BBC – Iraq insurgents ‘hack into video feeds from US drones’
Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from unmanned American drone aircraft, US media reports say.

BBC – YouTube video leads to Hollywood contract
A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film.

Guardian – Privacy groups file FTC complaint against Facebook
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy and eight other organisations have filed a complaint to America’s Federal Trade Commission about the changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings.

CBR – CERN looks to Platform for cloud infrastructure
Platform Computing has announced that CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is using its Platform LSF grid infrastructure to power what is said to be the world’s largest cloud computing environment for scientific collaboration. CERN is using Platform’s private cloud management and HPC cloud-enabling software services, Platform ISF and Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, to enable more powerful computing performance and a better IT infrastructure to 10,000 researchers from 85 countries.

The Daily Telegraph – Blippy: the social network based on credit card transactions
Blippy, a new social network which allows people to share information about your credit card purchases with friends or strangers is set to launch in 2010. Created by web entrepreneur, Philip Kaplan, the site is currently in beta (accessibly only by invitation) and plans on using credit card transactions to help people locate each other.