filtering regime.
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After recently attacking a number of gaming websites, the hacker group known as LulzSec has used a DDoS attack to take down the CIA’s website, www.cia.gov.
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Dear Windows Mobile 6.x customer,

Microsoft will be discontinuing the My Phone service for Windows Mobile 6.x. We will also be discontinuing the Windows Marketplace for Mobile web site. ...

ISPs trying to get the most out of their cable networks are going to be quite excited by the latest developments in the field which promise download speeds of 4.5 Gbps, quite a big improvement over the current max speeds achievable with DOCSIS, the technology used by cable providers to add internet services to their infrastructure.
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Codemasters has become the latest gaming industry juggernaut to suffer a major hacker attack – a huge database of customer details has been compromised at the publishers official website, Codemasters.com.
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