RUSSIAN SECURITY AGENCY and successor to the KGB, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has become "increasingly concerned" with the use of Gmail, Hotmail and Skype in the heart of the fomer Soviet Union, and has called for a ban on all three Internet communications services.
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The total amount of firepower used to flood Sony websites this week? It's only "medium strength," says a source at Sony's hosting provider who is not authorized by his employer to speak on the record.
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While some might correctly argue that digital products are more or less identical to their official versions in almost every way, that’s not always the case for the media they’re stored on. Catering to the storage needs of every video and audio junkie, Chinese engineers have now come up with a counterfeit Samsung hard drive – with infinite capacity.
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It’s finally happened. After a long reign at the top, Microsoft’s Windows XP is no longer the most widely used desktop operating system in the United States, instead turning the crown over to Windows 7.
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You've probably heard a lot about Firefox 4's new interface, speed, and feature improvements, but many of you have already left it for Chrome. Here's why Firefox's newest version is worth another look, even if you're a diehard Chrome user.
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Wladimir Palant, developer of the most popular add-on in the world, Adblock Plus, is also an active contributor to the Planet Mozilla blog community. Over the last few days, in response to Mozilla's newname and shame list of slow add-ons, Palant has been investigating whether Mozilla's testing methods are actually accurate.
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Falcon Northwest's custom FragBox gaming computer manages to stuff a modern processor, two graphics cards and 24 gigs of RAM into a case the size of a largish shoebox. It's even got a handle, so you can hypothetically carry around with you.
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ComingSoon.net reports that the new Michael J. Bassett-directed Silent Hill: Revelation 3D movie is adding two big stars to its cast. Carrie-Anne Moss (of Memento, though probably better known as Trinity from The Matrix) and A Clockwork Orange's Malcolm McDowell will join series veterans Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Deborah Kara Unger in the latest journey to the freaky climes of Silent Hill.
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The recent developments around domain name seizures by the U.S. authorities has prompted another major torrent site to move to a new domain as a precaution. KickassTorrents, one of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet, has announced it will soon replace its .com domain name with the Philippine extension .ph.
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Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it has shared its software code. The effort by the social network will bring web scale computing to the masses and is a boon for AMD and Intel and the x86 architecture.Sorry ARM.
My relationship with Firefox has been on the rocks for a while. It officially ended this week. Time to move on.
While Firefox started out as a small, fast, and secure browser — everything that Internet Explorer wasn’t back in 2004 — in the last several years Firefox has unfortunately become a bit of a slow, bloated, resource hog.
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We're stumbling through a science fiction wonderland of not just high-flying communications software and tools but of the basic building blocks for the devices we use to do that communicating. The latest contender for radically-improved memory in a computer? Blood.
She didn't mean anything by it. But while a 75-year old woman set out to collect scrap metal in the village of Ksani last week, by the time she got home she'd cut off internet service to both Georgia and Armenia.
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Pam Bondi, Trump’s biggest cheerleader, seems to be withholding the promised Epstein files. When asked about them recently, she seemed nervous and
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