Global warming research exposed after hack
An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate between skeptics of global warming and those who see it as an urgent problem. Read more...

Three indicted for Comcast hack last year

Security pro says new SSL attack can hit many sites

Security pro says new SSL attack can hit many sites

FCC identifies roadblocks to broadband adoption

Salesforce.com announces 'Chatter' social-networking app

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China defends Internet censorship after Obama lauds openness

Berners-Lee's foundation wants the Web to improve life

China takes questions for Obama from Internet users

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Three indicted for Comcast hack last year
Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008.

Security pro says new SSL attack can hit many sites
A Seattle computer security consultant says he's developed a new way to exploit a recently disclosed bug in the SSL protocol, used to secure communications on the Internet. The attack, while difficult to execute, could give attackers a very powerful phishing attack.

Opinion: Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time
A lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history

Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world
isoHunt's Gary Fung talks about how isoHunt has evaded legal trouble so far, why he holds out hope of working together with Hollywood and the music industry, and how he's launched a new P2P site for just that purpose.

Droid and Android, ICANN votes, Win 7 residue
The world got another smartphone this week with Motorola's Droid, available from Verizon. Google rolled out Android 2.0 as well. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers finally voted to allow non-Latin characters in domain names, and Windows 7 news continued apace, among other things. So read on and Happy Halloween everyone (see number 10).

EFF launches 'Takedown Hall of Shame'
The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week aimed a historically potent weapon -- the spotlight of public shame -- at those corporations and individuals who abuse copyright claims to stifle free speech.

Hands-On: Google's Music Search Is Just So-So
Google got a lot more musical this week, when it unveiled a new integrated music feature that lets you play full songs and limited previews in your search results. Enter a music-related query like a song title, artist, album name, or even partial song lyrics and Google says it will give you results with a song clip if available. The new service sounds great in theory, but in my tests it didn't quite match up to Google's claims.

Opinion: Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet
What was essentially a typo last week resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden -- every address with a .se top-level down name.

Ride the Wave! Hands-On With Google Wave Preview
Back in late May, Google unveiled an early developer preview of a new "online tool for real-time communication and collaboration." Google Wave merges message boards, e-mail, social-networking, wikis, and instant messaging- with drag and drop document sharing and live transmission to boot. Live transmission means that every character you type will instantly appear to other participants of a wave thread.

Does Microsoft complicate its licensing on purpose?
Navigating Microsoft's complex rules and programs for software licensing has been notoriously difficult for businesses -- a pain point not lost on the company, which for years has said it is trying to simplify the process for customers.

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Getting to know Windows 7? Don't stop now: From speeding up taskbar thumbnails to reining in UAC, here are 20 ways to make Windows 7 act the way you want. Is Motorola's new Droid good enough to vanquish iPhone envy? To find out, we took it on a 3-day trip. Sure, you could always use Linux as a desktop OS, but Corel Linux 1.0 was the first distro designed for ordinary users. It's been a long, strange trip since then. New touch-screen laptops from Fujitsu, HP and Lenovo take advantage of Microsoft Windows 7's touch-friendly infrastructure.

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