Man Tries to Outsource Online Dating

n entrepreneur in Manhattan has come up with an idea to help him with his love life — outsource his online dating duties. Earlier this month, the man took out an ad in Craigslist that reads: What do you think of this idea? The post Man Tries to Outsource Online…

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Police: Man with plunger tries to rob NY bank

Associated Press UTICA, N.Y. — Police say a 49-year-old man tried to rob a central New York bank armed with a toilet plunger. Utica police tell local media outlets that Lawrence Deptola went into city bank Thursday afternoon and threatened a teller with the plunger. Police responded after two other…

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Hacker tries to steal $1.8 million

ARLINGTON, Texas, April 1 (UPI) — Officials say a hacker attempted to steal $1.8 million from the Arlington, Texas, city treasury, but was foiled by treasury staff who recovered the money. Investigators declined to release further details about the incident, which occurred in late February, saying the investigation is ongoing….

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Obama Tries to Unmask China’s Spyware

December 01, 2011, 7:35 PM EST By Michael Riley (Updates with month of survey in second paragraph.) Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is invoking Cold War-era national-security powers to force telecommunication companies including ATT Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to divulge confidential information about their networks in a hunt…

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Malware tries to make inroads in Android

Last week, Ohio-based Juniper Networks of Sunnyvale, Calif., reported that malicious software targeting Google’s Android platform had increased by a whopping 427 percent since July. Given that Android is the dominant mobile operating system and that the primary source of software for it – Google’s Android Market – doesn’t vet…

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