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Microsoft walked! And now the post-game chatter begins. Everyone's weighing in from The New York Times to Kara Swisher to Tech Crunch. And Yahoo's shares dropped to $24 dollars - which, while much less than the $33 Microsoft was offering, is more than the $19 it was valued at before Microsoft made the bid on February 1.

Nine Inch Nails are giving their next album away for free. No, seriously, they don't want you to pay ANYTHING for it - in fact, they want you to share it.

Indie labels are banding together to form their own major label. It would be a way for them to carry the same amount of clout that the four biggies have at a bargaining table, which could help them negotiate a deal with MySpace Music.

Airport security at international borders is so tight that you could possibly be asked to surrender your password or decryption key for your laptop. The Surveillance State has some recommendations on how to keep your data private.

Make Magazine held Makerfaire 2008 in the Bay Area this weekend. They've got a round up of reports and photographs on the web...

...and meanwhile the military is close to having robotic insects do recon for them. They're almost done with the spider - but someday they hope to have butterflies and snakes.