One of the most important aspects of the iOS 9 launch was that ad blocking software is now allowed on the App Store. Ad blocking apps rocketed to the top of the store's rankings, led by Marco Arment's Peace. A day afterward, Arment talked about the cognitive dissonance he felt from having his software blocking the (admittedly well-behaving) ads on his own website. Now, Arment has pulled Peace from the App Store, saying its success "just doesn't feel good."

The American web goliath has taken legal action against the smaller biz in the northern district of California, alleging Local Lighthouse uses nuisance calls to sell its services. Google accuses the Costa Mesa, California-based SEO gang of breaking laws on trademarks, unfair competition, and false advertising.

Google claims Local Lighthouse sales representatives were introducing themselves as "Google Local Listing representatives" – and had been using software to play pre-recorded messages to people in cold-calls, or in other words: robo-dialers.

Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.

They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”

“He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”

Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen Richardson.

She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.

"We think that the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women," she said.

On Friday, the Department of Justice and the RIAA claimed another victory in the never-ending battle against file-sharing when the government agency seized the domain of Sharebeast.com.

Sharebeast included pirate content beyond music as well. A studio-commissioned report from 2014 showed Sharebeast was one of the Top 250 sites for pirated music and TV files in the UK for instance. And when FIFA and its partners pushed hard to eliminate illicit streams of the 2014 World Cup, Sharebeast was one of the sites the football (soccer) organization asked to be blocked.

Hackers who compromise websites are also increasingly verifying themselves as the owners of those properties in Google's Search Console. Under certain circumstances this could allow them to remain undetected longer than they otherwise would be, researchers warn.

If the legitimate owners don't read the notifications and take immediate action, the attackers can actually remove them from the Search Console verification list by deleting their HTML verification files from the server. This will trigger no notifications to the real owners, according to Sucuri senior malware researcher Denis Sinegubko.

Nobody really knows for sure how many such IoT devices are connected and communicating at any given time. Estimates by Cisco suggest that the total in 2015 may reach over 10 billion. By 2016 some estimates suggest that there may be more connected devices than there are people on Earth. Only a few high profile devices have any security at all.

While it’s likely to be nearly impossible to simply add security to existing sensors and controllers that make up this part of the IoT, perhaps it’s possible to begin with a more measured approach. Clearly some of those things are reporting on critical infrastructure and should be upgraded as quickly as possible.

The so-called, self-professed "faith healer" sued an online critic, Stephanie Guttormson, earlier this year. It was a clear SLAPP lawsuit. Guttormson had taken one of Miller's laughable promotional videos and added some commentary mocking it.

Adam Miller is back and he's insisting that he's going to reopen the lawsuit against Guttormson. Oh, and not only that, he's also launched a new site, FaithWarrior.org where he insists that he's declaring "war" on "anarchy" and a variety of other things, including communism (he insists his critics are all communists), "faith bashing," "cyberbullying," "online harassment" and more.

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers whether or not users have opted in.

"I know of two instances where people on metered connections went over their data cap for August because of this unwanted download. My own internet (slow DSL) was crawling for a week or so until I discovered this problem. In fact, that's what led me to it. Not only does it download, it tries to install every time the computer is booted."

Microsoft told us: "For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade.

We thought it was a joke for almost an entire day until one of us figured out that they were actually claiming our use of a small bit of ink splatter that was on one of their images was actionable.

You see, not only are they trying to get us to pay them for using a few ink splotches, but as it turns out, the ink splotches don't belong to them in the first place!

So not only is Trunk Archive trying to scare people into paying them for images, but they're apparently doing this for images they have absolutely no connection to.