Losing a single USB key from a nuclear weapons lab could be cause for concern, but what happens when 67 computers are unaccounted for, including 13 that were reported lost or stolen in the past year alone? What happens in this case is that officials claim no classified information has been lost. 0_o

The missing computers came to light after the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight released a memo dated February 3 from the Energy Department' National Nuclear Security Administration, which listed the missing PCs. According to Kevin Roark, a spokesman for Los Alamos, the lab has initiated a month-long inventory to try and account for the mysteriously missing machines, and while he admitted it's a cybersecurity issue due to personal information being stored, he maintains that none of the PCs hold any classified info.

"The magnitude of exposure and risk to the laboratory is at best unclear as little data on these losses has been collected or pursued given their treatment as property management issues," a security administration memo read.

Of the thirteen missing PCs within the past year, three were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 16th. There's also a BlackBerry that has gone missing after being lost "in a sensitive foreign country."

If your ISP goes down during a bad thunderstorm or other unexpected outage, you might find yourself reflecting on just how dependent you've become on this thing they call the interweb. But while most of us only have to suffer through temporary downtime on rare occasions, what about the "other 3 billion" people who lack internet access altogether?

Google hopes to change that, and with the help of Liberty Global and HSBC, the three internet saviors are backing a start-up called O3b Networks (can you guess what O3b stands for?). Initial production of 16 low-cost satellites is already underway and will eventually provide the infrastructure for locales without high-speed networking cable, including emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

"The O3b Networks system wil completely change the economics of telecommunications infrastructure in the world's fastest-growing markets for communications services," O3b said in a statement.

Look for the service to become active in 2010, with the door being left open for even more satellites down the line.