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• Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients

  An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak has shed some light on the dark practice of installing stealth-mode P2P clients during game downloads and using unsuspecting gamers' PCs as 'bandwidth slaves.' The clients operate in the background and largely go unnoticed until problems arise that are caused by overactive uploading/seeding. While the...

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  September 3, 2010, 3:13 pm| Read full article

• Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew

  pickens writes "Erik Hayden writes in the Atlantic that children will see endearing portraits of Chewbacca rendered in the style of "Winnie-the-Pooh" in the book of drawings "Wookie the Chew," a tribute to the combined genius of George Lucas, A.A.Milne and E.H.Sheppard, by artist James Hance released on September 1st....

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  September 3, 2010, 2:35 pm| Read full article

• 2010 May Be the First Year YouTube Turns a Profit

  eldavojohn writes "Analysts are saying that this year will be the first year YouTube turns a profit. From the New York Times article: 'In the last year, the video site has become a significant contributor to the family business at a time when Google, which makes more than 90 percent...

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  September 3, 2010, 2:35 pm| Read full article

• VISA Pulls Plug On ePassporte, Porn Webmasters

  tsu doh nimh writes "Credit card giant VISA International has suspended its business with ePassporte, an Internet payment system widely used to pay adult Webmasters and a raft of other affiliate programs. A number of adult Webmaster forums are up in arms over the move because many of their funds...

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  September 3, 2010, 1:47 pm| Read full article

• New and Old Experiments Combine To Help the Search For Life On Mars

  jamie sends in a story about an unexpected finding by the Phoenix Mars Lander which has shed new light on experiments done by the Viking landers back in 1976. The Viking experiments found traces of chlorine compounds that were interpreted to be the result of contamination from cleaning fluids on...

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  September 3, 2010, 1:01 pm| Read full article

• NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips

  MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has announced an entire line-up of Fermi-based GeForce GT and GTX 400M mobile GPUs, seven in total, and revealed a number of notebook design wins from major OEMs. Like their desktop-targeted counterparts, the mobile GeForce GT and GTX 400M series GPUs make use of technology from NVIDIA's...

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  September 3, 2010, 12:45 pm| Read full article

• Where Does Dell Go After Losing 3Par?

  crimeandpunishment writes "It was the big deal Dell wanted in a big way. But now that it has lost out to Hewlett-Packard in the bidding war it started for 3Par, where does Dell go in its effort to diversify its business and move into the higher-profit area of selling technology...

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  September 3, 2010, 12:14 pm| Read full article

• Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square

  Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Consumer Watchdog is running a 540-square-foot video billboard advertisement in Times Square, New York that shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an ingratiating ice cream truck driver who knows everything about everyone and happily offers free ice cream in exchange for full...

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  September 3, 2010, 11:36 am| Read full article

• The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally

  jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young...

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  September 3, 2010, 11:04 am| Read full article

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