The comeback, which features singer Pharrell Williams, had the biggest streaming day for a single track in the US and UK on the day of its release.

Random Access Memories is Daft Punk's first studio album since 2005's Human After All, though the band scored the Tron: Legacy soundtrack in 2010.

Previous attempts to map the internet have been from within, using "sniffer" software to report the IP addresses of devices visited along a particular route, which, in theory, can then be translated into geographical locations. But this approach doesn't work, says Paul Barford at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "After 15 years nobody can show you a map of the internet," he says.

For example, Honolulu stands out in the Internet Atlas as an important hub because of its mid-Pacific location, used to link countries across the ocean. Damage there would have knock-on effects throughout the Pacific Rim.

Last year, the ACLU sent a FOIA request to the IRS seeking records regarding whether it gets a warrant before reading people’s email, text messages and other private electronic communications.

The documents the ACLU obtained make clear that, before Warshak, it was the policy of the IRS to read people’s email without getting a warrant. Not only that, but the IRS believed that the Fourth Amendment did not apply to email at all.

The IRS should let the American public know whether it obtains warrants across the board when accessing people’s email. And even more important, the IRS should formally amend its policies to require its agents to obtain warrants when seeking the contents of emails, without regard to their age.

Sky customers are complaining they were bombarded with literally thousands of old email messages when the company switched email provider from Google to Yahoo last week.

Apparently the switch caused some old emails, which weren’t deleted from the Sky servers, to be redelivered, sometimes resulting in thousands of obsolete messages clogging up a customer’s inbox.

On Wednesday, Zynga launched its online poker and casino games in the United Kingdom, the first proof that the company’s previously announced pivot away from social gaming and toward “real-money” gaming is for real.

“Launching the download and web versions of Zynga’s real money games for play in the UK is an exciting move to bring players the real money games they have been asking us for,” wrote Barry Cottle, the company’s chief revenue officer, on a company blog on Tuesday evening.

ICANN's big generic top-level domain (gTLD) rollout, planned for April 23, needs to be delayed because the system isn't ready, Verisign and others are warning – and ICANN itself has told The Register that the first gTLD domains won't come online until at least August.

"When .xxx came out, the most recent one, virtually every college and university signed up for .xxx," he said. "Why? Not because the universities want to do that, but [because they] didn't want their name associated with that domain – as did many, many companies. Now we have .wtf, .sex, .gripe, and other sites that consumers could be tricked into."

The attacks have grown to more than 300 Gb/s of flood traffic: a scale that's threatening to clog up the Internet's core infrastructure and make access to the rest of the Internet slow or impossible.

CyberBunker argues that it is currently engaged in a blackmail war with Spamhaus. As Internet wars go, this one is using the nuclear option, and everyone is at risk of being caught in the blast.

The publication this summer plans to start charging users who access more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month. The Washington Post hasn't yet decided how much it will charge, according to an article on the newspaper's Web site.

The Washington Post has long preferred to keep its online content free in order to attract readers and online advertisers.

The trade group, whose senior vice president tweeted last week that the policy was a "nuclear first strike against the ad industry," put out a statement from its president and CEO, Randall Rothenberg, detailing its concerns.

The new patch will allow cookies from sites Web surfers actively visit, but block those from third-party sites that haven't been visited by the user. Often, those cookies come from advertisers and are used to track users' Web activity to better target ads.

"(Advertisers) will no longer know how many different people saw an ad or if the ad inspired someone to make a purchase," Rothenberg wrote.

The Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant said on Twitter it is currently "aware of the issue," but did not detail what was causing the downtime. In another tweet, it was noted that it was not clear how long it would take to restore services but that "hacking is not suspected."

The Outlook.com issue comes only three days after the software company suffered an embarrassing outage to its Windows Azure storage service, caused by an expired security certificate.