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"Most adorable bug" - Raspberry Pi 2 crashes when you take a photo of it
It's not buggy, it's camera-shy! The tiny, budget Raspberry Pi faints when you flash a photo of it, and it's likewise not keen on laser pointers.
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Why Jeb Bush's 250,000 email giveaway is a bigger gamble for us than him
On the face of it Jeb Bush's decision to make 250,000 emails from his time as Governor public is a great step forward in transparency. But what about those people who sent the emails?
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Uber customer data exposed through online lost and found database
App-based taxi company Uber revealed customer names and phone numbers through its online lost and found database.
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Facebook is telling Native Americans their names are fake
Facebook's still working on its name policy after problems with the LGBT community. Now Native Americans like Dana Lone Hill and Shane Creepingbear are being locked out while they're forced to prove...
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Twitter CFO Anthony Noto has account hijacked
Twitter's Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto is making headlines again after having his Twitter account hijacked and used to send out spammy links.
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How one man could have deleted any photo album he could see on Facebook
Facebook is probably the biggest collection of photographs ever assembled so it would be pretty bad if one man could delete every last one of them with his phone. Thankfully that's what Laxman Muthiyah...
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The Big Data picture - just how anonymous are "anonymous" records?
You know those "anonymous surveys" you may have filled in? They don't tell anyone it was you. Or do they?
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'Revenge porn' to be made illegal in England and Wales
England and Wales today amended the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to make revenge porn an offence punishable by up to two years in prison.
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Facebook's new ThreatExchange will rally companies to squash internet badness
Trying to share data on threats is currently a royal pain, Facebook said. The new platform will help companies to collaborate more easily on threats.
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SSCC 185 - "I have a number for you: Eighty Million" [PODCAST]
Our weekly "Chet Chat" podcast is carefully prepared to fit into a quarter-hour, so it is clear and concise as well as being witty and amusing. Enjoy...
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NoFlyZone aims to keep the airspace over your home drone-free
NoFlyZone.org registers each address along with its GPS coordinates, which are then relayed to drone manufacturers to create a geofence around the home.
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Apple's "two-step" security now protects iMessage and FaceTime, too
Apple has quietly extended its two-step verification feature to more of its ecosystem. If you have the "Apple two-step" turned on, then the iMessage and FaceTime services are now protected by it.
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Robot tweets "I seriously want to kill people", prompts police response
When Dutch police responded to a death threat made by a local Twitter account, they discovered the culprit was nothing more than an automated bot.
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What do you mean, "Facebook is now text only"? - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly one-minute security video. Fun, fast...and educational.
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Memex - DARPA's search engine for the Dark Web
Memex is like the Google of the deepest, darkest parts of the web, focusing (for the moment) on tackling human trafficking and slavery.
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US wireless carriers now legally have to unlock our phones
Are you a US mobile phone owner? Good news: you just regained your freedom to unlock your device and take it to another network.
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News flash: hacker turns Apple's Lightning connector into a jailbreak conductor
A French hacker says he'll soon be making modified Lightning connector cables that will give Apple iOS jailbreakers a better view inside their iDevices.
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Microsoft pulls PowerPoint-killing patch KB2920732
The latest in a series of Microsoft patch failures rendered PowerPoint inoperable on devices running Windows RT.
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Google's Project Zero backs off a bit - will now give up to 14 days' grace
Google's controversial "zero-day dropping machine," Project Zero, which automatically outs your bugs after 90 days, will now give up to 14 day's leeway.
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Firefox to get a "walled garden" for browser extensions, Mozilla to be sole...
Mozilla has announced that its Firefox browser is heading towards signed browser extensions only. Even if you publish your extensions "off market," you'll have to get Mozilla to sign them first.
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