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Serious defects hit cell phone batteries, computer parts From wire reports July 18, 2004 Hundreds of thousands of computer parts and cell phone batteries have been recalled in recent weeks because of serious defects. No. 1 PC maker Dell recalled 38,000 Auto/Air Power Adapters connecting laptops to power outlets in cars and planes. Users may get shocked if they plug the wrong cord into the adapter. No. 2 PC maker Hewlett-Packard is recalling the memory component of 900,000 laptops over a problem that can make them crash or lose data. H-P blames memory-makers Micron Technology, Samsung, Infineon Technologies and Winbond....

Chinese Hacker May be PLA The Ministry of Foreign Affairs send an urgent message to the Korean Embassy in Beijing instructing it to confirm whether the recent hacking of computers at major national institutions is connected with the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army. Ahead of this, as the Foreign Ministry was protesting Chinese state-run media distortions of Goguryo history to Chinese Ambassador Li Bin on Wednesday, the ministry requested China's active cooperation in solving the hacking problem. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Shin Bong-kil said Li stated he would relay the request to Beijing and would work hard to see that the facts...

A team of computer scientists and mathematicians at Palo Alto, CA-based Artificial Development are developing software to simulate the human brain's cortex and peripheral systems. As a first step along the way, the company recently disclosed that it has completed the development a realistic representation of the workflow of a functioning human cortex. Dubbed the CCortex-based Autonomous Cognitive Model ('ACM'), the software may have immediate applications for data mining, network security, search engine technologies and natural language processing. The first ACM computer 'persona,' named 'Kjell' in homage to AI pioneer Alan Turing, was activated last month and is in early...

Thousands of students, staff and alumni of a tony Upper East Side design school were put at risk of identify theft and possible bankruptcy after school computers containing their personal info were dumped on the sidewalk. As many as 10 computers were found abandoned outside the New York School of Interior Design on East 70th Street on June 17 and handed over to The Post. One hard drive revealed files containing more than 15,000 Social Security, credit-card and phone numbers plus staffers' salaries, academic transcripts, dates of birth and student ID photos. -----snip-----

Rated E for Everyone: New Company Unveils Family-Friendly Computer GamesFeature by Jenni ParkerJuly 2, 2004 (AgapePress) - A new Silicon Valley company has formed to produce electronic games that are both high-quality and family-friendly, without the violence and other negative content found in many popular videogames. And now the Christian computer game developer called Digital Praise has partnered with Focus on the Family to bring out a new line of interactive games based on the popular Adventures in Odyssey radio series.Today's video and computer game market is flooded with fantasy games featuring shootouts, car crashes, kicks and punches, all...

WASHINGTON, June 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new report out today reveals that the FBI will not be able to fully deploy a long- awaited computer upgrade to manage the bureau's case files before the end of the year as promised, and that the bureau cannot predict when the entire system would be in place. The FBI's computer problems were a major factor in the intelligence failures that led to 9/11. (NY Times, 6/26/04) Kerry Spokesman Phil Singer said: "The FBI's outdated computer system contributed to the intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks. But three years later,...

IIS 5 Web Server Compromisesadded June 24 US-CERT is aware of new activity affecting compromised web sites running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 5 and possibly end-user systems that visit these sites. Compromised sites are appending JavaScript to the bottom of web pages. When executed, this JavaScript attempts to access a file hosted on another server. This file may contain malicious code that can affect the end-user's system. US-CERT is investigating the origin of the IIS 5 compromises and the impact of the code that is downloaded to end-user systems.Web server administrators running IIS 5 should verify that there is...

Government and industry experts are reporting a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors. Industry experts and the Homeland Security Department are studying the infection to determine how it spreads across Web sites and find adequate defenses against it. A government warning says even Web sites trusted by users may contain the potentially malicious code. The infection appears to target at least one recent version of Microsoft's Internet Information Server, which is popular among businesses and organizations. The United States Computer...

A tiny prototype fuel cell the size of a thumb has been developed by Toshiba. The Japanese electronics giant said the methanol fuel cell could power a gadgets such as a digital music player for 20 hours. Fuel cells generate electrical power by catalysing substances such as hydrogen and methanol. Toshiba hopes that by 2005, the fuel cells could be used in handheld electronic devices instead of lithium-ion batteries. Size matters Fuel cells have been touted as a green power source for the future as they produce electricity by converting hydrogen and oxygen into water. Many companies are working on...

