Yahoo lap dancers make wrong moves

Yahoo has apologized for its use of scantily clad lap dancers to entertain mainly male software developers and engineers in Taiwan last weekend. The Internet search company Monday acknowledged its politically incorrect step.

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Iranian police clash with up to 3,000 protesters

Witnesses in Iran say police have clashed with up to 3,000 protesters near a mosque in north Tehran.

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Woman allegedly wallops hockey player with stick

Police said a 52-year-old Ketchum woman is facing misdemeanor battery charges for whacking an opposing player with a hockey stick during a no-contact hockey game. Sun Valley police said they issued a misdemeanor battery citation to the woman earlier this week.

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Subway fare hackers to partner with transit agency

A trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who found a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards have agreed to partner with transit officials there to make the system more secure.

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Judge lifts gag on students over transit security

A federal judge Tuesday lifted a gag order on three MIT students who were barred from talking publicly about security flaws they discovered in the state's automated mass transit fare system, even as a lawyer for the agency acknowledged the system was "compromised."

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Judge keeps gag order in subway hacking case

Three college students who discovered a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards and add hundreds of dollars in value to them were ordered again Thursday to keep details of their findings secret.

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Comcast.net site is hacked briefly

Hackers took over Comcast Corp.'s Web portal for several hours overnight, denying 14.1 million subscribers access to the cable company's site for e-mail, news and technical support.

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Hacker Targets iPod, iTunes Restrictions

A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.

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Hackers Get Windows XP on Apple Computers

As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot.

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I know we could debate the morality of the theft that made this information available: some will say it was a completely unwarranted breach of privacy, whereas others will liken it to a 'black ops' mission essential for ending the conspiracy of global warming.

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Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs, the channel's most outspoken anchor. Mr. Dobbs could vent his opinions on radio and anchor an objective newscast on television, or he could leave CNN.

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Yes, Virginia, your elections are unconstitutional, and frankly, no one in power gives a damn! Check it out if you want to know why the government doesn't listen to the voters any more.

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PayPal suspended the account of a white-hat hacker on Tuesday, a day after someone used his research into website authentication to publish a counterfeit certificate for the online payment processor.

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Earlier today the official website for the Apache Software Foundation (of the Apache web server fame) was offline for several hours. When it came back online, it briefly showed this message:

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Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who has taken a particular glee in pushing the argument that health care could be Obama's unraveling, did little to calm the rhetoric between him and the White House on Sunday.

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Did you get lost during last week's Twitter hack or #twittergate? Don't worry if you did, there was a lot of information and opinions being thrown around. For those who would like to catch up and recap, I've prepared a little timeline for you.

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Breaking into someone's e-mail can be child's play for a determined hacker, as Twitter Inc. employees have learned the hard way — again.

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Amidst spreading worries about the strength of Obama and his administration's national security policies, rumors of North Korea's hacking attempts on our computer systems, and Obama's apparent lack of understanding of the threat we are under, this most recent attempt seems to con …

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Someone somewhere is having a blast. Someone iserted a program that once you enter the classic video game cheat knowen as the Konami code(up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter) it makes unicorns pop up on the front page of ESPN.com

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CHINA insisted it was opposed to internet crimes, following a US media report that said Chinese hackers may have been behind a cyber attack on computers linked to a new US fighter jet.

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Got an old Nokia 1100 sitting around? You may be sitting on a fortune... albeit with a catch. Certain circles are said to be paying upwards of $32,000 for the handsets, at least those made in Nokia's Bochum factory in Germany.

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A cyber-attack on US electrical grids shows how much more must be done to protect critical systems.

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Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.

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Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccination's & Sent to 18 countries around the World

"Baxter International Inc. in Austria 'unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in 3 neighboring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease'.

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Sensitive online documents, such as certificates that vouch for banking sites, bear "digital fingerprints" that identify them without revealing their contents. The fingerprints are produced from the documents' contents by algorithms that are supposed to be irreversible.

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Fans of Apple computers often boast about superior security. But as Macs have gained in popularity over the past few years, this has brought much more attention from hackers.

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One of the best things about Facebook is that you know who you're dealing with. You've verified every friend connection and nearly everyone has a collection of personal photos proving they're who they say they are.

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China has a vast intelligence-gathering operation of Chinese citizens recruited to spy on and hack into U.S. computers.

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Social networking tool Twitter was hit by a major hacker attack on Monday, with several "high profile" accounts -- including that of President-elect Barack Obama -- taken over by computer criminals, the firm said.

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Phishing attacks, which hit Twitter over the weekend, are a sign a service has arrived (Facebook has the same problem).

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FOX News' Twitter account just reported some important breaking news: Bill O'Reilly is gay. Unless their next Twitter is "Fox News was hacked," we'll take the bad spellers for their word.

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The threat is essentially software code that hackers could use to access or alter corporate database built with SQL Server.

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In today's New York Times, Bill Kristol says that Republicans need to abandon limited government ideology...

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Tim Ferriss, guest lecturer in my class today at Princeton, is offering $500 in prizes to whomever succeeds at promoting his new show airing tonight.

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