Energy Star for servers may be ready by year's end, EPA says
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Former Newark IT contractor pleads guilty to defrauding Cisco

Judge orders YouTube to expose user viewing habits and history

Q&A: E-voting activist more optimistic about voting systems

Civil liberties groups sue U.S. over mobile phone tracking

Ex-NASA engineer gets 5 years in child porn case

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Google in brouhaha with anti-Obama bloggers

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We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
U.S. government's expected announcement that its systems are compatible with IPv6 is a major milestone in the upcoming transformation to the next-generation Internet.

Elgan: Will gadgets make knowledge obsolete?
We're going to have to face the problem of education in a world in which nearly all knowledge is available to everyone, instantly, all the time. It could free us to do what we do best — think critically and creatively.

The A-Z of programming languages: Ada
S. Tucker Taft, who was heavily involved in the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions and still uses the language today, talks about how the growth of multicore systems may signal an Ada revival because of the language's strengths in multi-threading and real-time control.

Q&A: A misconfigured laptop; a wrecked life
Michael Fiola's laptop set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop. He talks about the case, which prosecutors dropped last week.

Cutting Compliance Costs
Mark Hall hears a claim that management software is bringing down the cost of compliance.

Discovering Tricks of E-discovery
Federal rules governing retention of electronic documents pull info security into the legal domain.

Opinion: Breach laws fail to protect anyone
They haven't met their stated goals, and they are costly to comply with.

Print 20% less, save the environment: San Francisco's new tech zeitgeist
A push by the City of San Francisco to cut down on paper usage is tree-friendly. Now the task is to sell it to the employees.

Do geeks make good jurors in tech cases? Not always.
Judge tells conference that sometimes a little too much technical knowledge can be a dangerous thing in a juror serving on a tech case.

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