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Making fun of some of the top - or goofiest - tech stories of the past seven days, this week featuring the latest in Cuban underwater cable-laying technology, what Twitter and Beyonce had in common during the presidential inauguration and John Boehner’s new look

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It's been the FBI's dream for years -- to do near-instant DNA analysis using mobile equipment in the field -- and now "Rapid DNA" gear is finally here.

During a video chat, Barrett Brown was arrested by Dallas County Sheriff's Office and FBI personnel, and turned over to the FBI.

Thanks to the FBI, the United States government will soon have a nationwide system in place capable of monitoring and identifying “persons of interest” virtually anywhere. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is designed to aid the FBI in tracking down and capturing criminals.

Think you own the data on your smartphone? The Feds are doing an end run around users by obtaining data directly from the wireless companies. And there may be nothing you can do to stop them.

AntiSec announced yesterday they had 12 million Apple device IDs, stolen from an FBI computer. The FBI says not so fast. Who do you believe?

The FBI issued a press release at the end of July that hardly sent a ripple. You probably didn't notice--which is ironic, considering the release caps more than a decade of hard work and more than $1 billion in taxpayer dollars spent. The end of a story so fraught with miscommunication, incompetence and failed oversight that the entire debacle would have been a shoo-in for the most flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars since, well, ever--except that the project was turned around, put back on track and is now live thanks to the fact that it was rescued by following an agile software development methodology.

While busts like with Operation Card Shop are bound to make cyber-crooks more cautious, the undercover operations are still seen as necessary

Copyright enforcers keep contradicting themselves and each other with arguments defending their own behavior or sanctions that could actually benefit those they hope to punish. Foggy rules on what 'theft' is complicate things, but the real culprit is failure to substantiate.

U.S. Diplomatic Security Officer Charles Cafferty was busted for child pornography by use of the FBI's honeypot.

Hector 'Sabu" Monsegur, 28, the LulzSec leader who spent months collecting evidence to help the FBI arrest LulzSec and Anonymous contacts said he was too afraid of threats on his life to appear at court to answer charge of impersonating a federal agent.