Due to licensing agreements, Netflix content varies between countries - many users have a virtual private network (VPN) or other proxy to get round this.

But some countries have more content than others - for example, the Australian Netflix catalogue has only about 10% of the content available to its US subscribers.

Subscribers that currently use proxies to view content outside their countries will only be able to access the service in their own countries in the coming week, the company said.

Ross says the box was “Built and brought into service in early 1997” and has “been running 24/7 for 18 years and 10 months.”

“By the time it was probably due for a review, things had moved so far that all the original code was so tightly bound to the operating system itself, that later versions of the OS would have (and ultimately, did) require substantial rework. While it was running and not showing any signs of stress, it was simply expedient to leave sleeping dogs lie.”

"Doctor's visit -- time for vaccines!" Zuckerberg, 31, wrote below the picture of Max. By Tuesday, the image had more than 3.2 million likes and over 88,552 comments. It also had been shared 33,149 times. If you're not up on Facebook metrics, let me just say that's a lot.

Zuckerberg has turned his Facebook profile into a soapbox. That's notable. On any given day, about 47.7 million Facebook followers check out what he has to say.

The purpose of the subjective tests was to verify using human viewers the compression gains of the new video coding standard that had previously been estimated using objective metrics (e.g. Peak Signal to Noise Ratio – PSNR).

The overall average bit rate saving achieved by HEVC compared to AVC for the same subjective quality was found to be 59% as supposed to the 44% gain shown with objective quality metrics.

I've been talking about Microsoft's scummy GWX campaign since April, when researchers first identified KB 3035583 as the source of the attack. As best I can tell, KB 3035583 was modified, fortified, and re-released nine times in 2015.

Of course, changing any of the four Registry values won't delete the 3GB to 6GB of files Microsoft surreptitiously installed on many machines in the hidden $Windows.~BT folder. Changing Registry values won't uninstall or hide KB 3035583. Changing the Registry is a good starting point, but it doesn't clean out the crapware underneath.

This past Wednesday, on January 6, 2016, Mr. Chaum presented himself at the Real World Cryptography Conference in Stanford, where he revealed a project on which he had worked for the past two years alongside other cryptography experts from four universities in the US, UK, and Holland.

While its encryption protocol is incredibly strong, the researchers also said that data about users is not 100% anonymous.

This council will provide access to data about users to law enforcement, but only for those who use the network for criminal activities.

The company’s stock has fallen steadily over the past few months as concern persists over its stagnating user growth, which could affect its ability to grow ad revenue long term.

So far, however, Twitter hasn’t persuaded the market that it has regained its footing.

Facebook's aggression, though, is aimed hard at the enemy of all that is Facebook: the phone number. In a paragraph headlined "The Disappearance Of The Phone Number," Marcus sniffs at flip phones and suggests mere texting is also the activity of the backward.

It's all very well the company wanting to be the de facto Internet -- especially in places like India. But drier minds and eyes might wonder whether the wish to eradicate phone numbers has something to do with not everyone having yet given Facebook their phone numbers.

In an unexpected move, when browser vendor Mozilla released Firefox 43.0.4 on Jan. 6, it re-enabled support for newly issued SHA-1(Secure Hash Algorithm 1) security certificates. Mozilla had previously set Firefox to reject new SHA-1 signed Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates as of Jan. 1.

"When their users can't access Websites, they simply switch browsers, so sticking with this policy does more harm than good to both Mozilla and their ability to raise the bar on security," he said. "I don't think Mozilla is giving up on their position, just being practical."

Hackers can score US$100,000 from exploit arbitrage outfit Zerodium if they bypass Adobe's latest Flash heap isolation defence.

It comes less than a month after Adobe announced it is rewriting memory security to allow heap isolation, a feat achieved after a year's worth of collaboration with Google's Project Zero hacking den, and Microsoft.