p2pnet headline roundups – Jan 11, 2008
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Yahoo‘s Core Value Is Falling – New York Times
The market is taking stock of still more rumors that Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo. (This would be a great deal, if it weren’t for management, strategic and cultural differences that would probably sink any combination.) In the meantime, according to Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, Yahoo’s stock price has fallen so far that the value of the company’s cash and stock holdings exceeds its actual business, despite a bounce from the merger talk.
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Secret services to fend off targeted trojan attacks – Heise Online
According to a magazine report, the “Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz” (BfV), the German equivalent of MI5, wants to take on the role of being a “coordinating centre for industrial espionage” and fight cyber-attacks from foreign secret services. According to business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, BfV president Heinz Fromm has proposed such a move to Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU). Service chief Fromm previously offered the collaboration of his agency in the fight against espionage carried out by foreign secret services at an event in Berlin in December. In doing so he noted that his agency has the knowledge to detect and pursue espionage and called for a corresponding increase in staffing. According to Interior Ministry estimates, German industry looses around 20 billion euros a year as a result of data theft. Around 750,000 computers belonging to German companies are believed to be infected with trojans and to be covertly forwarding confidential information – often directly to competitors. Professional spies in the service of the state are often behind these targeted attacks. In the last year, Chinese secret services in particular have repeatedly been accused of carrying out especially tenacious trojan attacks. Computers in the German Chancellor’s office have reportedly even been infected. Estonia has also accused the Russian government of having waged cyberwar on its critical network infrastructure.
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New York Probing Intel – Wall Street Journal
Intel Corp.’s troubles with antitrust authorities spread to the U.S., as New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an investigation into the chip giant’s tactics against rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The state’s investigators have served Intel with a “wide-ranging” subpoena for documents and information to determine whether the company had coerced customers to refrain from buying AMD chips, according to a statement issued by Mr. Cuomo.
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FBI wiretaps cut off over unpaid bills – Guardian Unlimited
Phone companies repeatedly cut off wiretaps used by the FBI to eavesdrop on criminal and terror suspects because the bureau failed to pay bills totalling tens of thousands of dollars, an audit showed today. The US Justice Department audit showed that, in one office alone, an unpaid wiretap bill reached $66,000 (£33,431). In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation – which include some of the most sensitive criminal and intelligence cases – was “was halted due to untimely payment”, the audit revealed.
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[OT] Warning or Miracle? Too Much Sugar-Free Gum Could Cause Extreme Weight Loss – Wired
Two German doctors presented case studies today suggesting that chewing too much sugar-free gum could lead to extreme weight loss of up to 20% of a person’s normal body weight. The work, which appears in the journal BMJ, consists of two case studies (pdf). In the first, a 21-year old woman reported experienced severe diarrhea four to twelve times per day. She’d lost 11 kilograms and had a body mass index of 16.6, substantially below normal. Patient interviews revealed she was chewing about 15 pieces of sugar free gum per day. She stopped chewing the gum and her symptoms disappeared. A middle aged man had similar symptoms and the same miraculous weight-gain upon cessation of gum chewing.
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Talent Scout Ken Nelson Dies at 96 – Associated Press
Ken Nelson, a longtime talent scout at Capitol Records who produced dozens of No. 1 country music hits and helped push Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to country stardom in the 1960s, has died. He was 96. Nelson died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Somis, his daughter, Claudia Nelson, told the Los Angeles Times. Somis is about 54 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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