Facebook has given a 10-year-old Helsinki resident $10,000 for discovering an Instagram vulnerability that allowed him to delete other people's comments. “I would have been able to eliminate anyone, even Justin Bieber,” he reportedly told the Finnish publication Iltalehti.

Google Fiber is moving ahead in Louisville, despite a lawsuit by AT&T. Google currently is advertising for network deployment and operations construction manager; a field operations manager; a project manager; a fiber network deployment manager and operations construction lead; and a lead engineer, according to DSLReports. Google Fiber also is continuing to submit plans to the city for "huts" that would provide service to residents.

A Brazilian judge has ordered Facebook's Whatsapp to be blocked across the country for 72 hours, because it refused to provide authorities with data relating to a drug investigation. Whatsapp has said it can't provide the data, because it doesn't have it. “After cooperating to the full extent of our ability with the local courts, we are disappointed a judge in Sergipe decided yet again to order the block of WhatsApp in Brazil,” WhatsApp said in a statement.

The Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments last week about whether Pandora violated a state privacy law by integrating with Facebook in 2011. Pandora, which participated in an earlier version of Facebook's “instant personalization” program, allegedly shared logged-in Facebook users' names and photos with outside companies. Facebook user Peter Deacon sued the Pandora for allegedly violating Michigan's Video Rental Privacy Act, which prohibits companies that rent, lend or sell music (as well as books and videos) from disclosing customers' identities without their consent. A federal trial judge in San Francisco found that Michigan's law doesn't apply when companies stream tracks. Deacon …