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Amid Congress' loud brawling over energy legislation the week of July 28, lawmakers quietly managed to approve a bill to expand the rights of cyber-crime victims.

He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia's bright young tech stars. He's a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions.

SINGUR, India (Reuters) - Violent protests and political opposition against land seizures for a Tata Motors factory in eastern India threaten to delay the long-awaited launch of the Nano, hailed as the world's cheapest car.

LAS VEGAS - A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - There's a new option for people annoyed at having to take their laptops out of their bags at airport security. The Transportation Security Administration will now allow travelers to leave their computers inside "checkpoint friendly" cases.

Customers and police agencies across the USA are dealing with another pain at the pump - thieves who install hard-to-detect electronic devices at stations to steal credit and debit card data.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Borrowing one of nature's best designs, U.S. scientists have built an eye-shaped camera using standard sensor materials and say it could improve the performance of digital cameras and enhance imaging of the human body.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A social graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.

NEW YORK - When Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. brought out the Eee PC last year, it created a whole new category of tiny, cheap laptops. Despite its success, the computer had one confounding element: Its keyboard was really small — good for kids, maybe, but not for adults.

SEATTLE - Computers are far from being truly clean machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their own business operations greener.

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) previewed on Wednesday new safety technology that goes beyond a warning beep if drivers veer into the path of danger, and actively tries to pull the car in the direction of safety.

NEW YORK - It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article.

LAS VEGAS - One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing — which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers.

NEW DELHI - It can scale mountains in a single bound and wend its way down the most wretched roads. It is the mighty cell phone signal — and the latest hope for bringing financial services to the world's masses who don't have access to banks.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang.

SAN FRANCISCO - A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the Internet company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been understated.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. has revised the results of a closely watched shareholder vote on its much-maligned board after discovering an error by a tabulation firm grossly exaggerated the number of ballots backing the directors.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc will soon start rolling out broadband Wi-Fi access for its entire domestic mainline fleet of more than 330 planes, the U.S. carrier said on Tuesday.