'Feisty Fawn' version of Ubuntu, due April 19, can automatically report crashes to help programmers stamp out bugs.

Identity thieves may want to go back to dumpster diving as a way of getting useful information. Just a week after Radio Shack was sued for throwing out all sorts of customer info (including credit card and social security numbers) where anyone walking by could just grab it out of the trash, telco Rogers Communication was found doing the exact same thing in Toronto. The company is blaming a sales company they had hired for dumping the content without considerations for customer privacy. You would think big companies like Radio Shack and Rogers would know better than to have such information even stored on paper like that, let alone to allow it to be thrown out in the trash.

How do illusions fool the brain? In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain's visual cortex, researchers have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations in the brain. Their findings provide new insight into neural mechanisms by which visual perception can be altered by concurrent auditory events.

In a new study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed the costs and health outcomes of control and eradication options for polio. They found that the relatively high short-term costs of global polio eradication will ultimately be much lower than the long-term financial and human health costs required to control polio forever.

Working with fruit flies, scientists have discovered a protein required for two neighboring cells to fuse and become one "super cell." Most cells enjoy their singular existence, but the strength and flexibility of muscles relies on hundreds or even thousands of super cells that make large-scale motion smooth and coordinated, such as flexion of a bicep.