 It's Wednesday, October 17th, 2012. I'm Kimber Streams, and this is 90 Self-Medicated Seconds on the Verge. Reuters reports that a White House-ordered probe found no evidence that Huawei spied for the Chinese government. That contradicts a U.S. congressional report from last week, which called both Huawei and ZTE national security risks. The report's findings have not been announced publicly, and White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden declined to comment. According to the report, there was no evidence of active spying, although one source says, quote, certain parts of government really wanted such evidence. Determined to stay alive, the Pirate Bay is securing its servers in the cloud. The new data infrastructure now uses two cloud services and additional levels of security to ensure that its servers are safe from potential police raid. The Pirate Bay has been subject to a tremendous amount of scrutiny as of late. While this should help against physical seizures, legislation to block the domain is another story altogether. Finally, Amazon has taken a big step towards turning the Kindle into a true textbook replacement. The company today announced Whispercast, a new service that allows businesses and schools to distribute content like PDF documents and e-books across multiple Kindle devices. Whispercast is available now and also supports Amazon's free Kindle apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X. That platform ubiquity certainly gives Amazon a very strong case for education. And that's it for today's top stories. Coming up tomorrow, genetically modified equine. They walk like us, they grunt like us. Should they get the right to vote like us?