A rather bizarre waste of police resources has been captured on video and stuffed online, after a road user spotted a low-speed police escort being given to mobility scooter. Read More >>

You might think it's all fun and games when you're Instagramming your dinner before you dig in, but former identity thief Nathaniel Troy Maye will tell you otherwise; doing just that got him arrested. Read More >>

It's no secret that the police aren't very good at breaking into encrypted iPhones, but they've been asking Apple for help. A lot of help. According to reports by CNET the US government asks for so much help that the "please decrypt this iPhone for me" waiting list is at least seven weeks long. Read More >>

WebMD, the hypochondriac's wet dream turned digital, is notorious for convincing invalid-hopefuls that their pounding headache is actually just a tricky little combination of diabetes and cyanide poisoning. But apparently crippling neuroticism isn't the only negative side effect of our dependence on the site. At least, not for one mother who delayed taking her freshly shot 14-year-old son to the hospital for seven hours because searching WebMD for "gunshot wound" seemed like a good first step. Read More >>

Waving a gun around at a bank is so 10 years ago. With a little tech on their side, a squad of bank robbers were able to snag a cool £30 million in cash with nothing but some hacks and few old key cards that had ATMs across the globe virtually printing money. Read More >>

Yes, really. Meet Snoopify, a crappy little app that'll spice up your photos with filters stickers, and make you Snoop Dogg's best buddy*. Why on Earth would anyone actually use this crap? Read More >>

A good Bitcoin mining rig is hard to find. They're expensive, they take up space, they wrack up huge energy bills. Not at all practical for your average ESEA gaming network employee. Nefarious code that turns 14,000 of your users into an unwitting personal bitcoin botnet? Totally doable. Read More >>

Picture this: You're walking through a churchyard, minding your own business, when you stumble across something squishy on the ground. Your dog is chewing on it, so it must be tasty. You bend down to get a closer look, and... holy-hell it's a human ear! Read More >>

The usually tame Mr Clegg has gone red-faced with fury over the coalition's plan to introduce the so-called Snooper's Charter, using a radio interview to stress that he won't let the Data Communications Bill pass as long as he has a stapler with his name on it inside the government offices. Read More >>

Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been charged on suspicion that he hacked into a variety of companies, as well as fraudulently withdrawing money from the Swedish Nordea bank. Read More >>

Google Maps, the all seeing eye that can find naked pranksters, possible donkey hit and runs and other more serious crimes, may have just stumbled upon a bloody crime scene. The image shows what looks to be two people dragging a corpse and leaving a bloody trail on a pier. Read More >>

Dom Del Torto is an animator currently living in the UK. Dom Del Torto's laptop is a MacBook Pro currently living 3,000 miles away in Iran. This was not a planned separation. Read More >>

The extremely famous and most visited museum in the world was closed yesterday, thanks to staff walking out over aggressive pickpocketing which has seen organised gangs, some using children, terrorising workers. Read More >>

If you're looking to steal money from an ATM, what do you do? Try to wheel it to your house and smash it until it opens? Continually rob people who try to take money out of the machine? Hmm, what about just blowing the freaking ATM up to smithereens with explosives. That's what these thieves did at a petrol station in Hampshire. Read More >>

The WSJ reports that the US government is investigating Microsoft for bribery. According to unnamed sources, Microsoft paid off foreign government officials to get software contracts. Read More >>