New attack cracks WEP in record time

Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two minutes.



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Addonics CompactFlash Adapters Replace Notebook Hard Drives

Now here's a great idea from Addonics: replace a laptop's 2.5" hard disk with flash memory, using a $30 adapter that lets you boot from CompactFlash cards. Suddenly you've converted that lappy into a solid-state notebook without spending an arm and a leg. That's what Addonics has done with its CompactFlash Hard Drive Adapters for notebooks



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symfony 1.0.1 released

We released symfony 1.0.0 just a month ago. Time for another release. symfony 1.0.1 is a bug fix only release. The symfony 1.0 branch only contains bug fixes (no new features).



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Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services

As more and more of the Web is becoming remixable, the entire system is turning into both a platform and the database. Yet, such transformations are never smooth. For one, scalability is a big issue. And of course legal aspects are never simple.



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Ballmer Blames Pirates for Poor Vista Sales

MSCEO Steve Ballmer is not happy about low sales of MSVista. Rather than blame the lack of drivers, and various other problems facing Vista, he blames the tech industry's favorite scapegoat: pirates. Teh pirates did it! Terrorism! Sorry Steve, we're not buying Vista because it's still not ready, not because we pirated it!



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Linux News: Software: The Most Popular Operating System in the World

Good read about an advance os for advance tech

...What is the world's most widely used operating system? It's not Windows, Unix or Linux, but ITRON, a Japanese real-time kernel for small-scale embedded systems. ITRON runs onmobile phones, digital cameras, CD players and countless other electronic devices....

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