Firefox to switch default search from Google to Yahoo Mashable! by Karissa Bell Yahoo will soon be the default search engine on Firefox browsers. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: why only an anthropologist can tell the story of Anonymous Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow BitTorrent Users are Avid, Eclectic Content Buyers, Survey Finds TorrentFreak Each month 150-170 million Internet … Read more
Aaron Swartz was no criminal Boing Boing by Dan Purcell Dan Purcell, one of Swartz’ lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT’s gutless support of his prosecutors. Read the rest Porn stars use their assets to discuss net neutrality Mashable! by Adario Strange The debate over net neutrality and the fight … Read more
Bitcoin, The Beginning Of Open Source Governance? Falkvinge on Infopolicy – Discussions on information policy and civil liberties by Nozomi Hayase Quality Legislation – Nozomi Hayase: In my previous article on this site, “Bitcoin, Open Source Movement for Decentralized Future”, among many other issues I addressed some concern about the existence of early adopters and this apparent … Read more
‘Newsweek’ Claims Bitcoin Creator Is 64 and Lives With His Mom Some have suggested that Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who developed the idea for Bitcoin, worked for a government agency; others have suggested that “he” was actually a group of people. One researcher posited that Nakamoto was “probably” a blogger named Nick Szabo; another report pointed to a connection … Read more
Is Google Hummingbird Good For Everyone? Google Hummingbird is the new search algorithm used by the Google search engine. It was released with a bit of controversy as a result of its new stringent search and SEO requirements. One of the major components of Google Hummingbird is that it efficiently breaks down queries that are sent … Read more
Kickstarter passes $1 billion in pledges, with more than half pledged in the last 12 months Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has passed $1 billion in pledges nearly four years after it made its debut on April 28, 2009. More than half of the $1 billion was pledged in the last 12 months alone, a testimony … Read more
Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules The European Union has been expanding since its creation in the 1950s and is now comprised of 28 member states, each committed to EU law. One of the key roles of the EU?s Court of Justice is to examine and interpret EU legislation to ensure its uniform application across … Read more
Couples, the Internet, and Social Media How American couples use digital technology to manage life, logistics, and emotional intimacy within their relationships Love And Religion On Facebook A Complete, Interactive History of Bitcoin In less than a decade, Bitcoin has gone from concept to niche cryptocurrency, and recently it has made significant inroads into … Read more
Join Boing Boing, Reddit, and websites all over the world on the 11th to fight mass surveillance In two days, the Internet will erupt in a protest to rival the uprising against SOPA: in Aaron Swartz‘s memory, websites everywhere will add code from TheDayWeFightBack.org to their templates, helping to flood Congress — and the world’s … Read more
The Facebook Decade: A Review of the Social Giant’s Disruptive History As it reaches its first decade of existence, Mark Zuckerberg‘s creation stands as the premiere social network in the world. With 1.23 billion current monthly active users, the online juggernaut’s user base far surpasses that of the entire Internet in 2004. How’s that for growth? … Read more
Social Media Update 2013 As of September 2013: 71% of online adults use Facebook 18% of online adults use Twitter 17% use Instagram 21% use Pinterest 22% use LinkedIn Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. Facebook is the dominant social networking platform in the number of … Read more
Support from Zynga helps Bitcoin break the $1,000 valuation mark again The price of Bitcoin is back over US$1,000 after gaming giant Zynga became the latest company to adopt the virtual currency…. Aaron Swartz’s father, Bob Swartz, discusses his son’s death It’s been nearly a year since my friend Aaron Swartz killed himself, Foursquare details how it rewards … Read more
Study: Teens abandoning Facebook Teenagers are leaving Facebook. Why? Because their parents are on it. [Graudian] Euroteens embarrassed to be seen on Facebook But their parents insist they use it, so their personal lives can be scrutinized by the olds. They’d prefer to be on Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. “Facebook is basically dead and buried,” says Daniel Miller, who led … Read more
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Worst passwords (click to embiggen) Mark Burnett, whose work has been featured here before, has used lists of leaked passwords to compile a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords (with accompanying wordcloud, see above); an astonishing 91 percent of all passwords used appear in the top 1000. Here’s the top 100, with their relative frequency: NSA tracks … Read more