He posed as a senior court clerk and sent bail instructions to prison staff, who released him on 10 March 2014.

Prosecutor Ian Paton said: "A lot of criminal ingenuity harbours in the mind of Mr Moore. The case is one of extraordinary criminal inventiveness, deviousness and creativity, all apparently the developed expertise of this defendant".

The development comes just in time; the previous production method, known as planar NAND, has nearly maxed out its potential.

When you cut through the technical language, the net result is that 2.5-inch SSDs could come in 10TB capacities, compared to the 1TB drives most laptops max out at today.

After 22 seasons at the helm of Top Gear, the BBC has decided not to renew Jeremy Clarkson’s contract. Effectively fired because of a “fracas” between himself and a producer.

It’s not clear if Clarkson’s co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, who weren’t involved in the melee, will be back next season.

Richard Hammond and James May, the other two Top Gear presenters, are wonderful entertainers. But, like all great ensemble casts, the three of them are immeasurably better together. Take any one of them away and the whole will be worse.

Following intense pressure from the Australian government, ISPs were warned that they had to come up with a solution to online piracy or face a legislative response.

Not only should they be pro-active when it comes to monitoring and warning subscribers, ISPs should also use technology to actively block access to infringing content on other levels.

The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2015, expected to become law within weeks, regulates high-tech research and development in Australia…and may drive the nation’s best researchers and academics overseas for good.

If a university academic shares an “inappropriate” email with a fellow academic overseas on dual-use research, the Australian faces a $400,000 fine, 10 years in jail and forfeiture of work. Meanwhile, in reverse, the overseas academic could communicate exactly the same information to an Australian researcher without fault or punishment.

Like with the TPP trade agreement, the new law stems from US hegemony.

Under the cover of "reform" and "accountability", Republican congressional leaders are pushing policies that hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency and make it nearly impossible for the government to use science to protect the public interest.

These bills create a disincentive for scientists to research controversial issues, seek federal grants or serve on advisory boards. It's a way to push them out of public service and engagement, and all because some politicians and their powerful industry constituents don't like what the science shows.

Sixty-one percent of companies have at least one instance of Windows Server 2003 running within their environment, representing millions of installations across both physical and virtualized infrastructures, according to a recent survey of 1,300 business and IT professionals conducted by Spiceworks.

"After July 14, 2015, Microsoft will no longer release patches for WS2003, essentially leaving the OS defenseless against new threats – and hackers are well aware of this," Peter Tsai, IT content manager at Spiceworks, told eWEEK.

Financial Times sources understand that Universal is using licensing negotiations to squeeze Spotify and demand more limits for those who don't pay up, such as restricting the amount of time they can play tunes in a given month.

Whether or not Spotify gives in is another matter. It can't afford to lose one of the major labels, but it's also adamant that having an enticing free tier is crucial to getting listeners to pay.

“The simplest way to understand these budgets is surely to suppose that they are intended to do what they would, in fact, actually do: make the rich richer and ordinary families poorer,” wrote Paul Krugman, The New York Times’ columnist and Noble-winning economist.

The GOP-controlled House and Senate budgets not only drastically cut spending on education, retirement, environment, road and bridges, climate change, immigration, job creation, Obamacare, food stamps, and other social welfare programs; but it gives the Pentagon a blank check, and includes tax cuts for the rich and corporations while raising taxes for lower-income Americans.

Millions of people in the UK and northern Europe have glimpsed the best solar eclipse in years.

Scientific agencies had planes and even satellites gathering video to relay on the web and on television.