The Chronic Dev Team has released the latest version of their untethered jailbreak for iOS devices running 5.1.1.

Says the blog post: "After copious amounts of work and many sleepless nights, Absinthe 2.0 is finally here to jailbreak your device."

As with past updates, Absinthe 2.0 was a "large collaborative effort between Chronic Dev Team and the iPhone Dev Team." Together, the groups call themselves the "Jailbreak Dream Team."

By jailbreaking your device, you gain access to the Cydia app store, (for apps that may not have been allowed into the official store) as well as access to ability to customize the operating system and "sideload" apps that have not been purchased through the store. Although jailbreaking is perfectly legal, Apple warns it will void your warranty with them, unfortunately.

More info here: Absinthe 2.0 has arrived

IBM has understandably blocked the voice-activated digital assistant from its work networks.

As 'Big Blue' confirms, Siri has been blocked due to the fact that Siri sends everything you ever say to her to an Apple data center. IBM CIO Jeanette Horan says: 'The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.'

While some might call IBM paranoid, Horan has reason to worry, thanks to this passage in Apple's Software License Agreement: 'When you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text.'

Additionally, Siri collects other info, like your contact's names and other 'unspecified user data,' in order to help the assistant give you better responses.

It is unclear how long Apple stores the data, but you have to agree to the user agreement before you can use it.

Cisco has decided to pull the plug on its failed Cius tablet.

The Cius, which was released in 2010 and aimed at enterprise customers, had a focus on business video conferencing and specifically boasted about its compatibility with other Cisco apps like WebEx, Jabber, and Quad.

There was little marketing for the device on the consumer side, and it is clear now that it did not resonate well with business users, either.

If you were in the market for a Cius, Cisco says it will still sell your company one "in limited fashion to customers with specific needs or use cases."

Continuing to focus on enterprise, Cisco says they will work to bring their most popular apps to other tablet platforms like Android, iOS and most likely Windows 8.

Although Samsung unveiled the flagship device earlier this month, there has yet to be a set timetable for its release outside of Europe.

Today, the Verge is reporting that the device will hit American and Canadian shores on June 20th. The proof comes via a leaked screenshot that was quickly taken down.

For Canadian fans, the phone will be available via Virgin, Rogers, Bell and Telus.

On the American side, the carriers remain unclear with the exception of T-Mobile, who will be getting the metallic blue version.

July 11th should see the release of the white model of the phone, along with a T-Mobile version of the popular Galaxy Note.

For now consider the date's rumor, but Samsung officials did give "June" as a general timeframe when speaking in regards to the GSIII.

Thanks to a contract negotiation dispute between Amazon and the Independent Publishers Group, the giant e-tailer pulled 5000 titles from the Kindle Store back in February.

As of today, however, the books have returned after the two parties reached an agreement.

Earlier in the year, when it came time for the contract to be renegotiated, IPG's president Mark Suchomel said Amazon proposed new terms that were "substantially changed" from the previous terms, meaning lower revenue for the authors. Suchomel is said to have offered terms comparable to other publishers in the marketplace, but Amazon did not agree and pulled the electronic books whilst keeping the physical titles available for sale.

There was no word on the intricacies of the new deal, but clearly they must be more favorable to everyone involved then in past negotiations.

The dispute is not the first Amazon has had with publishers in recent years, as many used to accuse Amazon of having a monopoly on the market. Apple and the major publishers were recently sued by the DOJ for allegedly colluding to break Amazon's "stranglehold" on the market.

Apple has announced the start of a "Free App of the Week" promotion, finally.

Starting with 'Cut the Rope: Experiments,' the company will offer a new free app each week.

In the past, the company offered some discounted or free apps through their Facebook page but never a prominent promotion in the actual store.

Furthermore, Apple has added new "Editor's Choice" picks in the App Store, removing the old "Staff Favorites" section. As expected, the U.S. version of the store has Facebook Camera as its top Editor's Choice.

Apple has opened the Editor's Choice section to the Mac App Store, as well.

According to a new Pocket-Lint report, Facebook is looking into purchasing Opera Software, the company behind the Opera browser.

By purchasing Opera, the company would then create its own "Facebook Browser" that will come with built-in plug-ins and features that will help you more easily keep up with the latest updates in your social life.

Of course, Facebook would be taking on some major heavyweights in Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple. The company will likely prove to be little competition to the leaders, however, despite its 900 million users.

Opera is used by many millions around the world, and its mobile browser is free and popular, as well. By acquiring the company, Facebook would save the hassles of building a fully functionally browser from scratch.

The browser company claims to have 200 million worldwide users.

Felix Roque, the mayor of West New York in New Jersey, has been arrested after hacking a site that was calling for a recall on his election.

Roque allegedly had his son Joseph hack the site and then threaten the creator. Both have been arrested.

Started in February, the recallroque.com site was created by other Hudson County government officials.

Joseph Roque conducted Google searches for "hacking a Go Daddy site," "recallroque log-in," and "html hacking tutorial" and was finally able to gain control of the account. On February 8th, the wanna-be hacker cancelled the domain name and killed off the site.

