Having been told that residents were tied up inside the home, and that shots had been fired, officers swooped on the Bonar Street address at 4.40 am. But it was all a hoax.
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Myspace emails cringe-worthy old photos to lure users back
Myspace is sending users one or two photos in a seemingly desperate attempt to convince people that it still exists, to intrigue former users, to embarrass them, and/or to send them hurtling back to the site on search and destroy missions.
Prankster fakes pick axe murder for Google Street View
It took over a year for somebody to complain about the image. If you’re worried that Big Brother is watching, think of it as consolation that he’s not too quick on the uptake. 
Move over Heartbleed – here comes another SSL/TLS bug
Which widely used open source SSL/TLS cryptographic library just recently fixed a critical bug caused by a buffer overflow? (Hint. The software isn’t OpenSSL and the vulnerability isn’t Heartbleed.)
Alleged robber caught after trying to befriend his victim on Facebook
An alleged robber was caught after trying to buddy up to the woman he bashed over the head, say police. The next day, she got a friend request. She didn’t recognise his face, but she did recognise a triangular tattoo on his neck.
Has CryptoLocker been cracked? Is Gameover over?
Gameover, also known as Gameover Zeus, is one of the most notorious botnets of recent times. And CryptoLocker is the Big Daddy of the ransomware scene, scrambling all your data and demanding $300 to get it back. A team of global law enforcement agencies have taken them on…and YOU can help them win!
12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there just a pent-up demand of people wanting to blip their existence off the internet? 
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
Which must have come as a surprise to him, because despite facing a jail sentence and a fine of 46 million Swedish krona ($6.9 million, £4.1 million), Sunde wasn’t even sure whether there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Sweden.
Say hello to your vending machine – it might be watching you!
You walk up, ready to quench your thirst with sucrose syrup, and the beverage vending machine decides to take your photo, guess your age, discern your gender and then target-market at you.