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• FBI probes Anonymous phone hack
  The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between US and UK police on their operations against hacking. […]
• Micron's Appleton dies in crash
  Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Boise, Idaho. […]
• BT fibre optic 'game changer' vow
  Fibre optic broadband connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available 'on demand' in the UK next year, BT says. […]
• Apple overturns Motorola's ban
  Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany. […]
• Google asked to pause rule change
  An EU data protection group writes to Google to ask them to suspend changes to their privacy policy. […]
• VIDEO: 'Flying people' and other tech news
  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a remote-controlled man-shaped plane. This and more in this week's tech news. […]
• Megaupload bail appeal rejected
  Kim Dotcom's bail appeal is rejected by a New Zealand Court, as US campaigners hint at legal action to prevent files being deleted. […]
• The internet's secret black market
  Drugs and guns for sale on the internet's black market […]
• VIDEO: The untraceable 'dark web'
  Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' where you can shop for illegal goods, and where customers go by code names. […]
• Largest optical telescope created
  Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world's largest virtual device with a 130m-mirror. […]