Computer Hacker Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison

" SACRAMENTO, Calif.—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that GREGORY KING, 21, of Fairfield, Calif., was sentenced to two years in federal prison. KING was also...

Turing Test Almost Passed: 3 out 12 Judges Say 'Elbot' Computer is Human!

The AP article is a general overview:"UK university holds artificial intelligence testREADING, England (AP) — Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of...

IBM Sells $3.9 Billion in Bonds

IBM sold $3.9 billion worth of bonds on Thursday "to cover pending maturities as the company enters the fourth quarter and approaches the new year". Shares in the technology giant fell $1.55, or 1.7 per cent, to...

Be Careful Where you Click

"Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses ...

ABC News: Newest Key to Teenage Freedom

" Ford Motor Co. announced today it will offer a new feature, starting next summer on some of its 2010 cars and trucks, that allows parents to set safety limits on teen drivers through a high-tech car key. ...

'Intelligent' computers put to the [Turing] test

Comedian/Game Show Host Jeff Foxworthy wants to know if you're smarter than a 5th grader, but are you smarter than a computer? October 12, humans and 6 AI will face off to see if the programs can fool human judges into not being able to tell them apart from human beings. Ray...

Computer failure hobbles Hubble, derails shuttle mission

It is the major setback of nasa mission ,now entire nasa machinary are looking to solve the problem as soon as possible.A crew of seven astronauts are preparing to repare the system.Hubble is swiched in...

LHC collider, CERN hooks 7,000 scientists to collider supercomputer GRID

OCT-3 Cern started the GRID network, 7000 scientists are linked to evaluate Data from the LHC collider, or popular the "Big Bang Machine". Desktop computers paticipate in that Super-Internet Event. Cern...

CERN unveils computer grid linking 7,000 scientists

Serious number crunching to be a co-CERN project !Grid computing is changing science the world over."CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the...

All the news that's fit to exploit--Google Trends

" Caution: Web sites about the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team and the U.S. vice presidential debate may cause serious harm to your computer. Cybercriminals who want to steal data and take control of computers are...

Sysadmin Steals Nearly 20,000 Pieces Of Computer Gear from Navy

If you steal from the navy, can you call it "piracy"? Even if it's on dry land? This is not a rhetorical question, since a sysadmin for the US Naval Research Laboratory has just pled guilty to ripping off nearly...

Spanish Police Smash Child Porn Ring - 121 Arrested in Worldwide Probe

SPANISH police have today held a hundred and twenty-one people for questioning after seizing computers and harddrives under child pornography laws.  Some of the suspects are alleged to have used their own children in the offences.   " Spanish police have...

Cloud Computing is "Stupidity", Says GNU Founder

"Idiocy", "stupidity", and "fashion". Those three words are brought to bear against the trend of cloud computing, which entails storing private info (normally saved on your hard drive) on remote servers accessed...

Scareware: Clicker Beware

Just because it's done over the Internet, doesn't mean that no law covers it. This applies to fraud, too, of course. This sort of thing is still in the news because malware companies continue to profit on users'...

Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft

" Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft Topics:Technology | Information Technology Sectors:Software and Computer Services | Software | Technology Microsoft [MSFT  26.14    1.13  (+4.52%)   ] Chief Executive Steve...

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