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Conficker Starts...Well, Doing Something
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by Andy Greenberg  4-9-2009   
 The first seven words of this story are pretty telling. Basically, we still don't know what the megaworm is up to. If it were simply keylogging, as Trend Micro speculates, that could mean major identity theft. But it would also be much less scary than some of the distributed denial of service scenarios others cybarmageddon scenarios others have worried about.
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Why Everyone Should Calm Down About Conficker
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by Andy Greenberg  3-26-2009   
 In this helpful Q&A about the Conficker worm, F-Secure once again proves that they'd rather tell the whole truth than scare more people into buying security software.
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Why Print Media Should Subsidize the Kindle
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by Andy Greenberg  3-17-2009   
 Not a lot of substance/data in this story, but it's a good idea. Right now, it seems that book publishers are selling their Amazon e-books with low margins, but the news media hasn't pitched in to widen the Kindle's userbase.
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The iPhone Reads Your Blood Pressure
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by Andy Greenberg  3-17-2009   
 This was just a vague note in Engadget's liveblogging of the new iPhone software release. But it brings to mind images of Star Trek-style medical tricorders. Combine it with IBM and Google's plan to stream data from devices directly to Google Health, and all of this starts to get very weird.
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Installing a USB Drive in Your Finger
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by Andy Greenberg  3-17-2009   
 Hard to imagine this guy would go to so much trouble for just 2GB of storage. If you're going to make it an actual digit, you might as well install the new iPod shuffle in your finger and double your capacity.
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First Bendable E-Ink Touchscreen
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by Andy Greenberg  3-3-2009   
 E-Ink developers have made the passive screens flexible, touchable and now both flexible and touchable. So when does the really useful stuff like color and fast screen refreshing arrive?
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Magazine Publisher Plans Its Own Kindle
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by Andy Greenberg  2-27-2009   
 Hearst gets points for forward thinking. But can it really build and sell a device more successfully than Amazon or Sony? Why not just offer their content through existing devices?
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Most IT Employees Work Less than Six Hours/Day?
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by Andy Greenberg  2-24-2009   
 As is typical of Slashdot readers, there's a lot of nitpicking argument over the definition of "work," but this is still fairly surprising--especially given the rate at which IT workers are being laid off.
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Kill 10 Facebook Friends, Earn a Whopper
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by Andy Greenberg  1-8-2009   
 A large social price to pay for some greasy meat. Or maybe a good excuse to cut "friends" you're not so keen on in the first place.
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Will Somali Pirates Ruin Christmas?
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by Andy Greenberg  11-14-2008   
 Talking about pirates is all fun and games until they start delaying Nintendo Wii shipments. Or actually kill people.
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Official Accidentally Demonstates E-Voting Problems on Film
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by Andy Greenberg  10-29-2008   
 This video of an election official trying (and failing) to debunk claims of e-voting problems makes it clearer to me than ever before just why e-voting has been such a disaster: Wishful thinking on the part of non-technical morons who seem willing to discount practically any problem with machines that make their jobs easier.
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Yahoo Paid $37 Million For Bad Advice
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by Andy Greenberg  10-22-2008   
 Henry Blodget rubs more salt into the wound of Yahoo!'s idiotically botched deal with Microsoft.
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Another ISP Snoop Bites the Dust
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by Andy Greenberg  10-10-2008   
 Sorry, American ISPs. The possibilities of selling your heaps of lucrative data have now officially dried up. Overseas ISPs, however, (even British ones) seem likely to get away with this.
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Listen To Your YouTube Comment Before Posting
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by Andy Greenberg  10-9-2008   
 Not sure which is weirder--that YouTube now gives commenters the opportunity to listen to their comments out loud in order to better filter their idiocy, or that this feature was taken from an idea in an uber-geeky web comic.
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Privately-funded Rocket Reaches Space
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by Andy Greenberg  9-29-2008   
 Just a few days after the Chinese government performed its first spacewalk, SpaceX has achieved the first successful rocket launch funded by a private company. Finally, space exploration as a for-profit venture might be starting to make sense. And that may mean a new sort of race to the moon is beginning--this time between China's government and American private industry.
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Large Hadron Collider Stalled till Spring '09
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by Andy Greenberg  9-24-2008   
 This must be frustrating for physicists who have waited decades to smash particles together in exciting new ways. But those of us with (scientifically debunked) fears of being swallowed by an LHC-triggered black hole can breathe a sigh of relief. For now.
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Latest Bizarre MSFT/Seinfeld Ad Actually Brilliant
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by Andy Greenberg  9-12-2008   
 Kind of a Wes Anderson thing going on, but still no sign of actual Microsoft products.
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Creationist Lashes Out Against Spore
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by Andy Greenberg  9-10-2008   
 More interesting than the blog itself, which is pretty much what you'd expect from a creationist writing about a game based on evolution, are the hundreds of comments, most of which are defending Spore. Apparently this guy touched a nerve.
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Large Hadron Collider To Destroy Earth Tomorrow?
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by Andy Greenberg  9-9-2008    2
 "Some scientists" say we don't have to worry about the Large Hadron Collider creating a black hole that swallows the earth and destroys humanity tomorrow. Forgive me if I'm still a little nervous.
