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Techies gather for a lunch to save the world
The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground.

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Now that you've got Windows 7 up and running on your newly partitioned, dual-boot PC, it's time for the next big step in any OS migration: reinstalling your software.

Wikileaks leader talks of courage and wrestling pigs
In early March, two human rights lawyers from Kenya were on their way to give testimony about illegal killings by police when their car was blocked and they were shot dead at close range.

Google Wave: It's innovative, but is it truly useful?
A groundbreaking real-time collaboration tool, Google Wave is in a controlled beta that everyone wants to try out. But it may get lost in the crowd of communication apps.

Baited and Duped on Facebook
Social networking raises the specter of employees divulging sensitive information outright or revealing enough about themselves or their workplaces to give cybervillains a way in. Experts offer tips to foil the bad guys.

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Forging a Web 2.0 Shield
BT Global Services, an early adopter of Web 2.0 security tools, uses a set of URL filtering and security technologies to protect customers and employees from the threats posed by Web-based communities and other interactive sites.

Your Own Worst Enemy
Recent breaches have put a spotlight on Web 2.0 applications security. John Viega, a security expert at McAfee, says both software developers and end users must share some of the blame.

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