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• So that drone computer virus thing turned out to be not such a big deal — but maybe we should be considering it an echo from the future. Specifically. an echo from a future where hijacked robot weapons turn on their masters and we have to go to war with them, lose hard, and eventually learn to travel back in time so that we can kill the guy that invented them.

• Meanwhile, crappy and illegal government-created spyware in Germany has been uncovered by hackers. Wrap your head around that one.

• Evolution explains. . .computer viruses and zombie animals.

• You better have a damn good reason why you’re not at the Imagine Science Film Festival right now. We explained why.

• “the civil liberties of an unlikely clique of teenage boys and creepy older guys have finally been shit on by an unsympathetic internet thought police”. The fuck is wrong with you anyway, Reddit?

• Little ol’ Myanmar said get lost to techno-industrial behemoth China’s big ol’ dam.

• On a scale of “what the hell is wrong with your ears?” to “music like this should be impounded under a mountain with nuclear waste,” what do you think of Nokia’s totally hip new ringtone?

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