"I wanted to let you know that with Kindle Fire HD there will be a special offers opt-out option for $15. We know from our Kindle reader line that customers love our special offers and very few people choose to opt out. We're happy to offer customers the choice."

The ensuing reaction on social media was, suffice it to say, mostly negative. Even though it's widely understood that the sponsorships help keep the Kindle prices low, the lack of choice struck a nerve with potential consumers.

A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released.

The drift bottle - containing a postcard which promised a reward of six pence to the finder - was released in June 1914 by Captain CH Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation.

A spokesperson for Guinness World Records said: "We are pleased to hear that the same vessel helped to break the Guinness World Record for oldest message in a bottle twice.

The alleged thief, aged 40, reportedly got past security at the Kagadi Hospital in the middle of the night and stole the phone from a patient who was fighting the Ebola virus. Yes, this was the isolation ward.

The virus -- whose symptoms may include hemorrhaging, rashes, and a deterioration of the central nervous system -- has already killed 16 people in the area.

While trying to board a flight out of Buffalo, New York recently, a PhD student at Arizona State found out the hard way that being on a no-fly list isn’t the only way to attract the attention of the TSA — wearing a funny shirt will do the trick, too.

After being vigorously screened and questioned multiple times, Arijit says he was finally given permission, once more, to board his plane. The pilot of the aircraft, however, had had enough of the whole ordeal and asked the Delta supervisor to relay the message that, due to the discomfort the shirt had caused, neither Arijit nor his wife would be allowed to board the aircraft.

Even after being booted, Arijit says that transit cops questioned him relentlessly, asking him about where he got his shirt and for details about his family.

“He gave a stupid answer,” Arijit recalls hearing the officer say to a supervisor. “And he looks foreign.”

According to CEO Yves Guillemot, around five to seven per cent of free-to-play gamers on the PC platform will fork out for in-game content, a probable figure most would believe.

However, the head honcho also alleges that as for its regular PC games, only about five to seven per cent of gamers pay anyway. The vast majority apparently run pirated content.

"It's around a 93 to 95 per cent piracy rate, so it ends up at about the same percentage as free-to-play," he claimed.

Ars tracked down the original motion to drop the case against Armand Angulo, a doctor living in Iowa who had illegally sold millions of dollars worth of prescription medication online.

"Given the slim likelihood of Angulo’s extradition from Panama, and the economic and practical hardship related to continued storage of evidence in this matter, the United States moves to dismiss the Indictment, with prejudice, against Armando Angulo," the motion continued.

2 terabytes of electronic data consuming 5 percent of the Administration's electronic resources would mean the DEA operates with 40TB of data storage worldwide—a ridiculously small number considering the relative affordability of terabytes of data these days.

Remember Knight Capital Group’s algorithm-driven stock trading glitch from yesterday?

Turned out that 45 minute mistake, the company said in a statement, "has resulted in a realized pre-tax loss of approximately $440 million."

Knight Capital Group said that the loss has "severely impacted" the company’s capital base. That’s finance-speak for "We're in big trouble."

Security staff there scanned him but failed to realise he was on his own and had no boarding card.

Now a full-scale investigation has been mounted by Manchester Airport and Jet2.com into how the boy managed to evade so many security checks and still end up in Italy. It is understood five members of staff working for Jet2.com have been suspended from duty while the investigation takes place.

Facebook's ongoing pains as a newly public company continued Friday as shares dropped to a new low following signs the company's growth is slowing.

Facebook's decline is dramatic. "It's going from bad to worse," says Fitzgibbon. "It's been a train wreck from the start."

The fallout from the first earnings call also shows Facebook may have been a victim of hype and inflated expectations, analysts say.

Mark Zuckerberg cares about your Facebook privacy settings. He cares about them so much, in fact, that he's patented a method of finding out what they are.

Meanwhile, Facebook's track record for summarizing its users' privacy preferences has been less than stellar. In November, it settled with the US Federal Trade Commission over charges that its privacy settings were "deceptive" and that users' choices would be "ineffective" in certain circumstances.