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This past week in security news was highlighted by a hacking revelation out of China, bad news for banks, good news for Sony gaming customers and a curious email that might have been at the heart of the big RSA data breach.

So it turns out the Chinese government, despite protests to the contrary, has been hacking U.S. targets after all. How do we know? Because Chinese state television broadcast a documentary about hacking and cyberwarfare strategy that showed a demo of a state-sponsored hacking tool purportedly disrupting the operations of a spiritual movement called the Falun Gong, which the Chinese government considers a threat to its authority.

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What an exciting week for Apple fans! Not only were tons of new products updated—Including desktops, accessories, and other gadgety items—the company also reported another record quarter in sales and revenue. The good news was sprinkled in with autopsies and lawsuits, so read on to catch up with the week’s top news:

Magic Mouse, iMacs, Mac minis lead Tuesday Apple update bomb: 27-inch iMacs! Mac minis as servers! New cheap MacBooks! A magical new mouse! Apple opened the floodgates this morning with a bushel of new hardware updates—which should set the company up for a blingin’ holiday season.

Apple Q4 2009 conference call liveblog and fiscal results: Apple’s fourth quarter fiscal results are out and we covered the call live. You c

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Pick of the week: Scribblenauts (Nintendo DS)

The holiday gaming season is officially upon us, and this week is absolutely crammed with new game releases. Leading the way this week is the unique DS title Scribblenauts. The darling of this year’s E3, Scribblenauts has a fairly simple premise, but a whole lot of depth. In each level, players are given a goal, and can type in the name of virtually any object they can think of to try and complete it.

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Did’t I just finish writing a week in review? That time again already? Ok, so here we go! Asus’ Eee netbook roadmap leaked this week showing us some of the new machines Asus has up its sleeves and tipping us off on the netbooks already on the market that will be going extinct soon. SanDisk got all official and stuff with a new low-end MP3 player called the Sansa Clip+. The thing gains a microSD card slot to accommodate that big bag of fail known as slotMusic.

We announced Monday that we would be at the September 9 Apple press event and live blogging the whole works. We

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