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Paris Hilton is refusing to get off the headlines. Now it seems like another hacker hacked Paris Hilton and Vin Diesel’s voice mails.
A hacker gained access to both Paris Hilton and Vin Diesel’s private saved voicemail messages. The accounts were hacked and their messages recorded. This happened “thanks” to two programs, TeleSpoof and Covert Call.
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SiliconValleyWatcher is reporting a scoop. Yahoo is in negotiations to buy Flickr.
Form the story, “A high level source within Yahoo told SiliconValleyWatcher that the two companies are in negotiations over the purchase price and that as of late Friday night Pacific Time, no final agreement had yet been reached.”
You can read the full story
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To all who are searching for Fred Durst and reached this post, my apologies. I don’t know why Google is sending me so much of these searches. You may want to try to go here.

The Mozilla Organization released a security update that plugs a hole in the Firefox browser that allows an attacker to render a phishing site that purports to be a legitimate site by exploiting the IDN (Internationalized Domain Name). The IDN vulnerability allowed an attacker to create a fake Web site on a non-Microsoft browser in
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Opera has released an updated beta version of its next-generation web browser. Beta 2 includes new security features to prevent URL spoofing through the use of internationalized domain names.
I’m no big fan of Opera, I think FireFox is doing the job better, smoother, faster and in a more comfortable fashion, but still, this new release
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Paris Hilton has become the victim of a cell phone hacker. A spokesman for T-Mobile confirms that Hilton’s address book was lifted from her cell phone and posted on the internet. Hilton’s famous friends started getting phone calls Saturday night.
Private telephone numbers of celebrities including Christina Aguilera, Devo Aoki, Fred Durst, Jermaine Dupri, Vicki Gotti,
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Cell phone users beware, a new “ring worm” virus has been spotted in the U.S. eight months after first showing up in the Philippines.
It’s called the Cabir virus and once a cell phone is infected it can cause the battery to drain rapidly. The virus can also destroy files and some variations cause a cell
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The newest version of WordPress has been released. WordPress 1.5 “Strayhorn” has many interesting new features. The release has been pretty quiet so far — no announcement yet on the WordPress Development Blog or on Matt’s site.
New in WordPress 1.5:

Multiple Theme Support - The new theme system makes it easier to change the
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I finally got around to fixing the RSS bug that was disturbing some of my RSS readers. This involved changing one character in one file, boy I’m tired.
Most WordPress users are aware of the RSS bug or “difference of opinion”, I will explain. Basically Wordpress sends a misnamed header, and the .NET runtime -
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A new plug-in for Firefox (on Windows platform) named Annodex will allow users to browse through time-continuous media such as audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through text.
The plug-in was developed by CSIRO research organization in Australia. The organization said in a statement that “unlike other recently released
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Yahoo started offering a beta version of its toolbar for Firefox on Microsoft Windows. Versions for Linux and MacOS X are expected “shortly”.
The Yahoo toolbar was previously available only for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer only.
The Firefox version of the toolbar includes features such as bookmarks, search history and translation tools, but does not include
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Seems like the EFF is trying to “help” sys admins to get rid of unwanted log files. This is just onw of the means to minimize the ammount of data online service providers have on their users.
The logfinder script (in Python 2) is used to find lost or unknown log files on systems. From
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Google has introduced Google Maps. Now, this is very cool. Two things struck me first, one, the maps are very clear and detailed at the same time, two the response is extremely fast, something we got used to not expect from online mapping service. It has some nice features too. Beside the find address, get
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The powerful new chip design that will power the Playstation 3 will be unveiled today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The cell processor will be 10 times faster than the PS2.

Just a few hours ago I discussed with a friend the expected March 24 PSP release date, and now I received the latest bad news for it’s European would-be fans. Seems like the PSP will not come out in Europe until sometime in the second quarter of this year because of “chip shortages.” Sony spokesperson
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Sony finally announced the release date for the PlayStation Portable in North America. And the date is: March 24. Sony will have 1 million units ready for sale in the first week. A special “value pack” will have the pricetag of $250 (in the US).
The unit will include numerous accessories and for the first
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I’ve noticed an interesting blogging side effect. Now, as the number of bloggers increase by the hour, many of these bloggers get tired of the default look of their blog and start to “play around” with the template. Those may be system engineers or non-tech savvy people who just want a minimal change to avoid
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Sun Microsystems has released Solaris 10 for both SPARC and Intel/Opteron. Download is available for x64/x86 or SPARC system right now for free under SUN’s simple Right to Use (RTU) license.

Wired reports that Misrosoft management is frowning over the wide use of iPods among it’s employees. An inside source estimates that 16,000 out of 25,000 employees in Microsoft corporate campus are using iPods. Read the full article here.

digg has a new version 1.5.
Dont know what digg is? This is from the sites FAQ: ” Digg is a technology news website that gives editorial control back to the community…. With digg, users also submit links for review. But rather than allowing an editor to decide which links go on the homepage,
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Here is an interesting hands down step by step Mysql Clustering howto by Alex Davies.
MySQL Cluster is a separate network of nodes that replicate data through striping. The key for each table row (which is added behind the scenes if the programmer does not specify it) is hashed to determine which nodes store the
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All of TechMount’s revenues from ads for the month of January will be donated to tsunami relief.

I decided on this right as the month started while governments hesitated in sending monetary aid to the disaster struck area. I did not announce it right there and than because the mare announcement is against adsense (and
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