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it's Monday October 18 I'm Natali del Conte back from maternity leave and happy to be here with you again it's time to get loaded Facebook is sharing personally identifiable information of users with advertising and Internet tracking companies we kind of already knew this a Wall Street Journal investigation found that Facebook was doing this in violation of its own rules user names and the names of users friends were found to be reported to at least 25 ad and data firms Facebook told CNET that they are working to dramatically limit this Yahoo is launching a universal login program called why connect this is like Facebook Connect where you sign into sites with login requirements with your yahoo ID we don't have a timeline for this feature it's expected to launch soon YouTube Leanback is now part of Google TV this is the autoplay version of YouTube that plays you videos consecutively that it thinks that you will enjoy it does make youtube watching on your TV a lot easier because you don't want to constantly have to navigate through videos on your TV but then again how much YouTube do you really want to sit back and watch on your couch and the Sony version of Google TV looks like it hit store shelves early Sony said the TV would go on sale on october 24th but best buy scouts reported that they shipped early so if you want to be an early early adopter runnin out to bestbuy pronto and the we no longer requires a disc to play netflix movies last week the PlayStation remove the disc requirement and this week Nintendo caught up to get netflix streaming on your wii download the application in the Wii Shop Channel and we are one step closer to being able to use our own cable boxes late last week the FCC move to open up the retail market for companies that make cable boxes and dvrs this means that you wouldn't be locked into the cable box or DVR that your cable company chooses thus giving us a choice in an area where we haven't really had much choice before and finally Mike Tyson is returning to his famous punch-out game but not on the Nintendo console a new version of Mike Tyson's punch-out is coming to the iphone the boxing game was a classic on the nintendo entertainment system but Tyson was dropped from versions of the game after his license with Nintendo expired the iphone version will come from a company called rock software who very likely could be sued by nintendo when this game comes out next month those are your headlines for today I will see you tomorrow with more thank you for watching i'm natali del conte with cnet.com and you've been loaded