The unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight.

'Poison pill' strategy ties hands of future governments.

In the good old days only God had access to everything everyone does.

These days pretty well everyone has access to what everyone does.

The good old days were better.  God is a myth.

If God is  not a myth,  then he was must have been so bored with what he had wrought that he caused Nietzsche to put himself out of our misery.

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The US says it faces a "dedicated adversary" and an "ever evolving threat" to the nation's cyber security, after a major data breach.

Ambient wi-fi signals have been used by US researchers to power a small surveillance camera.

A charming viral video shows chimps, gorillas, leopards and other wild animals reacting to their own reflections in a giant jungle mirror.

A graphic mobile phone video obtained by the BBC appears to show militants from Islamic State torturing a 14-year-old Syrian boy.