Anonymous targets Irish government over Piracy laws claim reports
Hack collective Anonymous has apparently targeted the Irish government in its latest DDoS attack wave, protesting proposals for its version of the US SOPA anti-piracy act. The Irish Department of...
View ArticleFBI seeks to track Social Media en masse
There's a brand new job alert out there this week, engineers and developers, and you should hop right on it if you want to help the FBI work on a tool which will provide them with an "Open Source and...
View ArticlePoland’s politicians don Anonymous-style Guy Fawkes masks in anti-piracy protest
Polish politicians donned Guy Fawkes masks in parliament this week, in protest of a SOPA-style anti-piracy agreement signed by the government. Members of the leftwing Palikot's Movement produced...
View ArticleGoogle+ Hangout with Obama spurs SOPA discussion
President Obama appeared before the world tonight in a virtual town hall that took place on Google+. As could easily be expected, there were some controversial issues to discuss, one of which was the...
View ArticleSlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: January 31, 2012
We're going to start seeing leaked and/or pre-released information about Mobile World Congress 2012 pretty soon, folks, and the flood does begin right here in ernest with a rather intimate look at the...
View ArticleSOPA, PIPA spur open letter to Congress from 75-group coalition
The recent controversy over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) legislation efforts have prompted an open letter beseeching Congress to halt its intellectual property...
View ArticleReddit storm imminent after UK Pirate Bay judgement
This week the British High Court has ruled that The Pirate Bay website and its users have been and continue to engage in "large-scale copyright infringement", this very possibly leading to a...
View ArticleFacebook loses massive lobbying support
Of the four major lobbying groups that Facebook has hired to lobby in Washington on its behalf, three have severed their ties with the social networking site. Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock; the...
View ArticleGoogle Keynote MWC 2012 Round-Up
This year's Mobile World Congress has turned out to have more than a couple surprises, and the highly quotable Eric Schmidt is no exception to the rule this week in the Google keynote address. Speaking...
View ArticleISPs tool up for son-of-SOPA anti-piracy cull
While the SOPA bill has been shelved, supporters are turning to internet providers to take measures against piracy instead. CNN reports that various North American ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, and Time...
View ArticleNetflix political action committee is formed
Anyone who doubts the significant impact that Netflix has had on this country, in everything from society to Hollywood to consumer electronics, allow me to introduce FLIXPAC. The video streaming...
View ArticleCISPA brings Reddit’s SOPA warriors in force
In a relatively new bill being called "worse that SOPA," sponsored by congress member Mike Rogers, 28 corporate sponsors are bringing back the circumvention of basic Internet privacy laws in force....
View ArticleFacebook defends CISPA with talk of protection
Just like SOPA, Facebook has responded to the growing concerns rising around an internet "security" bill presented to the House of Representatives this week - only this time they're taking the opposite...
View ArticleWikipedia’s Wales takes stand on privacy and web freedom
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has spoken out on privacy, online lobbying and social media, taking hypocritical employers to task and predicting that internet pay-walls will actually improve journalism...
View ArticleWeb inventor Berners-Lee shoots down CISPA
This week the inventor of the internet Tim Berners-Lee spoke on several subjects involving data sharing on the web - perhaps most important of all on CISPA, a bill currently up for review in...
View Article“Worse than SOPA” CISPA bill passes
Luckily for denizens of the internet, SOPA was struck down not too long ago, but there’s another bill which was passed by the House of Representatives that proves just as menacing. It’s called CISPA,...
View ArticleObama administration ‘opposes Cispa’ assures White House
There's no way the bill currently going through Washington by the name of CISPA, just passed by the House of Representatives, will be allowed to be passed into law if the Obama administration's claim...
View ArticleGoogle+ Hangouts On Air opened to all
Google has opened up its Hangouts On Air video streaming system on Google+ to all of the social network's users, having trialled the live broadcast system with select celebrities and news...
View ArticleReddit founder won’t invest in Facebook thanks to CISPA
As you read this, tens of thousands of brokers and investors are scraping together every loose penny they can find to get a chunk of Facebook's initial public offering. But one technology investor...
View Article“Bat-Signal for the Internet” teased by “Internet Defense League”
This week you'll find that no greater defense against those that would have their evil way with the web can be found than the "Bat-Signal for the Interet" as teased by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian....
