The smileworthy technology story of the week has a car thief suspect remotely locked inside a stolen car. Except we’re calling it busted.

A story about users mistaking it for a Facebook extension was flagged as fake news: ‘Meta’, said the developer

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Google engineers are working on an improved version of the reCAPTCHA system that uses a computer algorithm to distinguish between automated bots and real humans, and requires no user interaction at all….

Google is rolling out Android 7.1.1 for Pixel and Nexus smartphones, including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One). You can download it over-the-air when…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A rifle-wielding North Carolina man was arrested Sunday in Washington, DC for carrying his weapon into a pizzeria that sits at the center of the fake news conspiracy theory known as…

Microsoft’s response to the Amazon Echo and Google Home is Home Hub, a software update for Windows 10’s Cortana personal assistant that turns any Windows PC into a smart speaker of sorts. Mashable reports: Microsoft’s smart digital assistant Cortana can…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A California state senator introduced a bill on Monday that would mandate reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections and deaths and require doctors to record the infections on death certificates when they are a…

EFF is dismayed by the cavalier attitude by law enforcement over warrantless searches of trillions of phone records and its refusal to turn over documents.

Researchers are tracking a new wave of DDoS attacks that rival Mirai when it comes to intensity and scope.

A research paper describes vulnerabilities enabling distributed guessing attacks which allow an attacker to collect payment card data across a number of sites without triggering alerts.