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It’s official! Windows XP SP3 goes RTM today - ZDNet

The moment that Windows XP users have been waiting for. Today Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) goes RTM. What’s in SP3? XP logoHere’s what you can expect from XP SP3: All previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes. Also contained are some out-of-band releases. A small number of new OS enhancements.

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The 500,000 GB MP3 Player - Digital Trends

Can you even imagine an MP3 player with a 500,000 GB capacity? It’s pretty much beyond belief. The most generous player today can only hold around 40,000 songs - they’d hardly make a dent on this. The thing is, it could easily happen. Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square. The Glasgow scientists worked to create the molecule-sized switch that’s at the heart of it all.

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HD enthusiasts crying foul over cable TV’s crunched signals - Associated Press

Comcast Corporation and other cable TV companies are packing more HD channels than ever into limited bandwidth. But some owners of the pricey plasma, projector and LCD TVs are complaining that they’re not getting the high-def quality they paid for. They blame the increased signal compression being used to squeeze three digital HD signals into the bandwidth of 1 analog station. Compressing the signal is cheaper than costly infrastructure upgrades to increase capacity.

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Campaign tackles online child porn - Agence France-Presse

The number of websites hosting child pornography has fallen for the first time and a co-ordinated international response could eradicate them for good, a charity said. According to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the number of English-language domains displaying child porn fell from 3052 in 2006 to 2755 last year, most based in Russia and the United States.

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Tension Over Sports Blogging - New York Times

Recently in Dallas, more than an hour before game time, Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was in the locker room grinding on the Stairmaster, surrounded by several reporters - their microphones deployed, heads tilted away to avoid flying droplets of sweat. A reporter for The Dallas Morning News, who writes a blog, asked Mr. Cuban about a bruised Dirk Nowitzki, referring to the star power forward as a "warrior" for his willingness to play while injured. "We’re not trading him to the Warriors," said Mr. Cuban. "Bloggers might make that point." The comment was a bit of word play, but it illustrates how Mr. Cuban, a prolific blogger himself, feels about some of the bloggers who cover his team.

Fedora 9 Linux postponed, but new preview is available - Heise Online

The Fedora Project has released a "preview" version of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution for download via Bittorrent. Shortly beforehand, the Project had adjusted the timetable for Fedora 9 and the Linux distribution is now scheduled for release on May 13, two weeks later than originally planned. This decision was made to give the developers more time for correcting flaws, after first the beta version and now the preview version, were completed behind schedule.

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Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death - Associated Press

The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there’s one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Sixteen years after the superpower’s collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising — registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community resisting repeated efforts to extinguish the online Soviet outpost. Russian nostalgia for the Soviet empire is part of the story. Nashi, or "Ours," is a pro-Kremlin youth group that gained notoriety for raucous protests against Kremlin critics. The group loyally praises President Vladimir Putin at "nashi.su," though it denies its choice of the ".su" domain was meant to send a political message. Many Web entrepreneurs also see potential profits in the domain, grabbing instantly recognizable names already claimed in other, better known domains.

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