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Google mentor Rajeev Motwan found dead
Stanford professor Rajeev Motwan, mentor to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has been found dead in the swimming pool of his California home. Friends said Motwani couldn’t swim, “and was...Conference Board of Canada Ex-Employee Counters CEO Claims Over IP Reports
We’ve been following the Conference Board of Canada’s IP report fiasco for a while and new developments have surfaced recently. Already, the CEO was, not too long ago, doing damage control over the...Green Party on ‘copyright problems’
In an email, Andrej Chudy says he’s been, “looking around” to decide who to vote for in the EU parliamentary elections . When he asked the Slovak Green Party for its views...Guantanamo, The Game
Oh! What fun! A Scottish firm is turning the George W. Bush prison on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a game! “Guantanamo will be closed,” said The Guardian in January, going on, “The secret CIA...Obama Cybersecurity Report Addresses Critical Infrastructure and Privacy Issues
A cybersecurity report published by the White House on Friday provides a list of wide-ranging guidelines advising President Barack Obama on how the government should proceed in its national plan to secure cyberspace....Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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