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Highland Park hacker wins award for wearing a 'white hat'
Many days late at night, Skyler Rojas, a rising junior at UC Berkeley, finds himself exchanging messages on Skype with a good friend. The conversations tend to focus on cybersecurity -- how to protect and break into computer networks. Trading tips and...
Tags: Linux, University of California, Berkeley, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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When traveling abroad, you have communication options
Question: I am traveling to Germany and will stay five weeks. I have an iPhone 4 with service through AT&T. I would like to use my phone for calls, primarily within Germany, and sending and receiving text messages. Should I look for service in Germany?...
Tags: Computer Hardware, International Travel, Apple iPhone, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Attacking Edward Snowden misses the bigger problem
Please. Let’s stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Administration’s Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let’s focus instead on what our nation’s...
Tags: Barack Obama, Jerry Brown, Justice System, The Washington Post, National Security Agency
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Video game consoles are playing a big role at E3
It has the hallmarks of a colossal clash between two gaming titans. Microsoft Corp. and Sony Computer Entertainment separately unveiled details about their new game consoles Monday, ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the big video-game industry...
Tags: Electronics, Computer Hardware, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Redbox
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'Homeland' plots a course not all ready to follow
In its first season, "Homeland" hinged on the premise that Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) had been turned while held captive by Al Qaeda and, now back in the States, was planning a terrorist attack. Nobody believed that war hero Brody would...
Tags: 24 (tv program), Primetime Emmy Awards, Central Intelligence Agency, Homeland (tv program), Claire Danes
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E3 poll: Xbox One vs. PS4, plus 5 things to know in the console wars
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIf the console wars between PlayStation and Xbox had been languishing the last few weeks, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) […]... -
Snowden's leak of NSA secrets reveals deeper problem
Please. Let's stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Agency's Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let's focus instead on what our nation's wiretapping agency has actually...
Tags: Barack Obama, Justice System, The Washington Post, National Security Agency, Verizon Communications
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'Post Tenebras Lux's' Carlos Reygadas is polarizing
When "Post Tenebras Lux" premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival, it was mostly met with boos and pans, yet days later Carlos Reygadas won the festival's best director prize. It is that sort of polarized response to his work overall and "Post...
Tags: Movies, Mountains, Landforms, Post Tenebras Lux (movie), Personal Service
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'I'm free from this,' Zumba teacher says at prostitution sentencing
A Zumba dance instructor was sentenced to 10 months in jail on Friday, ending the case of sex, lies and videotape in a prostitution scandal that rocked a picturesque seaside town in Maine. Alexis Wright, 30, was sentenced under a plea agreement to 20...
Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Prosecution, Alexis Wright, Lawyers
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The climate change guilt trip
A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he'd had playing with his two young daughters during the mellow evenings. It had been...
Tags: Lobbying, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Toyota, Environmental Pollution
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Movie review: Google crashers join Internet age in 'The Internship'
When Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson crashed weddings with such crazy success in 2005, they wanted to get laid. Older and not particularly wiser in "The Internship," the guys now want to get jobs. That's funny. Unfortunately, the comedy is linked to some...
Tags: Vince Vaughn, Shawn Levy, Seth Rogen, The Internship (movie), John Goodman
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Syria loyalists in Damascus cheered by Qusair victory
DAMASCUS, Syria — After two years of grinding conflict, they are talking victory in Mazzeh Jabal 86, a gritty urban hillside where narrow alleys are festooned with jury-rigged electrical cables and testimonials to the "martyrs" lost fighting for the...
Tags: Bombings, Emergency Incidents, Rebellions, Islam, Lebanon
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