View ArticleWikipedia founder blasts “moguls of Hollywood” over copyright extradition
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has joined a high-profile campaign protesting against copyright law, branding US attempts to extradite a UK student accused of infringement "censorship." Wales began a...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament rejects ACTA in 478 to 39 vote
ACTA, the controversial anti-counterfeiting trade agreement, has been rejected by the European Parliament by a staggering majority. The law was smacked down by a 478 to 39 vote, and has now been...
View ArticleElectronic Arts joins coalition of US businesses against DOMA
It's typically a rare thing when video games and politics collide, but in 2012 we're seeing it happen on an increasingly frequent basis. Earlier this year many video game companies came out against...
View ArticleCut fiber-optic cables put Wikipedia offline last night
Wikipedia has been around for a long time been and is one of the most popular places for people to learn about all sorts of subject matters. While the content is suspect at times, Wikipedia is...
View ArticleGoogle’s new search policy leaves free Internet advocates worried
Yesterday, Google announced that it will begin using copyright takedown notices to influence where sites show up in search results. The general idea behind it is that if a site has a lot of takedown...
View ArticleYahoo! grabs OnTheAir for Google Hangouts strike
Yahoo! has snapped up video streaming startup and Google+ Hangout rival OnTheAir, as CEO Marissa Mayer continues to cherry-pick tech to make the company more competitive against her former employer...
View ArticleTwitter “best of 2012” collection released in yearly celebration
It's only once a year that Twitter recollects the best of the best, and this year - like many years before - has been the best of the best in and of itself. Here in 2012 the folks at Twitter have...
View ArticleGoogle Zeitgeist 2012 wraps the year: Obama, Bieber, iPad & Gangnam Style
Google has rolled up the year in search and released its Zeitgeist 2012 report, a run-down of everything - from Obama through Bieber to the iPad and The Hunger Games - that topped the search charts....
View ArticleAnonymous hacks MIT with Aaron Swartz memorial & manifesto
Hack-collective Anonymous broke into MIT's website over the weekend and subverted it into a tribute to open-access activist Aaron Swartz, the internet hero who committed suicide on Friday last week....
View ArticleAaron Swartz case dismissed posthumously by US District Court
Though it's not the posthumous complete reprieve from the crimes he'd been accused of that his followers, friends, and family had wished for, Aaron Swartz's court case has been dismissed due to his...
View ArticleVice President Biden to discuss gun violence in Google+ Hangout tomorrow
Due to the recent shootings in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut, the topic of gun violence and gun control has reached an all-time high. Many lawmakers are blaming violent video games as the...
View ArticleHouse passes CISPA bill with flying colors
After being squashed in the Senate last year, the CISPA bill has made a reappearance in the House of Representatives once again, and it passed with flying colors. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
View ArticleAnonymous calls for “Internet Blackout Day” April 22nd to combat CISPA
Tomorrow has been dubbed "Internet Blackout Day" by Anonymous. It has asked that many website owners blackout their websites on April 22nd at 6:00AM GMT in protest against CISPA. The protest will last...
View ArticleEFF, Mozilla, Reddit send open letter to Congress over NSA spying
The National Security Agency has been on thin ice with the general public lately when whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the US government was spying on American citizens by secretly recording...
View ArticleNSA, SOPA, CISPA, PATRIOT Act under fire at rally in Washington, D.C.
An organized crowd of protesters numbering more than a thousand have convened outside the U.S. Capitol in protest of mass surveillance programs by American spy apparatuses. The rally, which was...
View ArticleNet Neutrality is a mess: We can’t even decide what the Internet is
The internet as we know it is in peril. Verizon's victory in the court of appeal this week, seeing the FCC's attempts to regulate broadband providers in the name of Net Neutrality defeated, has the...
View ArticleThe Day We Fight Back: Google, Reddit & more demand internet freedom
Today's the day: The Day We Fight Back against mass surveillance. That's the message from the EFF, Free Press, Demand Progress, and other organizations fighting against the NSA's data collection...
View ArticleOur Moto X camera tour of Casa Bonita
Not satisfied with the ordinary outdoors/indoors color chart camera testing we’ve seen thus far of the Moto X 2014, we took the Verizon edition of this device to a magical place. A place where you can...
View ArticleHollywood is trying to censor the web says Google
Google is at odds with Hollywood this week; it attacked Hollywood and a state attorney general for what Google claims is an attempt to censor the internet. Google claims that the Motion Picture...
View ArticleHow to join the Internet’s Day of Action to save Net Neutrality NOW
The most important news today – the most important topic for the Internet, on the Internet, is about Net Neutrality. Today the biggest and most influential websites on the internet are pushing the FCC...
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