President Barack Obama's administration claims that any company with operations in the United States must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas.

"Congress has not authorized the issuance of warrants that reach outside US territory,” Microsoft’s attorneys wrote. “The government cannot seek and a court cannot issue a warrant allowing federal agents to break down the doors of Microsoft’s Dublin facility."

The software became an instant hit by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy to use Netflix-style interface. Needless to say this has been a thorn in the side for Hollywood.

Earlier this week the team behind the Time4Popcorn fork informed us that they have gathered millions of users over the past several months, and that the application is being downloaded tens of thousands of times per day.

A British company has produced a "strange, alien" material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record.

It also has "virtually undetectable levels of outgassing and particle fallout", which can contaminate the most sensitive imaging systems. The material conducts heat seven and a half times more effectively than copper and has 10 times the tensile strength of steel.

The governing body voted in favor of a proposed law to ban major online book retailers—including Amazon and the French retailer FNAC—from offering free delivery on book orders.

"We have therefore fixed delivery costs at one centime per order [0.01 Euros, or less than a single US penny] containing books and dispatched by Amazon to systematically guarantee the lowest price for your book orders."

"The most common cause of a call to the service desk after the mailbox migration has been to request help to follow the process for logging into the new mail box for the first time," he said.

"For example, Office 365 seems to require people to have 20:20 vision, and the average age of a member of this House is 55. It is proving extremely difficult," she said.

"Why is it that so many men are employed in PICT? There are hardly any women at all. What's going on in recruitment here? Surely we believe that women can do this kind of task in a way that is equal to, if not better than, men," said the leftist firebrand.

Adobe Flash Player was the most insecure program installed on UK computer users PCs throughout the second quarter of 2014, according to stats from vulnerability management firm Secunia.

The report reveals that Microsoft XML Core Services 4 (MSXML) is another security weak spot.

"Upon notification and review of the evidence, Vitalwerks took immediate corrective action allowing Microsoft to identify victims of this malware."

The dispute underscored the fine line between finely tuned botnet takedowns and reckless seizures that disrupt legitimate users in the name of security on the Internet.

Preserving the confidentiality of the planned takedown may have played a role in No-IP claims that Microsoft officials never contacted it ahead of time about the abuse of its service.

Microsoft aimed to filter out malicious traffic and allow legitimate users to access their systems through the dynamics DNS service. Instead, a technical glitch on Microsoft's part resulted in millions of users being disconnected from their systems, according to No-IP.

"We would like to give you an update and announce that ALL of the 23 domains that were seized by Microsoft on June 30 are now back in our control," the firm stated in a blog post. "Please realize that it may take up to 24 hours for the DNS to fully propagate, but everything should be fully functioning within the next day."

Australian consumer advocacy group Choice has welcomed an announcement by New Zealand Internet service provider Slingshot of a service that makes it easier to access overseas streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and BBC iPlayer.

Australians have been paying 54 per cent more than people in the US for the top 10 new release movies in Apple’s iTunes store, the consumer group stated in a submission to the government's Competition Policy Review.

Del Monte believes machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves. They "might view us the same way we view harmful insects." Humans are a species that "is unstable, creates wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer viruses."

Run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland, the experiment had robots designed to cooperate in finding beneficial resources like energy and avoiding the hazardous ones. Shockingly, the robots learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the beneficial resources for themselves.