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WabiSabiLabi, the eBay of security vulnerabilities, confirmed that its founder and strategy director has been arrested in connection with an ongoing spying investigation and remains custody in Milan.

With exploit code in circulation and no patch available for a buffer-overflow bug, Oracle Corp.'s flagship database software is open to attack, security researchers said today.

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Fellowships & Grants available for women grad students and professionals Deadlines for 2008-09 are approaching - see the following list: Also see Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Business and International Education Program -- CFDA# 84.153A * Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs -- [CFDA#s 84.334S and 84.334A] * Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program -- CFDA# 84.330B

Girls in K-12: More Math, Less Interest in Comp Sci The findings of the inaugural report showed that, starting in K-12 education, girls seem to have an advantage over boys in coursework but do not pursue careers or majors in information sciences. While girls have, on the whole, more experience in their K-12 educations in math and some engineering areas than boys, only 1 percent of females taking the SATs in 2006 indicated an interest in pursuing computer and information sciences as an intended major.

The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a hierarchical listing of subject terms from folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Thesaurus will improve access to cultural materials and scholarship by affording researchers, archivists, indexers, librarians, and others a common language for description.

Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress Two first place World Hoop Dance Champions have joined together to model and dance a vision of male and female balance, harmony and respect as traditionally practiced by their ancestors. Dallas Chief Eagle, Rosebud Sioux tribal member, and Jasmine Pickner of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe are both world-traveled hoop dancers. They share with audiences an ancient hoop dance story outlining sacred hoop wisdom.

Library of Congress Symposium, March 13 & 14 National Archives & Records Administration Film Festival, March 15 On March 13 and 14, 2008, leading scholars from throughout the United States will join experts from the Library of Congress in a free public symposium produced by the Library’s American Folklife Center. The event will highlight new research and recent discoveries inspired by the Library’s unparalleled collections of documentary materials generated by the groundbreaking cultural programs of the New Deal.

"The Defense Department is being awarded the Chairman's Award by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, for their innovative program to teach deploying military personnel about cultural preservation. . . . The DoD program, entitled 'In Theater Heritage Training for Deploying Personnel' educates troops about the importance of heritage assets, and methods of protecting them."

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Responding to the problem and time needed to keep so many different sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster and the widgets used on them updated:

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Perfect Pitch vs. Tone Deaf People The way that people talk about 'high' and 'low' notes makes it sound as though musical pitch has something to do with physical location. Now it seems there may be a reason for this: the same bit of our brain could control both our understanding of pitch and spatial orientation.

Carrying this book around recently Ive caught more than a little flak, not least from my kids, who once thought of me as a literary intellectual, or at the very least as a guy who espoused the virtues of reading. Hey, really, I told them as well as my wife and the guy sitting next to me on the subway no kidding, its a serious book, written by a professor of literature whos also a psychoanalyst. A French professor/shrink, no less, whos written books on Proust, Maupassant, Balzac, Laclos and Stendhal, among other canonical heavyweights. So lay off.

That settled, this autobiography is less about self-discovery than about public justification. Venter aims to validate his role in the genome contest, defend his motives, settle scores and recount a career that produced several other scientific firsts. The result is engrossing and exasperating and it does indeed suggest a rethinking of the genome race, though perhaps not the one Venter prefers.

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The vast number of computers that Schiefer compromised -- as many as 250,000 -- highlights a stealthy online crime spree on the rise. These botnets, short for "robot networks," remotely harvest personal information, including user names and passwords, to give their operators access to credit card information and online bank accounts.

So far an internal audit by the poker site has discovered that the unfair play went on for about 40 days, beginning on Aug. 14.

Finding who is responsible can get expensive. Dimitrelos, for example, charges $250 to $325 an hour. An security evaluation for a company with 700 to 1,000 or so employees can range from roughly $20,000 to $50,000, he said.