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Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure
from the automated-violence dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @09:37 (The Military)
with 619 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1128258/drone-kills-top-al-qaeda-figure?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

IBM Unseats Microsoft As Second Most Valued Tech Company
from the big-blue-gets-even-bigger dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday September 30, @23:13 (IBM)
with 271 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/0048250/ibm-unseats-microsoft-as-second-most-valued-tech-company?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Security By Obscurity — a New Theory
from the can-we-try-this-at-airports dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @18:12 (Security)
with 161 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/2034215/security-by-obscurity-a-new-theory?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

State Dept. Employee Investigated For Linking To WikiLeaks
from the don't-point-at-things-either dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @10:40 (United States)
with 146 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1143233/state-dept-employee-investigated-for-linking-to-wikileaks?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business
from the and-you-thought-america-had-high-prices dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Saturday October 01, @02:25 (Australia)
with 138 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/0139210/australias-national-broadband-network-officially-open-for-business?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Amazon To Lose $10 Per Kindle Fire
from the on-hardware-anyway dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @12:50 (Businesses)
with 137 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1632249/amazon-to-lose-10-per-kindle-fire?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Help Liberate the Debian Administrator's Handbook
from the books-want-to-be-free-too dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday September 30, @20:15 (Debian)
with 127 comments
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/2342241/help-liberate-the-debian-administrators-handbook?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Nokia Preps Linux OS For Low-End Smartphones
from the eggs-in-different-baskets dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @13:52 (Cellphones)
with 121 comments
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/172205/nokia-preps-linux-os-for-low-end-smartphones?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

AT&T Starts Throttling Heavy Wireless Data Users
from the keeping-a-promise dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @17:11 (AT&T)
with 99 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1947203/att-starts-throttling-heavy-wireless-data-users?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

The Cult of DevOps
from the but-risky-deployments-are-exciting dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Saturday October 01, @08:31 (Google)
with 86 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/017221/the-cult-of-devops?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Estimating Age With Kinect's 3D Camera To Filter Content
from the can-i-choose-what's-objectionable dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @11:41 (Microsoft)
with 86 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1421209/estimating-age-with-kinects-3d-camera-to-filter-content?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Battle For Open Standards In Dutch Public Education
from the think-of-the-gnu-slash-children dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Saturday October 01, @05:30 (Education)
with 82 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/0013203/battle-for-open-standards-in-dutch-public-education?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Mozilla Develops Gladius 3D Game Engine
from the new-versions-every-six-hours dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @16:04 (Software)
with 68 comments
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1846221/mozilla-develops-gladius-3d-game-engine?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Web Hosts — One-Stop-Shops For Mass Hacking?
from the digital-walmarts-for-script-kiddies dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @15:00 (Security)
with 49 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1724219/web-hosts-one-stop-shops-for-mass-hacking?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask Slashdot: Websites Friendly To eReader Browsers?
from the avoid-youtube dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @19:14 (Handhelds)
with 48 comments
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/2129239/ask-slashdot-websites-friendly-to-ereader-browsers?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Michael Nielsen's Free Video Courseware On Quantum Computing
from the superposition-of-knowledge dept.
posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 01, @15:36 (Education)
with 28 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/01/1849230/michael-nielsens-free-video-courseware-on-quantum-computing?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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