Amazon’s Plan to Own Writing and Reading Advances With Goodreads Buy from Wired Top Stories by Marcus Wohlsen Amazon looked back to its roots in bookselling and forward to its future as the global overlord of all human literary output by announcing its plan today to purchase social reading site GoodReads. Amazon acquires social book … Read more
The ?six strike? Copyright Alert System is now in place: Here?s what you need to know from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm ?Six Strikes? Anti-Piracy Plan Is Both Loathed and Watched Closely from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick ?Six Strikes? Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Today, With Mystery Punishments from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Yandex deals Google a … Read more
I never search google to download stuff. I know where I should go. I guess like porn sites, torrent people directly go to the addresses they already know. A different dynamic… Not the pirates but Google loses here… I hope… Google Starts Punishing ?Pirate? Sites In Search Results from TorrentFreak by Ernesto For years entertainment … Read more
U.S. Still Requests More Google User Data Than Any Other Country from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Alan Turing?s 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web from Mashable! by Allegra Tepper HOWTO think like Alan Turing from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In early celebration of the Turing centenary this week, Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar … Read more
Stuxnet 6 mysteries about Stuxnet from FP Passport by Blake Hounshell By now, you’ve probably heard of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that infects Windows computers running software designed by Siemens, the German industrial giant. The software, Simatic WinCC, is what’s known as a SCADA system — “supervisory control and data acquisition” — and it’s … Read more