Last week, an investigative report by journalists at the Hamburg-based German television broadcaster, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), revealed that Web of Trust Services (WoT) had been harvesting netizens' web browsing histories through its browser add-on and then selling them to third parties.

Although surveillance may be a feature of WoT's add-on, the risk it poses to users' security may be greater. An analysis of its code posted to GitHub by Rob Wu revealed that the add-on was able to execute arbitrary code on any page, including privileged browser pages, although such a functionality had not been abused at the time of Wu's analysis.

Customers complained of nausea and other stomach issues after eating newer formulations of its products. In October, Soylent maker Rosa Foods Inc. stopped selling its powder mix and recalled its protein bars.

Soylent prides itself on rapid product development—an ideal popularized by Google and Facebook Inc., and one that endears the startup to techies around the world. The product descriptions for Soylent read like release notes you’d find bundled with a new version of an app.

So what, exactly, is this superteam of designers, engineers and manufacturing experts working on? Nobody outside of Menlo Park knows for sure, but the hires -- and at least one under-the-radar acquisition -- seem to indicate two things: it's mobile, and it may be modular.

All of Facebook's new expertise could go towards anything else that uses mobile processors, radios and the Android OS -- such as headsets, tablets, watches, smart home and other internet-of-things devices. Or something entirely new.

The name of the malicious package is “com.android.protect”, and it comes disguised as a Google Play Services app. It disables Samsung’s SPCM service in order to keep running, installs itself as a system package to prevent removal by the user (if it can get root access), and also hides itself from the launcher.

Once installed and run, the malware requests device admin rights, asks the licence number to be entered, hides itself (its presence can be revealed by dialing “11223344”), and finally asks to be granted root access (if the device is rooted).

According to an FBI official, the flood of tweets occurred because of a backlog of updates dating to June. The logjam finally broke when a content management system software patch was installed last week.

The documents linked in the Twitter posts that were already queued for posting dated back several months. When the software was updated, the backlog was suddenly, automatically, cleared in a spew of tweets.

This week, another Mirai botnet, known as Botnet 14, began targeting a small, little-known African country, sending it almost entirely offline each time.

The attacks were targeting Liberia, a small west African country with basic and spotty internet coverage, which has a single fiber internet cable off its shores providing internet to the country.

The "firstcarquote" service was launched by Admiral on Wednesday and is intended to offer new drivers the ability to save money on their insurance by downloading an app and allowing the company to review their social media posts.

"Protecting the privacy of the people on Facebook is of utmost importance to us," said a spokesperson with a straight face. "We have clear guidelines that prevent information being obtained from Facebook from being used to make decisions about eligibility."

Facebook's concern over its users' privacy will come as a surprise to many, given the web giant's long history of playing around with privacy settings, not to mention the fact that its entire business model is based on getting people to share as much information about themselves as possible so that their details can be used to offer targeted advertising to third parties.

The study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that people who use Facebook live longer than those who do not, and that certain types of Facebook activities — like posting pictures and accepting friend requests — are associated with a lower risk of mortality.

James Comey, the FBI director, has been facing intense criticism for days now following his Friday revelations that the bureau has started investigating newly discovered e-mails said to have passed through Hillary Clinton's private server.

Comey told fellow staffers Friday that he was obligated to tell Congress about the renewed inquiry because he had publicly stated months ago that the inquiry was over.

The lander’s heat shield and parachute ejected ahead of time, says Vago. Then thrusters, designed to decelerate the craft for 30 seconds until it was metres off the ground, engaged for only around 3 seconds before they were commanded to switch off, because the lander's computer thought it was on the ground.

The most likely culprit is a flaw in the craft’s software or a problem in merging the data coming from different sensors, which may have led the craft to believe it was lower in altitude than it really was, says Andrea Accomazzo, ESA’s head of solar and planetary missions.