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The Eighth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

Western Digital hard-disk drive takeover approved, with conditions

EU authorities rule that Western Digital has to sell a production plant to take over Hitachi's hard-disk drive business

Google protects its current HTTPS traffic against future attacks

HTTPS-enabled Google services now implement a special encryption technique to mitigate future key recovery attacks

Five reasons the U.S. tech lead is in danger

While Congress focuses on budget cutting, other nations are figuring out what to spend on the next computing platforms

FCC finds AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest

The proposed $39 billion deal now goes to a hearing before an administrative law judge at the FCC

FCC chief declares AT&T/T-Mobile merger a turkey, prepares it for slaughter

Administrative hearing could spell death knell of proposed $39 billion merger

Senator threatens filibuster of Protect IP Act as vote nears

A Senate vote on the controversial copyright enforcement bill could come by early December

Best tech videos of the week: Banana phones, iPads-turned-snowboards & weighing $1M with your mind

University of Tokyo's Invoked Computing aims to make everyday items into communications or computing devices

Facebook phone, code-named ‘Buffy,’ is in the works

HTC-made Facebook smartphone would run an Android derivative, report says

Net neutrality is too regulatory, but Stop Online Piracy isn’t?

Twenty-seven Republicans in the U.S. Congress who opposed net neutrality rules are cosponsors of SOPA or Protect IP