In a stirring display of bad timing, a cluster of top UK political figures has issued a public letter insisting on the revival of the so-called "snoopers' charter" - legislation to give British police and intelligence services more access to personal data.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has vehemently denied giving the government direct access to servers. Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google have all put out calls for transparency into the US government's information demands.
Have you heard the one about the German bank clerk who turned €64 into €22 million? Even if it's an urban legend, the story offers you some surprising advice about social networking.
Paul Ducklin draws his longbow to make the connection...
Blackberry released the first two security advisories for its new Z10 smartphone yesterday. One of the patches was for Adobe Flash vulnerabilities from January. Flash? On a smartphone? In 2013?
The patent covers technology to match at least one facial landmark between the pre-funny-face and during-funny-face images. If Google develops the technology, we can prepare ourselves for grimacing public displays and associated melodroidma.
The convicted rapists are serving at least one year in juvenile jail, while one of the hackers who helped to bring their crimes to light has been subjected to an FBI raid and may face hacking charges that could lead to 10 years in prison.