A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information.

The Air Force has begun asking for assistance from cybersecurity professionals at the Pentagon as well as from private contractors.

"At 1129 hours this morning [Tuesday]," it said, "a monkey climbed on the roof of Gitaru Power Station and dropped onto a transformer tripping it. This caused other machines at the power station to trip on overload resulting in a loss of more than 180MW from this plant which triggered a national power blackout."

A monkey got into a power station and accidentally blew the power for the whole country. This was less a military coup than just sheer monkeying about.

Through the first half of 2016, IBM has, yet again, been the leader in technology patents, averaging roughly 23.6 patents awarded each day.

Google—it’s still awarded patents under that name, instead of its parent company, Alphabet—is also on a tear. As we suspected last year, the company received well over 3,000 patents in 2015, more than 11 times the number it received just five years earlier.

As the Shanghaiist reports, a man went to the Yeshanko Wildlife Zoo in Liaoning province and thought he'd take a selfie with a walrus. He also reportedly took video and posted the best of his work to WeChat during his visit.

The man drowned. A zookeeper, who had worked with the walrus for 10 years, dived in to try to save the man, but he drowned too, according to the report.

The head of the SWIFT financial network has put forward a five-part plan to improve security after its systems were the focus of several cyberattacks.

Security experts pointed out that SWIFT's security systems were out of step with the modern world. Its security guidelines are "outdated and incomplete," said one analysis. Its systems were set up to deal with "the types of attacks that were prevalent a decade ago," and the network fails to safeguard against today's more sophisticated hacks – like the one suffered by the Bangladeshi bank.

Project Abacus, an ambitious plan to replace passwords with a comprehensive analysis of the way you use your phone, will begin trials with "several large financial institutions" next month, the company said Friday at its Google I/O developer conference.

So instead of asking for a specific password, Abacus analyzes how you type, how you speak, and combined with other signals from the sensors in your phone, calculates the probability that you are who you say you are.

"Today, due to our hectic work schedules and lack of motivation, many of us do not receive regular amounts of physical activity and lead sedentary lifestyles," said Pornhub Vice President Corey Price.

Buy a Pornhub-approved adjustable band on Bang.fit to attach your smartphone to your hips. The built-in motion and movement sensors in your phone then track your activity as you "Squat and Thrust" and "Missionary Press" your way to a fitter body in tandem with select adult videos.

The release comes four years after the previous publication and more than 30 years since the first issue of Phrack was posted. Issue number 69 will also usher in a new publishing format Phrack calls "Paper Feed" that will see new articles posted between issue releases.

First released in 1985 via BBS, Phrack has been staffed by dozens of editors and contributors in its three-plus decades. The long-running zine has also hosted a number of notable articles, including the famed Hacker Manifesto and Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit.

The UK government has, on World Password Day, repeated its advice against the common security practice of routinely changing passwords.

"The problem is that this doesn’t take into account the inconvenience to users – the ‘usability costs’ – of forcing users to frequently change their passwords," says CESG. "The majority of password policies force us to use passwords that we find hard to remember."

A trailer for the upcoming reboot of "Ghostbusters" received a noticeable amount of criticism when it was released in March. It's only gotten worse since then and it's led to a dubious honor that may be the beginning of the end times for director Paul Feig's film.

As of Friday, it ranks 23rd on the list with more than 499,000 dislikes, making it the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube.