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Judge grants Viacom 12TB of YouTube user records Google's privacy comeuppance In the ongoing $1bn legal spat between Google and Viacom, a federal judge has ordered the search giant to turn over all existing records of every video viewed on YouTube. That includes user account names and IP addresses.? Nut launches death threats at Debian women 'You're killing freesource' Exclusive Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software.? EU still greasing IBM antitrust probe despite PSI withdrawal 'Your complaint stands' IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart, but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.? Strange cults, vocal surgery and the quiet man: Inside Microsoft Mary-Jo Foley on life after Gates Radio Reg Who'd have thought a bad haircut and rocking backwards and forwards in your chair like a child with ADD could pass as must-have traits? Yet, such was the cult of Bill Gates at Microsoft, company employees adopted these to become more like their boss.? Microsoft flogs subscriptions to the unwary and confused Bad omens Comment There's no such thing as a coincidence or a missed opportunity in the world of Microsoft, and this is no ordinary week.? 'HD TV gas' 17,000 times worse for planet than CO2, claims boffin Nitrogen Trifluoride emissions balloon on flat-panel production LCD TVs, praised as being greener than old-style tellies because they consume much less power, may actually be speeding climate change, a chemical expert has warned.? Are the ice caps melting? Climate science's bipolar disorder PBEM The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer "for the first time in human history," wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict. This sounds very frightening, so let's look at the facts about polar sea ice.? Microsoft touts trustworthy browsing with IE8 If it asks if you'd like to see some puppies, just say no Microsoft has detailed a raft of security improvements due to appear in Internet Explorer 8. The second beta of Redmond's web browser will be packed full of features designed to thwart phishing and drive-by download attacks, Redmond explained on Wednesday.?