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A security researcher has gone rogue by publicly posting information on zero-day vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins.

Because why replace a motherboard when you can buy a new ruddy lappy?

It was already something of a foregone conclusion, but Europe's controversial new online copyright law took another step towards becoming official this week. The European Union announced on Monday that 19 of the 28 member nations in the European Counc

A new Pew Research Center survey published on April 10th — conducted between January 8 to February 7, 2019—reveals social media usage among American adults remains statistically unchanged. Moreover, Pew noted that social media growth is slowin

A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers, TechCrunch has learned. The hack

Immigration law firm notes odds of success in the H-1B lottery are still low, advises companies to look at placing skilled workers overseas.

Nearly 90,000 took this comprehensive, annual survey of people who code. Demographics. Most loved, dreaded and wanted technologies. Salary and careers.

Facebook thinks your privacy concerns are a laughing matter. That much was once again made clear today when the social media giant was forced to admit it had "accidentally" shipped "tens of thousands" of Oculus Touch controllers with secre

'Actively hampering the the truth'

Amazon Go convenience stores will begin to accept cash, according to a report this morning from CNBC, which Amazon confirmed. The retailer didn't say when cash would be added to existing stores as a payment option, however, only that it was planned. T

Patch Tuesday seemed uneventful until loads of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 machines, as well as Win8.1 and Server 2012 R2 machines, rebooted overnight. Looks like we have another throat-clutching bad round of patches to contend with. Sophos Anti-Virus ap

'The purpose of the blacklist will be to bar the sites from ... any Search feature or news product.'

Leaked internal documents reveal that Google maintains a blacklist preventing certain news outlets from appearing in search results for news or other specific sections, according to the Daily Caller ' s J. Arthur Bloom . What this means is that while

Hong Kong opened a long-awaited $4.6 billion tunnel under a 3.7 kilometre (2.3 mile) long section of the main island in late February with much fanfare. The bypass was greeted by traffic-weary residents with relief and heralded as a technological marvel b

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's driver recognition pilot program has yielded perfect results: it works zero percent of the time. Congratulations would be in order, but despite this fantastic failure the state intends to continue building it's pri

It might be a good idea to eat lunch together over video chat.

If you think only one political group in the United States is susceptible to the proliferation of political propaganda on social media, you are sorely mistaken.

Owners of a slew of D-Link, ARGtek, DSLink, Secutech, TOTOLINK and Cisco consumer routers are urged to update their device's firmware, lest they fall prey to ongoing DNS hijacking campaigns and device hijacking attacks. Targeted Cisco routers The Cisc

Soon you could be buying your goods online from Amazon using the company's own satellite broadband system.

Google announced that the company will be dissolving an artificial intelligence ethics panel following internal backlash from employees.