Despite the significant challenge of increasing the Firefox release cadence, Mozilla has successfully delivered Firefox 5 to users a mere three months after the release of Firefox 4. The new version is unsurprisingly light on user-facing changes due to the shortened cycle, but has some decent improvements under the hood.

Aside from these minor user interface changes and new features, Firefox 5 brings a number of bugfixes and performance improvements that will improve the browsing experience.

While the police were searching and detaining the driver of the car one of the officers noticed that my friend was recording the whole incident.

Then the officer ordered us both inside the house. The woman calmly noted that she had the right to be on her own property and the right to observe the police activity unobstructed. The officer commented that he thought she was "anti-police" and approached the woman stating "are you seriously not going to obey my order?"

As we approached the porch, the officer said, "I'm just going to arrest you" and came onto the property to arrest the woman. She was put into a police car and taken away at about 9:55pm.

The group is attempting to influence public policy with a desperate-sounding and confused in places confidential submission to minister for the internets Ed Vaizey, who discussed the proposal at a meeting of stakeholders (including ISPs) last Wednesday.

The eight-page memo makes copious yet unsubstantiated reference to rights and freedoms, yet calls for a court-overseen blocking scheme "speedy enough to deal with urgent time sensitive material (such as live events)".

Does a "focus" on infringement actually include providing copyright-infringing content, or does this also include sites that link to copyrighted content? Techdirt recently reported archive.org and Vimeo were on Universal Music's list of "sites that support piracy".

Researchers have rediscovered a set of sensory hairs on the wings of bats, shown that they respond to light puffs of air, and found that getting rid of them alters the way bats fly.

Tracking experiments showed that the bats that lacked patches of hair tended to fly faster than usual and took wider turns, possibly as a result. The authors suggest that, in the absence of any sense of air flow, the bats think they're suffering the equivalent of a stall, and speed up to try to compensate.

ICANN apparently recognized that there's a continued interest in expanding gTLDs, and set about creating a mechanism to handle requests as they come in, rather than to consider them in batches on an ad-hoc basis.

Still, the FAQ also makes it clear that grabbing a gTLD won't be an exercise in casual vanity. Simply getting your application processed will cost $185,000 and, should it be approved, you'll end up being responsible for managing it.

The social-networking giant plans to introduce a free app in the coming weeks that is designed and tailored especially for the tablet computer's touch-screen interface.

iPad users have been begging Facebook for an iPad-native app since Apple began selling the device in April 2010, and it's likely that both Facebook and Apple would benefit from such an app.

Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country's top space official said after the launch of Rassad-1, state television reported on its website.

At the time, Fazeli touted the launch of a large animal into space as the first step towards sending a man into space, which Tehran says is scheduled for 2020.

Western powers fear that Iran's space agenda might be linked to developing a ballistic missile capability that could deliver nuclear warheads.

The US Department of Homeland Security is warning of holes in Chinese infrastructure software which could leave factories and power stations vulnerable to hack attacks.

The software is mainly used in China but claims some customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia and Africa. There have been no known exploits of the vulnerability and attackers would need an intermediate level of skill to use it.

Rumors of the heist have been swirling since Monday, when a Bitcoin user named Allinvain claimed 25,000 Bitcoins, technically valued at close to $500,000, had mysteriously been transferred to an unknown user's account.

"Bitcoins technical details are complex cryptography and there's no way for us (as developers) to figure whether there was a real theft or not," Nils Schneider.

The true value of the loss "would be more like $300,000 and cause the price to drop to around $10. Also, at the time he acquired the coins they probably were worth only $1000 or less. So the loss is in terms of USD is more a theoretical value."

Under the new controls, more than 700 pornographic and copyright infringing websites have been shut down. Individuals have also been banned from registering domain names ending in .cn, which is now now limited to registered businesses in China.

"Not just film and video sites are affected. All websites owned by individuals will gradually exit the arena. All paths leading to a future have been blocked."

"They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms," she said.