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Climate change data dumped

This is what those of us in the scientific community have been complaining about for years. I work with data sets that are "endangered" on a daily basis and NASA is funding my work. It is amazing how much of this data has been lost to history.

IsoHunt Asks Court to Legalize Its Operations

For more than a year, BitTorrent search engine isoHunt has chased the Canadian music industry in court. In an act of self-defense, the founder of the site has sued the Canadian branch of the RIAA, asking the court to legalize its operations.

Social media 'could transform public services'

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.

Court ruling forces Mininova to end illegal torrents

The Netherlands-based file-sharing website Mininova has removed all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material.

Jones et al 1986 methodical insertion of warming bias

As more people analyze the data released from the CRU the more it becomes clear that not only are there policy implications to the actions of the gang of three (Jones, Biffra, Mann), there are serious accusations of the manipulations of climate data to make things seem worse than …

iPhone worm creator lands software job

The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones. Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley.

Wikileaks publishes 570,000 messages capturing chaos of 9/11

The mental and emotional storm that struck America on 11 September 2001 with the attacks on New York and Washington has been recreated with the release of more than half a million pager messages sent on that day.

Device spells doom for superbugs

Researchers have demonstrated a prototype device that can rid hands, feet, or even underarms of bacteria, including the hospital superbug MRSA.

Starving trolls is key to internet harmony

Ignoring internet "trolls" is the best way to deter people who surf the internet picking fights and abusing people on discussion forums, says an expert.

Seven unveils on-demand TV content strategy

SEVEN Media Group has unveiled its on-demand television content strategy as competitors scramble to deliver new video services to Australians' TV screens over the internet.

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