An Irish hotel is pursuing legal action against Google over an Autocomplete option that suggests the hotel could be going into receivership. The Ballymascanlon Hotel, in Dundalk, County Louth, is believed to have taken umbrage at the suggestion the hotel could be going into receivership, after receiving tearful telephone calls from brides-to-be, who had booked the hotel for their wedding: This is believed to be the first case of this kind in Ireland, but Google has recently lost similar cases elsewhere in the world....

If you’d like a definition for irony, then this anecdote might be a good place to start. We all know that Apple Chairman Steve Jobs has famously refused to allow Adobe’ Flash player to be installed on devices like the iPad and iPhone because of the poor performance of the software. Though Adobe has sworn up and down that it is due to Apple’s anti-competitive nature, there has yet to be a mobile device from any manufacturer that runs flash flawlessly....

MySQL.com, the official website of the database management system of the same name, was today subjected toan attackwhereby hackers used SQL injection exploits to gain access to a complete list of usernames and passwords on the site. News of the attack surfaced when the attackers posted details of the compromise on theFullDisclosure mailing list, publicly listing the contents of database tables used to store member and employee data, but also a small sample of user logins and password hashes....

Did you knowSHIFT is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! On Friday, US Democratic lawmakers proposed anew billincreasing the current $7,500 tax creditfor electric vehicles. And while this seems like a very promising step, in reality the credit expansion favors only particular automakers. The base amount remains unchanged at $4,000, with an extra $3,500 if the EV battery has a minimum of 40kWh —totalling the present 7,500 dollar grants....

If you ask Chris Taylor, the boss of Gas Powered Games, the development team that is going to see the latest installment of Microsoft’s Age of Empires franchise to market, he’ll tell you that his latest creation’s format represents the future of PC gaming. Let’s hope not. We don’t cover games much here on TNWmicrosoft, or on TNW at all for that matter, because they don’t often intersect our editorial line....