Magic Mouse gone berserk

My Magic Mouse has suddenly gone berserk. It keeps loosing the connection and in between it's extremely jittery and unstable, skipping here and there. Anyone else experienced this problem?

Dear Ninaragnhild,
Same thing here!  Plus it's eating batteries like crazy -- I got my brand new iMac 27 inch 5k on Jan. 23rd, 2015, and I'm on my third set of Energizers in the Magic Mouse..  I bought some Apple rechargeable batteries today to save on throw aways, but this can't be right to have the mouse eat batteries that fast.  When I work in Photoshop or try to navigate on Google Maps, the mouse does its own thing, zooming in and out, suddenly going from zoomed screen to completely zoomed out screen, and I'm not even touching it.  Are there perhaps problems with their latest Magic Mouse supplies?

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