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Microsoft wants you to upgrade to Windows 8.1, and the company offered a scary incentive to get you to take the leap, according to Microsoft USENET newsgroups. Redmond is reporting that the chance malware will infect your Windows XP-based PC...

Need more capacity for USENET content? HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary, just announced a helium-filled 6TB hard drive — the world’s first discretely 6TB drive, mind you. Naturally, the helium part’s driving a bunch of pun-blighted headlines absurdly comparing hard...

Although debated, Oct. 29, 1969, is our choice as Day One of the Internet (which would make it 44 years old today) for a good reason. That was when the very first message moved between the first two computers connected...

Today’s the day: October 17th, the day Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 8.1. And right now, the minute this post first went live, is 7AM ET, the exact minute the OS update will start appearing in the Windows Store as...

Every day when you log online, you enter the world wide web: A place where most of Africa has disappeared and China has eclipsed Russia as the country with the world’s largest land mass. At least that’s what the world...

A battle erupted Tuesday between two tech superpowers and their mega-fast Online and USENET services with Austin being the battlefield. AT&T announced Tuesday that it will deliver “gigabit” speeds to some Austin neighborhoods starting in December. That would put AT&T’s...

There is a “significant and pervasive” gap between women and men in access to information and communication technologies (such as USENET), which could widen if nothing is done, according to a United Nations study reported and posted on USENET newsgroups....