Topic: NEWS english - on February 7, 2007 at 1:12:00 PM CET
Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave
If you have a credit card or just bought a copy of Windows Vista, you're familiar with security holograms -- those sparkly bits of film that vouch for the validity of everything from driver's licenses to software and sports league items.
It turns out, they're aren't as secure as they are sparkly.
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 7, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM CET
Warning over ePassport microchips
Microchips in Britain's new ePassports only have two-year warranties, a National Audit Office report says.
They are so new, no-one knows how long they will last, or how the scanners reading them will work, the NAO said.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 7, 2007 at 1:03:00 PM CET
Danger Mouse finds big success
Three years ago, Brian Burton, better known as Danger Mouse, was the toast of the Internet thanks to his wildly popular, highly unauthorized and completely brilliant mash-up of the Beatles “White” album and Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” — “The Grey Album.”
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 7, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CET
There was no other way but up
They didn't speak to each other for three years. Now Massive Attack are back recording - and playing live. In their first UK interview for a decade, the duo talk to Dorian Lynskey
The other day Grant Marshall, the Massive Attack member better known as Daddy G, was collecting his daughter from school when he fell into conversation with another parent, an Israeli woman. She asked when Massive Attack were next playing live. Marshall told her there would be three shows this month in aid of the Hoping Foundation. She asked what that was. He told her it was a charity that funds community projects for Palestinian refugee children.
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Topic: logisch - on February 7, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CET
"Too tired to walk," man steals police car
A Japanese man told police he stole a patrol car that had been left idling outside a post office in Gunma, north of Tokyo, because he was too tired to walk home.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 7, 2007 at 12:58:00 PM CET
Crackdown on paedophiles' internet aliases
Internet paedophiles could be forced to register all their online nicknames and email addresses with the authorities as part of a new crackdown, it was revealed today.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 7, 2007 at 12:56:00 PM CET
Vienna busts huge child porn ring
Austria has uncovered an international child pornography network involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, the interior minister said.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 7, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Hackers Attack Key Net Traffic Computers
Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
Wired.com Hackers attack heart of the net liquidat.wordpress.com breitbart.com foxnews.com
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 7, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Death key to sex in butterflies
Bacteria that kill off male butterflies can actually lead to increased promiscuity in female butterflies, scientists have found.
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