Our weekly news round-up: Siri to the rescue; Hobbits' evolutionary reversal on Flores; Growth in movie piracy; World's top 10 websites; Wave of Russian cyber attacks on the West, including DNC's Trump dirt file.

Stimulating biased inheritance of particular genes to alter entire populations might one day stop malaria in Africa, but there are serious risks if the technology ever got out of control.

Our weekly news round-up: Kogan's float to institutions; ALP's revised vision for NBN; Fast and wireless with Google Fiber; Telstra outages; NASA to change course for Mars; Wild take down notices; Tesla collects detailed driver info; Companies stockpile bitcoin to pay ransomware crims; Heart lasts 555 days in a backpack; Juno ready for Jupiter orbit insertion on July 4.

Stimulating biased inheritance of particular genes to alter entire populations might one day stop malaria in Africa, but there are serious risks if the technology ever got out of control.

In the last of three interviews, Dr. Ian Storey ponders the future of work. Factory jobs continue to be lost to robots, while AI replaces white collar workers. We look at the awesome societal changes wrought by advances in computing, wearable tech and the internet.

In the second of 3 interviews, we delve into the growing threat posed by various forms of cyber crime - to business, government and the internet itself.

A swarm of 170 million bits of man made junk surrounds the Earth threatening vital space infrastructure.

A swarm of 170 million bits of man made junk surrounds the Earth threatening vital space infrastructure.

Our weekly news round-up: 10,000 Aussies done in AGL ransomeware scam; Irongate - the Stuxnet worm revisited?; 642 million passwords stolen in megabreach; Ground level traffic lights for Sydney mobile tragics; Police to access mobile metadata after car accidents.

Account holders of the leading remote access service may have had their computers compromised. John offers guidance for those effected.