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A con artist’s hi-tech gadget or simple distraction at the ATM can leave you with insufficient funds.

According to a source inside Apple, 10.5.7 should be ready for all your Software Updating needs on Friday.

A US House of Representatives hearing scheduled for later today will be devoted to deciding if a law should be made that requires peer-to-peer (P2P) programs to issue a specific notice to users that warns them that their files may be shared, CNET has reported. The Informed P2P User Act bill introduced in March by California Republican Mary Bono…

A civil case filed in both California and Massachusetts involving a tech industry mogul is pitting the two states against each other as to whether non-compete agreements can keep you from working for the competition.

Several readers including Pop69 inform us that the US Trustee’s office has asked to convert SCO’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy to Chapter 7 — a.k.a. liquidation. Groklaw has the text of the filing: “…not only is there no reasonable chance of ‘rehabilitation’ in these cases, the Debtors have tried — and failed — to liquidate their business in chapter 11.”

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destinyland writes “A Colorado medical advocate says, ‘The FDA contends that if one cultures stem cells at all…then it’s a prescription drug,’ in arguing that revolutionary new treatments could be delayed by 20 years — even using cells extracted from your own body. According to the FDA, even therapies that simply re-inject your body’s adult stem cells could be prohibited without five years of clinical trials and millions of dollars of research. How useful are cultured stem cells? ‘In animal models, they routinely cure diabetes.'”

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