Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.

For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts.

A new not-for-profit media group was launched in Australia Monday entirely funded by a philanthropist who has pumped Aus$15 million into a start-up that promises "fearless, independent" journalism.

The online Global Mail will be operating in an environment dominated by Fairfax and Rupert Murdoch's News Limited but is confident it can carve a niche.

Controversial tweets by a Khmer Rouge tribunal judge have inflamed a damaging public spat between the U.N. and Cambodia and raised questions over how Twitter is used in the courts.

Laurent Kasper-Ansermet has angered Phnom Penh by using the micro-blogging site to draw attention to the court's much-criticized handling of two possible new Khmer Rouge crimes against humanity cases.

Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.

"I consider that the arguments for a halt to the ratification process are justified," Donald Tusk told reporters.

Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.

Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too — and now so is the rest of the world.

Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies.

The sale of the devices was briefly halted after Libertyville, Ill.-based Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. enforced a ruling it won against Ireland-based Apple Sales International Inc., from a court in Mannheim, Germany.

Millions of American football fans will be watching the Super Bowl on television Sunday with one hand in the potato chips and the other holding a smartphone.

The "second screen" experience will be fueled by Facebook and Twitter and a host of Super Bowl-related applications for mobile devices providing everything from recipes to game statistics to re-runs of the celebrated commercials.

Samsung Electronics on Saturday condemned an Israeli commercial featuring a Samsung tablet, expressing dismay at Iran's threat to ban its products over the apparently anti-Tehran teaser.

The South Korean electronics giant said it had not been involved in production of the TV spot, produced by Israeli cable TV channel HOT.

Steve Appleton, the chief executive of leading semiconductor maker Micron Technology, died at the age of 51 when a small plane he was piloting crashed at an Idaho airport, his company said.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident in Boise," Idaho, the company's board of directors said in a statement.

Taiwan said Friday it had rejected an appeal by Google against a fine imposed on the U.S. Internet giant for refusing to grant customers a seven-day trial period on its mobile phone apps.

The Taipei City government, which levied the fine of Tw$1 million ($33,000) in mid-2011, said the economics ministry had ruled in its favor.