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Earlier today, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department released the official death certificate for Steve Jobs. According to the certificate, the immediate cause of death was respiratory arrest due to the “metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor” as the underlying cause of the respiratory issues. Also listed on the certificate, Jobs passed away at his home in Palo Alto at 3 p.m. on October 5 and no autopsy was performed on… Read More

It's not a new question in the Internet-enabled world, but one that is only recently becoming a significant issue on social networking sites: what should happen to a a social networking profile when its owner dies? Should the page remain as-is? Should the page be deleted? Should status updates and other activity be suspended? What if the account gets hacked or defaced? Who should handle all that?… Read More

Many commercial and government Internet sites in the Baltic nation of Estonia are being pummeled with online attacks—and the Estonian government says many of the attacks are being hosted by Russian servers. The attacks began three weeks ago shortly after Estonia relocated a Soviet-era World War II memorial in the Estonian capital of Talinn. The memorial's move was fiercely condemned by the Kremlin and some ethnic Russians… Read More