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We recently learned that Christina Applegate, best known from playing Kelly Bundy in Married... with Children, is slightly different. In other words, she lost her breasts to a preventive double mastectomy in fighting breast cancer. Read more »

  The Beijing Olympics are in the center of the world's attention, exemplifying what the Chinese leadership has deemed the "peaceful rise". We take a quick look at smaller consumerist happenings in and from China. Read more »

A larger than life, but little known and little understood Internet security flaw gets coverage (again!). We keep wondering about OpenDNS and mention the Nisemono contest, since DefCON and DotCON sound soooo similar :) It is hard to believe that certain vulnerabilities so pervasive and so fundamental have persisted for such a long time unpatched. Yet this is the reality Dan Kaminsky (A), a security researcher, has been trying to change. Read more »

Not long ago, during World Cup, many tried watching it online live, but few succeeded. This time around, Wired helps you with a wiki (1) which you can modify yourself, but hopefully won't unless you have something worthwhile to add. Read more »