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Early this year Carnegie Mellon University released a game that asked children to serve as “cyber cadets” protecting the Web. Now the institution has followed that title up with a game that helps teach Web users to sniff out “phishing” scams. -
1voteThis month Google unveiled new features for its fast-growing collection of searchable books, and one of them is the ability to cut and paste text from its books. Such sampling had not been easy in the past because Google’s books are displayed as image files rather than as text. Now users can use a new selection tool to identify a favorite clip, and a pop-up window appears offering the text, or Web code that allows a picture of the sample to be pasted into a document or blog.
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1voteAfter a college student was found harassing a fellow student via e-mail, a judge ordered him to stay away from her and her friends. But the judge went a step further, telling the student that he is not allowed on the Internet at all, reports the Republican-American, in Waterbury, Conn.
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2voteDisgruntled IBM workers in Italy are planning to stage a "strike" inside the Second Life virtual world, targeting facilities run by their employer. An information booth has been set up inside Second Life where volunteers can equip their avatars with protest T-shirts, such as "IBM is deaf to its employees' demands", and placards in four languages.
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1voteOn Wikipedia, everyone can be an editor, and every day thousands of them are engaging in fierce battles over the life stories of the 2008 presidential candidates. Wikipedia's founding principle is that everyone has something to contribute. And in a way, the site represents both what's good (collective knowledge) and what's potentially dangerous (rampant anonymity).
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1voteTrends & advice for K-12 technology leaders
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1voteFacebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites popular among college students boast users who claim hundreds of online friends. But new research shows the count of “real friends” — true intimates — is about five.
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1voteMr. Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia, argues that Google’s library-scanning project could cause a copyright catastrophe by casting doubt on fair-use doctrine. Fair use is typically threshed out on a case-by-case basis, the scholar says, but Google is asking courts to issue broad rulings on the doctrine
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1voteA student at Texas A&M University has been charged with masterminding a hack attack that prompted the institution to tell more than 90,000 campus-network users to change their passwords.
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