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Users may be hacked off by recent changes, but Yahoo's co-founder David Filo insists creativity still lies at the heart of the company's plansA rather unlikely shadow hung over Yahoo's eighth Open Hack day in London last weekend, in the gaudy, flashing shape of GeoCities, the cult DIY website network that Yahoo is closing later this year. 'They are destroying the cave paintings of the web,' cried academic and Hack Day regular Tom Morris.Ingenious hacks included Dan W's mashup of Last.fm and Oyster card data that shows listening habits on the tube, Murray Steele and Ben Griffiths's graffiti tool for Google Street View and the hack by Premasagar Rose and Tom Leitch that makes Freecycle more usable.The Guardian's own Simon Willison described the standard as 'almost intimidatingly superb', combining creativity and technical excellence - and with only the occasional GeoCities URL snuck into presentations as a discreet dig. Strangely enough, the site that ranked the chances of your Yahoo-ho

Site will open a new adult services category where adverts will be monitoredPressure from US officials has forced classified advertising website Craigslist to pull the shutters down on its controversial sex adverts in favour of a new, closely-monitored system.In an announcement earlier today, Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster said the site would be closing the 'erotic services' category next week - an open messageboard described as 'a blatant internet brothel' by one official. Instead, the site will open a new 'adult services' category, in which every advert will be manually approved by staff before it is seen by members of the public.'Each posting to this new category will be manually reviewed before appearing on the site, to ensure compliance with Craigslist posting guidelines and terms of use,' said Buckmaster in a post on the Craigslist blog. 'We are optimistic that the new balance struck today will be an acceptable compromise.' The move comes as the san francisco-based web

Ryanair, the no-frills airline, is to scrap all its airport check-in desks and charge passengers £5 a flight to check in online.

The state Assembly is wrangling over a statewide workplace smoking ban Wednesday night, with Republicans insisting the proposal passed earlier by the Senate would drive taverns and restaurants out of business.

An activist devoted to “outing” closeted gay lawmakers who work against gay rights drew the ire of a news anchor who said he wanted to punch the activist during a TV interview. Mike Rogers runs the Web site BlogActive, exposing what he calls government hypocrisy by listing the names of politicians and staffers who vote against [...]

Business News: Subway, Marriot pushing Universal film -- Nostalgia has helped lure marketers to Universal Pictures' 'Land of the Lost.'

Desperate for business, travel companies have been throwing out almost-too-good-to-be-true, limited-time offers. The catch: It takes fast action and a little bit of luck to reap the benefits.

Madrid - Spanish clay king Rafael Nadal put aside his tournament complaints to score a resounding opening win as he hammered out a 6-3, 6-1 decision over Juergen Melzer to reach the third round Wednesday. I played much better than I trained, admitt...

So, which processor manufacturer does Dell choose for its business laptops? The answer provides some insight into the challenges facing AMD.