After more than 100 years of debate — which at one point even elicited interest from Albert Einstein and Max Planck, physicists have finally offered up mathematical proof of the third law of thermodynamics, which states that a temperature of…

Google is using a 10,000-strong army of independent contractors to flag “offensive or upsetting” content, in order to ensure that queries like “did the Holocaust happen” don’t push users to misinformation, propaganda and hate speech. From a report on The…

Gavin Clarke, writing for The Register: Canonical is extending the deadline for security updates for paying users of its five-year-old Ubuntu 12.04 LTS — a first. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will become the first Long Term Support release of Canonical’s Linux…

Millions of records from a commercial corporate database have been leaked. ZDNet reports: The database, about 52 gigabytes in size, contains just under 33.7 million unique email addresses and other contact information from employees of thousands of companies, representing a…

An anonymous reader shares a CNBC article: Behold the open industrial office space. At one moment, it feels like such a hip environment, bustling with easy communication and collaboration, innovation and headphones just behind every monitor. At another moment, the…

The only person you can trust with your data is yourself, warns speaker Liz Kintzele at SXSW, so it’s up to you to make sure you know what you’re getting in return for sharing your information

Opposition growing to bill that would permit ‘invasive questions’ to be asked and penalise those who decline to answer

Data stolen from an ISP after a breach has led to its customers being targeted by scammers – but blocking a widely used tool is not a way to improve security

What is data matching, and what can you do to reduce the trail of digital breadcrumbs you leave as you travel around the web?

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