If there's one video player to rule them all, it's the VLC media player with its familiar traffic cone icon, and the media player is back with a massive update.

Other enhancements include 360 video with 3D audio, support for newer video formats and codecs such as WebVTT, TTML, HQX and 8K video playback.

A Sarasota man was stunned to find an Amazon delivery man wandering through his house. To make matters worse, it happened again the next day.

“They were astounded that that happened. They got some supervisor on the phone. They said this is going to the highest levels right now,” Lentini recalled.

Lentini is considering just using UPS and FedEx from now on.

Mixpanel provides a suite of services to help web publishers improve engagement. Among those services is "Autotrack", which promised the chance to track just about every aspect of a user's visit to a website. Including, it has been revealed, their passwords.

“We confirmed that this was unexpected behavior; by design, Autotrack should not send the values of hidden and password form fields.”

Adobe has issued an emergency security patch for two bugs in its Flash player – after North Korea's hackers were spotted exploiting one of the flaws to spy on people investigating the creepy hermit nation.

Both bugs are rated critical for all supported OSes except the Linux build of Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime.

While Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world, copyright holders are doing everything in their power to wipe the site from the web.

According to Sci-Hub’s operator, losing access to Cloudflare is not “critical,” but it may “cause a short pause in website operation.”

The letter, sent in late-2016, called on camera makers to build encryption into their cameras after photojournalists said they face "a variety of threats from border security guards, local police, intelligence agents, terrorists, and criminals when attempting to safely return their footage so that it can be edited and published," according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which published the letter.

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, told ZDNet that it's "extremely disappointing the major camera manufacturers haven't even committed to investing resources into more research into this issue, let alone actually building solutions into their cameras."

Photos published online yesterday suggest that China may be testing a ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun.

In tests, prototype weapons shot projectiles at speeds around 7800 kilometres an hour – more than Mach 6 – with a range of around 150 kilometres. But after sinking $500 billion into the project, the US government pulled the plug last year.

One of the world's leading makers of single-use plastic drinking straws has told Radio 5 Live that the development of more environmentally friendly alternatives is "stuck".

"We have to be rational… it's not reasonable enough to say 'stop using the products' without a solution," he said.

"We have been looking for the past fifteen years at replacing... polypropylene. We found the materials but the pricing isn't good enough. It's a stuck situation. There is no reasonable substitution by far."

“We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store,” he wrote.

“Apps with user-generated content or services that end up being used primarily for pornographic content, objectification of real people (e.g. “hot-or-not” voting), making physical threats, or bullying do not belong on the App Store and may be removed without notice,” the iOS guidelines add.

The Boring Company has managed now to sell more than 15,000 flamethrowers with shockingly little detail about what they are or how they work. Boring Company's website gives you a picture and a two-line description and then asks for $500.

When you separate Boring Company's product from the hyped-up descriptor of "flamethrower," it doesn't even seem like it's an exceptional fire-producing device. There's no official information on how the device works or what the propellant is, but it looks to be nothing more than a propane torch with fancy styling.