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microsoft makes things more difficult jurors wrestle over Java and Yahoo's pants are on fire I'm Bridget Carey and this is your sad update Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is being accused of lying about his education to give him more tech red in order to advance his career for years now his resume stated that he graduated with a computer science degree from stonehill college but he didn't he only graduated with an accounting degree in fact computer science wasn't even a degree offered when he attended the college in the 70s this discovery was made by activist shareholder Dan Loeb who has demanded that the board fire Thompson by noon Monday or else he'll take further actions Young who was calling this an inadvertent error the board is investigating how his education was not properly vetted but this error has been in his bio from back when he was president of PayPal and this false degree is published in yahoo's regulatory filings the SEC could investigate yahoo for misleading investors Cena has learned that the FBI is asking Internet companies to support a law that would make it easier for the government to wiretap websites companies like Facebook and Google are being asked to build backdoors into their web email and online chat services for government surveillance as we move away from the telephone system to the Internet the FBI argues it's just harder now for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities so the idea is when law enforcement gets a court order to wiretap they can move quickly to peer into conversations on skype apple's facetime google hangouts even Xbox Live this has been a law enforcement concern for several years now but it's up to Congress to update the law in other news we're watching microsoft announced that the upcoming Windows 8 operating system will not come with media center it'll be an extra thing you have to buy so if you go at the store and buy a Windows 8 computer with a DVD player it won't be able to play DVDs out of the box needless to say Microsoft is being hit with a lot of comments on its blog from unhappy people google has upgraded its new section to include bigger images real-time coverage and it will also highlight comments on the news from Google+ users and a quick look ahead to what's coming up the mobile trade shows ctia begins Monday in New Orleans the big news is going to be around software and services expect to hear more about mobile payments we should also be hearing a verdict in the copyright portion of the Oracle versus Google trial seems like the jury is having a hard time coming to a unanimous decision it could be a mistrial 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 Virginia