4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking from EFF.org Updates by Dan Auerbach Whoa, you aren’t browsing with Javascript, congratulations! You probably don’t need this tutorial, which will look broken for you. Just install an adblocker with a privacy/tracking protection list, block third-party cookies, block referers, and install HTTPS Everywhere. ***** The Pirate Bay ditches … Read more
Pirates are the biggest spenders: US P2P users buy 30% more music than their non-P2P counterparts by Emil Protalinski Various studies over the years have shown that the biggest music pirates are also the biggest spenders on recorded music. The latest one from The American Assembly goes as far as quantifying the difference between a … Read more
How Wikipedia works: Building the world?s most expansive encyclopaedia from The Next Web by Mez Breeze Top 5 uTorrent Tips From BitTorrent Inc. from TorrentFreak by enigmax With around 150 million active users each month, uTorrent is by far the most used BitTorrent client in the West. But, despite finding the client incredibly useful, millions … Read more
How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow ZDNet’s Rupert Goodwins is going blind. Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology … Read more
Twitter Policy?s Latest Victim: If This Then That from Mashable! by Peter Pachal IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers on September 27th to comply with new API policies from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino Why IFTTT being forced to remove its Twitter triggers is a red alert for developers from The Next Web by … Read more
Top BitTorrent Countries In The World, Top Torrent Towns In The UK from TorrentFreak by enigmax The Digital Music Index is a report produced by Musicmetric, a data and analytics company that maps the trends and preferences of music fans around the world. The data collated and crunched is then supplied to the music industry to … Read more
William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions from Wired Top Stories by Geeta Dayal William Gibson once spent nearly five years studying the complexities of watchmaking, indulging in the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. “I wanted to grow my own otaku-like obsession,” he said in a phone interview with Wired. Part … Read more
Obama, Romney Take Over the Web With Advertisements from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Obama Speech Tops Facebook Mentions from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick September 11, 2001 as experienced on the International Space Station from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz On September 11, 2001, US astronaut Frank L. Culbertson watched the aftermath of the … Read more
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Lands In Sweden, Immediately Charged By Police from TorrentFreak by enigmax Sweden Kidnapped My Friend, Pirate Bay Co-Founder Anakata from TorrentFreak by Guest This is a guest post by researcher, hacker and political activist Niklas Femerstrand. He is involved in projects that include software development for micropayment service Flattr, cryptography and general … Read more
Congress releases report on the effects of patent trolls, could this mean litigation? from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Singel A seemingly rogue copyright complaint brought down the Obama campaign’s live feed of its own convention Tuesday night, just minutes … Read more
…and he is very upset because this might be called as “censorship” According to Turkey’s Binali Yıldırım who is the minister in charge of Transportation and Communication, communal tension between Turkish-Kurdish citizens in several are due to social media hatred campaigns. Thus, the Ministry aims to intervene momentarily to freeze – aka to block access … Read more
20% of Newspapers Now Have Online Paywalls from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik Online Security Tips for Journalists from Mashable! by International Journalists’ Network Could broadcast journalism see a revival in online media? from The Next Web by Joel Falconer The I Files: Investigative reporting comes to YouTube, launching with the BBC, NYT, Al Jazeera and … Read more
Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront, a place where … Read more
Samsung ordered to pay $1,049,343,540 in Apple patent lawsuit defeat from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff via Apple wins software and design patent judgements against most Samsung devices in trial over iPhone and iPad from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino Apple scores huge win over Samsung in patent case from Hurriyet Daily … Read more
Asylum Granted by Ecuador to Julian Assange … Civil rights implications of Big Data by Cory Doctorow An excellent editorial by Alistair Croll on the civil rights implications of Big Data contains a number of points I hadn’t considered before, as well as great analysis of the way that the Big Data situation arrived: France’s … Read more