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Pirate Bay judge accused of lacking impartiality, Conficker costs way more than you might have thought, and Android catches up to Palm in the mobile operating system market.

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• Mozilla: Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 will Ship on Time This Week
  Eyes open for 3.5 beta 4 very soon. [Yahoo Tech]
• Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial
  The judge in the Pirate Bay case was apparently a member of pro-copyright groups, leaving many calling for a retrial. [TorrentFreak]
• YouCube Puts YouTube Videos on a 3D Cube
  Why not? [via Google Blogoscoped]
• Nefarious Conficker worm racks up $9.1 billion bill
  Conficker may not be wreaking the havoc that some experts were worried about, but it’s still costing some serious cash. We don’t doubt that Conficker is costing a lot, but it’d be nice to see more specifics on how they got to that enormous number. [TG Daily]
• Downloader Beware: Windows 7 Release Candidate Torrents Are Fake (So Far)
  The Windows 7 RC1 torrents that are out and about on many BitTorrent trackers are—so far at least—not real, so don’t get too download happy expecting something new and great. [Gizmodo]
• Android Catches Up To Palm In Mobile Ad Market Share. IPhone Still Blows It Away.
  Good news for Google, bad news for Palm. iPhone’s still killing the competition. [TechCrunch]
• Apple’s App Store: 1 Billion Served
  The App Store has served up a ton of apps since it opened last year.