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Correction: Sega Nomad portable game console

This gallery incorrectly identified the Sega Nomad portable game console and included an additional image prior to it that has since been removed that alluded to the Sega CD.

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Correction: New Twitter, Facebook apps for BB10

This story originally said BlackBerry was the developer of the Twitter and Facebook apps for its OS. Actually, Twitter itself makes the Twitter app for BB10.

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Correction: Google and VP8

The caption beneath the graph incorrectly identified the top performing encoder shown in the graph itself. That encoder is Google's Foxtail VP8 encoder.

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This post originally and mistakenly referred to the GSA vulnerability as a "breach." The agency says that the vulnerability was not the result of a hack or breach. Here is the GSA's statement on the matter:

"Recently, U.S. GSA officials identified a security vulnerability in the System for Award Management (SAM), which could allow some existing users in the system to access certain registration information of other entities. Immediately after the vulnerability was identified, GSA implemented a software patch to addresses the immediate vulnerability. GSA is undertaking a full review of the system to investigate … Read more

Correction: BP and Wikipedia

This piece was re-edited to stress that BP is following Wikipedia guidelines.

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Correction: BlackBerry 10 erroneously reported as being not secure enough by U.K.

This article, originally headlined "BlackBerry 10 deemed not secure enough by U.K.," previously reported the U.K.'s Computer Experts Security Group had determined that the new operating system did not meet its standards. At the time of its publication, the CESG was unavailable for comment, so the article relied on the reporting of The Guardian. We have since learned that report was inaccurate. We have received comment from the CESG that indicates BlackBerry 10 has not yet undergone required testing. We have included the group's statement in this update report but otherwise left the article … Read more

Correction: eBay lowers seller listing fees

A previous version misreported the high-end subscription cost based information provided by eBay.

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Correction: Internet Census 2012

Due to an editor's error, this story mistakenly attributed the Internet Census 2012 to Gordon Lyon, who runs SecLists.org. The Internet Census posting was by an unnamed researcher, not Lyon.

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Fast access to Outlook 2013's spell-checker and auto-correct options

When Microsoft released Office 2013 some Word and Outlook users were unpleasantly surprised to find the AutoCorrect options removed from the right-click (context) menu of Word 2013 and WordMail for Outlook 2013.

On its TechNet site, Microsoft explains that the change was made to streamline the right-click menus in those programs. (Scroll to the end of the long list of changes made to Office 2013 to find "Contents of spelling error context menu" in the Word section.)

In Outlook 2003/2007, you can access suggested spellings and AutoCorrect options for misspelled words by clicking the lightning-bolt icon that … Read more