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• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, June 5

  Hackers steal data on 4 million government workers...Facebook slims down Android app...privacy-for-service seen as poor tradeoff...and more tech news.

• Pew poll: Limited knowledge on privacy policies, more on net neutrality

  U.S. Internet users have a limited understanding of what net neutrality means and what protections are contained in company privacy policies, according to the results of a national survey by the Pew Research Center.

• South Korea's gigabit broadband woes should serve as object lesson for FCC regulators

  The FCC now has collected more than 3 million comments in a major proceeding that may reclassify broadband Internet service to fit within the largely- inflexible common carrier model in Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

• Researchers build jumping, flipping, hand-standing robot

  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created a robot with six curved legs that can do a hand-stand, jump over gaps and climb over rocks.

• Aruba Networks launches three Wi-Fi controllers that inspect apps

  Aruba Networks announced three new Wi-Fi controllers that have built-in controls to boost application delivery.

• How to tame negotiation nerves

  The mere thought of negotiating a deal can unsettle the nerves: The heart races, the shoulders tense, the palms sweat. When faced with such a prospect, human beings are more likely to feel anxiety-fear, frustration, worry and apprehension-than any other emotion, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

• Experts: FCC needs to focus on spectrum and subsidy reform

  With the issue of network neutrality behind the U.S. Federal Communications Commission -- at least temporarily -- the agency must turn its focus to freeing up wireless spectrum, reforming telecom subsidies and promoting broadband deployment and adoption, several telecom experts said Friday.