Apparently law enforcement careers are as close as you can get to superhero living. That’s the only explanation for why a raid targeting mass production of game console mod chips would be called Operation Tangled Web. Oh, and there was a huge raid targeting mass production of game console mod chips, so hack your own …
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With Molly gone, we actually had three people who would definitely go to space on today’s podcast. Jason Howell, Bonnie Cha, and myself all would be willing to ride a rocket. Now we just need a rocket. But we won’t have much money left after we bid on the 700 MHz spectrum, which will be …
Is a YouTube video with a talking snowman an unseemly way to go about the democratic process? Apparently it is, per Mr. Romney. He and Rudy Giuliani have scheduling conflicts with the Republican version of the CNN-YouTube debate, and Romney says the snowman thing is just too silly. Sorry, guys, democracy is on the Internet …
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What’s a more serious threat to national security than BitTorrent? Well, it’s either Microsoft or pants, depending on whom you believe (I suggest you believe neither). Also, HD DVD takes the low road — the low price road, that is — and Google is for sure, for realsies, no foolin’ going to start filtering copyrighted …
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It turns out Microsoft Windows is a lot like McDonald’s hamburgers–over a billion people served, and a surprising number of them feeling slightly ill. Also in the news today, Sprint is hinting at open networks that may turn out to be not-so-open. the digital TV transition is a digital disaster in the making. and the …
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Apparently, the button people go crazy and gum up gadgets and computers with an almost unbelievable number of unusable and unattractive buttons! At least, that’s how you view it if you live in Tom’s and Steve Jobs’ weird little button-hating heads. In other news, check out Microsoft, making the Xbox 360 HD DVD player the …
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Well, OK–we were totally in the dark Tuesday during a rolling power outage in San Francisco that took out roughly half the Internet. But did we get to go home early? No! In other news (which we were here reading all afternoon), AllOfMP3’s head could be headed for jail, Facebook is headed to court, and …
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If Monday night’s Democratic presidential debate is any indication, it actually could! There were, like, concise and hard-hitting questions and, um, they came from the Internets. Weird! In other news, Acer’s chief trashes Vista hard-core. and universities almost become slaves to the RIAA and MPAA, then win a reprieve at the last second. Phew! Buzz …
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As state mottos go, it’s not the best we’ve heard, but that’s what Nevada gets for not only failing to reset the password for the governor’s e-mail account, but posting it on the Internet! How embarrassing. That and a pickle barrel’s worth of new iPhone news, Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …
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Wow! It’s my last official episode of Buzz Out Loud (in the studio, at least)! I hate long good-byes, so just let me say that you’re the greatest audience ever, and I’m going to miss the heck out of you. Keep buzzing! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata …
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