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    Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of Web site defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest.

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    A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators.

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    The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval.

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