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Correction: Researchers reverse on Gauss-Flame link

This story and its headline have been updated and corrected to reflect new information provided by the researchers that completely changed their conclusions.

Researchers today said that hackers behind the Gauss cyber-espionage malware targeting banks in the Middle East were directing infected computers to connect to a command-and-control server used by the Flame spyware. However, later in the day they said they were mistaken and that other researchers had control of the server instead.

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Correction: What Zuckerberg must do to right the Facebook ship

An earlier version of this piece incorrectly compared Facebook's quarterly average revenue per user (ARPU) to the annual ARPU that would justify its IPO share price. Facebook's annualized ARPU is currently $5.12; it would need to rise above $33 with its current user base to justify a $38 share price.

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Correction: Wrong Blu-ray disc copying times

This story, " Ethernet's future: How fast is fast enough?" initially misstated the 1Tbps data-transfer speed in terms of Blu-ray disc copying times.

The standard, to be produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, will likely reach data-transfer speeds between 400 gigabits per second and 1 terabit per second. For comparison, that latter speed would be enough to copy two-and-a-half full-length Blu-ray movies in a second.

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