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Yahoo's board met on Friday to consider all of their options. But employees over at Yahoo hate the idea of merging with AOL - even more than merging with Microsoft!

Scientists at IBM have come up with a new "racetrack technology" that will allow digital music players to hold about half a million songs, or 3500 films. It's cool, but we won't see it being used on the market for another 10 years.

No more tax-free internet shopping for residents of New York State. A bill nicknamed the "Amazon Tax" was just passed, and it looks like the governor will sign it.

Indonesian ISPs have restored access to YouTube and other websites that contain pages with an anti-Muslim film on them. Instead of blanket blocking the site, they are only blocking the specific pages carrying the film.

Here in the U.S., YouTube is getting ready to create a commercial free space so that government officials can embed their campaign videos on their webpages without breaking the rules about commercials

It turns out you can buy stolen military goods on E-Bay and Craigslist. The government is conducting an investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has made a new rule - soldiers can't post pictures of themselves with classified equipment on their Facebook profile pages. In fact, they can't even say that they are soldiers in their profile at all.

The new NASA Science website is really cool. People with a passing interest in science as well as hard core amateur scientists will dig it.