Netzpolitik had just published stories concerning plans to expand German bulk surveillance efforts to internet users, as well as plans by the German Secret Service to expand its internet surveillance capabilities.

Netzpolitik has received a letter from the German government telling it that Netzpolitik staffers are being investigated for treason.

The show is unnamed for now, but will be produced by long-running "Top Gear" executive producer Andy Wilman.

Following its reinvention in 2002, the BBC's "Top Gear" became the BBC's most valuable single asset, a programme sold worldwide that raked in millions for the corporation (which doesn't disclose exactly how much any given show makes). That all ended in March this year, however, when long-standing presenter Jeremy Clarkson topped previous controversies by striking a producer in a "fracas" over a sandwich.

Start menu shortcuts are still shortcut files placed in the same special locations as previous versions of Windows, but the Start menu app appears to be driven by a database on which some optimistic Microsoft coder has placed a limit of 512 entries.

The workaround is to use a third-party Start menu such as Stardock's Start10. Since the underlying shortcuts are intact, these solutions still work correctly.

The bureau said in a blog post over the weekend that the hackers who managed to pull employee records from its computers did so by targeting the Federal Audit Clearinghouse – which is a service provided by the bureau for the federal government.

Despite downplaying the severity of the leak, it appears that the US Census Bureau is indeed scrambling to improve security in the wake of the network breach. Among the top priorities are training for its staff members on security best practices.

An updated dubbed KB3074681 pushed to the current Windows 10 build for members of the Windows Insider Program is triggering crashes for some users. Rolled out on Saturday, the update causes a crash if you try to uninstall a program using Control Panel instead of using the more modern Settings screen.

The presence of a bug at this late date, especially one caused by an update, is disconcerting but not totally unexpected. Microsoft has been looking at Windows 10 as a work in progress.

One of the features that has been removed from Windows 10 -- at least for home users -- is the ability to pick and choose when updates are installed. Microsoft has taken Windows Update out of the hands of users so the process is, for the most part, completely automated.

As reported by Gordon Kelly on Forbes, there are many people complaining that updates to NVidia drivers -- which are installed without manual intervention -- are causing problems, and even killing computers.

Earlier this week, a Mississippi woman was attacked by a bison in Yellowstone National Park after trying to take a selfie with it.

Todd Fassler picked a rattlesnake out of the brush and thought he might memorialize the event.

There are other things you can do with your day, your hour, your minute. The 30 seconds of fame you think you'll get isn't worth, say, Todd Fassler's five-day hospital stay.

Moneybags Google has topped the list of tech-giant political lobbyists again, spending $4.62m in the past three months alone in Washington DC and elbowing its way into an enormous range of issues.

The multimillion-dollar total is, essentially, the wages and expenses bill of Google's political pressure unit.

Potentially fantastical claims about audio clarity aside, the cable itself is of reasonably high quality, with braided and foil shielding around the entire cable coupled with foil shielding around the individual twisted pair bundles.

Of course, you can also use other shielded Cat7-equivalent Ethernet cables that cost one-tenth the Vodkas' price for the same purpose, so the fact that they're high quality cables doesn't really justify the price.

Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume.

Their code is an automaker’s nightmare: software that lets hackers send commands through the Jeep’s entertainment system to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission, all from a laptop that may be across the country.

Thanks to one vulnerable element, which Miller and Valasek won’t identify until their Black Hat talk, Uconnect’s cellular connection also lets anyone who knows the car’s IP address gain access from anywhere in the country. “From an attacker’s perspective, it’s a super nice vulnerability,” Miller says.