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Richard Branson, the brazen Brit behind Virgin Galactic, made news last week when he announced that he has begun processing Bitcoin payments from would-be space tourists. (A woman in Hawaii has already booked her ticket, the company says.) But it turns out Branson’s not the only Bitcoin enthusiast looking toward the heavens. Jeff Garzik, one of the core developers of the Bitcoin software and a new addition to the team of developers at BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, has...

Google isn't the only major tech company dabbling in artificial intelligence -- Facebook is also getting into the game. And, to prove it, the social network just hired an expert in machine learning and mobile robotics to run its AI lab. New York University professor Yann LeCun announced on his Facebook and Google+ pages on Monday that Facebook has created a new AI research lab and hired him to be its director. The long-term goal of the lab, dubbed AI Group,...

To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs. That vision of spycraft sparked a concerted drive by the NSA and its UK sister agency GCHQ to infiltrate the massive communities playing onlinegames, according to secret documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward...

  Security firm AVG have added a 'DNT' featureto it's free PrivacyFix app for Android    

The Royal Bank of Scotland has suffered a second major cyber-attack within a week, leaving a wealth of phishing threats in its wake.   Many customers found their accounts to be inaccessible Thursday night and into Friday. The bank reported that it was the victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,” it told...

Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera Software today joined Google in revoking rogue digital certificates that had been issued by a subordinate certificate authority (CA) of France's cybersecurity agency. Google revoked the certificates for users of its Chrome browser on Saturday after a four-day investigation. Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera Software followed suit on Monday. In a security advisory, Microsoft said it had released an update to most versions of Windows -- including Windows Phone 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows...

New York University has dropped claims that blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng was given iOS devices pre-loaded with spyware by a supporter on his arrival at the uni last year. A joint statement from NYU and the accused aid organisation claimed that the allegations had been made “in good faith" but were based on a "misunderstanding of the technology". Self-trained lawyer Chen made a dramatic night-time escape from house arrest in April 2012, eventually holing up in...

A surprising thing about Goldman Sachs, one of the globe's most influential investment banks, may be the sheer size of its technology organization. It makes up a major part of its workforce. Another big surprise from the firm, a major player in one of the most risk adverse industries, may be its philosophy that embraces commodity approaches, open systems and platforms, and ultimately perhaps, the public cloud. Goldman Sachs has 36,000 employees. About 10,000 of...

The infamous Serbian hacker group called as "Tesla Team" is targeting government websites belong to various countries.  The group has managed to find SQL Vulnerability in the target websites.

Amazon made headlines this week with the news that its experimenting with using airborne drones to deliver goods within 30 minutes of order. What could possibly go wrong? Infamous hacker Samy Kamkar highlights one issue with the release of SkyJack – a drone that’s meant to take over other drones.