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it's time to train your brain for the gold medal in multitasking I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene at update folks we have another nasty password hack on our hands and this time it's with Yahoo more than 450,000 usernames and passwords for Yahoo voices were posted online and the hackers say this was done as a wake-up call to yahoo to step up security this is the same type of hack technique that was used against Sony and the PlayStation Network last year it's another reminder to not repeat your passwords even with a big name like Yahoo you can't trust the security it's also scary how many people use easy passwords cnet comb through the exposed data and found the most common password was one two three four five six the next most popular was all ones and all zeros the word password was used by 780 accounts and that was followed by welcome as an yes welcome to hackers why don't you the f-word also quite popular why Olga V so angry pop culture terms also dominated like ninja Superman Batman Star Wars and ncc 1701 the registry of the USS Enterprise ya don't boldly go with that as your password so directv and Viacom are having a battle over money and as part of the fight directv is not showing Viacom channels like Comedy Central and MTV but now this is turning nasty because Viacom disabled watching popular shows from the web so great Yap now this fight is affecting everyone you can head to hulu to find some episodes in the meantime get ready for the most social olympics yet because NBC an Adobe have created two mobile apps for streaming all the games which has never been done before and the ABS will be filled with extra footage it's all part of this growing trend to get you to be engaged on two screens at once the TV and your tablet NBC and the BBC also partnered with facebook to track what's being said and shared online during the 17 day event you're going to get hit with olympics and facebook from every angle also facebook is changing groups so you can see exactly who has read each post meet in a group it'll mark you as having read the post if you click it like it or even if you just open the group page which isn't always an indicator that you read everything on the page but it'll assume you did so just keep that in mind groupies and today's appt to watch is the amazing Alex it's new game from the makers of angry birds and it's out now for Apple and Android devices it's similar to Angry Birds because it's a bunch of physics puzzles use a series of objects that bounced and ricocheted to create a contraption that in the end will trigger something that your tech news update for today for more on the stories in today show visit cnet.com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey