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  Anonymous Imposters: Hiding Behind the AntiSec Identity

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 10:47pm CET by Digg

  Anyone can say they're part of Anonymous. It's the perfect cover for hackers with motives more sinister than fun and propaganda. Could that be why private intelligence firm Stratfor was just hacked? No-one can be sure.
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  LG OLED TV To Be Unveiled At CES

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 6:46pm CET by Digg

  For flat-panel TVs, the choice for years has been between plasma and LCD. In the coming year, there'll be another choice, at least for those prepared to spend big. LG Electronics Inc. says it's planning to sell a 55-inch set based on organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs.
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  Zut Alors! French Government Deny BitTorrent Piracy Allegations

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 4:20pm CET by Digg

  Mid-December, data from YouHaveDownloaded was used to show that several illegal downloads had taken place in the palace of French President Sarkozy. These, however, were just the tip of the iceberg. More than 250 further IP addresses belonging to the French Ministry of Culture have now been linked to illegal downloads but the government, unsurprisingly, say they are completely innocent. OK, so prove it.
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  2011: Striking Pirates and Stopping SOPA

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 8:28am CET by Digg

  The year of Internet censorship wouldn't be complete without the SOPA soap, the row between Megaupload and Universal, three-strikes plans and the countless other censorship attempts and anti-piracy actions that were carried out in the second half of the year. Luckily, there were also a few positive things to report on.
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  NASA spacecraft orbits moon on New Year's Eve

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 7:39am CET by Digg

  The first of two gravity-mapping NASA spacecraft entered into orbit around the moon Saturday, marking a New Year's arrival in a mission that will study Earth's nearest neighbor from crust to core.
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  The Top 50 Tech Stories of 2011

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 4:06am CET by Digg

  2011 has been a crazy year with plenty of wild headlines and plot twists.
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  Five tech industry predictions for 2012

  Posted: January 1st, 2012, 2:22am CET by Digg

  The past year in technology was pretty wild. The really big Internet IPO returned and the massive venture capital funding bubble inflated, which seems difficult considering that the venture capi...