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it's Tuesday January 17 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded on Wednesday Wikipedia will join several websites in an online blackout to protest a controversial anti-piracy bill being debated in Congress it's called the Stop Online Piracy Act or so before short and although Hollywood backs it as a bill to help cut down on stone digital content other websites argue it gives too much power to the government to censor the web Wikipedia will go down Wednesday as well as Reddit and the cheezburger network i can haz blackout i guess but not everyone against the bill will go dark twitter CEO said to close a global website over a national politics issue is foolish zappos customers are urged to change their passwords after a data breach revealed information for 24 million customers the hack into Zappos revealed customer names email addresses billing and shipping addresses phone numbers the last four digits of their credit card numbers and scrambled versions of their passwords but the company says critical credit card and payment data was not accessed all user passwords have been voided and reset so new ones may be created Apple will be having an education theme press conference on Thursday in New York and all signs point to it revolving around text books on the ipad publisher mcgraw-hill has been working with Apple since June reports The Wall Street Journal and other sources say Apple will unveil tools for creative interactive ebooks something like garageband four text books since textbooks are more than eight billion dollar year industry you can betcha Apple wants a bite of that stay tuned to cnet com on Thursday we'll be live-blogging the event which starts at ten a.m. eastern there must be something in the way the stars are aligned because there have been quite a few unexpectedly honest confessions from tech leaders recently Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in an interview that the iphone is limited compared to what the android operating system can do and that siri often disappoints Rupert Murdoch confessed on Twitter that myspace was mismanaged and wrote quote we screwed up in every way possible and Groupon CEO Andrew Mason admitted to 60 minutes that his team made a quote bush-league mistake when it mistaken revenues before going public Groupon said they were worth 730 million when it actually was 312 million Mason defended the mistake saying that smart people can get this stuff wrong CNET's parent company CBS is opening its sports site up to app makers to boost its fantasy sports business CBS Sports will allow outside developers to create apps so smaller fantasy operators can build products that live on the CBS Sports website they'll be freed and paid apps and like the app ecosystems of Apple Amazon Facebook CBS will keep thirty percent of the sheriff from paid apps those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for CNN com and you just been loaded