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Russia has attacked Georgia. They are fighting RIGHT NOW. It’s David vs Goliath, and Georgia has requested for US help in defending itself. Should the US accept, we’ll have the US (which may eventually mean UK too) vs Russia. Two of the world’s biggest superpowers. Dave Lee jBlog

Good morning BBC. It’s night already in China.

Over 13% of US’s population credit and debit card numbers were in the hands of 11 people that authorities charged, in the country’s largest-ever identity theft case. More than 41 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by hacking into the computer systems of major US retailers and installing software in order to access [...]

[The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to rule on Friday against Comcast over violating federal policy by deliberately preventing some customers sharing video files online. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Comcast admitted "delaying" traffic to file sharing sites and services like BitTorrent but deemed the measure as necessary for user who overburden [...]

Not so much discussed in the press this week was the alleged move of major record labels teaming with UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to crack down on piracy. In a campaign to reduce the losses of the record labels, there is no benefit to the users. Above all, our privacy will be invaded when [...]

This was under wraps for a while now but Gina released the “news”. The Forum for European Journalism Students (FEJS) will be holding its annual conference in Lincoln. More details after the jump.

When Jurnalul National (National Journal), the Romanian newspaper with the biggest number of sold copies launched their “new” beta site, made by the boys at DWD.ro, they decided to go cheap. Consequently, one should have a look at the obscene similarities with Guardian’s site.