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Friday, July 21, 2006

Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million

"An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company."

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Video Killed the Video Star

Attention attention-seekers! YouTube, Google Video and related sites have revived vaudeville, then stabbed it in the neck with the razor-sharp shards of a torn can of energy drink, kicked it in the ribs, and left it onstage to writhe for the amusement of millions. And you can be part of it! This smart-ass article makes for a great read.

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Dell overcharged customers $24,000,000 in taxes

Once-might Dell ended up in court in May charged with ripping off its customers in Washington State, USofA, to the tune of $24 million in sales tax. The court ordered that every penny should be repaid.

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Math and Language Co-Evolved

We can thank our verbal nature, along with our fingers, for the ability to develop complex number systems, a new study suggests.

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Chinese City Offers to Swap Fake DVDs For Real Ones

Fed up with continued piracy of DVDs and software, a Chinese city is offering retailers the chance to swap fake discs for real ones.

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YourSpins - Allow You to Make Remixes (Awesome)

YourSpins is a music community that allow users to make remixes and save them on their homepage, make custom ringtones, share the remixes with other friends or stream them from their blogs, webpages and other social network profile pages, Including the Windows Media Player plugin.

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