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  1. Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" details »
    it.slashdot.org Posted 2 hours ago by kdawson

    Barence writes "Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the Web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos. The company...

  2. Practical Django Projects details »
    books.slashdot.org Posted 3 hours ago by samzenpus

    Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me,...

  3. SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network details »
    it.slashdot.org Posted 6 hours ago by timothy

    snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his administrative passwords over to San...

  4. MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition details »
    tech.slashdot.org Posted 7 hours ago by timothy

    the4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a coalition of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a...

  5. Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web details »
    developers.slashdot.org Posted 8 hours ago by timothy

    Incon writes "Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive...

  6. Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone details »
    yro.slashdot.org Posted 1 day ago by kdawson

    I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Florida patent troll called Channel Intelligence is suing everyone from Lemonade to Remember the Milk for infringing on...

  7. Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time details »
    it.slashdot.org Posted 1 day ago by timothy

    DangerFace writes "A little while ago some Dutch researchers cracked the Oyster card, meaning they could get free public transport around London. The company that makes...

  8. How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? details »
    ask.slashdot.org Posted 1 day ago by Soulskill

    Anonymous Hacker writes "I'm in a bit of a bind. My young teenage son is starting to get curious about computers, and in particular, programming. Now, I'm a long time...

  9. Kaminsky's DNS Attack Disclosed, Then Pulled details »
    it.slashdot.org Posted 2 days ago by Soulskill

    An anonymous reader writes "Reverse engineering expert Halver Flake has recently mused on Dan Kaminsky's DNS vulnerability. Apparently his musings were close enough to...

  10. 2008 Pwnie Award Nominees Announced details »
    entertainment.slashdot.org Posted 2 days ago by CmdrTaco

    ruphus13 writes "The Pwnie Awards, an 'annual awards ceremony celebrating and making fun of the achievements and failures of security researchers and the wider security...

  11. Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce details »
    books.slashdot.org Posted 2 days ago by samzenpus

    Michael J. Ross writes "Many Web developers wish to create e-commerce sites that also support collaborative editing of content, community forums, and other features that...

  12. Web 2.0 Lessons For Corporate Dev Teams details »
    developers.slashdot.org Posted 2 days ago by CmdrTaco

    jcatcw writes "Quick, incremental updates, along with heavy user involvement, are key characteristics of the emerging software development methods championed by a new...

  13. Internet Users Not Updating Browser details »
    tech.slashdot.org Posted 2 days ago by CmdrTaco

    Jackson writes "Security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems have shown that more than 600 million Internet users don't use the latest...

  14. Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling details »
    it.slashdot.org Posted 3 days ago by timothy

    unassimilatible writes "Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship. Danamics, a Danish...

  15. Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction details »
    hardware.slashdot.org Posted 3 days ago by timothy

    slatterz writes "The computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and will be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe. Steven...

  16. Guide For Small Team Programming? details »
    ask.slashdot.org Posted 3 days ago by timothy

    dm writes "I run a small design shop and have been doing more and more web development, including fairly involved back-end programming of what's now essentially become...

  17. Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference details »
    developers.slashdot.org Posted 3 days ago by Soulskill

    An anonymous reader writes "Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot,...

  18. Best and Worst Coding Standards? details »
    ask.slashdot.org Posted 3 days ago by Soulskill

    An anonymous reader writes "If you've been hired by a serious software development house, chances are one of your early familiarization tasks was to read company...

  19. UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap details »
    mobile.slashdot.org Posted 4 days ago by timothy

    longacre writes "The Times of London is today reporting a January incident in which a top aide to Prime Minister Gordon Brown discovered his BlackBerry missing from his...

  20. The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop details »
    hardware.slashdot.org Posted 4 days ago by timothy

    pacopico writes "Stanford professor Kunle Olukotun designed the first mainstream multi-core chip, crafting what would become Sun Microsystems's Niagra product. Now, he's...