The Wikileaks war is escalating and it’s threatening to go all War Games on us. 4Chan’s forces, the Anonymous group, are DDoS-ing the heck out of sites like PayPayl, MasterCard, and anyone who bows to government pressure. Meanwhile, secret forces of, uh, governments, are DDoS-ing Anonymous right back. And who’s caught in the middle? The poor, innocent routers. Also, SpaceX successfully takes off, and scientists tee off on NASA’s arsenic microbe. Ouch. –Molly

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