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Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan
EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable
G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords
Bad Math Causes Explosion at CERN Collider
Soyuz Ballistic Re-entry 300 Miles Off Course
SpaceX's Falcon Launches... Sort Of
RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named
Mars Global Surveyor Died from Single Bad Command
Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse
Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts
Google Antiphishing Site Exposed Private User Data
So You've Lost a $38 Billion File
BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures
OS X Leopard Firewall Flawed
Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft
Third Undersea Cable Cut
Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret
Netscape Dumps Critical File, Breaks RSS 0.9 Feeds
Unexpected Slashdot Downtime
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America
Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops
Server with Top-Secret Data Stolen
California Court Posts SSNs, Medical Records
Dell Laptop Burns House Down
Magazine Photos Fool Age-verification Cameras
Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought
NMR Shows That Nuclear Storage Degrades
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
AOL's Embarassing Password Woes
Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working
Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week
Lunar Lander Challenge Ends in Fire, Disappoinment
Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9
X-Wing Rocket Launches, Disintegrates
A $1 Billion Email Gaffe
Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake
Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars
Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors
Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard
Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable
Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P
Last-Minute Glitch Holds Up Windows XP SP3
Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware
Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users
Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked
Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers
RIAA Drops Case, Should Have Sued Someone Else
UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records
Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper
Defunct Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit
AMD Claims Intel Inadvertently Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case
AT&T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All
Canon-Toshiba Joint Venture On SED Collapses
Cassini Geyser-Tasting a Bust
Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise
Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil
Contractor Folds After Causing Breaches
Critical VMware Vulnerability, Exploit Released
Customer Loses Xbox 360 Artwork During Repair
GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug
Gmail As Open-Relay Spam Server
Implanted RFID Chips Linked To Cancer
Microsoft Retracts Patent
Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public
Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car
Porn Found On L.A. Obscenity Case Judge's Website
Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12
Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch
Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight
TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus
US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops
US, Aussie Officials Yank GHB-Producing Toys
White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed
Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc
1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster
Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System
Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette
US Military Leaks its Secrets Online
8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives
Adobe PDF Exploits In the Wild
Air Force Emails Sensitive Information to Tourism Site
Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken
Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq
Benchmarking the Benchmarks
Blackberry Network is Down
Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study?
Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint
Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi
Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?
Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man
How One Clumsy Ship Caused A Major Net Outtage
IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks
Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers
Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google
Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator
Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox
Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World
RIAA Website Hacked
Safari 3.1 For Windows Violates Its Own EULA, Vulnerable To Hacks
Stalwarts Claim Asus eeePC Violates GPL
Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted
Ubuntu Servers Hacked
United Nations vs SQL Injections
Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
Why is Microsoft Patching XP?
Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens
Bank of NY Loses Tapes With 4.5 Million Clients' Data
Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users
12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set
500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked
Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error
Apple 10.4.11 Update Can Brick Macs With Boot Camp
Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps
Asus.com Compromised With Exploit Code
Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price?
Blu-ray Protection Bypassed
California Sues E-Voting Vendor ES&S
Cancer Drug Found; Scientist Annoyed
Comcast Briefly Loses Control of Its Domain Name
Copyright Advocacy Group Violates Copyright
Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case
Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast
Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention
EU May Force iTunes Store To Accept Returns
Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms
Eve Online Client Source Code Leaked
Evidence Surfaces That MS Violated 2002 Judgement
FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches
FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment
Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan
First Exotic Space Thruster Test Ends in Explosion
Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion?
Gaining System-Level Access To Vista
German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records
Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request
Hubble Camera Lost "For Good"
IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe
ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect
Indiana Data Theft Compromises 700,000
Latest PS3 Firmware Update Requires Hard Disk Wipe to Fix
Lessig Decides Not to Run For Congress
Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500
Linux Wireless Driver Violates BSD License?
Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript
Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users
Microsoft Using .MS TLD
Microsoft's Vista AV Fails Certification
Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet
Most CF Cards Fail DMA Transfers
Multiple FLAC Vulnerabilities Affect Every OS
Multiple Security Holes In Ruby 1.8, 1.9
Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage
MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search
MySpace Private Pictures Leak
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
New 20" iMac Screens Show 98% Fewer Colors
No iPhone For 64-Bit Windows
Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran
One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX
Popular HD DVD Disc Hits a Snag
Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack"
Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site
Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof
RIAA Trying To Avoid a Jury Trial
Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida
Safari "Carpet Bomb" Attack Still a Risk
Samsung Sued Over "Defective" Blu-ray Player
Snopes Pushing Zango Adware
Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability
Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software
Sony Sues Rootkit Maker
Space Station Suffers Power Glitch
TJX Is Biggest Data Breach Ever
TJX Security Breach Described
The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall
TiVO Patent Upheld, Dish May Have to Disable DVR
Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan
UMG Calls Infringement Damages "Excessive"
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture
US Dept. of Justice May Intervene To Help RIAA
US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work
Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows
Verizon Rejected iPhone Deal
Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video
Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files
Vista Upgrades Require Presence of Old OS
W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic
Why South Korea Is Shackled To Windows
Windows Home Server Corrupts Files
Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited
Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes
Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition
AT&T's Plan to Play Internet Cop
Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover