The Division was going fine until the update last week. Massive’s first major update brought with it a slew of problems, including wiped characters, terrible matchmaking and a fairly uninteresting incursion to boot. One of the biggest problems concerns an exploit in Falcon Lost, which is allowing players to basically clip through and get the rewards of the event without completing the thing. It’s led to some people cruising up to the highest levels in a matter of moments, and Ubisoft has no idea what to do about it. I don’t envy them.

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Google might be doing a lot to improve Android security, but hundreds of millions of users aren’t getting patches.

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We need to remove our previous notions of ‘joins’ in the new data-centric world of business — so a graph database exists due to the ‘nature’ of the connections between the elements of the data inside it. A phone book allows us to look a person by name, but what if we want to look up other people who live on a given street… other people who go to the same bars and restaurants etc. A new type of data model is emerging and it has wide applications.

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Podcasting is important. It represents a growing consumer appetite for quality, narrowcast, personal media. It’s also a bit of a warning sign to mass and mainstream media, as niche content takes hold.

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The IoT shows a lot of promise, but only if customers can make use of it. Here’s what companies are doing to help.

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With its multi-million dollar acquisition of RealSatisfied, startup Placester says it now reaches 400,000 agents across the U.S., one-third the total market. CEO Matt Barba sees a chance to build a $4 billion business–and stay out of reach of listings giant Zillow.

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Following changes to Australia’s copyright laws last year, four music labels are attempting to force ISPs to block access to KickassTorrents.

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