Technologies designed to protect animals are being turned against them, warn scientists
News in brief: NASA finds lost spaceships; data stored on an atom; Viber adds self-destruct chats
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Facebook to listen out for posts from people vulnerable to suicide
Scheme rolling out in the US will refer posts flagged by algorithms to human beings for response
China mulls national cryptocurrency in race to digital money
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?
Are you customer of a firm that’s been breached? Look out for more attacks
Customers of the UK telecoms provider TalkTalk have found themselves targeted by scammers – and the advice applies to other firms too
Google leads ‘guerilla patching’ of big vulnerability in open source projects
Third-party patching of vulnerabilities includes another group patching a Microsoft flaw – and provides a glimpse into a new way of dealing with flaws
News in brief: Kodi streaming ‘not illegal’; whistleblower movie planned; robots on the rise
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Amazon fight to keep Echo recording out of murder trial now moot
Despite the decision by the accused, the arguments for considering Alexa protected by First Amendment rights remain ‘surprisingly plausible’
News in brief: Firefox drops XP, Vista support; CloudPets boss pressed; judge rules on streaming
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Uber under fire for ‘Greyball’ program used to dodge enforcement officials
Uber defends ‘Greyball’ as a way to prevent users abusing its terms of service