Customers of UK2 hosted email services have been complaining of missing emails from clients, as the platform heads into a sixth day of wobbles. Problems appear to have begun on Friday for users connecting via IMAP and POP3 and were said to be due to "a service failure" at the UK company's Canadian service partner Tucows.

"There has been no loss of data and we are providing alternative mailbox facilities to those UK2 customers affected while work continues to resolve the issue. We will keep customers regularly updated on our progress via the status page as we receive further details from Tucows.”

To guard against the possibility of being locked out of the server should the rightful operators ever discover the breach, the attackers left behind a simple but effective script.

The effectiveness of the backdoor is its ease of use. The admin password and everything else the attacker needs is coded into the script. All that’s needed, in the event the hacker is ejected, is to send a Get request to the location of the script file. With that, the attacker has a new admin account that uses the username, password, and email address of their choice.

Its inventors embedded ceramic spheres in aluminium foam to create a material that couldn’t be cut with angle grinders, power drills or water jet cutters.

“It’s pretty amazing,” says Miranda Anderson at the University of Stirling, UK, who worked on the project. Rather than just being a hard surface that resists external pressure, the material turns the force of the drill or cutting mechanism back on itself, as the ceramic spheres create vibrations that disrupt the external force. “It actually destroys the cutting blade through the sideways jerky vibrations that it creates, or it widens the water jet’s spray,” says Anderson.

"Players were bricked even though the users never performed a network update. It was enough for the player to be connected to the internet. Samsung never asked the user if it was OK to download the bomb," said Gray, referring to the dodgy XML policy file.

Because of the monumentally stupid idea of parsing a downloaded XML file unconditionally at every boot, there seems to be no way to recover the devices from the boot loop using normal means – such as a USB stick, CD or network – because the crash happens too early in the boot sequence.

User of both UFO VPN free and paid services are affected by the data breach which was discovered by the security research team at Comparitech. Despite the Hong Kong-based VPN provider claiming to have a "strict no-logs policy" and that any data collected is anonymized, Comparitech says that "based on the contents of the database, users' information does not appear to be anonymous at all".

Users of the services are advised to change their passwords immediately.

After installing the game from those discs, players will still be encouraged to download update files to the simulation itself, as well as stream copious cloud-based data like high-res satellite photos, geographic details, and live weather updates for an even higher level of realism.

Despite all that online-exclusive data, though, Kok added that "the boxed version makes it possible for people on a slower Internet connection to get the sim installed without downloading the 'content.' So the simulator is in every way 100% the same. The boxed retail version just gets you a nice box, printed manual and about 90GB you do not have to download."

When you try to start the software on Windows, it immediately crashes with the error code 0xc0000005. "Microsoft has borked Outlook," one Reg reader told us. "Thousands of users worldwide are now experiencing this."

A spokesperson for Microsoft also told us: "Our teams have begun to roll out a mitigation for an issue affecting user access to Outlook."

Twitter user Tahin Rahman posted leaked slides (first spotted by 9to5Google) detailing a merger between Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat, and Google Meet that looks to be coming to the Web and mobile soon.

The goal of all this looks to be turning Gmail into a one-stop-shop productivity site, where you can do Slack-style room-based chat or single chats, make video calls, edit documents, and send emails.

UK households and businesses produce 1.45 million tonnes of electrical waste each year, research shows.

That issue is now being discussed by the government. A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said: “We are committed to moving to a more circular economy."

Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage wrote that he was "such a generous, easygoing, and gentle person".

Fellow Mythbusters and White Rabbit Project presenter Kari Bryon responded to the news by writing: "Somedays I wish I had a time machine."

Another of the shows' stars, Tory Belleci, said: "I just cannot believe it. I don't even know what to say. My heart is broken."