quote [ Sites that don't verify age could get blocked by British ISPs. ]

quote [ Nate Mitchell, the cofounder of Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR company, said on Twitter on Friday that the company inadvertently printed some unusual messages in its Touch controllers, handheld devices for playing games and navigating VR environments.

These messages were intended only for prototypes, but a mistake meant they were included in regular production devices, he said. ]

quote [ A popular DNA-testing company seems to be targeting true crime fans with a new pitch to let them share their genetic information with law enforcement so cops can catch violent criminals. ]

quote [ Earlier this year, Russia announced plans to briefly disconnect its internet from the rest of the world by or on April 1. The scheduled exercise was intended to test its ability to create an isolated, sovereign internet. However, it?s unclear if the test will proceed on the original timeline. ... If and when the test is conducted, Russians won?t find themselves entirely without the internet?they just won?t be able to receive and send data beyond Russian borders. ]

quote [ We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted ? the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax ? went viral in the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the ?truth squad? that quashed it. For a bit. ]

quote [ A white hat hacker discovered an unsecured database on Saturday listing the personal information of nearly 2 million women in China, which included a section titled, for some reason, ?BreedReady.? The database was taken down as of Monday, but its existence still indicates that someone is collecting a wealth of deeply intimate information for hundreds of thousands of women. ]

quote [ Skipped paying a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket. ]

quote [ The decision by a prominent consumer DNA-testing company to share data with federal law enforcement means investigators have access to genetic information linked to hundreds of millions of people. ]

quote [ T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers? location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country. ]

quote [ The next generation of naval warfare appears to have come early, as a Chinese naval warship has been pictured out at sea carrying what appears to be an electromagnetic railgun. ]