Grumpy Cat internet legend dies

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The owners of Tardar Sauce confirmed she died on Tuesday Grumpy Cat, the feline famous on the internet for her permanent scowl, has died aged seven, her owners say. A statement says she died on Tuesday following complications from a recent urinary tract infection. The cat from Arizona had […]

Grumpy Cat internet legend dies

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The owners of Tardar Sauce confirmed she died on Tuesday Grumpy Cat, the feline famous on the internet for her permanent scowl, has died aged seven, her owners say. A statement says she died on Tuesday following complications from a recent urinary tract infection. The cat from Arizona had […]

American man accused in $9m net address theft

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Net addresses have become valuable because the pool of available numbers is drying up An American man has been accused of stealing net addresses worth more than $9m (£7m) by US prosecutors. Amir Golestan of South Carolina is alleged to have tricked an organisation that controls some net addresses […]

American man accused in $9m net address theft

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Net addresses have become valuable because the pool of available numbers is drying up An American man has been accused of stealing net addresses worth more than $9m (£7m) by US prosecutors. Amir Golestan of South Carolina is alleged to have tricked an organisation that controls some net addresses […]

GozNym cyber-crime gang which stole millions busted

Image copyright Getty Images An international crime gang which used malware to steal $100m (£77m) from more than 40,000 victims has been dismantled. A complex police operation conducted investigations in the US, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The gang infected computers with GozNym malware, which captured online banking details to access bank accounts. The […]

Intel Zombieload bug fix to slow data centre computers

Image copyright Natascha Eibl Image caption The researchers who discovered the flaw have called it Zombieload and released a logo Intel has confirmed that new problems discovered with its processor chips mean that some computer owners face a performance slowdown. The company has said that data centres are likely to be worst affected by the […]

DJI Osmo Action camera poses threat to GoPro

Image copyright DJI Image caption The DJI Osmo Action has a screen on both its front and rear DJI has launched its first action camera posing a challenge to the market leader GoPro. The Chinese company already dominates the consumer market for drones. The Osmo Action uses image-stabilisation software to smooth out its video, rather […]

WhatsApp hack: Is any app or computer truly secure?

Image copyright EPA WhatsApp has confirmed that a security flaw in the app let attackers install spy software on their targets’ smartphones. That has left many of its 1.5 billion users wondering how safe the “simple and secure” messaging app really is. On Wednesday, chip-maker Intel confirmed that new problems discovered with some of its […]

Hackers interrupt Israeli Eurovision webcast with faked explosions

Image copyright EPA Image caption Miller-Heidke (centre) wrote Zero Gravity with her husband, Keir Nuttall An Israeli webcast of the first Eurovision semi-final has been hacked to show faked explosions in host city Tel Aviv. Viewers saw a warning about a fictitious attack on the city, accompanied by an animated video and the sound of […]

San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition

Image copyright Reuters Image caption High-definition cameras “map” faces in a crowd and compare them to existing images Legislators in San Francisco have voted to ban the use of facial recognition, the first US city to do so. The emerging technology will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, such as the city’s […]