Thieves Steal Personal Data of 26.5M Vets

Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday.

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Intel has just released its first SSD hard disk.

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It sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized version …

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Looking in detail at the composition of stars with ESO's VLT, astronomers are providing a fresh look at the history of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They reveal that the central part of our Galaxy formed not only very quickly but also independently of the rest.

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Using a friend's system or a public computer and want to keep your activity private? CleanAfterMe, a free utility from the makers of similarly-useful utilities like WirelessKeyView, has you covered.

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Scientists have managed to recover critical data from experiments carried out in space from a hard drive found in the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The hard drive was onboard when the shuttle disintegrated 39 miles up, while travelling at a speed of 12,500mph.

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BLU-RAY PLAYER SALES are sucking wind as well they should. According to Cnet, sales of the DRM infected format players are dropping like rocks.

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LONDON (AP) — A repairman discovered a confidential government computer disc hidden inside a laptop bought on eBay, a computer store in northern England said Thursday.

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A highly confidential Home Office disk was found hidden in a laptop computer sold on eBay. The CD was found between the keyboard and circuit board of the laptop by computer repair technicians in Westhoughton, near Bolton.

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Chicago Digital post/ great lakes digital media, an innovative multimedia services and disk manufacturing company has licenses with Macrovision Corporation, the worldwide leader in rip control technology. The industry losses a lot of money in revenues to ripping every year.

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"News Flash: power surges kill HD's." There is a 20% higher percentage of hard drive problems occurring in the spring and summer because AC units add as much as 50% load to a home or small business electrical system.

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Astronomers have checked out Mr Spock's home star and made a profound finding about the universe, they revealed today. They used the Hubble space telescope to gain proof that planets form from disks of dust and gas circling stars.

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If you plan to be in the central or eastern portion of South America or the western or southern part of Africa on Friday, Sept. 22, you will be treated to a partial solar eclipse.

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A recent upgrade to the iTunes Producer software used by studios to encode tracks for iTMS distribution may be a good sign for the discriminating audiophile community, as Apple has included the necessary tools to create lossless AAC content that could presumably be uploaded to th …

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Article that talks about digital distribution will eventually replace disk media.

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USB disk in a year. DVD in 6 months (allegedly).

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Repeat after me - "Tape Stink, Disks Rock"

OK, so I'm sitting at work on a holiday, formatting tapes. All I can think is that drives need to get bigger faster.

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Ultimate Computer Cleanup Guide

This week's feature is all about computer cleanup. Many computer users don't even know their computer needs to be cleaned up. They compile more and more computer clutter with every log in.

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