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Twitter Blows Past 20-Billionth Tweet

A graphic designer in Tokyo has unlocked a fairly significant accomplishment on Twitter—posting the service's 20-billionth message since the site's inception in July of 2006. It's somewhat difficult to translate exactly what user "GGGGGGo_Lets_Go" was saying in the official tweet. However, his translated response to the news is far clearer:

Hacker makes mobile phone snooping affordable

A hacker has brought mobile phone snooping to the modestly financed, showing how to build a call-catching system for about 1,500 dollars (US).

Feds at DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned

Despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader.

Google Stumbles, Again, With China Outage Report

Google’s Chinese web-censorship monitoring page reported Thursday that its unfiltered Chinese search site had been blocked again, prompting eager news organizations, including Reuters, the Associated Press and Wired.com, to report the news widely.

Microsoft Releasing Windows .LNK Security Fix Early

Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch for a Windows security vulnerability that attackers have been targeting for the past few weeks.

Droid Gets Froyo Next Week

It’s Froyo everywhere. After Sprint announced that HTC EVO 4G would start receiving the Froyo upgrade next week, Verizon went ahead and made known that it will follow suit. The Android 2.2 Froyo upgrade will be sent to the original Motorola Droid in the week beginning August 2.