A group of Reddit users are arguing in a petition filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the use of the term "gaymer" to identify their community on the site should remain in the public domain. The petition was spurred by ...
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Showing what can happen when companies don't periodically review network logs, a software developer working for a large U.S. critical infrastructure company hired a Chinese firm to do his job so he could spend time surfing Reddit and ...
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A draft bill to exclude terms of service violations from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The proposed amendment to the anti-hacking law comes in the wake of the suicide on ...
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How do you remove embarrassing pictures or images from the Internet? InternetReputation.com announces a new program designed at successfully targeting harmful online images. It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it ...
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, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...
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Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
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Infoworld - If you're searching for a fountain of youth, the easiest way to get that feeling of continual rebirth is to hang around a few tech product launches. Every new rollout comes with the fresh, unabashed feeling that this has never ...
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A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT,therefore allowing for desktop-style programmes to be installed on the platform. The hacker,who uses the online moniker"clrokr",documented the ...
IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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IDG News Service - A famed iPhone hacker has developed a fresh way to jailbreak Apple's iOS 6 operating system in order to install unauthorized apps, but he says he won't release it. David Wang wrote on Reddit that he discovered several ...
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2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry's biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed ...
Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform. Netflix users were unable to stream movies and TV shows from some devices on Monday, with many posting ...
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The most controversial tech issue taken up by the outgoing Congress was, by far, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This legislation drew a humongous public outcry that prompted a wholesale retreat by its supporters. But thanks to the ...
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IDG News Service-Oracle researchers are"winding down"development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. Fortress was meant to provide a superior ...
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IDG News Service-President Barack Obama,currently on the campaign trail ahead of the upcoming November elections,c,a popular online discussion site,on Wednesday. The president appeared on a forum entitled"I am Barack Obama,President of ...