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FOLLOW-UP: AT&T fixes bug that logged mobile users into random Facebook accounts

Independent hacker produces anonymization service for Google users

How Lala fits into Apple’s “secret” music-in-the-cloud strategy

US broadband’s average (download) speed: 3.9Mbps

Gene variant prolongs anxiety reactions in mice and men

Nano-scale robot arm moves single atoms with 100% accuracy

Skype is now the largest provider of cross-border communications– 54 billion minutes total in the last year (projected)

Windows plagued by 17-year-old privilege escalation bug

Amazon hikes Kindle e-book royalties to 70% for authors, with a catch

Analysis of 32 million passwords shows most users careless about security

Better computer networks, the slime mold way

Oil droplets can run mazes now

Fujifilm and IBM claim new data density record for magnetic tape– 35 terabytes on a single cassette

Prolonged video gaming blamed for rise in rickets cases

Dutch engineers shrink heat engines by seven orders of magnitude

Neuroscientists can spot PTSD in brain scans

New catalyst turns atmospheric CO2 into useful industrial chemical

Human brain uses a grid to represent space

New set of vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer, only days after Microsoft patches hole used in Google cyberattacks

PayPal freezes assets of Wikileaks.org

Inventor of electronic dowsing rod used for bomb detection in Iraq arrested and charged with fraud, after selling $85 million worth of merchandise

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