Adult magazine Perfect 10 earlier filed a copyright infringement claim against Google alleging that Google was crawling the Perfect10.com website and created thumbnails of copyrighted images that were later displayed in Google Image search results.
Google did store the thumbnails but argued that image thumbnails were protected under the copyright doctrine of fair use.
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Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in a matter of hours.
Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result.
Eight-character passwords are used to protect PDF and Zip files as well as those produced by Microsoft Office.
The work to turn the PS3 into a password cracker was carried out by Nick Breese, who works for Auckland-based Security Assessment.
The Cell processor at the heart of the PS3 is the key to speeding up the time it takes to crack a password.
In a presentation given at the Kiwicon security conference in mid-November, Mr Breese said a powerful Intel chip could crank through 10-15 million cycles per second.
The architecture of the Cell processor meant it could speed through 1.4 billion cycles per second.
[ Via BBC News ]
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Venkat Kolluri, the chief executive of Chitika, an advertising company
that has begun testing a service to tailor Internet advertisements to individual Web pages.
Chitika is an advertising company based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. It was started by an Indian, Venkat Kolluri (CEO) in Mid 2005. Chitika uses a technology that scans a Web page for content, chooses a product the reader might be interested in, then displays banner ads that are miniature shopping comparison pages, with prices, product reviews and links to merchants.
