Online retail giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit against more than 1100 people it says posted fake reviews on its website. The company is suing 1114 defendants – all named as “John Does” because it has yet to uncover their real identities – over a breach of its review policy that prohibits paid-for or fictional reviews. In a...

Love it or hate it, if you’re an Anglophone, you’ve probably heard of it. The UK’s Daily Mail, or, more precisely, the web-based Mail Online, is said to be the world’s busiest English-language news site. Despite its British origins, and its UK flavour, 70% of its traffic is said to come from outside the British...

For the third year running Mozilla’s ‘browser wars’ veteran, Firefox, has burned the world’s favourite browser, Google Chrome, in our trustworthy browser poll. Surprisingly, it also soundly beat the newest entrant to appear in our poll – the post-Snowden privacy poster boy, the Tor browser. The Tor browser, which uses Firefox as its base, is designed to be...

A hacker detained in Malaysia now faces extradition to the US to face charges that he provided material support to the Islamic State, which US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are calling a “first of its kind” case. It’s certainly not a typical case of the US seeking extradition of an individual for cybercrimes. Rather,...

Some of the world’s largest tech firms have come together to issue a public protest against a controversial US cybersecurity bill. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), due to be laid out for Senate consideration in the next few weeks, has noble aims based around the sharing of threat intelligence between private companies and the government....

Get ready! We’re about to run the gauntlet of Mactivists, and we’d love you to join us. The story is a simple one: Apple released updates for iMovie and iWork this week (get ready for about 1GB of download in total), bumping up the middle digit of the products’ version numbers. Keynote on OS X,...

If you were one of the few, er, lucky Facebook users to get a peek behind the curtain to see how popular your posts are, you’re probably already aware that you aren’t exactly … how shall we put it? Upworthy. Oh well! On Wednesday, some users discovered a bug that affected Facebook’s mobile site –...

Police in Germany created a viral hit this week when they put out an urgent appeal for people to stop stripping children of their privacy. The appeal, from police in Hagen, was posted, appropriately enough, on Facebook. It was first posted on Tuesday, and by Friday morning, it had been shared by more than 245,000...

Personal assistants on smartphones – Siri on the iPhone, Google Now on Androids, and Cortana on Windows Phone – allow us to do a lot of things with only a voice command. We can make calls, send text messages, do web searches, and much more. But what if someone else could make your phone do...

San Francisco is extremely scrupulous about its extremely complicated parking rules. Parked in the way of street sweeping? Ticket, sometimes in spite of the signage being missing. Failing to turn your wheels to the curb on a steep hill? Ticket, sometimes regardless of whether the hill’s listed as steep enough to warrant it. Parking at...