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From Apple’s latest trademark coup to the secrets Anonymous hacked from the U.S. government to using Google Maps to find the best breakfast food in North Korea, we bring you the silliest stories in the tech world this past week

Confused (and saddened) by the recent split between Anonymous and WikiLeaks? Allow us to help explain it all so even your mom will understand

The alleged theft of 12 million unique Apple device ID numbers by hackers has serious privacy implications, but the real culprit in this crime is Apple itself.

Don't let hackers do to you what they did to Wired's Mat Honan. Using two-factor log-ons can help keep attackers from hijacking your accounts.

Not every telling photo is accurate; not every accurate photo is telling. This one, which appears to be two trained police dogs restraining a Chicago cop in riot gear from attacking protesters, tells a more interesting story than the cops-punch-protesters headline image of the protest.

For all its influence, Anonymous is little understood, often even by other Anon. Its nature changes with each group of Anon and few perceptions agree. Many explain the Anonymous they see in pictures that illustrate what they do, why and who they see behind those masks.

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.

Operation Global Blackout, ostensibly a plan by hacktivist group Anonymous to take down the Internet March 31, didn't happen and was likely never real at all. It still satisfied someone's need to generate fear and chaos online, without having to do anything but make a video.

It would probably be more in sync with Anonymous nomenclature to refer to it as economic engineering, but there is already an old-fashioned name for a technique that forces followers to break no laws but erodes the financial foundation of its target: the economic boycott.

A day after the revelation that a leader of Anonymous' most-aggressive, most obnoxious spinoff had been working with the FBI to build cases against trusted companions, anger among the faceless horde was great enough to make a second attack on the Vatican succeed.

Just one day after a WSJ journal story predicting Anonymous would attack U.S. power grids (prompting ridicule from Anonymi who would never take down a power grid because it would turn off their Internet) officials blame an anonymous mouse for power outage in Kansas.