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Bostonist woke up a little late for Cyberposium 15 yesterday, but still managed to attend a number of informative sessions about “Navigating the Digital Storm.” This year’s theme, inspired by the escalating (but potentially halted) economic crisis, was designed to explore ways for technology companies to get through this tough time. Cyberposium is organized entirely by Harvard Business School students, and while their presence was strong at the conference, some normal folk (though many of them HBS alumni or MIT Sloan students) made their way in as well. Not many women were among the presenters—we saw absolutely none on the panels we attended, and there were only a handful involved in the conference overall. More heartening was the presence of female students in the audience; we hope that in a few years some of these women will be answering, not asking, the questions. Diversity was also lacking in panels but more prevalent in the audience, suggesting a more varied future for technology. more ›

-- Public health officials released a report today calling heroin and OxyContin addiction an "epidemic" in Massachusetts. The report calls for a public health campaign on the scale of the fight against H1N1 to combat the problem. The report estimates that 3,265 Massachusetts residents died from opiate overdose between 2002 and 2007. [Globe] more ›

Bostonist likes movies and we like when people from our neck of the woods make movies, and we really like when those movies get screened in Boston and we get tickets. So we're excited, because Georgia Lee, a Harvard grad who dropped out of Harvard Business School to apprentice with Martin Scorcese in making "Gangs of New York," has made a movie of her own and we have five pairs of tickets for lucky Bostonist... more ›

Last month we found out security was breached at ChoicePoint through some creative social-engineering and heads roll. Yeasterday, Bostonist heard that 119 applicants to the Harvard Business School are being denied admission after prematurely looking at the status of their application. An internet persona going by the name of "brookbond" posted intstructions on how to gain access to the ApplyYourself online admissions site to view the admission decision letters. A posting to a public forum on the BusinessWeek website showed methods to access the information nearly a month ahead of the anticipated mailing. In the course of 9 hours (before the letters were removed from the site) 119 applicants followed the instructions and took a sneak peek at the results of their application for Harvard’s Business School. more ›