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Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts
Date : 2008 08 19
Slashdotiminplaya sends in an item from TechNewsWorld that begins, "Several incidents of iPod Nanos bursting into flames have created cons read more »
Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotbullyBEEF writes "Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security softwa read more »
New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotVigile writes "Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboar read more »
Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotI Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "In Vermont, US Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier has ruled that forcing someone to read more »
DPI and Net Neutrality's Overseas Weak Spot
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotIan Lamont writes "An unnamed source at an American ISP says staff there briefly considered using Deep Packet Inspection to comply read more »
IBM and AMD Create First 22nm SRAM Cell
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdotarcticstoat notes an announcement from IBM that, along with technology partners, they have produced the first working sample of a read more »
Flagship Studios' Founder Discusses Its Demise
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdot1Up is running a lengthy interview with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company, known primarily for its Hellgat read more »
MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdotmytrip and several other readers let us know that a judge in Boston has lifted the gag order — actually let it expire &mdash read more »
Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotAnti-Globalism sends in Ars coverage of a speech by Jim Griffin, who is a consultant for Warner, one of the big four music labels. read more »
Mars Lander Snaps the Most Detailed Pics Yet
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "The Mars Lander has taken its very first microscopic image of a piece of Martian dust (image). The par read more »
Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotGerman police have confiscated the world's fastest office chair and arrested its 17-year-old inventors. The duo added a lawnmower read more »
Leaping the Uncanny Valley
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdotreachums submits this glance at "the newest level of computer animation," intended to get past the paradoxical "uncanny valley" &m read more »
A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotAshik Ratnani writes with this snippet from Hungry Hackers: "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and br read more »
OpenSolaris From a Linux Admin and User Perspective
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotMSa writes "How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a pas read more »
Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdotbcrowell writes "The LA Times has a front-page article about how open-source college textbooks are starting to gain traction. One read more »
Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdotk33l0r writes "Dell's entry into the sub-notebook market, the Inspiron 910, will ship with Ubuntu preinstalled. This was confirmed read more »
Best Terrestrial/OTA HDTV Setup For an Apartment?
Date : 2008 08 19 Slashdotthesandbender writes "I don't watch TV but keep an HTPC for watching movies. One of my relatives is very ill and I'll have a lot o read more »
The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotAfter the first announcement on 1997-04-27 and over eleven years of fresh start after fresh start, Duke Nukem Forever finally come read more »
Google Revs Android, FCC Approves First Phone
Date : 2008 08 19 SlashdotCycon writes "Google has announced, 'We're releasing a beta SDK. You can read about the new Android 0.9 SDK beta at the Android De read more »
OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotBrian Jordan writes "For 48 hours during the weekend of August 29-31 at the OLPC Physics Game Jam Boston, game developers will com read more »
Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotElvaWSJ writes "A small subculture of amateur physicists and science-fiction fans — fewer than 100 worldwide — are bui read more »