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Man arrested after running into burning house to save computer - A Winona man could not save his house from burning down, but he was determined to rescue his computer. Nicholas Christopher Guy, 53, defied orders from firefighters to stay back and twice ran into his burning house. He got the computer, and a citation for obstructing a fire scene and disorderly conduct, said Deputy Chief Tom Williams. [Startribune.com]

Computer Virus Leads To Child Porn Arrest - A computer virus led a man to be arrested after he took his computer to be repaired. [KIRO 7 Seatle]

New supercomputer to be unveiled - A Canadian firm is claiming to have taken a quantum leap in technology by producing a computer that can perform 64,000 calculations at once. [Physorg.com]

'World first' quantum computer set to debut next week - A Canadian start-up says it will demonstrate a working commercial quantum computer in Mountain View next week, years ahead of many experts' predictions.… [Theregister.co.uk]

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT/7900 GS Roundup - In today's article Brandon takes a look at one dozen different GeForce 7900 GS and 7950 GT cards. [FiringSquad.com]

Parents Say Kid's New Computer Full Of Porn - Members of a Chicago family are trying to get a warning out after they said a computer they bought as a child's gift turned out to be laden with pornography. [Newsnet5.com Offbeat]

New Program by Computer Scientist Prevents Crashes and Hacker Attacks - Today`s computers have more than 2,000 times as much memory as the machines of yesteryear, yet programmers are still writing code as if memory is in short supply. Not only does this make programs crash annoyingly, but it also can make users vulnerable to hacker attacks, says computer scientist Emery Berger from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [Physorg.com]

Cybercrooks hold PC data captive - USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - For ransom: your sensitive computer files. In the latest online scam, cybercrooks are breaking into the PCs of small businesses and individuals, locking up data and demanding money in return for freeing it. [Yahoo! News]

UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach - Officials at the University of California Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system. [abc7 Los Angeles]

Campus Computer Fixers Revel in Popularity - SAN JOSE, Calif. _ It is a rite of fall almost as familiar as Homecoming: Excited Stanford students decorate their new rooms with desktop computers, laptops, printers, game consoles, wireless routers and assorted electronic gizmos built at home over summer vacation. Then something breaks. [RedNova Technology]