A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah, a person close to his case said Thursday.
When Ulbricht’s trial begins Tuesday morning at a federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan, it will be the most significant case of its kind—in many ways the only case of its kind—to reach trial.
How did Wikipedia complete its transition to HipHop Virtual Machine, Facebook’s open-source PHP runtime? Brett Simmers from the HHVM team andWikimedia Foundation principal software engineer Ori Livneh detailed the process in respective blog posts.
Screen capture from a video by YouTube vlogger and Roskomnadzor-registered blogger “Katya Clapp,” where she discusses Kim Kardashian’s posterior.
How imageboard culture shaped Gamergate
That tell-tale wedding of relentless hostility and ethical affectation is a peculiar youth subculture spilling out into the open web. Get ready for more of it. Read the restThe Cryptosphere
The Biggest Security Threats We’ll Face in 2015
Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter
As the clock strikes midnight on the new year, so begins the countdown to a new round of security threats and breaches that doubtless will unfold in 2015
New NSA leaks: does crypto still work?
Matthew Green’s got an excellent postmortem on the huge dump of NSA docsDer Spiegel last weekend. Read the rest
Twitter isn’t about news, tweets or even you anymore
I originally published this post on Medium. I love Twitter. I always have. It’s a great way to meet people, get news and to talk about things you’re interested in. I’ve spent an unfathomable amount of time on the service, with 59,000 tweets over six years and countless friendships forged exclusively over the network.
Snowden leaks reveal encryption programs that NSA couldn’t break
Mashable! by Rex Santus
A new report on documents leaked to the press by whistleblower Edward Snowden highlights some security tools the National Security Agency has cracked — and those it hasn’t — in its widespread surveillance of digital communication.
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