The phony accounts earned the bank unwarranted fees and allowed Wells Fargo employees to boost their sales figures and make more money.

"Wells Fargo employees secretly opened unauthorized accounts to hit sales targets and receive bonuses," Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said in a statement.

For those who are looking to hack the Facebook accounts of others, there is a marketplace of Facebook Hacker tools that offer the promise of point-and-click ease. According to a new report from Blue Coat Elastica Cloud Threat Labs (BCECTL), the promise made by many Facebook Hacker tools is false.

He emphasized that the Facebook Hacker tools are not doing explicit Facebook hacking. Rather, they are stealing end-users' Facebook account credentials, which can be further used to conduct additional sets of attacks, such as drive-by downloading through malicious link sharing in target accounts, stealing private information, phishing and spamming through Facebook messages.

Scientists are pioneering the ability to tweak our DNA to wipe out disease and maybe even allow us to choose desirable traits in our unborn children, like height or intelligence. None of these technologies have moved out of the lab, but Americans are already uncomfortable with them.

But to me, the more important point raised was the concern that technological enhancements could lead to greater inequality—that the rich could pay to live longer, healthier lives, and the poor couldn’t.

The ant population was discovered in 2013 by a group of volunteers counting bats overwintering in the bunker, which is part of an abandoned Soviet nuclear base near Templewo in western Poland.

They noticed that the wood ants had built a nest on the terracotta floor of the bunker – right below a ventilation pipe. Looking up through the five-metre-long pipe, they realised where the bunker ants come from.

A failed hard disk in its Storage Access Network caused a “panic event” on 26 August, the business confirmed to customers early this week, taking down email services and certain instances hosted on the same platform.

VESK had previously gloated about the gilt-edged services provided. It told visitors to its website that customers had enjoyed 100 per cent uptime for the past 1,583 days.

Dawn Belmonte, of Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, says she decided to scam the scammers. On her Facebook page, she said she recognized the number of the man calling as one regularly used by scammers who claim you owe taxes.

Oddly enough, the scammer didn't realize he had been scammed. Even though Belmonte laid it on very thick at the end by saying she'd been contemplating suicide.

Government users like Linux and other open-source software for several reasons, but the most important ones are probably that total cost of ownership is often lower than it is for proprietary products and that open-source projects don’t vanish if the company providing them goes under.

No decisions have been made yet, but Hamilton noted that "retirement of the project is a serious possibility," as the Apache board "wants to know what the project's considerations are with respect to retirement."

OpenOffice became an open source project in 2000 after Sun Microsystems acquired StarOffice and released the code. The LibreOffice fork was created after Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010. After the fork, Oracle contributed OpenOffice to the ASF, which renamed it Apache OpenOffice.

SpaceX said "an anomaly" had occurred while the rocket was being loaded with fuel. No-one was injured, it said.

The rocket's payload, an Israeli-built communications satellite for Facebook due to launch on Saturday, was also destroyed, it added.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is currently visiting Africa, said he was "deeply disappointed" to hear that the satellite had been destroyed.

Reveries of the connected world opens with a tour of the pale green room at the University of California, Los Angeles, where the internet was invented. This is a “holy place”, says our guide, computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock, and the first message sent from the computer here was “prophetic”.

“Tentatively, avidly, or kicking and screaming, nearly 2 billion of us have taken up residence on the Internet, and we’re still adjusting to it.” And we are moving rapidly into a reality where we are no longer permitted to live outside its influence.