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Congress fights digital bombs Apple stock soars and note lights it up I'm Bridget Carey and this is your signet update there's a new controversial cybersecurity law up for a vote this week and it has many concerned about privacy rights the bill is called sista which is short for Cyber Intelligence Sharing and protection act it's designed to give Homeland Security more resources to better track down and fight cyber terrorists but some say his powers are too broad giving the government the ability to snoop through medical records private emails online financial documents all without a warrant or limits and there's a new proposed amendment that would give the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano the ability to bonner all government networks and communication this would trump the existing privacy and surveillance laws the debate begins on the house for Thursday and voting takes place Friday Apple posted earnings that were better than expected with record sales of iphones and ipads big surprise i know Apple's first quarter earnings went up for almost six billion last year to more than 11 billion iphone sales were a big reason for that apple sold 35 million iPhones and increase from nearly 19 million last year this is the first full quarter the new iphone 4s has been on sale and it also is in more countries and ipad sales also went up from nearly 5 million this time last year to almost 12 million now but Apple won't say how many of those were the new third generation model Apple announced the dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference and in two hours it sold out the event taking place in June focuses on Apple's mobile and desktop operating systems and we all know the lines between mobile and desktop are starting to blur at last year's conference Apple unveiled iCloud and iOS 5 jun is gonna be a busy month we have III then apple's event followed by Google's developer conference called Google i/o in other news we're watching sprint says it will continue to offer an unlimited data plan for the next iPhone even if the iphone is a 4g phone sprint is the only carrier that will give you an unlimited plan for the iPhone Barnes & Noble has begun shipping its glow light version of the nuke this week to those that pre-order the backlit ereader the 140 dollar nukes simple touch with glowlight should hit stores in early May you can check out our full review at cnet it received an editors rating to 4 out of 5 stars and today's appt to watch is one for the ladies New York City has given 20 grand to the makers of hollaback an app for women to report creepy men who sexually harassed women or even expose themselves in public places this app has been around for a while but the city wants to turn what once was designed to just warn women into something that can directly alert authorities so action can be taken you go gurls that's your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey