The Justice Department on Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to step into an international legal thicket, one that asks whether US search warrants extend to data stored on foreign servers. The US government says it has the legal right, with a valid court warrant, to reach into the world's servers with the assistance of the tech sector, no matter where the data is stored.

In a nutshell, the US government claims it should not matter where the data is stored. What matters is whether the company can access that data in the US.

Microsoft claims "no known ransomware" runs on Windows 10 S, its newest, security-focused operating system.

It took him a little over three hours to bust the operating system's various layers of security, but he got there.

In the end, Microsoft said that "no known ransomware" works on the operating system, but by gaining "system"-level access, we showed that it's entirely possible to take control of the machine to install ransomware.

Chinese broadcasters, including social media platform Weibo, streamer Acfun and media company Ifeng were told to shut down all audio and visual content that cast the country or its government in bad light, China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television posted on its website on Thursday, saying they violate local regulations.

The country ranks 176th out of 180 countries on the 2017 World Press Freedom Index, and its president Xi Jinping is listed as a "press freedom predator" and an "enemy of the Internet" by Reporters without Borders.

For the applications that were not compatible, Microsoft built a feature that lets users update their PCs and then reinstall a new version of the anti-virus software.

"To do this, we first temporarily disabled some parts of the AV software when the update began. We did this work in partnership with the AV partner to specify which versions of their software are compatible and where to direct customers after updating," Mr Lefferts writes.

“The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action,” Holger Münch, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a statement. “Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or on the internet.”

The raids come as Germans are debating the draft of a new social media law aimed at cracking down on hate speech, a measure that an array of experts said was unconstitutional at a parliamentary hearing on Monday.

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PayPal says it previously took one business day on average to release funds, though a calculator on the company's support page shows that withdrawal requests made after 7 p.m. Eastern could take as much as two days to process.

In all, about 19 children die or are wounded each day from firearms, either by homicide, suicide, or unintentional shootings. Firearm-related deaths are now the third leading cause of death among US children and the second leading cause of injury-related deaths, behind car crashes.

Information was scraped from death certificates, hospital reports, medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports. The researchers also collected demographic data, such as sex, race/ethnicity, and age.

For the better part of the last decade, every design decision Apple has made has seemingly been in the pursuit of making its products thinner and more beautiful at the expense of upgradability and repairability.

Apple's authorized repair program leaves a lot to be desired—companies must pay a fee to join the program, and those who join aren't allowed to do many types of repair (such as a charge port replacement, which is trivially easy for any repair professional).

"No need for a user interaction, you just need to insert the USB flash drive in the USB port of your car," the researcher told Bleeping Computer. "Imagine an autoplay feature on Windows which executes a script directly."

Furthermore, Turla says one of his work managers believes these flaws could be abused to install RATs (Remote Access Trojans) on Mazda cars.

Other researchers who looked at the MZD Connect firmware shared this opinion. "That CMU [Car Multimedia Unit] is full of remote exec bugs," wrote security researcher Aris Adamantiadis‏ on Twitter. "If you connect it to WiFi you can have a [read only] access to the CAN bus through network DBUS," he added.

Of the 1,000 affected workers, around 40 worked in a counter-terrorism unit based at Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Six of those were assessed to be “high priority” victims of the mistake after Facebook concluded their personal profiles were likely viewed by potential terrorists.

The moderator said that others within the high-risk six had their personal profiles viewed by accounts with ties to Isis, Hezbollah and the Kurdistan Workers Party. Facebook complies with the US state department’s designation of terrorist groups.