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Heading Into the Shop

I hope you can live without my input here for a day or so. As you may have noticed from postings on other washingtonpost. continue reading

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Apple Admits MobileMe Mess... To Itself

The MobileMe meltdown seems to have led to some heads rolling at Apple: Last night, Ars Technica reported that the company is reorganizing the MobileMe effort. The (generally reliable) tech-news site's report quotes an e-mail from Steve Jobs, in which he calls the service "not up to Apple's standards" and "a mistake" to have been launched at the same time as the iPhone 3G along with the software upgrades that went with that. continue reading

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Microsoft to Open Kimono on Security Patches

In a bid to help the security industry stay a step ahead of cyber crooks, Microsoft will release additional details behind the vulnerabilities it patches each month to anti-virus companies and other large vendors of Windows security software. While Microsoft already provides a brief fact sheet of which components of Windows will be fixed prior to its regular patch releases on the second Tuesday of each month, known as "Patch Tuesday," security vendors say additional details will help them more swiftly update their software to detect the latest attacks. continue reading

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Self-Healing Hardware: Not Always A Good Thing

What's worse than a broken gadget? A gadget that won't stay broken. continue reading

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A New Flavor For Delicious

Yahoo's bookmark-sharing site Delicious finally launched its long-awaited 2.0 version, almost two and a half years after Yahoo bought the site. continue reading

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Apple Patches DNS Flaw and 16 Other Holes

Apple released updates to fix at least 17 different security holes in its OS X operating system and other software late Thursday, including a patch for the domain name system (DNS) vulnerability that many other affected vendors addressed nearly three weeks ago. Security Update 2008-005 patches a serious flaw in the DNS that could allow hackers to hijack users' Internet connections or silently redirect them to counterfeit Web sites. continue reading

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