
Blockchain has zero chance claims Xero bloke
Too much Trumping and spying means we can't have nice things
The CEO and founder of cloud accountancy software giant Xero thinks blockchain is doomed to failure because of "surveillance culture and tribalism" in the financial industry.

US certain that WikiLeaks is part of Putin’s propaganda machine
Assange’s US hate has got the better of him
Remember the days when Wikileaks did decent work and provided a valid channel for whistleblowers? Well it looks like those days have long gone and the outfit has become a tool of Tsar Putin’s propaganda machine.

Pro-Trump hackers try to silence the press
Bury bad news under a denial of service attack
It seems that there is a crew of hackers which is determined to keep bad news about the orange misogynist tax-dodger out of the press.

Trump claims DNC hack conducted by a fattie sitting on his bed
Not my friend Tsar Putin
In last night’s debate, comedy candidate Donald Trump claimed that the hack of the democrats was carried out by a “400 pound" fatty sitting on his bed.”

Oculus Rift secretly funds Donald Trump
Founder finances anti-Clinton defamation campaign
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, has backed a pro-Trump political organisation called Nimble America that is dedicated to "shitposting" and spreading inflammatory memes about Hillary Clinton.

US counter-attacks Russian cyber efforts
NSA target Putin’s hackers
NSA hackers are targeting Russian government-linked hacking teams to see if they're responsible for the massive breach at the Democratic National Committee.

Assange gets into Clinton bashing
Google-Clinton alliance "revealed"
Desperate to make sure he is not forgotten, Julian Assange has recycled a wonderful new conspiracy theory, which has Google working in a dark alliance with Hillary Clinton.

Microsoft open sources its Chatbot software
Now you can make your own racist friend
Software giant Microsoft has open-sourced its chatbot framework allowing developers to build their own versions of Redmond's disastrous Twitter bot experiment.

Republican’s shun the Apple fanboy vote
There are more important things than Apple
About the only thing that US republican presidential hopefuls can agree on is that Apple should stop mucking around and hack the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone 5C for the FBI.

Trump rips into Apple
Who do they think they are?
While the Tame Apple press has been rushing around praising Tim Cook for standing up for privacy by refusing assist the FBI crack the encryption on a mass murder’s phone, colourful Republican hopeful Donald Trump is not impressed.