Google is attempting to shunt users away from old browsers by intentionally serving up a stale version of the ad giant's search homepage to those holdouts.

A Google employee, meanwhile, said that the tactic was deliberate in a move to flush out stick-in-the-mud types who insisted on using older versions of browsers.

A massive leak of intimate pictures from a raft of celebrity cloud-based image storage accounts has raised questions about how much we know about cloud security.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the matter but the company is thought to be actively investigating any potential breach of its systems.

Microsoft announced that they are shutting down the 15 year old MSN Messenger.

Microsoft is encouraging it's users to move to Skype. Users on MSN Messenger will have to shift to Skype within October 31. MSN users that move to Skype will also receive free credit.

The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies.

ICREACH contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The documents suggest these results can be used reveal the “social network” of the person of interest—in other words, those that they communicate with, such as friends, family, and other associates.

The customer assured the rep that his antivirus had not spotted anything and that his Wi-Fi network is secured. That's when the rep replied that "it's probably a virus" or "too heavy," apparently saying the download was taking up too much space.

In this case, the rep may have been working from an offshore call center and seemed to lack basic knowledge about the kinds of applications customers use with Comcast service.

You might think the only reason to care about how fast your state’s Internet speed is so you can know how fast your YouTube videos load, but it turns out that states with faster speeds actually do better on standardized tests.

Whatever the case, the higher your state’s speed, the better, and not just because it lets you browse more cute cat videos than the rest of the United States.

We can only assume this was implemented as a reaction to users believing that Onion links are nonfiction reports.

A Facebook representative issued the following statement to Ars Technica: "We are running a small test which shows the text '[Satire]' in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed. This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units."

In an internal memo to staff, it’s been revealed that T-Mobile is going to clamp down on users taking advantage of their unlimited 4G/LTE plans for peer-to-peer file sharing and other misuse of their data allowance.

In short, if you’re downloading torrents or constantly broadcasting online using your unlimited plan, now would be a good time to stop.

Levison is now building out a new technology platform that aims to provide email security and privacy that won't be violated by anyone.

Levison said that the only way to provide privacy is with end-to-end encryption that is easy to use and automatic. He added that providing secure email in a manner that preserves privacy while still being easy to use is a difficult technical challenge.

"I'm not upset that I got railroaded and had to shut down my business," Levison said. "I'm upset because we need a mil-spec cryptographic mail system for the entire planet, just to be able to talk to friends and family without any fear of government surveillance."

Emu has built a system that can monitor chats, infer what people are talking about, and insert relevant links—including ads.

Google, meanwhile, isn’t just interested in chats; the company has said that it may eventually show ads on internet-connected home devices, such as thermostats.

Though Emu could help Google smartphone users, it is also poised to further erode their privacy, putting one-on-one communication under centralized monitoring by a third party.