Richard Lochhead said the Scottish government was not prepared to "gamble" with the future of the country's £14bn food and drink sector.

Mr Lochhead added: "There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by Scottish consumers and I am concerned that allowing GM crops to be grown in Scotland would damage our clean and green brand, thereby gambling with the future of our £14bn food and drink sector.

A fatal flaw in the system is that people can easily pose as real doctors and funeral directors, Rock demonstrated to a rapt audience.

Setting up accounts requires a doctor's name, address, and medical license number. A basic Internet search will turn up that information, which is publicly available for the well-intended purpose of letting people check that physicians are legitimate before seeking care.

Getting birth certificates for virtual babies was demonstrated to be even easier than killing off people in the digital world, because registering births online only involves doctors and parents.

The bug in a built-in PDF reader allowed attackers to steal sensitive files stored on the hard drives of computers that used the vulnerable Firefox version. The attack was used against both Windows and Linux users, Mozilla researcher Daniel Veditz wrote in a blog post published Thursday.

"The exploit leaves no trace it has been run on the local machine," Veditz wrote. "If you use Firefox on Windows or Linux it would be prudent to change any passwords and keys found in the above-mentioned files if you use the associated programs. People who use ad-blocking software may have been protected from this exploit depending on the software and specific filters being used."

The Windows OS project was born inside the BGU research center as a way to create a 100% unhackable operating system for military applications like missiles and airlines.

Morphisec has created a version of Windows that "randomizes all the memory" for specific Windows applications, Mimran describes.

Among beta users so far, Morphisec says it has a promising 100% success rate in stopping hackers without crying wolf with a bunch of "false positives."

It is the second time in a month that a car maker has had to act to solve security problems with its vehicles uncovered by hackers.

In late July, Fiat Chrysler issued a recall for more than 1.4 million vehicles after hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed how to use bugs in the onboard software of the Jeep Cherokee to shut it down remotely.

The RIAA has asked uTorrent creator BitTorrent Inc. to come up with ways to stop infringement of its members' copyrighted content. In a letter sent to BitTorrent Inc's CEO, the RIAA's Executive Vice President of Anti-Piracy points to BitTorrent's DHT system and asks the San Francisco-based company to live up to its claim of not endorsing piracy.

“We urge BitTorrent Inc. to live up to those words and take meaningful steps to deter this widespread infringement occurring using its own products and services,” Buckles says.

Epson, the maker of my nightmare printer, has finally put an end to the horror of ink cartridges, at least for people willing to throw cash at the problem up front. The five new EcoTank series printers look like normal models, only they have containers on their sides that hold gobs and gobs of ink. How much? Years’ worth.

Epson’s not trying to make money on ink this time around, because it’s charging you up front for the printer. The ET-2550 costs $400; its big brother, the ET-4550, which has a fax, a sheet feeder and Ethernet, costs $500.

The number of people who log into Twitter at least once a month rose less than 3 percent from the previous quarter.

Shares plunged to a record low of $28.69 in the middle of the trading hours. At the end of day, shares had fallen 5.6 percent to $29.30 -- the lowest since May of last year.

"The bottom line for Twitter is that after nine years of its existence, my mother still doesn't understand what it means to 'hashtag' something," wrote Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie Capital, in a note to investors. "But she does understand what it means to 'like' something," he added, referring to Facebook's ubiquitous feature.

The fact is that nearly all of these new 4K TVs -- which now make up the increasing majority of all TVs priced over $1,000 -- have, at best, a 120 Hz refresh rate. Actually, many of the least-expensive are actually 60Hz, and none that we know about are 240 Hz.

There are two things at play here. The first is simple, and one we've said many times before: don't trust marketing. At least, don't trust it at face value. Marketing is designed to sell you a product, not give you information about a product. That's secondary.

A man from Texas has been wounded after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted and hit him in the head, the local sheriff says.

In April a Georgia man injured his mother-in-law when a bullet ricocheted off an armadillo, "hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law's mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in, and into her back," local TV station WALB News reported.