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  • Net not as interconnected as you think

    The Web's most extensive mapping project ever shows that despite what we may think the Internet remains a one-way street.

    News items | May 13, 2000 12:00am PDT

  • Bug hunters find 'cookie' hole in IE

    Personal information can be had if the victim uses Internet Explorer and clicks on a disguised string of JavaScript code. MS says a patch is coming.

    News items | May 12, 2000 12:00am PDT

  • Techies continue search for SETI

    It's been one year and the results show almost two million PC users have looked for aliens.

    News items | April 28, 2000 12:00am PDT

  • Area 51 discovered -- on the Net

    Site posts Russian satellite photos that purportedly show a supersecret U.S. military base that has been the center of UFO legends.

    News items | April 18, 2000 12:00am PDT

  • 'Opto-chip' -- broadband breakthrough?

    The experimental chip converts light transmitted by fiber-optic lines into electrical signals. Its speed is staggering.

    News items | April 7, 2000 12:00am PDT

  • IBM tech pushes storage limits

    IBM researchers have a new way to create up to 100 times more hard drive space. Desktops will be able to store trillions of bytes of data.

    News items | March 17, 2000 12:00am PST

  • NASA site blocks out Brazil

    NASA's JPL says it’s blocking Brazilian access to its Web servers due to a wave of computer attacks.

    News items | March 15, 2000 12:00am PST

  • 'Zombie attacks': Web crackdown widens

    'Coolio' and 'Mafiaboy' lead the hit parade of suspects in this month's ongoing barrage of Web attacks. The FBI is throwing agents from 17 offices into the fray.

    News items | February 19, 2000 12:00am PST

  • Web awaits pictures from Mars

    Some NASA site planners expect as many as 100 million hits today as surfers await images and sound from the Red Planet.

    News items | December 3, 1999 12:00am PST

  • Live from Mars, it's Polar Lander

    Well, almost. Photos from Mars can be seen by million of surfers within an hour of Polar Lander's touchdown -- noon PT, Friday.

    News items | December 1, 1999 12:00am PST

  • A Web that's out of this world

    Engineers are adapting Internet architecture to space communications. Their goal? Turn outer space into cyberspace.

    News items | November 5, 1999 12:00am PST

  • Report calls for national 'e-archive'

    National Research Council calls for a digital version of the Library of Congress. Don't count on it right away as copyright issues will certainly interfere.

    News items | November 4, 1999 12:00am PST

  • Spam hits the House of Representatives

    Congressional aide’s message sets off a hail of replies, bogging down the House's e-mail system.

    News items | October 5, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • What's the make-up of the Web?

    Two studies say the Web exhibits the type of physical order usually found in galaxies.

    News items | September 9, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • Hackers storm federal weather site

    Attacks on federal Websites seem to be part of a hacker competition.

    News items | June 30, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • SETI@home, FamilySearch hit gridlock

    Overwhelmed by success, the two sites are choking on server overload.

    News items | May 27, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • 'Star Wars' more science than fiction?

    Using the Force? Not yet, but some of 'Star Wars' other fantasies are no longer so far fetched.

    News items | May 18, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • Home search for SETI begins

    More than 400,000 home users signed up to take part in the largest distributed computing project ever.

    News items | May 14, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • On the watch for Web warning signs

    The Colorado tragedy has sparked a new round of soul-searching over the Net's 'dark side' -- and some Net-savvy kids say they're feeling a backlash.

    News items | April 27, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • The big idea in SETI: Think small

    Network would knit together hundreds of satellite dishes.

    News items | February 10, 1999 12:00am PST

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