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Why Google Releases Half-Baked Products
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by Andy Greenberg  9-9-2008   
 Basically, Nick Carr is arguing that Google is exploiting something like the long tail in its product releases. It may only have a few hits--products like Gmail, for instance--but the cost of development is low enough that even a marginal traffic bump to its ads makes new features worthwhile. Hence all the Google products that seem to be languishing in semi-obscurity, like Knol, Android and Open Social.
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Spam Targets the Beginning of the Alphabet
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by Andy Greenberg  8-29-2008   
 Parents-to-be: if you value the integrity of your unborn child's inbox, pay close attention.
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Computer Virus Infects Space Station
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by Andy Greenberg  8-27-2008   
 This piece of malware sounds mostly harmless, designed to steal video game passwords. But I'm imagining a hacker causing a satellite to plummet from space onto a US city. It's possible I've been reading too much science fiction.
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Does Joe Biden hate techies?
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by Andy Greenberg  8-25-2008   
 Barack's VP pick has a pretty rough record when it comes to the government's handling of copyright protection. But his tech savvy still trumps McCain, who by all appearances has only learned about electricity in recent briefings with his staff aides.
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A Laser That Screams in Your Skull
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by Andy Greenberg  7-10-2008   
 This speaks for itself.
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Don't Buy an iPhone in These States
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by Andy Greenberg  7-10-2008   
 An interesting pickup...and one that will probably matter to a lot more Americans than Apple would like.
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Friendster Could Become Biggest Social Network--Again
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by Andy Greenberg  6-19-2008    1
 Just another sign that the growing Asian use of the Web is shaking things up in unexpected ways.
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Pentagon/IBM Create World's Fastest Computer
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by Andy Greenberg  6-9-2008   
 A few other bits from the Times' article: The Roadrunner will consume about as much power as a large shopping mall, and is based on more than 12,000 IBM Cell microprocessors, which were originally developed for the Playstation 3.
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Study Tracks People With Cell Phones
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by Andy Greenberg  6-4-2008   
 I spoke with Sandy Pentland at MIT about his studies on this topic recently. But this brings the same idea to a much larger group. It also seems to have taken data from participants who didn't volunteer for the study--a bit shady if you ask me.
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Apple Fanboys Line Up for Who-Knows-What
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by Andy Greenberg  5-22-2008   
 Perhaps this is a sign that the 3G iPhone is already upon us? More likely, it's yet another sign that Apple fanboyism has reached religious levels of zealotry.
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Hacker Trick Can Destroy Hardware
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by Andy Greenberg  5-22-2008   
 The idea of Chinese cyberspies blowing up your hard drive isn't fun. But as with most stories like this, the researchers are showing a proof-of-concept of the vulnerability, not an imminent threat.
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Steve Ballmer Egged in Hungary
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by Andy Greenberg  5-21-2008   
 Ballmer's response: "It was a friendly disruption." Bill Gates slightly more clever response to being hit in the face with four cream pies in 1998: "The worst part was that the pies were not very tasty."
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Taser Creates Peel-and-Stick Electrified Film
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by Andy Greenberg  5-13-2008   
 Taser International is still thinking of new ways to paralyze people, this time with an adaptable stick on surface for any device. From a PR perspective, the company can always argue that these semi-brutal devices are just innovative ways to avoid lethal force.
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The Real Source of Google's Billions: This Guy
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by Andy Greenberg  5-12-2008    1
 Larry Page tells Fortune that the idea for Google's search algorithm came from Terry Winograd, his graduate advisor.
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Volvo Promises Injury-Proof Car
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by Andy Greenberg  5-5-2008   
 Several automakers are working on pre-collision systems that take control of cars and steer them or brake automatically. But an injury proof car? Luckily no one remembers these bold claims 12 years later.
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Microsoft Gives Cyber "Skeleton Key" to Cops
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by Andy Greenberg  4-29-2008   
 This may be necessary for effective law enforcement, but the idea of making it a physical device is a little scary. It won't be long before one of these ends up in the hands of cybercriminals. What security measures stop them from getting as much access as the police?
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Click Fraud Problem Getting Better?
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by Andy Greenberg  4-25-2008   
 Google and Yahoo's changes that decreased clicks seem to have been partly a result of better click fraud filtering. So now the question is, can Google take credit for solving a problem it has always denied existed?
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Robot to Conduct Detroit Symphony
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by Andy Greenberg  4-24-2008   
 This is a terrible idea.
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Detect Earthquakes with Your MacBook
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by Andy Greenberg  4-22-2008   
 An interesting sort of crowdsourcing program...reminds me of that SETI project to analyze space data with distributed computing.
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Google: Cookies Are Complicated
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by Andy Greenberg  4-22-2008   
 Google has a growing tendency to make flashy announcements that draw press and then let their ideas stagnate and disappear. Looks like they may be doing the same with an element of their search privacy solution.
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Motley Crue Releases Straight-to-Guitar-Hero Single
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by Andy Greenberg  4-15-2008   
 Could video games actually save the music industry? Maybe...at least until users figure out ways to import pirated music to Guitar Hero.
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