Gathering in New York brings together the hacker community for sessions on hacking the usual (computer systems) and not so usual (the media, food, and sex).

Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the iPhone 3G, a portable hard drive from Iomega, and the Linksys Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router.

A surge in orders of printed circuit boards by Apple seems to fit nicely with other suggestions that the company is getting ready to introduce new notebooks for back-to-school time.

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Listen to the 2600 hacker conference--If you can't attend The Last HOPE conference, you can tune in over the Internet.

AMD, Intel Centrino 2 make strange bedfellows--Advanced Micro Devices is making gains at Hewlett-Packard, even in Centrino 2 notebooks.

Comcast customers: Are your e-mails going missing?--Peter Glaskowsky reports on a surprising problem: the Internet addresses of Comcast customers are associated with spam and listed on some e-mail blacklist services.

Earnings: Microsoft and Google disappoint, while IBM soars--Earnings are up across the board, but profits are down...but not everywhere.

More scenes from the scaled-down game expo in Los Angeles.

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We're going to open the CNET Forums at 11 a.m. PDT for your questions on anything and everything related to Apple.

The Mac is making great strides in the U.S., while Windows dominates the rest of the world. Do the two growth curves reflect different stages of global expansion?

Apple has struck out on its MobileMe service. It's not what it claims to be.

Why does Apple get to borrow from open source but give little back? Because it's shiny.

It's the 8GB model, and you may have to drop another 10 bucks on the 2.0 software update, but you'll get to own the world's coolest media player.

Chinese language abilities allows a generation gap to be filled.

The new-style E3 is no longer a huge free-for-all, but that doesn't mean Microsoft and others in the video-game business aren't making some noise.

Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and others make their big announcements and gamers rev up for new titles.

What happens when you cross a house with an operating system? You might be surprised.