A few months ago a criminal investegation by the U.S. Government brought down KickassTorrents, the largest torrent site at the time.

“We have all our major uploaders on board and they continued to share tirelessly even before the torrent engines returned. The torrent community can continue to expect to see uploads from all the names they know and trust,” the KATcr crew says.

The legal fight started Wednesday morning when the ridesharing giant opened its fleet of autonomous Volvos to riders throughout the city. It did so without applying for a permit to test autonomous technology, arguing that California regulations governing the tech apply only to vehicles that don’t require a human supervisor.

“We respectfully disagree with the California DMV’s legal interpretation of today’s automation regulations,” Anthony Levandowski, who leads Uber’s automation efforts, said in a conference call Friday afternoon.

This is just Capcom's latest tactic in a battle against ragequitters that has been going on for months. After Street Fighter V launched in February with absolutely no penalty for quitting in the middle of a match, Capcom began manually penalizing frequent quitters by docking their League Points and overall ranking in weekly sweeps starting in March. By August, the company had also implemented a stronger automatic "ragequitting penalty" that locked players out of matchmaking for 24 hours after three disconnects in a two-hour period.

It and four other copyright-infringing sites - Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and SolarMovie - must be blocked within 15 days, the court said on Thursday.

The judge agreed with internet service providers including Telstra, Optus, TPG and M2 that rights holders should pay the cost of blocking the websites.

The issue appears to mostly affect the Apple Watch Series 2, although not every user has experienced problems with the update.

Apple's Apple Watch update woes follow reports that sales of the wearable have slumped dramatically since last year. According to IDC, Apple sold 1.1 million units in the third quarter of 2016, down 71 percent from a year ago. However, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that "sales growth is off the charts."

Determined to get remove the last of its dangerously defective Galaxy Note7 smartphones off the market, Samsung has put out the word that it will distribute a software update that will permanently prevent recharging the batteries.

"To further increase participation, a software update will be released starting on Dec. 19 and will be distributed within 30 days," Brenna Eller, Samsung Corporate Communications stated, in the company's official statement. "This software update will prevent U.S. Galaxy Note7 devices from charging and will eliminate their ability to work as mobile devices.”

Maassen says Russia is tipping money into misinformation campaigns in "aggressive and elevated" spying against "German Government officials, members of parliament, and employees of democratic parties".

Russia has hit back with Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for president Vladimir Putin, saying last month that the nation is also bracing for attacks during its next election, adding that Germany like all other European countries hacks other nation's infrastructure.

Following an argument with YouTube, PewDiePie had said he'd delete his channel on Friday evening after he got 50 million subscribers.

Most people thought he meant his main channel, PewDiePie, but he actually deleted a different one - Jack Septiceye2.

Computers running the Microsoft operating systems are losing network connectivity due to what appears to be a problem with DHCP. Specifically, it seems some Windows 10 and 8 boxes can no longer reliably obtain LAN-side IP addresses and DNS server settings from their BT and Plusnet broadband routers, preventing them from reaching the internet and other devices on their networks.

If an operating system upgrade is the cause, it would be the second case of egg-on-face for Microsoft's Windows Update team in as many weeks.

Whatever the cause is this time, the result is broken DHCP with PCs being left with no automatically assigned IP addresses. The scale of the issue is unclear, although in our view, it’s mushrooming and it’s striking PCs apparently randomly. Acer, Dell and HP machines have all been affected, we're told.

‘The Microscope and its Revelations’ by Dr William B Carpenter was discovered by Alice Gillett, granddaughter of Professor Boycott, when she was sorting through a collection of 6,000 books following the death of her husband earlier this year.

If the book had been borrowed from Hereford Library, which charges 17p a day, the fine would have been £7,446, although the school has promised to waive any fines.