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The Pentagon has gone on record to officially say that they do have satellites that spy on other satellites. The Mitex micro-satellites, which were launched in 2006 have been flying around in the geostationary...

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" throughout 2008 but plans to stay on as the company CEO. In a letter posted by Jobs and addressed to the Apple Community,...

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44...

A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank accounts. John Schiefer, 26, agreed to plead guilty to...

Adobe Systems Inc. has confirmed that there's a critical bug in its most popular programs, but it doesn't yet have a patch that protects Windows XP users against attacks arriving as PDF files. In an...

Monster.com has confirmed hackers who used servers in Ukraine stole login details from employers registered with the site. They then used those details to glean personal information from 1.3 million users who had logged resumes...

David Leroy Knellinger Sr, 60, pleaded guilty before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He admitted to using iMesh p2p software to obtain three videos depicting child pornography. US District Judge...

In a public mea culpa, Mozilla Corp.'s chief security officer acknowledged today that Firefox includes the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in Internet Explorer during a two-week ruckus over responsibility for...

Apple has said that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues". The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace...

Sony has said that it will replace the DVD titles that caused problems for many of its customers thanks to the company's ARccOS copy protection. ARccOS is a secondary level of DRM on Sony's DVDs,...

Vonage has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications patents and does not know if one is feasible. Vonage has said it was developing workarounds, or other ways...

Google has acknowledged that a dictionary of Chinese words used with one of its recently released software tools came from a third party. Google's Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) "was built leveraging some non-Google database...

Microsoft has admitted -- in a roundabout way -- that Vista has "high impact issues". It has put out a call for technical testers to participate in testing of Service Pack 1, due out later...

According to Reuters, Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman recently admitted that his kids stole music. When asked whether any of his seven kids stole music. "I'm fairly certain that they have, and I'm fairly certain that...

On the web, nobody can hear you scream. But they might just pop around to your house after a heated exchange in a chat-room and attack you with pickaxe handle! An internet user has been...

An interesting conversation with the Xbox technical support was posted on the web yesterday, the sound recording was made after a previous conversation was cut short before a resolution could be found. The recording made...

Apple's iPod supplier Foxconn has admitted to breaking Chinese employment law. The Hon Hai Industry-owned company has been under the microscope since the Mail on Sunday published claims that many workers on its iPod...

Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course....

Businesses have been warned by research company Gartner that the latest Google Desktop Beta has an "unacceptable security risk," and Google agrees. On Feb. 9, Google unveiled Google Desktop 3, a free,...

A post at Tim Sneath's blog confirms it, and after checking that this is publically available information we can now provide the information to rectify any problems PDC attendees might have activating their build. ...

Finally Apple have admitted that a batch of iPOD nanos are having problems with the screens cracking, offering replacements to any effected customer, see below. But at the same time denying any problem...

Sony will repair any of its handhelds suffering from a broken square button gratis; new models unaffected. Following complaints by consumers in Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment officially announced that it will repair...

Developer acknowledges frame-rate problems experienced by many players of the shooter, says a fix is on the way. Since its release last week, Half-Life 2 has been scooped up many-a-PC gamer. However,...

Thanks to pctuk for emailing us with this story Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has admitted -Gee...It has...