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		<description><![CDATA[Cybasurfa has moved to a new location. Thanks to WordPress.com for a great service over the past couple of years (still the best blogging platform in the world!). Visit Cybasurfa for more breaking news and product reviews. The future as it happens! Posted in Blogging, Notices Tagged: moved, new location, new website<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=703&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of an expanding programme of battlefield automation, the American air force has said it is now training more drone operators than fighter and bomber pilots. In a controversial shift in military thinking – one encouraged by the confirmed death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a drone-strike on 5 August – the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=698&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Green palm oil&#8217; claims land Cadbury&#8217;s in sticky mess</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are breaking open the chocolate bars at Auckland zoo in New Zealand this week. The keepers have been running a campaign to get Cadbury to remove palm oil from its chocolate. It&#8217;s been headline news down there, since Cadbury&#8217;s recently added the palm oil to make local Dairy Milk &#8220;softer&#8221;. Zoo staff simply refused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=700&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who will be responsible for autonomous machines?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within a decade, we could be routinely interacting with machines that are truly autonomous – systems that can adapt, learn from their experience and make decisions for themselves. Free from fatigue and emotion, they would perform better than humans in tasks that are dull, dangerous or stressful. Already, the systems we rely on in our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=696&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US man stole 130m credit card numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US prosecutors have charged a man with stealing data relating to 130 million credit and debit cards. Officials say it is the biggest case of identity theft in American history. They say Albert Gonzales, 28, and two unnamed Russian co-conspirators hacked into the payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain. Prosecutors say they aimed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=694&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists pioneer method for DNA microchips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found a way to create a new generation of tiny microchips that use DNA &#8211; rather than traditional silicon &#8211; to achieve potentially revolutionary advances in computing. A team based at IBM&#8217;s Alamaden research facility in San Jose, California, has found a method for building chips that they believe could eventually replace the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=692&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China drops Green Dam web filtering system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese officials appear to have retreated from their controversial plan to install an internet filtering system on computers in the country. The industry and information technology minister, Li Yizhong, said today that the notion that the Green Dam programme would be required on every new computer was &#8220;a misunderstanding&#8221; spawned by poorly written regulations. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=688&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Pre snoops on users by phoning data home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palm Pre users watch out. Palm may know a lot more about you than you would like to share. Programmer Joey Hess found that Palm Pre&#8217;s operating system webOS sends his GPS location back to Palm every day. Hess also found code that sends Palm data on which webOS apps he has used each day, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=684&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Computer viruses slow African expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hampered by pirated software and super-slow download times, computer users in Africa are finding PC viruses hard to eradicate. While western countries have partially learned to neutralise the threat of computer viruses, Africa has become a hive of trojans, worms and exploiters of all stripes. As PC use on the continent has spread in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=681&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tr.im URL shortening service closes its doors</title>
		<link>http://cybasurfa.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/tr-im-url-shortening-service-closes-its-doors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular URL shortening service Tr.im has announced it is shutting down. That means, just as critics of URL shortening services predicted, a whole lot of shortened links are about to disappear in a black hole. Or maybe not. The developers of Tr.im say that the service will remain running through the end of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cybasurfa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3395629&amp;post=677&amp;subd=cybasurfa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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