The very next day, Mayor Rogue called the owner of the site, claimed that he knew the man was responsible for the site and also said he had "a friend in high level of government who had shut the Recall Website down." The Mayor then threatened that "everyone would pay for getting involved against him."

Roque and his son have now been charged with counts of "unauthorized access to computers in furtherance of causing damage to protected computers; causing damage to protected computers; and conspiracy to commit those crimes."

More rumors and info are abound in regards to Google's still unconfirmed new Nexus tablet.

According to CNBC, the tablet has been passed around the Google headquarters for some time and will come out over the summer.

The device is said to be aimed at killing the Amazon Kindle Fire, which runs a custom version of Android and has a fully different ecosystem than Google's. Amazon has its own browser, its own app store, its own cloud storage, its own music store, its own ebook store and its own streaming movie store.

If accurate, the source says the tablet will cost between $200 to $250 and include a much-higher resolution screen and a front-side camera for video chat.

Rumor has it the device will be unveiled at the Google I/O conference on June 25th for July mass release.

Thanks to a new partnership between charity Teach First and search giant Google, English teachers specializing in computer science will receive free "teaching aids, such as Raspberry Pi's or Arduino starter kits".

Google's chairman Eric Schmidt said thanks to the investment, the UK will no longer risk "losing a generation of scientists."

Schmidt has openly criticized the UK's move away from teaching how to create software and moving more on how to use it.

Says the chariman: "Put simply, technology breakthroughs can't happen without the scientists and engineers to make them. The challenge that society faces is to equip enough people, with the right skills and mindset, and to get them to work on the most important problems."

Teach First takes "exceptional" grad student teachers and puts them in a six-week training program "before deploying them to schools where they teach classes over a two-year period," says the BBC.

Google has revealed the interesting data this week.

The search giant has to remove more than 1 million links to infringing content each month, including links to movies, music, software and video games from its search results.

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft sent the most requests during the month, sending a full 543,378.

As part of the DMCA, the company must remove links if they have been reported by copyright holders. Google admits it complies with over 97 percent of requests, which must be submitted via an online form and is then approved by a Google algorithm or a dedicated team.

For those other 2-3 percent, the requests are rejected "because the form is incomplete, the web page doesn't exist or we look at it and say we don't think it is infringing."

Outside of Microsoft, the BPI and NBC sent the next most requests, totaling about 300,000. The sites with the most links removed were filestube.com, torrents.eu and 4shared.com.

In total, Google 1.24 million requests from 1,296 copyright owners.

Facebook has unveiled their latest application for iOS today, called 'Facebook Camera.'

The app will make it easier for Facebook users to take pictures, edit them, and share them on the social networking site.

Says Dirk Stoop, a Facebook product manager for photos: "We can basically show you more photos on the app, so we can make a more immersive experience around your photos. On the side of publishing these photos, Facebook Camera lets you upload much higher resolution photos at up to 2,048 by 2,048 pixels wide."

As most active users know, the default for current pictures is much lower, usually in the 800x800 range.

Building on its acquisition of Instagram, the company has also added photo filters to Facebook. There will be 15 filters and also include cropping and straightening tools within the app.

Facebook recently acquired Instagram for $1 billion. The photo sharing app has 40 million users on Android and iOS.

The American Civil Liberties Union has created an infographic for mass distribution that shows some scary figures related to the U.S. National Security Agency.

Since 9/11, the Agency has been able to "spy" on electronic communications without the need for court-approved warrants. The group has a large complex in Utah that cost $2 billion and holds the data.

You can learn more at FixFISA

Without further adieu, here is the info:

According to multiple sources, Google is preparing to begin shipping their first 7-inch branded tablet next month.

The Asus-built tablet will be the first "Nexus" Android tablet, coming with a vanilla version of Android 4.0 that does not include any third-party user interface or bloatware apps.

Rumors have been swirling for months about the tablet, which was first reported to be released in May. The device had to be pushed back to July due to "design issues," says the report.

Supply chain sources say Google has ordered 600,000 tablets for June with a plan to ship 2.5 million by the end of the year.

If past rumors prove accurate, the device will run on a powerful dual-core processor, include mid-to-high end specs and sell for just $150, undercutting the feature-strapped Amazon Kindle Fire.

Cnet is reporting today that the FBI is in the process of creating a new unit that will be able to spy on your conversations that take place using wireless communications, like Skype.

The new unit will be called the "Domestic Communications Assistance Center."

Reads the source: "DCAC's mandate is broad, covering everything from trying to intercept and decode Skype conversations to building custom wiretap hardware or analyzing the gigabytes of data that a wireless provider or social network might turn over in response to a court order. It's also designed to serve as a kind of surveillance help desk for state, local, and other federal police."

Talks for the new unit have been around for over four years, and will be "the technological component of the bureau's 'Going Dark' Internet wiretapping push, which was allocated $54 million by a Senate committee last month."