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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    NZ police question teenager over global cyber crime

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    Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:08am EST
    A generic picture of a computer keyboard. New Zealand police are questioning a man alleged to be the leader of a cyber crime network that infiltrated computers worldwide and brought down the system at a U.S. university. REUTERS/Catherine Benson

    WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand police are questioning a man alleged to be the leader of a cyber crime network that infiltrated computers worldwide and brought down the system at a U.S. university.

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    Investigators in New Zealand, the United States and the Netherlands believe the 18-year-old wrote software used to attack over a million computers, causing damage of around NZ$25 million ($19 million), New Zealand Press Association said.

    The software was allegedly used in bringing down the computer server at the University of Pennsylvania last year, New Zealand police said in a statement.

    The man was the ringleader of a botnet, a network of computers infiltrated by a program that surreptitiously installs itself to allow a hacker to control it, they said.

    (Reporting by Kazunori Takada)
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