A New York federal judge on Thursday largely rejected Sirius XM Holdings Inc’s request to reconsider her Nov. 14 decision in favor of members of the 1960s band The Turtles over the ... (more)

With about a month to go until a trial, Fox Broadcasting and Dish Network have requested that a California federal judge pause litigation over the controversial ad-skipping DVR service ... (more)

Following the passing of Bill C-11 in Canada, which forces ISPs to send notices to pirates, many VPN companies were unsure if the law in fact pertains to them but some have stated that ... (more)

Turns out the Beagle had landed, after all. The 11-year-old mystery of what happened to the UK-sponsored Beagle 2 Mars lander on its trip to the red planet's surface appeared to ... (more)

The UK and US are to carry out "war game" cyber attacks on each other as part of a new joint defence against online criminals. The first exercise, a staged attack on the financial ... (more)

An 18-year-old man from Southport has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network over Christmas. Police said the man had been ... (more)

A pair of Fox News channels returned to Dish Network after a three-week blackout Thursday with the announcement of a new multi-year carriage agreement. The Fox News Channel and Fox ... (more)

Muscovites Vladimir Drinkman and Dmitriy Smilianets met online in 2003, playing Counter-Strike, a PC shooting game. Pitting terrorists against security agents, Counter-Strike, released ... (more)

Google is ending sales of its Google Glass eyewear. The company insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, but will stop producing Glass ... (more)

On Friday in New Zealand - meaning Thursday in the United States, because, well, time zones - Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds ended a keynote presentation at a New Zealand open ... (more)

Today in the ongoing Silk Road trial, Defense Attorney Joshua Dratel and his client, Defendant Ross Ulbricht, made another bold proclamation. A day after the defense stated that Ulbricht ... (more)

After the lunch break Thursday in the Silk Road trial, defendant Ross Ulbricht took off his jacket. Minutes later, his lawyer Joshua Dratel took off the gloves. In just over an hour ... (more)

Why is everyone so scared of India? Well, one reason is the massive piracy rate that riddles the music industry in India, not to mention persistent poverty that renders half the ... (more)

Nicolas Chartier has an issue with impulse control. The 40-year-old France-born president of Voltage Pictures - which, since it opened nine years ago, has been releasing a steady stream ... (more)

Inside the cloud that is perpetually draped over the small town of San Juan Yaee, Oaxaca, Raúl Hernández Santiago crouches down on the roof of the town hall and starts drilling. Men ... (more)

Developers are still going nuts for Apple’s new Swift programming language. Since it was introduced last summer, Swift just jumped from number 68 to number 22 in the language rankings ... (more)

Twitch streamers that want to play music over their gameplay sessions will now be able to choose from a selection of licensed songs made freely available by the service. Last year, ... (more)

Microsoft on Tuesday posted eight security updates to fix serious security vulnerabilities in computers powered by its Windows operating system. Separately, Adobe pushed out a patch ... (more)

Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, never dreamed he'd be fodder for late-night TV comedians. But 12 months into his agency's rewrite of rules governing ... (more)

Google plans to pilot a modular phone, on which components can be swapped, this year. It says tests will take place in Puerto Rico, where devices will be distributed from "food-truck-style ... (more)

Hotel group Marriott International has announced it will stop blocking guests from using personal wi-fi kits. The firm was fined $600,000 (£395,000) last year by a US watchdog after ... (more)

An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the web surfing of Verizon customers. The ... (more)

Gustav Nipe, 26, set up a Wi-Fi network called 'Open Guest' at the conference earlier this week and claims that several high profile officials used the network to log into their email ... (more)

More people were using the mail to get high, and Jared Der-Yeghiayan knew it. "We hadn't seen ecstasy being seized in letter-class like that in a long time," said the Homeland Security ... (more)

Tor is apparently no longer a safe place to run a marketplace for illegal goods and services. With the alleged operator of the original Silk Road marketplace, Ross Ulbricht, now going ... (more)

The Irish companies of Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music want injunctions requiring UPC to apply rules to combat illegal downloading which have already been agreed with the ... (more)

Your smartphone can now instantly translate text across eight different languages, even without an internet connection, thanks to an update to Google’s Translate app. Google has ... (more)

Online real-name registration will be ramped up on the mainland this year to cover instant messaging services, Twitter-like microblogs, online forums and other websites as the Communist ... (more)

A hack attack "inspired" by the recent attack on Sony has led a developer to cancel creation of a game featuring Kim Jong-un. Called Glorious Leader! the side-scrolling shooter involved ... (more)

Several photo, video and other media editing programs from software maker Corel contain DLL hijacking vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute malicious code on users' ... (more)