Facebook has become a social network for cyborgs. It happened yesterday at Facebook developer conference F8 while everyone was busy eye-rolling over Mark Zuckerberg's keynote about saving the world. The company has launched a bot revolution, and ironically (or not), these bots will eventually replace tech workers in the exact emerging markets that Zuck vowed to rescue with his largesse.

Bots will make it easy to leapfrog over apps, but they will also do something that bots always do—at least, in science fiction. They will replace humans. Already, many of us spend time talking to bots on the phone, learning to enunciate our account numbers clearly enough for their voice recognition systems. With Facebook's help, we'll be talking to them a lot more. Bots will be the automated service workers of the next five years, allowing you to circumvent humans in your quest to get everything from tech support to airline tickets.

Having everyone online is nice, but Facebook is a commercial behemoth and its raison d'etre is to sell people's data to advertisers. As such, the company has unveiled its latest tools for developers to do just that.

Facebook also wants to get more into managing your identity. Facebook is now the largest single sign-on service in the world, claimed Deborah Liu, Facebook director of product management.

"Today we are excited to announce free HTTPS for all custom domains hosted on WordPress," Abrahamson says.

It means millions of websites will be safer from spying and interception techniques.

A new women-only ride-sharing service, Chariot for Women, is set to launch April 19 in Boston, Massachusetts. Surprisingly, its founder is not a former female passenger who felt unsafe in an Uber—as many of us have—but Michael Pelletz, an Uber driver who had a revelation when he felt threatened by a passenger.

Scores of women have reported rapes and assaults by Uber drivers, while, anecdotally, countless others have felt threatened.

According to civil rights lawyers, Chariots for Women’s female-only policies could put it squarely in the crosshairs of gender discrimination lawsuits, which would be difficult to win.

Scientists report that common antibacterial compounds found in those soaps, namely triclosan and triclocarban, may increase the risk of infections, alter the gut microbiome, and spur bacteria to become resistant to prescription antibiotics. Meanwhile, proof of the soaps’ benefits is slim.

“There’s evidence that there is no improvement with using soaps that have these chemicals relative to washing your hands under warm water for 30 seconds with soaps without these chemicals,” he said.

The US Department of Justice has said it will pursue its request for Apple to help unlock an iPhone that is part of a drugs case in New York.

In Boston, unsealed court papers show a judge ordered Apple to assist authorities in another criminal case.

One of the most popular "pirate" servers for World of Warcraft, running a classic version of the game no longer offered by Blizzard, will be shutting down under the threat of legal action from Blizzard.

The administrators say that 800,000 registered accounts and 150,000 active players were working through quest progressions reproduced to precisely match the game of a decade ago.

Hosting private servers is explicitly against Blizzard's Terms of Use, a rule the company says "isn’t an issue because of ‘lost’ subscription fees from players choosing these illegitimate servers over the real WoW servers—it simply boils down to the fact that private servers are illegal, and that’s that."

The late Ian Cameron’s Blairmore Holdings Inc company, set up in the 1980s, managed tens of millions of pounds for the wealthy but has not ever paid tax on UK profits.

In a post on Twitter on Monday, Snowden wrote simply in response to a Reuters story on Cameron’s response: “Oh, now he’s interested in privacy.”

Reacting to the news, Snowden mused: “Resignation of Iceland’s PM may explain why the UK PM is so insistent public has no right to know a PM’s ‘private’ finances.”

About seventeen months ago Google acquired Revolv, rolling the smart-home vendor's products in with its also-acquired Nest product line. Revolv hardware effectively lets users control any number of smart-home technologies around the home, ranging from home thermostats and garage door openers, to outdoor lights and security and motion detection systems. But according to an updated Revolv FAQ, all of these systems will no longer work as of May 15, 2016.

Needless to say, there's a growing number of people annoyed with the fact that a $300 smart home hub will soon be totally useless.

The main Panama Papers site run by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists notes this bounty has provoked the "largest cross-border collaboration ever"; dozens of media sites are involved, although curiously few from the US.

The Guardian states that the the Panama Papers total 2.6 terabytes of data, which dwarfs earlier leaks of financial documents: the HSBC files are 3.3 gigabytes, the Luxembourg tax files 4.4 gigabytes, and the so-called "offshore secrets" files total 260 gigabytes, while Wikileaks is a mere 1.7 gigabytes.

In an evident attempt to stem the flow of embarrassing leaks, companies have been pushing for more laws to protect their "trade secrets."