China is hooking up Iran with critical technology used for spying on citizens. I mean, who else would you expect to be slinging that kind of tech? [Reuters]Microsoft is stepping its game up in destroying massive botnets, like Zeus botnets that Microsoft claims has led to total thefts of over $100 million since 2007. [Venture Beat]A great review by Freeman Dyson on Margaret Wertheim’s book Physics on the Fringe. It’s proof that wackos, weirdos, and downright crazy folk will always be important to science. [NY Review of Books]Interesting take on privacy: Japanese courts have ordered Google to eliminate auto-complete thanks to a complain from a man who said unfavorable auto-complete terms associated with his name led to his firing. [PC Mag]Your unnecessarily-snarky headline of the day: Do you seriously think the new iPad's battery isn't good enough? [Slashgear]There’s even more evidence that water flowed on Mars. Can we agree that it happened yet? [io9]A new week, a new theory of how black holes become supermassive. [Forbes]A weird one for you: China will end its practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners within five years. Ethics aside, it’s surprising to see China — makers of execution vans — having something of a heart when it comes to those on death row. [Medical Daily]Astronauts in the space station had a bit of a scare when incoming space junk forced them into escape pods. Everything’s hunky-dory now. [CNN]Kepler scores again: 11 new planetary systems have been found, hosting 26 planets. Who’s up for a trip? [Nature & Planet]
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