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this is cnet and hear the stories that matter right now WikiLeaks published more than 8,000 documents that it says belong to the CIA the documents are codenamed vault 7 and supposedly contained information on how the CIA can hack into pretty much any device including iPhones Android phones Windows computers smart TVs and routers the CIA issued a response it did not confirm or deny whether the lead contained information made by the agency the statement said it is the CIA's job to be innovative cutting-edge and the first line of defense in protecting the US from enemies abroad Apple and Google have both issued statements saying the exploits detailed in vault 7 have already been patched physicists have found a way to store data on a single atom in a study published in the journal Nature a single bit of data was stored on a single atom of home IAM placed on magnesium oxide at a temperature of below 5 kelvin in theory this could allow over 100 terabytes of data on a drive the size of a penny researchers say this technology is decades away from being commercialized google has acknowledged a hardware problem with a microphone on some pixel and pixel XL phones owners of those devices with a malfunction and microphone can exchange their phones free of charge google says it believes that the hardware problem affects less than 1% of phones and speaking of pixels some users of the Nintendo switch have noticed black or bright dots on the switch screen it will not go away Nintendo says that small numbers of stock or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens these are normal and should not be considered a defect that would mean if you've got stuck pixels on your switch you're stuck with it stay up to date with the latest by downloading the scenic tech today app available for Android and iOS