Hacker's extradition decision due

The long-running case of computer hacker Gary McKinnon could finally be settled later at the High Court. Authorities in the US are seeking his extradition to face trial for breaking into American military computers. Mr McKinnon admits hacking, but denies it was malicious or that he caused damage costing $800,000 (£487,000). Mr McKinnon faces up to 70 years in prison if he is convicted in the US of what prosecutors have called "the biggest military computer hack of all time". He has always insisted he was looking for classified documents on UFOs which he believed the US authorities had suppressed.

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UPDATE - BBC Article - McKinnon loses appeal

Security experts warn of SMS vulnerabilities

Researchers are warning of a new vulnerability which could leave the iPhone and other mobile phones open to attack. Security researchers Charlie Miller and Colin Mulliner revealed the flaw during a presentation at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas. The vulnerability was demonstrated for the iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones and, according to reports, can only be prevented by turning the handset off. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a handset and use the compromised device to send out additional spam messages or install malware.

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UK's first 3D channel coming next year

The channel will offer a broad selection of 3D content, Sky promised, including movies, entertainment and sport. All content will be captured using HD cameras and broadcast over the firm's existing HD infrastructure, making use of existing Sky+ HD set-top boxes. In order to see a 3D image, Sky stressed that you will have to fork out for a 3D-ready TV and wear polarising glasses. Sky's keeping mum about exactly what the channel's 3D resolution will be when it reaches your living room. However, the broadcaster hinted to Register Hardware that it'll sit somewhere between SD and 1080p.

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Telefonica Profit Drops 6.1% on European Recessions

Telefonica SA, Europe's second- largest phone company, said second-quarter profit fell 6.1 percent as recessions in Spain and the U.K. eroded sales. Net income dropped to 1.93 billion euros ($2.7 billion) from 2.06 billion euros a year earlier, Madrid-based Telefonica said today in a statement. Sales fell 2.6 percent to 13.89 billion euros. Analysts had predicted profit of 1.88 billion euros on sales of 13.96 billion euros, the average estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

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Dutch judge orders Pirate Bay to block Netherlands surfers

An Amsterdam court has ordered The Pirate Bay to block all Dutch visitors to its website, threatening the site administrators with daily fines for noncompliance. Dutch antipiracy group Stichting BREIN, whose website is still down from an extended denial of service attack, filed a suit against the three Pirate Bay administrators who were found guilty earlier this year of aiding copyright infringement in Sweden-despite the fact that the three claim not to own the site. (They say it is owned by a Seychelles company called Reservella.)

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Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework

It seems we have yet another reason to volley complaints in Amazon's directions. 17-year old high school student Justin Gawronski had apparently been taking electronic notes and annotations on his Kindle for a summer assignment on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yeah, you can probably guess where this is going -- after the retailer remotely pulled the plug on that particular version of the book, Gawronski's notes were lost in the ethers, rendered useless.

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