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An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the company based on the MIT Ksplice project, is now offering its 'never reboot' service for Red Hat, Debian, and other Linux distros.

Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags.

Bubba writes "I just discovered this blog: Frozen Cache. It describes a concept for preventing cold boot attacks by saving the encryption key in the CPU cache.

Election Day is just around the corner.

wakaramon writes with a piece from IEEE Spectrum about an experimental approach to squeezing more usable storage out of a device's existing RAM; the researchers were using a Linux-based PDA as their t

Stony Stevenson passed us a link indicating that a group of researchers has described Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as basically a performance dud.

Al writes "A group from Newcastle University has released work that significantly improves the Draw-A-Secret method of creating passwords.

ta bu shi da yu writes "It appears that, incredibly, Vista can run out of memory while copying files.