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• Researchers plan to use nano-satellites as space traffic cops

  Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working on a project that envisions a team of small satellites acting as traffic cops in space

• Texas drone bill sparks a battle

  The battle to find a balance between privacy concerns and the beneficial use of drones for commercial and law enforcement purposes is in sharp focus in a bill that's winding its way through the Texas legislature.

• 'Lance Armstrong' bug hunt continues in stable Linux kernel

  The discovery of a somewhat alarming bug in the Linux ext4 filesystem provoked a minor wave of panic this week, but project maintainer Theodore Ts'o says it has since become clear that the problem can likely only affect a small number of users.

• Kindle Fire consensus: It's no iPad, but hey, it's cheap!

  While the early reviews for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet have been less than glowing, they all agree that the device has the virtue of being cheap.

• 'Anonymous' arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says

  The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of fourteen individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous hacking group for their alleged participation in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against PayPal last year.

• Food-maker takes right approach with little nibbles

  Amercian snack-food firm Lance has just rolled out new handheld computers for its delivery sales people — and in the process violated one of the core traditions of IT. How did Lance do that? By deciding to get the handhelds into users’ hands as quickly and simply as possible.