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Bigfoot Web site stuns the world: It was a hoax--Outside observers discover that the alleged cadaver was merely a gorilla costume. The rubber foot was a dead giveaway.

Free-to-play, ad-supported games the winners?--Getting gamers addicted is the key to monetization, according to PC Gaming Alliance's chief technology officer. But the business model hasn't proven popular outside Asia.

Why can't Firefox print as well as IE?--Printing seems to be at the bottom of Mozilla's priority list. It's time to make Firefox the equal of Internet Explorer in terms of printing Web pages.

New Byrne/Eno album streams free--David Byrne and Brian Eno have made their entire album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, available as a free online stream and are encouraging fans to embed it.

Ireland investigating fake credit card reader scam
Irish officials say scammers replaced credit card readers and snagged data from 10,000 or so cards.

Android security team appeals to bug hunters
Security team for Google's nascent open-source mobile platform has attempted to raise its profile with the security community.

Judge lifts MIT students' card-hacking gag order
In an abrupt reversal, federal judge rejects the Massachusetts transit agency's attempts to bar three students from discussing subway card vulnerabilities--until sometime next year.

Sci-fi pros focus on e-books at Denvention 3
At the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, writers, agents, editors, publishers, and fans have a lot to say about electronic publishing.

Symantec to buy PC Tools
The purchase of the PC utilities software maker will allow Symantec to expand its reach in emerging regional markets, the company said.

More security holes plague MySpace, possibly Facebook
MySpace works to close hole that lets strangers read what friends write on members' private pages, while Facebook looks into security issues with new apps.

MIT student defends MBTA hacking research
In an interview with The Boston Globe, the student said there was never any intention to cause "havoc."

MIT students fight to keep card hacking material confidential
A hearing in Boston is likely to resolve the question of whether or not students who found farecard vulnerabilities must turn over unpublished material to the Massachusetts transit agency.

Apple .Mac customers targeted for fraud
Phishers apparently take advantage of the difficulties that occurred when Apple transitioned users from .Mac to Mobile Me service last month.

Massachusetts: MIT students deserve 'no First Amendment protection'
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ratchets up the rhetoric against three MIT students who are the subject of a court-imposed restraining order that a federal judge has declined to modify.

Judge leaves gag order intact on subway card-hacking students
In a setback to Electronic Frontier Foundation, judge postpones decision on whether three MIT students can reveal "information" about security problems in Boston subway cards.

Daily Debrief: Online attack, retaliation in Russia-Georgia conflict
In Wednesday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Robert Vamosi discuss the latest exchange of cyberattacks between warring countries Russia and Georgia.

Don't click that headline, security researchers warn
E-mails pretending to contain video from MSNBC have links to malicious software, security companies are reporting.

VMware: Don't shut down that virtual machine
Customers who turned off virtual machines running VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 were unable to turn them back on due to a licensing flaw. But the company has posted a patch.

Kids, not Russian government, attacking Georgia's Net, says researcher
Attacks on Georgia's Internet may be the work of "overexcited" youths and not Russian officials, according to the Zero Day Emergency Response Team's founder.

Transit agency wants MIT students to stay gagged
Federal judge will hear arguments Thursday from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and lawyers for three MIT students, who are the subject of a gag order over subway card security.

MIT students: Mass. agency 'misrepresents' what led to lawsuit
Both parties in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority lawsuit tell different stories about the week of negotiations that led to a restraining order against a Defcon talk.

Russia and Georgia continue attacks--online
Details are surfacing on the Internet side of the Russian and Georgian hostilities. Researchers studying botnets report an increase in attacks.

Microsoft fixes 26 flaws with 11 patches; six are critical
Updates affect Microsoft Office suite and individual applications as well as Internet Explorer.

Alleged NASA hacker gets temporary reprieve
Gary McKinnon, a British man who claims to have hacked into U.S. military systems amid an obsession with UFOs, is granted a two-week stay of extradition.