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WikiLeaks: DDOS Attacks Reflect 'Public Opinion'

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December 10, 2010
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WikiLeaks: DDOS Attacks Reflect 'Public Opinion' WikiLeaks neither supports nor condemns the cyber attacks that have targeted its critics, it said Friday, just as it appears the attackers are mounting a fresh...
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AT&T's Perversion of 'Free Speech' Would Let It Control the Internet The Constitution's framers must be rolling in their graves in this abuse of the First Amendment, which the Obama Administration is caving on
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Why IT Jobs Are Never Coming Back U.S. IT job loss may level off in coming years, but the likelihood that corporate IT will ever contribute to job creation again is minimal.
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab Makes a Strong Case for Buying an IPad A few nice capabilities don't overcome an ill-conceived 'tweener' tablet with an ill-fitting Android OS
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Xbox 360 Surges, Wii Rallies, PS3 Slumps in November Video Game Sales November video game industry sales rallied higher than expected, offering bracing news for everyone but Sony.
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Fearing More Wikileaks, Military Bans DVDs, Thumb Drives The U.S. government, concerned of more 'Wikileaks', banned CDs, DVDs and USB drives from classified military computers.
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Firefox Security Holes Plugged Mozilla has issued patches for 13 bugs in the browser, 11 of them rated "critical."
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Google's Top Searches 2010 Tech terms such as 'iPad' and 'iPhone 4' ranked high on Google's lists of the year's most popular searches along with cultural icons 'Lady Gaga' and 'Justin Bieber'
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Bah Humbug! Microsoft Plays Scrooge with Record Patch Tuesday Microsoft revealed that December will be a record Patch Tuesday with 17 new security bulletins.
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PlayStation Phone Edges Closer to Reality Sony Ericsson is expected to introduce early next year a PlayStation-branded smartphone running Google's Android mobile OS.
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iPad 2 Rumors: 2 Cameras, Improved Specs As Apple's tablet nears its first birthday, more speculation seeps out about its successor.
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Winklevoss Sued for Piece of its $65M Facebook Settlement Money The Winklevoss twins claim Zuckerberg stole their idea and cut them off. Now another guy claims the Winklevoss twins did the same thing to him.
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Whos Using Twitter? Some Surprising Answers Minorities and two specific income groups jump out among the microblogging service's most active participants.
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The WikiLeaks Drama: A Timeline Feeling lost somewhere in the middle of the WikiLeaks drama? Here's a timeline to help you sort things out.
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WikiLeaks Avengers Threaten UK Government Sites A group of online activists have threatened to attack British government websites if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to Sweden.
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Time to Put the Brakes on Java? The Java SE 7 and 8 specifications have the green light, but commercial pressures threaten to derail what should be a community effort
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Google Message Continuity: Awesome Idea, Boring Name
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Microsoft Ships Delayed Patches for Office for Mac 2008 Microsoft on Wednesday issued an Office for Mac 2008 security update that patched four vulnerabilities the company had disclosed but not addressed last month.
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Google Working on Search Before You Search Google this week reiterated its interest in being able to give users search results before they even know they want them.
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