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• Android messaging malware targets Tibetan activists

  The malware records key network information, which suggests a more sophisticated attempt to spy on users

• Google acquires Toronto University startup focused on neural networks

  Researchers from the startup DNNresearch will at Google apply large-scale machine learning to a variety of domains

• US providers host Syrian government websites

  Hosting providers take down websites after a report shows they are hosting Syrian government pages

• Syrian hackers retaliate, deface Anonymous' social network

  Counters Anonymous' earlier sabotage of nation's Ministry of Defense site

• Nanotech used to build cancer-detecting microchip

  Chip, tested on prostate cancer, detects type and severity of the disease