BBC News – Autonomous tech ‘requires debate’
The coming age of lorries that drive themselves or robots that perform surgery is fraught with legal and ethical issues, says a new report. The Royal Academy of Engineering says that automated freight transport could be on the roads in as few as 10 years.

Silicon.com – Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google’s electricity bill?
Researchers have come up with a new way to route internet traffic that could save big internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according to an article published by MIT’s Technology Review.

IT PRO – British retailers can learn lessons from US identity hack
A senior security executive has said that British retailers can learn lessons from the ‘biggest identity hack case ever’ – where 130 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen. Chris Young, vice president for products at RSA, told IT PRO that retailers should not simply plug holes that they’ve seen in previous attacks, but rather get in front of the problems by identifying risk and putting policies in place.

Total Telecom – Orange launches social network aggregator
Mobile operator introduces application that pulls social networking activity together; reports claim Vodafone gearing up to launch similar product. Orange on Wednesday launched a new application that aggregates activity from a number of social networks into one central place.

CBR Online – Report highlights changing face of ‘misunderstood’ virtualization
“Virtualisation is the most misunderstood term in the IT industry – it’s a fantastic tool. All the products and platforms are good,” he told CBR. “But companies should be looking at much more virtualisation. Desktop virtualisation has the potential to save significant amounts of money in terms of provisioning. But it’s still a new technology and has a way to go.”