Windows Vista hotfixes leak to the Internet after being offered to Windows Server 2008 beta testers this weekend.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Two substantial collections of Windows Vista hotfixes leaked to the Internet after being offered to Windows Server 2008 beta testers this weekend, leading some users to speculate that the pair are actually the foundation of the [...]

ZDNet
by Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft’s next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.
Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product’s name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature — might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, as many have been speculating. A [...]

by David Faulkner
How cool would it be to have five days’ worth of your favorite music, if you’re someone who plays your favorite music 24/7, or 25,000 of you favorite snapshots suspended from a chain around your neck on a black, or pink, or green, or silver, or blue device about the size of a [...]

My Mobile Vault will give away 1,000 licenses for free, for life. Company wants beta testers to put brand new mobile phone back-up system through a rigorous testing phase
Portsmouth, NH (PRWEB) July 31, 2007 — My Mobile Vault, an innovative provider of mobile phone contact back-up and synchronisation announced today it will give away [...]

Daily Mail
by REBECCA CAMBER
“Legend has it that a four-legged fiend with glowing eyes and a blood-curdling howl stalks this very spot.
Which makes these pictures of a mystery creature taken near Hound Tor on Dartmoor more intriguing than ever.
Seen only yards away from a party of schoolchildren, the animal has a thick, shaggy coat, rounded ears [...]

Philip Coppens
“The area around the Firth of Forth, on the South coast, the area of the Lothians, belonged to a tribe which the Romans called the Votadini. The Votadini seemed to have been singled out, occupying a unique if not bizarre position with the Romans. They apparently welcomed the Roman invaders, who seem to have [...]

Sandboxie (www.sandboxie.com) is an application that effectively isolates some intrusive programs that monitor users as they browse online.
What is Sandboxie and how is it different than other solutions?
Think of your PC as a piece of paper. Every program you run writes on the paper. When you run your browser, it writes on the paper [...]

69News
It didn’t rain cats and dogs, apparently something strange did come from the sky in Bucks County. As we first told you on 69 News Tuesaday, a Perkasie resident contacted us after he found a strange substance all over his yard after a rainstorm.
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How advanced could they possibly be?

by Michio Kaku
The late Carl Sagan once asked this question, “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old [...]

National Geographic
By Guy Gugliotta
Scholars have long puzzled over the Maya civilization’s rise to glory and fall to ruin. The latest thinking is that a man named Fire Is Born made the Maya great. But no one person or problem caused the collapse. Simply put, everything went wrong. Read more
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The Register
By Mark Baard
Perhaps your real life is so rich you don’t have time for another.
Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.
The [...]

PC World
Yahoo says it will make user search data anonymous after 13 months.
Linda Rosencrance, Computerworld
Responding to concerns from privacy advocates and the public, Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it will make user search data anonymous after 13 months.
The news comes shortly after other Internet companies, including Google Inc. and Microsoft, have taken similar steps to limit [...]