Month: January 2015

Robert Shiller, regarded as one of the most influential economists in the world, has said society is “in a panic” about artificial intelligence.

High-profile Bitcoin backers are seeking to establish a Bitcoin exchange in the US that would be overseen by mainstream financial regulators.

The social network encourages celebrities and other high-profile users to share photos directly to Twitter.

Adobe has released an emergency patch for a flaw in its Flash software that was being widely exploited by thieves.

The web-based taxi firm Uber restarts operations in Delhi, six weeks after it was banned over charges that one of its drivers raped a passenger.

A journalist with connections to the hacking collective Anonymous is sentenced to five years in jail after posting online links to stolen data.

Barrett Brown, who became a cause célèbre after he was charged with crimes related to the 2011 Stratfor hack, will not go free as his supporters hoped. He was sentenced today in Texas to five years and three months in prison.

The post Barrett Brown Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Connection to Stratfor Hack appeared first on WIRED.

On Thursday, the jury heard about the most human of all the human errors alleged Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht may have made: confessing his creation to an in-real-life friend.

The post Ulbricht Confessed to Running Silk Road, His College Friend Testifies appeared first on WIRED.

App makers should be required to make software for Blackberry handsets, says the boss of the phone company.

A quadcopter drone carrying 3kg of illegal drugs crashes near the border between Mexico and the US.