<p>Florida state officials are considering taxing home networks that have more than one computer, under a modified 1985 state law that was intended to tax the few businesses that used internal communication networks instead of the local telephone company.</p> <p>Officials from Florida's Department of Revenue held a meeting on Tuesday to see whether the law would apply to wired households, and exactly who would be taxed. About 200 people attended, including community and business representatives.</p>

Teleportation breaks new ground 16 June 2004 Physicists in Austria and the US have independently demonstrated quantum teleportation with atoms for the first time. Until now, teleportation had only ever been observed with photons. The results could represent a major step towards building a large-scale quantum computer. In quantum teleportation, the sender, normally called Alice, instantaneously transfers information about the quantum state of a particle to a receiver called Bob. The uncertainty principle means that Alice cannot know the exact state of her particle. However, another feature of quantum mechanics called "entanglement" means that she can teleport the state to...

SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- A threatening new e-mail virus debuted last Friday and is quickly circulating worldwide across the Internet, affecting computers of countless numbers of individuals, government officials, and media. In a message entitled "{Spam?} {Virus?} {Spam?} Check this out kid!!!," the e-mail simply states, "Send me back bro, when you'll be done...(if you know what i mean...) See ya, ..." Worse yet, the attachment to this e-mail, "jennifer the wild girl xxx07.jpg.pif," is a virus that has severely infected computers internationally. The virus, known as Worm.Zafi.B, sends as many as 100 or more e-mail messages daily with...

It is slower than molasses!!!! And it is loading strangely. Never had this problem with them before today.

<p>Giovanni's big fingers tapped away on his laptop as he typed a 600-word assigned report on the 1815 eruption of Tambora volcano in Indonesia.</p> <p>Giovanni was into it. His eyes never left the screen and his earphones blocked out the drone of an air conditioner and chatter from a nearby table. Clicking open an encyclopedia on the wireless system, he found geology facts and carried text blocks to weave into his report.</p>

The former President is gone, but now you can honor him on your desktop. This commemorative screensaver offers a collection of images from the life and times of The Great Communicator. Our Ronald Reagan Remembered Tribute screensaver is a compilation of 22 images that encapsulate his life, his career, and his presidency. Inspired by the some of his most famous quotes and speeches, RI Soft Systems arranged the photos in this screensaver to pay tribute to his lifetime accomplishments. Ronald Reagan Remembered Screensaver Screensaver Copyright © 2004 RI Soft Systems. All Rights Reserved. Photos provided by United Press International. Our...

I am working with a client that has a LAN and high speed Internet connection in its central office. The client has several nearby "satellite" locations, each with one or two PCs, with only dialup Internet access. I am facing a challenge in keeping the remote PCs current with Windows updates. Trying to download them over a dialup connection will take HOURS. Here's what I would like to do instead: - At each PC, connect to Microsoft via dialup for a scan of needed updates - Record the list of updates - At central office, do download of updates and...

I am curious to know how many of you stay-at-home moms do part-time work using your computer from home? I have searched so many web sites and want ads for part-time work using my computer from home, but many of the ads and web sites appear to be a scam. In most instances , you have to pay them to obtain information or to register! Thanks!!

"News: New virus reads keys you type" Posted: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:52:39 GMT Author: LinuXProX A new virus is on the prowl that can infect your Windows XP/2K system and record every key you hit on your keyboard. The keys are then sent back to the virus creator where he/she can steal your passwords and credit card information. The virus named, Korgo, started showing up in the last week of May but it now has at least six different variants. To protect yourself from this nasty virus, Microsoft is urging all users to download the KB835732 Security Update. The...

School bus driver faces charges of receiving child pornography By KELLIE TOLBERT AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A Durham School Services school bus driver was recently arrested on charges of receipt of child pornography. Jim Charles Teague, age and hometown unavailable, allegedly downloaded and saved images of a young girl involved in sexual intercourse with an adult man onto a floppy disk in August 2003, according to an affidavit. Teague used his daughter's computer and entered chat rooms disguising himself as a divorced bisexual female with two children, the affidavit states. The affidavit said he used several screen names. When chatting online, Teague and...

Return of Colossus marks D-Day Tony Sale led the team to rebuild Colossus Mk2 Colossus Mk2, a wartime code-breaker hailed as one of the first electronic computers, has been rebuilt and reunited with Bletchley Park veterans. At Bletchley, the hub of British code operations, it crucially found the keys to break the Lorenz code used by Hitler to encrypt messages to his generals. Colossus Mk2 has been painstakingly put back together over a decade by computer conservationists for Bletchley museums. As part of D-Day celebrations, 30 war coders gathered to see it once more. Besides its code-breaking prowess, Colossus was...