PC viruses are mostly your fault, Microsoft says
By David Goldman
Published: October 12, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If your computer is infected, it's probably because of something you did, according to a Microsoft study released this week.
BlackBerry outages spread to North America
By Peter Svensson
Published: October 12, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Scientists Solve DNA Puzzle of the Black Death
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: October 12, 2011
After the Black Death reached London in 1348, some 2,400 people were buried in East Smithfield, near the Tower of London, in a cemetery that had been prepared for the plague’s arrival. From the teeth of four of those victims, researchers have now reconstructed the full DNA of a microbe that within five years felled one- third to one-half of the population of Western Europe.3 hospitalized when pot brownies served at funeral
Associated Press
Published: October 11, 2011
UNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Pot-laced brownies served at a Southern California funeral sent three people to the emergency room over the weekend, Huntington Beach police said.
At One College, a Fight Over Required Drug Tests
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Linn State Technical College in Linn, Mo., informed students this semester that they would be required to submit to a urine test that would be checked for illegal drugs as a condition of studying at the college. Almost immediately, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued on behalf of several dissenting Linn State students and have won a temporary injunction. The A.C.L.U. says Linn State is the first public college in the country to require all adult students to submit to mandatory drug tests. Linn State officials however, say the policy is legal and was developed in the interest of their 1,200 students.
Sony: 93,000 PlayStation, Online Entertainment accounts hacked
By: Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Published: October 12, 2011
On Wednesday morning, Philip Reitinger, Sony's newly hired chief information security officer, said that about 93,000 PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment user accounts have been breached in a Web attack.
Governor OKs college aid for undocumented immigrants in California
By David Siders
Published: October 9, 2011
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday allowing undocumented immigrant college students access to public financial aid, marking California's relatively liberal ground in a bitter row over immigration nationwide.
Sacramento State conference encourages girls to pursue math, science careers
By Chris Macias
Published: October 9, 2011
On a sunny Saturday morning when tween girls might otherwise be gearing up for soccer or glued to "iCarly" reruns on TV, they were calculating the speed of light and sporting safety goggles instead.
Dealing with gay students, bullying in very different ways
By Chris Welch
Published: October 12, 2011
Minneapolis (CNN) -- Jared Pettingill's parents wanted a safe place for their son to attend school where he wouldn't be harassed for being gay.
They found that place in the Minneapolis Public School district.
Canceled Kings games could hamper drive for new Sacramento arena
By Dale Kasler, Tony Bizjak and Matt Kawahara
Published: October 12, 2011
It was shaping up as a crucial year for the Kings – possibly the team's final season in Sacramento – and now part of it has been wiped out.
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