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USENET Reveals OnStar Spy Program

If you’re an OnStar subscriber, you may have recently received an email regarding an update to the terms and conditions of your subscription and service. In it, you’ll find an interesting tidbit that allows them to determine and collect your...

September 23, 2011

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Windows 8 Offers a Developer Preview For USENET Subscribers

If you’re curious what Windows 8 will be all about, Microsoft has announced on USENET newsgroups that it is now offering a Developer Preview of the operating system at its current stage of development. It’s a pre-beta version and while...

September 16, 2011

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New Technology Allows Authorities to View Online History

Launched at the Black Hat 211 security conference and released on Usenet, Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE) is capable of unlocking files indicating the web history of computers that are operating on Windows. Elie Bursztein’s team at Stanford...

September 11, 2011

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OECD Promotes ISP Regulations

A major Internet conference ended today in Paris with the publication of an official “Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making”. A key piece of these principles involves deputizing ISPs to become Internet cops—cops that would act on the basis of...

June 29, 2011

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Human Magnets on USENET

Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new USENET newsgroup post on biology newsgroups that include a study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic...

June 21, 2011

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Perfect Putt Posted On Physics Newsgroup

With a creak of the knees, you bend a fraction closer to the ball. You identify the gradient of the green, size up the distance to the hole and estimate the length and grade of the grass. Following a couple...

June 14, 2011

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1000 Day Article Retention Now Available From ThunderNews

ThunderNews.com has reached a new benchmark in USENET by incrementing retention to 1000 days. Still growing day by day, the increase to 1000 days in retention is available to all members of ThunderNews.com. All new and existing members of ThunderNews.com...

May 12, 2011

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DSLReports USENET Forum Compromised?

As a popular destination for many that are involved with USENET, DSLReports.com has long been a haven to discuss news and information in their dedicated newsgroups online forums. If you are one of them, you may want to take another...

April 29, 2011

General Technology Usenet

Online Dating Site Includes Background Screening

Long before the explosion of internet dating sites, USENET newsgroups had long been a home of “single and looking” individuals that had been looking for a love connection on their dial up connection. The hit or miss ratio not only...

April 25, 2011

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Virgin To Offer 1.5GB Connections

Virgin Media plans to start trialling broadband cable connections of up to 1.5Gbps with four businesses in the area of east London known as Silicon Roundabout allowing for one of the fastest access to USENET. The company said it planned...

April 21, 2011