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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
DHS Official Weighs In on Sony — A high-ranking Bush administration official weighed in Thursday on anti-piracy efforts domestically and abroad, indirectly chastising Sony BMG Music Entertainment for its digital rights management (DRM) software, which computer security analysis …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDs — Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their malicious code on PCs. — The decision by the music label comes after 10 days …
Reuters:
Sony BMG pulls CD software — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Music publisher Sony BMG said on Friday it would stop making CDs that use a controversial technology to protect its music against illegal copying. — "As a precautionary measure, Sony BMG is temporarily suspending the manufacture …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
SonyBMG DRM Customer Survival Kit — Here's a handy bag of tricks for people whose computers are (or might be) infected by the SonyBMG/First4Internet rootkit DRM. The instructions here draw heavily from research by Alex Halderman and Mark Russinovich. — This DRM system operates only on recent versions of Windows.
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Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
Measuring podcasts: The right first step — Measuring podcasts: … Jeff Jarvis makes the point that defined Audible's effort to produce a tool that supports a broad range of business models, ignoring the fact that the technology doesn't do what he says it should.
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Liberalcowboy / Jack of All Blogs:
10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging — Keeping to our policy of being controversial and well just plain silly. We rank the 10 most powerful women in the blogging industry — 1. Ana Marie Cox (http://www.wonkette.com) of Gawker Media has done everything right in her blogging career.
Ellie Gibson / eurogamer.net:
Epic proportions — Mark Rein has been in the news more than he'd perhaps like lately. The Epic Games vice president is a man who likes to talk, and a man who's passionate about games - a combination which can sometimes get him into trouble. — First he was accused of saying next-generation games …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Full Metal Jacket — I have, for several years, subscribed to the theory that those who are mostly desk-bound should buy the cheapest laptop they can get by with and the most expensive desktop system they can afford. One reason is the idea that laptops — slower and more fragile — aren't really worth a big investment.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Gas pipe broadband? — Imagine accessing the Internet over the same pipe that provides you with natural gas for cooking. — It may sound nuts today, but a San Diego company called Nethercomm is developing a way to use ultra wideband wireless signals to transmit data at broadband speeds through natural-gas pipes.
Walter S. Mossberg / SmartMoney.com:
Tempted by the Apple? — Add this column to your News Alerts (New!) — APPLE'S MACINTOSH COMPUTERS claim only a tiny share of the overall PC market, but they are getting more consideration from Windows users thinking of switching than at any time in many years.
Jason Silverman / Wired News:
Machinima Marches Toward Amusing — Machinima is growing up — finally. — This weekend, the Machinima Film Festival and the Mackies — the form's somewhat-annual awards ceremony — will be held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. — Anyone who has watched …
Ingrid Marson / ZDNet:
Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders … Linus Torvalds has threatened that if developers add 'last-minute things' to the next version of the Linux kernel he will 'refuse to merge, and laugh in their faces derisively' — Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the maintainer of the development kernel …
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Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Perspective: All the news that's fit to blog — A few unrelated items for your consideration: — • Last spring, an assembly of editors was asked how many of them knew who Craig Newmark was? A few hands in the audience went up. And how many had heard of Craigslist? A few more people added their hands.
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