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Speculation is mounting as to what Apple will do with its pile of cash.  Here are some of the possible options.

Following the 'turning' of its leader by the FBI, LulzSec seems to have lost all of its lulz, and many of its members.

Beating a record held since 1989, DARPA's Cheetah takes the land speed record for legged robots.

A last-minute stay-of-execution means users' files on Megaupload are safe for the moment; they just can't be accessed.

Megaupload, rated by some as the 13th most visited site on the Internet was taken down late last week by the FBI under accusation of copyright infringement, however many other rights have been infringed by their actions.

Former hacker, Adrian Lamo has testified as to the veracity and intent of his chat cnversations with 'Bradass87' (presumed to be Bradley Manning).

Formal proceedings against accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning will commence at Fort Meade in Maryland on Friday 16th December.

Following some concern that they didn't know where all their rocks were, NASA commissioned an audit - which confirmed they didn't know where all their rocks were.

If you're trying to call Charlie Sheen, his old number has been disconnected.  Sorry.

Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has been granted the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the UK against his impending extradition to Sweden. Of the two grounds cited in the request for leave to appeal, one was accepted for further consideration, the other rejected.

Earlier today an official message from DHS and FBI asserted that despite reports to the contrary, there was no intrusion at the Illinois water treatment facility.

In the past few days, two separate US-based water authorities appear to have had their control systems breached - one of them has suffered physical damage.

For the first time ever, the Top Ten supercomputer list remains unchanged from the previous list.  Some have improved their overall performance, but none changed positions.

The latest Sophos spam report shows that since Q3 last year, Asia as a spam originator has increased from 35% to 50%.

Following the launch of CableGate nearly a year ago and the seemingly acrimonious departure of a number of key team-members, WikiLeaks now finds itself in a good deal of trouble.

Some call it either the precursor or the illegitimate son of Stuxnet.  But is that fair, or is Duqu its own true self?

Claiming the usual "it arrived in an anonymous brown paper bag," the Chaos Computer Club has announced the reverse engineering of what is claimed to be the German authorities' intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ.

HostingPlus- USAPlusComms has announced that it is preparing to launch a major Hosting Site in California in the very near future. The site is one of the most secure in the US and provides huge pricing benefits. Early customers can expect very beneficial pricing.

A recent survey of US and UK small businesses showed while they are well equipped to deal with email and general malware attacks, they have little interest in more modern vulnerabilities.

Despite many reports to the contrary, it seems UARS fell into the southern equatorial Pacific, not Canada.