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In recent technology news:-

NASA budget would kill Hubble - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- With the moon on its horizon, NASA sees a slight increase in the budget proposed by President Bush on Monday, but it's not enough to save the Hubble Space Telescope. - Source: CNN - Discuss

RIAA sues the dead - Death is no obstacle to feeling the long arm of the Recording Industry Ass. of America. Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against an 83 year-old woman who died in December, claiming that she made more than 700 songs available on the internet. - Source: TheRegister - Discuss

Primedia puts About.com up for sale - Primedia, the publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has put the Web site About.com on the block, and five companies plan to bid on it, according to executives close to the auction. - Source: CNet - Discuss

Japanese hackers vs. Microsoft - A Japanese magazine has published news of an alleged hack that strips the antipiracy protections off files in Microsoft's Windows Media format. But details are slim, and the software that supposedly does the trick--apparently created by an underground programmer known as Lark--has disappeared from the Web. - Source: CNet - Discuss

Ask Jeeves to buy Bloglines - Ask Jeeves is expected to announce Tuesday that it has bought privately held Bloglines, a site for searching millions of personal Web pages and aggregating news headlines, for an undisclosed sum. - Source: CNet - Discuss