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  For security pro,
  puzzles to solve

  q&a From chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Symantec's Zulfikar Ramzan tells how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.

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  Soaring ambition for solar aircraft

  photos The Solar Impulse HB-SIA is designed to fly both day and night without the need for fuel and without producing any pollution.

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• Spiral Jetty, earthwork extraordinaire

  road trip On the north edge of the Great Salt Lake, Robert Smithson's masterpiece sits peacefully, awaiting visitors willing to make the long trek to see one of the world's great land art pieces.
  • Photos: Wondrous art
  • Where the Transcontinental Railroad finally joined
  • Photos: The golden spike
  • More from Road Trip 2009

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Wife exposes chief spy's personal life on Facebook

  The wife of the new head of MI6 reveals details of their vacations, their children, their celebrity friends, and even how he looks in swimming attire.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Report: Problems stymie U.S. cyberspy protection

  Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  (Posted in Security by Natalie Weinstein)

• Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store

  The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.

  (Posted in Apple by Leslie Katz)

• Fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites

  At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following a Thursday night electrical fire at a Seattle data center. Verizon's local DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Leslie Katz)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the BlueAnt S1 Bluetooth speakerphone, Canon PowerShot A2100 IS, and HTC Touch Pro2.

• iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web

  Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• Week in review: A speedier new Firefox

  Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Michelle Meyers)

• DOJ opens formal probe in Google Books settlement

  Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
  • Google finally sued by makers of Finally Fast

  (Posted in Digital Media by Tom Krazit)

• Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID

  Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.

  (Posted in Apple by David Meyer)

• iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing

  Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.
  • Apple fixing iPhone SMS security hole
  • AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Report: Acquittal in MySpace suicide case

  Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.
  • Court: MySpace not liable for offline assaults

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Google App Engine misfires

  A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.

  (Posted in Webware by Tom Krazit)
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