Topping tech headlines on Monday was an Internet outage in North Korea.



The country's very limited Internet connections were dark for about 9.5 hours on Monday, after a "long pattern of up-and-down connectivity," according to Dyn Research. While it's difficult to know exactly what happened given that North Korea is largely cut off from the rest of the world, Dyn said that while it could've been a coordinated cyber attack, power problems might also be to blame. The outage, of course, comes shortly after the FBI said North Korea was responsible for the recent hack of Sony Pictures.



Meanwhile, Google released its latest government transparency report, which revealed a slight decline in takedown requests. Between June and December 2013, the company received 3,105 government requests to remove 14,637 pieces of content. Those figures represent what the Web giant called a small decrease from the first half of 2013.



In other Google news, the company revealed its first complete build of its fully autonomous vehicle, which looks like early mock-ups, with the addition of working headlines and a slick, shiny body. Google will spend the holidays, it said, "zipping around our test track," and hopes to hit the streets of Northern California in the new year.



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