Humans are more vulnerable than ever to propaganda, and we have no clue what to do about it.

The problem is that most people weren't raised to expect that their social spaces would be full of bots, blabbing the results of simple algorithms and infecting human conversations with misdirection. Rarely do audiences on Twitter and Facebook pause to wonder where their information is coming from.

Need cash fast? Got some in your PayPal account? Previously, you might have had to wait a day or two to liquidate that money -- but starting today, you can pay a single quarter to instantly cash out.

PayPal says it previously took one business day on average to release funds, though a calculator on the company's support page shows that withdrawal requests made after 7 p.m. Eastern could take as much as two days to process.

In all, about 19 children die or are wounded each day from firearms, either by homicide, suicide, or unintentional shootings. Firearm-related deaths are now the third leading cause of death among US children and the second leading cause of injury-related deaths, behind car crashes.

Information was scraped from death certificates, hospital reports, medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports. The researchers also collected demographic data, such as sex, race/ethnicity, and age.

West's Batman had a cordial gentlemanliness, and forever played the straight man even when facing such bizarre villains as Ethel Merman's Lola Lasagne.

Both the helmet and the mini-Winnebago will go up for sale through auction house Profiles in History as part of a Hollywood-themed auction on June 28. Profiles in History is currently accepting online bids for both items. Bidding starts at $8,000 (£6,200, AU$10,600) for the helmet and $20,000 (£15,500, AU$26,500) for the Eagle 5 miniature.

Specially-designed malware installed on a router or a switch can take control over the device’s LEDs and use them to transmit data in a binary format to a nearby attacker, who can capture it using simple video recording equipment.

For this, an attacker would need to find a security weakness in the device that would allow him to install the malware, either via a remote code execution flaw or a tainted firmware update.

On Wednesday, as proof of concept, the company delivered boxes of donuts from LaMar's to a police station, two fire departments and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, reported the Associated Press.

Mayor Hancock was pleased, telling the AP: "This is exciting stuff and I think as we get ready for not only drones in the air, and get ready for autonomous vehicles, this is our future, this is how we're going to become a more efficient 21st century nation, society quite frankly."

The story is about the fate of lovers Beren and Lúthien, a mortal man and an immortal elf who together try to steal from the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor.

For the new book Christopher Tolkien, now aged 92, has kept his father's story in the original form in which it was written and has also shown how the narrative changed to become part of The Silmarillion.

Researchers from Bochum, Germany, and San Diego, California, say they’ve found the precise mechanisms that allowed diesel Volkswagens and Audis to engage or disengage emissions controls depending on whether the cars were being driven in a lab or driven under real-world conditions.

Once the researchers were able to study the code running on the faulty diesels, they discovered that Volkswagen’s defeat devices were far more nuanced than anything found previously. Levchenko told Eurekalert that the “Volkswagen defeat device is arguably the most complex in automotive history.”

Hodinkee announced the hourglass earlier this week with a fair amount of pomp, noting,"...the Hourglass is a multi-sensory experience that cannot be communicated in words." And, oh yes, it will cost you $12,000 (£9,260, AU$16,000) to buy one of the 100 hourglasses.

The hourglass also thumbs its nose at common sand and is filled instead with 1,249,996 "nanoballs" made from stainless steel with a copper coating.