ECONOMY AND THE ELECTION

An anonymous reader writes "After 32 rounds, the FCC has raised more than $18.8 billion in its 700-MHz auction,...

You may have noticed a number of stories recently about undersea cables getting cut around the world. Apparently the...

memshankar writes "In an interview while he was in Hyderabad, India RMS praises for the One Laptop Per Child...

A funny little man writes "The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update.

The Register noticed that a senior US Department of Homeland Security official has floated the idea of requiring...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "On February 5, 1897, 111 years ago today, the Indiana legislature...

MojoKid writes "While workstation graphics cards are generally much more expensive than their gaming-class...

Ponca City, We Love You writes "Toddlers' brains can effortlessly do what the most powerful computers with the...

An anonymous reader writes "I have code that I've written for my current company that I'd like to open-source.

Tech.Luver notes an AP story on tainted pills that have arrived in the US from — not China this time — Puerto Rico.

Jake writes in with the story behind an explosive NYTimes scoop last week. It seems that the Times's pharmaceutical...

An anonymous reader writes in with news from the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco of a...

netbuzz alerts us to a letter the EFF sent today to Senators Leahy and Specter pointing out a deleterious clause in the...

Lucas123 writes "According to a Reuters' story, Dutch inventors today took the wraps off a $110,000 car-fueling...

A new poll of Ohio voters seems to mirror nationwide sentiment on the economy and the election: Worries are mounting,...

Seventy-five years ago, Hitler came to power, ending the Weimar Republic. Did Germany's experiment with democracy...

cheezitmike writes "ITworld.com uses the Wayback Machine to document the histories of five generic domain names:...

lisah writes "Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly...

The law says telecom providers can't wiretap your phone calls or net traffic, but as long as their taps are legal or...

A piece at the MTV Multiplayer blog is exploring the issue of kids and gaming, wondering aloud how old is 'old enough'.

Leibel writes "The Australian ABC News is reporting that a 15-year-old Australian liver transplant patient has...

YIAAL writes "Writing in Popular Mechanics, Robert X. Cringely looks at the upcoming auction of the 700mbz...

sciencehabit writes with a link to the ScienceNow site, noting an article saying the Higgs boson may already have been...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The FTC has put a stop to Negotiated Data Solutions, a patent troll...

Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "An internet group calling itself Anonymous has declared war on the Church of...