A brief cell phone video shows a New York City police officer using pepper spray on a man and his sister after they complained the cop had taken more than $1,000 during a stop-and-frisk search.

The officer then reaches into Joye’s pocket and pulls out a handful of cash, and smacks his face and calls him an “asshole” when Joye asks him to return the money.

Joye’s sister confronts the officer as bystanders accuse him of robbery, and the cop blasts her with pepper spray when she identified two numbers on his badge.

“At the VIP section, she took my credit card, too my ID, brought the bottle service out and after a while, she came back out and she told me, ‘Your credit card is declined,’ and I said, ‘that’s impossible,’” said Marcani.

Marcani said he then tried a Capital One card he used earlier in the evening, but it too was declined.

“It wasn’t accepted at the nightclub, but I used that credit card to get out of jail,” Marcani said.

Marcani said he works for a company that transports computer products, so security is crucial, but now his mugshot is on the internet. He said he hopes that his record will be completely cleared at some point.

Explicit images believed to have been sent through messaging service Snapchat were reportedly put online, with threats from hackers to upload more.

Snapchat is a messaging app that allows the sharing of videos and images that "disappear" after a short period of time, usually just a few seconds.

At the start of this year, 4.6m usernames and phone numbers were leaked online. More recently, the service has been suffering from spam messages being sent out from users' accounts without their knowledge.

Splunk, a young data platform that stands to become a hugely important factor in gauging the Internet of things, held its fifth annual users and partners conference here Oct. 6 to 9.

The San Francisco-based company ostensibly will become a kingpin player in indexing, monitoring and making usable the scads of data that the IoT will foist upon us in the coming years because it knows how to classify data, and do it fast.

Two California poker players are refusing to fold in a legal battle against the state, claiming Iowa State Patrol troopers unlawfully seized their $100,020 gambling bankroll.

The state of Iowa filed a forfeiture complaint to try to keep the money, but agreed to a settlement after the pair hired an Iowa attorney: $90,000 was returned, though one-third of it was spent on standard attorneys' fees.

The cash seizure forced Davis to sit out of poker tournaments through September 2013, the main source of his income, according to the lawsuit.

Adobe is gathering data on the ebooks that have been opened, which pages were read, and in what order. All of this data, including the title, publisher, and other metadata for the book is being sent to Adobe’s server in clear text.

As for the legal aspects, I am still unsure of just how many privacy laws have been violated. Most states have privacy laws about library books, so if this app was installed in a library or used with a library ebook then those laws may have been violated.

Free software programmer Lennart Poettering has been part of his fair share of controversy in the open source community, and his latest essay may raise the most eyebrows yet.

He says in part: "I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of a#@&oles, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets."

Authorities and pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong remain at loggerheads as protests continued into Monday, the day the government has set as a deadline to clear the streets.

Demonstrators are upset with a decision this summer by China's ruling Communist Party to let a committee stacked with Beijing loyalists choose who can run as a candidate for the chief executive role in the 2017 election.

Ultimately, in theory, a buyout by Google would protect the company’s control of the Android ecosystem, as Cyanogen’s home-brewed version of Android is potentially the first real threat to ship on phones that Google has encountered.

With this news, Cyanogen is now discussing a Series C round of funding with a few major tech firms and late-stage investors, seeking a valuation close to $1 billion.

It is thought to be the most extreme example of a trader in financial markets inputting hopelessly wrong figures while working under intense pressure.

Gavin Parry, managing director at Hong Kong-based brokerage Parry International Trading, said: “It’s not rocket science that there was a fat finger here, but it reopens the questions about accountability.”