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Lessons learned from Microsoft’s botched KB 2859537 patch

Dust has settled on Microsoft's most destructive Automatic Update in recent history and one fact stands out: Registry cleaners can wallop your system

Feds nab SILK ROAD mastermind — DELL still kicking — Patent troll LODSYS defeated — Cerberus sizing up BLACKBERRY — GOOGLE grabs gesture startup

With new Venue tablets, Dell signals its PC division is alive and kicking

Dell launched two new Android tablets and two new Windows tablets

US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit

Lavabit said in August it was shutting down its service rather than be 'complicit in crimes against the American people'

Bluetooth Smart going into wireless device chargers

The low-power wireless technology will help to manage the wireless charging of devices

Google buys Flutter, a gesture recognition startup

Flutter makes a desktop app for controlling various programs through hand motions

Facebook offers ‘free’ Wi-Fi in exchange for check-ins

Hotels and other businesses will require users to check in at their Facebook Pages to get free Wi-Fi

Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview now available for Windows 7

Microsoft claims IE11 is more standards-compliant and 30 percent faster than other browsers

Profits or principles? Google, Apple, and Samsung have made their choice

Undermining Net neutrality with right-wing billionaires, gouging customers, gaming test results -- witness tech's 'higher standards'

Meet the man behind Silk Road, the online drug marketplace the FBI has seized

The FBI arrested Ross William Ulbricht in San Francisco yesterday