Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union. From a report on BBC: AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when…

Here’s what Jeff Atwood, a founder of Stack Overflow thinks: Password rules are bullshit. They don’t work. They heavily penalize your ideal audience, people that use real random password generators. Hey, guess what, that password randomly didn’t have a number…

Scheme rolling out in the US will refer posts flagged by algorithms to human beings for response

Governments getting involved in cryptocurrencies is a tricky line to walk – so is China doing the right thing give its fraught history with Bitcoin users?

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Customers of the UK telecoms provider TalkTalk have found themselves targeted by scammers – and the advice applies to other firms too

David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security from 2009 to 2011, has responded to the recent accusations made by president Donald Trump. On Saturday, Trump accused former president Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at…

An anonymous reader shares a report on The Verge: Google says that a small number of Pixel phones have broken microphones that need to be sent back for replacement. The issue is seemingly not that widespread. Google claims the issue…

China is building a manned spacecraft capable of sending astronauts to the moon as well as near-Earth orbit flight, according to Chinese state media. From a report on CNBC: The official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology of…

An anonymous reader shares a report on BBC: Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo intervened to stop a handheld retro computer console campaign from acquiring further funding, the BBC has learned. The Spectrum ZX Vega+, backed by Sir Clive Sinclair, had achieved its…