Wikipedia Sues NSA Over Dragnet Internet Surveillance The Intercept by Cora Currier Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes. Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2015 Edition TorrentFreak By now most Internet users are … Read more
Pirate Bay Responds to Cloudflare and Moderation Concerns TorrentFreak On Saturday The Pirate Bay made its long-awaited comeback. While most users were happy to see the site back online, others were suspicious about the new setup. Report: Games Grow in Traffic and Revenue in 2014 All Facebook by Brandy Shaul The Silk Road Trial … Read more
Is Jetpack Misleading Users to Promote WordPress.com? WPBeginner by Editorial Staff Are you using Jetpack’s publicize feature on your site?Recently while browsing through Facebook, we found several folks sharing links where WordPress replaced the site domain. Along with that, the status also read like this: Michelle Schulp published an article in WordPress. Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Flogged … Read more
STUDY: How Facebook, Other Social Networks, Mobile Devices Affect the U.S. Voter All Facebook by David Cohen How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionising Flu Forecasting MIT Technology Review Epidemiologist want to forecast disease like meteorologists forecast rain. And the way people browse Wikipedia could be the key, they say. HTML5 is now final and ready for prime time, says … Read more
What Makes a Sex Shop Halal? Responding to apparent pent-up demand for tacky bachelorette parties, the 38-year old Turkish entrepreneur Haluk Murat Demirel has opened the country’s first halal (permissible in Islam) sex shop online. It’s not the first such enterprise in the world — successful predecessors can be found in such varied locales … Read more
NSA and UK intel agency GCHQ target online anonymity tool Tor, according to leaked Snowden documents Despite the fact that online anonymity tool Tor was developed with US government funds, the NSA really does not like Tor. Android vs malware: how to run a secure, open ecosystem A presentation by Android Security chief Adrian Ludwig at … Read more
BitTorrent Launches ?NSA-proof? Serverless Messenger App Over the past months the revelations of Edward Snowden have dominated the news. Internet privacy suddenly became a mainstream topic and all the negative news has increased the demand for encrypted and secure communications. How Can Somebody Who Loves Culture Possibly Defend The Copyright Monopoly? One of the most perplexing … Read more
Nexus Q media streaming ball from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Google Gives Apple a Lesson in Showmanship by Chris Taylor It?s Not an Entertainment Gadget, It?s Google’s Bid to Control the Future from Wired Top Stories by Fred Vogelstein Google’s Nexus Q is not just a gleaming, consumer electronics device. It’s also Google’s … Read more
Pirate Bay announces new IP address, proxy-friendly design from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Courts around the world have instituted censorship regimes that require ISPs to block the Pirate Bay. In response, TPB has added a new IP address (194.71.107.80) by which it can be reached. It also has a new design that is especially … Read more
Twitter’s Tough Balancing Act from social media vb by jkim Twitter users everywhere are reacting to the news, and I’ve read several articles taking stance on the latest decision by Twitter. They ranged from good to really bad, and you can find plenty of examples a last couple of days. After sleeping on Twitter censorship … Read more