I got a PM being asked to comment regarding those pictures:
Those are pins 1 and 2 and they are all connected together along with pin 3 to the ground plane. So in essence that "shorting" is there by design and cannot lead to the issues being described.
Below is an older drawing from my original group buy showing the area in question:
Look at the lower right corner of the chip. That's the previous version (0.6) of the board but that area has been the same since version 0.1 and was not changed in 0.7 (which is what you have).