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    A University of Exeter student who hacked into U.S. Department of Energy computers dedicated to U.S. energy supplies and nuclear weapons has been sentenced to 200 hours community service at Southwark Crown Court in London.

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    Work on a computer network designed to enable coordination of responses in the event of a terror attack has stalled, leading to some fears about how the UK would cope.

  • Study: mobile phones put planes at risk

    The U.K.'s air safety regulator has released research about mobile phone use on planes, warning of the serious effects that it can have on navigational equipment.

  • UK newspaper rolls out Google Docs

    The United Kingdom's Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving all of its 1,400 employees onto Google Apps following a successful trial of the technology.

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    The London Stock Exchange has returned to normal after an outage yesterday in the UK that ceased trading for the longest period in eight years.

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    Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.

  • 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

    As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

  • Can graphene keep Moore's Law alive longer?

    Carbon. Is there nothing it can't do? As well as being the fundamental element behind life, the premium component in energy storage and the top contender for executioner of the human race, it's now beginning to fill in the forms for consideration as inheritor to silicon's electronic crown.

  • Mad scientist drills hole through hard drive

    A scientist who was frustrated by his PC's squeaky hard drive tried to stop the problem by drilling a hole through its casing and pouring oil in the hole. The squeak stopped but so did the hard drive. Data recovery firm, Kroll Ontrack offers this and nine more recovery highlights from 2007.

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    The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?

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