The documents have been posted at www.ttip-leaks.org, and in the main they've been picked over for their impact on environmental regulation.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation would also get control over resolving disputes over issues like food safety and pesticide residue regulation.

America also wants Europe to give it input into electrotechnical standards (for example, electrical product safety).

The researchers said the attacks were made possible by two intrinsic design flaws in the SmartThings framework that aren't easily fixed. They went on to say that consumers should think twice before using the system to connect door locks and other security-critical components.

According to the researchers, the design of the SmartThings framework was a key contributor to that threat. So far, Samsung has provided no details on plans to fix it.

Fitbit is right now pushing out the critical patch, and folks are advised to update their Aria scale firmware as soon as possible to prevent attacks. The scales should automatically get the update within the next few days, though their owners can also check for updates through the FitBit dashboard tool.

With more companies hooking their appliances up to the internet, security researchers are finding tons of new holes in connected devices that allow for everything from the remote control of appliances to the ability to siphon off personal information.

CERN's search for exotic particles has been put on hold for a couple of weeks – after a small mammal gnawed through a power cable, incinerated itself and killed current to the world's most expensive scientific instrument.

It's not the first time the LHC has run into trouble from wildlife. In 2009 The Reg broke the story of a bird shutting down the LHC after a bird dropped a piece of bread into one of the LHC's outside substation, temporarily disabling it.

A trailer for the upcoming reboot of "Ghostbusters" received a noticeable amount of criticism when it was released in March. It's only gotten worse since then and it's led to a dubious honor that may be the beginning of the end times for director Paul Feig's film.

As of Friday, it ranks 23rd on the list with more than 499,000 dislikes, making it the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube.

The problem is that many developers tend to include Slack tokens – credentials tied to their personal Slack account – directly in the code when building Slack bots. These projects are also shared publicly on GitHub. Now, because the code contains these tokens, the developer is actually giving anyone – that finds the token – access to the developer’s company’s internal chats and files on Slack.

When things ended badly with the BBC, Clarkson, May, and Hammond were snapped up by Amazon with a budget reported to be $7 million (£4.5 million) per episode. But they evidently want more. On Monday Variety revealed that the gang, together with a tech entrepreneur called Ernesto Schmitt, want to create a digital home on the Internet for car people.

Meanwhile, over at the BBC Top Gear lives on, recreating itself for at least the third time. Headed by UK radio and TV presenter Chris Evans, and joined by a massive cast that includes Matt LeBlanc, Sabine Schmitz, and Chris Harris, the show has been dogged by negative coverage in the UK's newspapers and a bit of a controversy involving someone drifting near the Cenotaph (a war memorial in London).

Weeks after forcing the shutdown of a popular, fan-run "pirate" server that ran a classic version of World of Warcraft, Blizzard now says it basically had no choice but to go after Nostalrius to protect its legal rights.

In his post, Brack goes on to say that Blizzard has looked into running a Nostalrius-style "classic" server on its own, but that "none could be executed without great difficulty. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. However, there are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers, not to mention the ongoing support of multiple live versions for every aspect of WoW."

"Our attacks are extremely powerful – sometimes over 1Tbps per second. And we pass CloudFlare and others' remote protections! So, no cheap protection will help," the email warns.

"Our conclusion was a bit of a surprise: we've been unable to find a single incident where the current incarnation of the Armada Collective has actually launched a DDoS attack," said Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare.

There are groups out there performing actual attacks if they don't get a ransom, he said, but this isn't one of them. So if you get an email from the Armada Collective, there's no reason to pay up.

Health care organizations, such as HPMC, are under attack by cyber-criminals looking for easy money and nation-state actors seeking data. More than half of all midsize hospitals have signs of malware infections, according to data collected by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). Much of the activity, however, has gone unreported.

Ransomware has evolved into a serious threat. Starting with early programs that locked Windows systems more than a decade ago, the increasing use of encryption-enabled malware shows how ransomware has become more sophisticated.