p2pnet headline roundups: Oct 8
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Adobe confirms PDF backdoor, offers unsupported workaround – ZDNet
Adobe has fessed up to a dangerous code execution vulnerability affecting software programs installed on millions of Windows machines. The flaw, publicly disclosed more than three weeks ago, could allow hackers to use rigged PDF files to take control of Window XP computers with Internet Explorer 7 installed.
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Police guitarist says new album possible – Associated Press
Will the curtain close again on The Police when their reunion tour ends? Andy Summers says the fractious trio could have a new album in them. “It’s sort of like living with the elephant in the room. I would see it as a challenge, to make an absolutely brilliant pop album at this stage of our career, and that would be something quite remarkable,” Summers, 64, said.
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MSNBC.com buys Newsvine – Hollywood Reporter
MSNBC.com has acquired social news media site Newsvine, which bridges the gap between traditional and new media. Newsvine displays news from news organizations, which is placed and added to by the Newsvine community. Mike Davidson, who co-founded Newsvine in March 2006, said the site’s mission has never been to displace mainstream media but instead create a social ecosystem around the news.
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New Web Site Shames ‘Rotten Neighbors’ – The Raw Feed
A new web site called RottenNeighbor.com lets people complain about their neighbors. Enter your zip code and zoom in on the site’s Google Maps mashup — before you buy a house next to a quote-un-quote
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For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together – New York Times
For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As word about their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for what has been called the Google phone, or GPhone, have risen, the way they do for Apple loyalists ahead of a speech by Steven P. Jobs. But the GPhone is not likely to be the second coming of the iPhone — and Google’s goals are very different from Apple’s. Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, a small market today, but one that is expected to grow rapidly. It hopes to persuade wireless carriers and mobile phone makers to offer phones based on its software, according to people briefed on the project. The cost of those phones may be partly subsidized by advertising that appears on their screens.
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Dutch customs find beetles stuffed with cocaine – Reuters
Dutch customs officers found 100 dead beetles stuffed with cocaine whilst examining a parcel from Peru, Dutch authorities said on Thursday. The little drug couriers’ bodies had been slit open and filled with a total of 300 grams of cocaine, with an estimated street-value of 8,000 euros (5,500 pounds).
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