92% of E-Book Downloads in Russia Are Pirated E-reading is on the rise in Russia, but piracy remains a big problem for the burgeoning market. How Dropbox Plans to Replace Your Hard Drive Dropbox wants to replace your computer?s hard drive. 56% of Social Media Users Suffer From FOMO We all know that social media … Read more
The real reason Google wants to kill RSS Marco Arment: RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it?s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new and disrupt anyone else they?d like because nobody has to fly six salespeople out … Read more
The making of Digg Reader Writing for Wired, Matt Homan Mat Honan on Betaworks’ race to build a replacement for Google Reader in just 90 days. If you are interested in a 35,000-ft view on how Web-based software is built, read this. Inside Digg’s new RSS Reader It wouldn’t be a sexy subject were … Read more
The PRISM spin war has begun The war over how to spin revelations of the National Security Agency’s latest spying program has officially begun. Anonymous lays out plan for its independent news site, funded by $55,000 from Indiegogo It?s been some six weeks since ?hacktivist? group Anonymous raised $55,000 from Indiegogo to build its … Read more
Wikileaks Documentary Attacks Assange, Excuses Manning Julian Assange is a villain, Bradley Manning is a hero: That is the message of We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a new documentary now showing in theaters nationwide. REPORT: Google Battling Facebook For Waze Facebook?s talks to potentially acquire satellite navigation startup Waze may have hit a … Read more
Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile hacks and DDoS attacks affecting companies such as Sony Pictures, PBS and Fox.com in 2011 and 2012. Lulzsec?s Topiary: The … Read more
A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words For The First Time from Boing Boing by Daniel Ellsberg L: A young Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower and former U.S. military analyst. R: PFC Bradley Manning, 24; former Army intelligence analyst. Today, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an organization that I co-founded and for … Read more
The Pirate Bay Claims to Move Its Servers to North Korea from Mashable! by Anita Li The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets Virtual Asylum from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Last week the Swedish Pirate Party saw itself forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. The Party and its leaders took … Read more
The Copyright Alert System FAQ from EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer It?s been a long time coming, but the copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright Alert System (CAS) ? aka ?Six Strikes? ? has finally launched. CAS is an agreement between major media corporations and large Internet Service Providers to monitor peer-to-peer networks for … Read more
CISPA is Back: FAQ on What it is and Why it’s Still Dangerous from EFF.org Updates by Mark M. Jaycox and Kurt Opsahl The privacy-invasive bill known as CISPA?the so-called ?cybersecurity? bill?was reintroduced in February 2013. Just like last year, the bill has stirred a tremendous amount of grassroots activism because it carves a loophole … Read more
Alleged WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning Takes the Stand from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Bradley Manning’s pre-trial hearing: live-blogging, live-tweeting, and live-sketching from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Judge considers unusual plea deal for accused WikiLeaks source Manning from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin The Associated Press has details on the unusual plea deal being considered … Read more
Pew Survey Finds Over 60% of Social Network Users Have Deleted a Friend from Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project & American Life found that most people choose restricted privacy settings. Over half of social network users (52% to 60% depending on demographic) keep their … Read more
Forget Generation Y: 18- to 34-Year-Olds Are Now ?Generation C? from Mashable! by Zoe Fox HTML Editor Calls HTML5 Video Copy-Protection Proposal ‘Unethical’ from Wired Top Stories by Scott Gilbertson Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have teamed up to propose a copy protection protocol– AKA DRM — for HTML5 video. It’s just a draft right … Read more
Anonymous hacks US think tank with Christmas spirit from Hurriyet Daily News The loose-knit hacking movement ?Anonymous? claimed to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. Boing Boing Charitable Giving Guide, 2011 edition by Cory Doctorow It’s time again for Boing … Read more
via How Social Media ‘Friends’ Translate Into Real-Life Friendships from MediaShift When social media first gained attention, I heard many people scoff that these online connections couldn’t possibly be real friends. Some even used “Facebook friend” as a synonym for shallowness, fearing people might trade face-to-face interaction for a virtual life online. France Tracks … Read more