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Is Ebay broken, 107 year old lightbulb, SP3 problems, fake mp3 files pack trojan horse punch.

It sounds like the scammers are doing a lot of damage to Ebay’s rep - should you avoid Ebay for now?Maybe so….

107 year old lightbulb still burns in California fire station!

Uh-oh: Some Windows XP Service Pack 3 users reporting continuous reboot problems.

DRM dealt a setback - EA makes a bold move to back down from draconian DRM planned for Spore and Mass Effect. And there was much rejoicing!

Before and after satellite pictures of Cyclone Nargis hitting Myanmar.

3 Critical Updates on the way for Tuesday - you’d best patch them fast!

10 last minute Mother’s Day gifts

From Tollie:

Twitter Local - all Twitterer’s and Tweets within 10 miles of Birmingham.

From Uncle Monster:

Beware files sharing! Fake mp3 files running rampant, and many of them contain a trojan horse.

FBI withdraws secret internet archive data probe.

Here’s a machine that can crush 60 hard drives an hour. As a side note: did you know that data can be recovered from a hard drive that has been flushed, run over and thrown out a seven story window? Here’s the maker of the machine.

Transistor guru Morgan Sparks dead at 91.

12 core chip on the way!

MSI’s sub micro desktop

Torrentspy fined 110 million for facilitating illegal file sharing.

Hong Kong bank loses server with info on 159,000 customers. Oops.

From Ken in Vestavia:

Great Northeast blackout of 2003 caused in part by a computer bug.

WOW! - Now I’ve seen it all! Find and broadcast wifi from your…. shirt?

From Ubuntu John:

Ubuntu newsletter #90

From Dan F.

Turn your e-waste into cash

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