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Many people have noticed that the Pirate Bay has had quite a lot of downtime lately. Some rumors say that the site may have been raided again, but in reality, The Pirate Bay simply has trouble keeping up with the ever increasing traffic.

Who says geeks can’t be jocks too? While most are not competing at the Olympics next month, the summer is full of game and sports events just for serious techies, including a Segway Polo championship and a slew of hacker-friendly games at Defcon in August. Here’s a roundup of geek sports worthy of a few hours away from the computer monitor.

The covert nature of Apple’s production facilities is generally on par with those of military contractors, but according to one buyer’s report, an iPhone 3G recently came pre-packaged with three photos taken inside an iPhone production facility.

Rumors of aluminum MacBooks sporting custom chipsets and glass touchpads read like an Apple fanfic gone wild.

Here’s a unique defense to a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit: admit liability and challenge the law under which you’re being sued. That’s what a Bronx woman did Monday in New York federal court. Denise Barker is accused of file-sharing eight songs on the Kazaa network in 2004.

All Microsoft’s top staff turned out for last week’s Financial Analysts Meeting

The Virtual Army Experience has been touring the country for the past year & half. The Army, which collects information from the thousands of people who play the game, says it’s an innovative way to reach a new audience. But critics don’t like the idea of the military using giant videogames as a recruiting tool…..

In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself. Clones of the wunderkind social-networking Web site - some of which resemble Facebook right down to color, font and layout - have popped up in local languages around the world. These competitor sites offer identical core services.

The Linux kernel is the core of a large and complex operating system, and while it’s huge, it is well organized in terms of subsystems and layers. In this article, you explore the general structure of the Linux kernel and get to know its major subsystems and core interfaces. The Linux kernel is over 6 million lines of code…

A new generation of personal computers on the way from Apple Inc. may sport some of the most significant architectural changes since the Mac maker made the jump from PowerPC processors to those manufactured by Intel Corp., AppleInsider has learned.