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10-26-2011 • RawStory.com

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The Man Behind Cloud Valley

10-26-2011 • Technology Review

Edward Tian wants to bring the Chinese people the power of a supercomputer at the price of a book.

800K fewer subscribers humbles Netflix

10-25-2011 • slatest.slate.com

The big number in the third-quarter report was 800,000, which is roughly the amount of subscribers that Netflix lost on the heels of its unpopular decision to raise prices and its now-nixed plan to spin off its DVD-by-mail service into a separate com

If You Work for Google and Can Help, Please Write Me

10-15-2011 • Lew Rockwell

Here is an email I just got, which--because of some campaign of complaints, perhaps--can do real damage, even though LRC more than fulfills all of Google's criteria:

The Pirates of Silicon Valley (The Social Network Parody Trailer)

10-15-2011 • YouTube

A quick trailer I cut together of scenes from TNT's The Pirates of Silicon Valley. Cut and edited to the original trailer for The Social Network. I sampled some footage of old Windows/Mac operating system shots for the beginning. I personally think t

In praise of chaos

10-03-2011 • The Economist

Governments are uncomfortable with the current set-up. There is a growing sense that the internet is too important, politically as well as economically, to continue to operate beyond the remit of governments.

Internet trolls, anonymity and The First Amendment

09-27-2011 • Washington Times

Anonymity has become counterproductive and even damaging. If you’re willing to stand up and render a public opinion, you should reveal your identity. The time has come to limit the ability of people to remain anonymous.

Internet Hits All-Time High as News Source, TV at All-Time Low, Says Pew

09-25-2011 • www.prisonplanet.com

The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent now saying they get most of their news on national and international issues from the web, according to a survey published Thursday by the Pew Resear

U.S. calls online poker site a ‘global Ponzi scheme’

09-20-2011 • Globe & Mail

They go by nicknames “Jesus” and “The Professor” and are considered super stars to poker players around the world. But now Christopher Ferguson and Howard Lederer have been accused of bilking fellow players out of more than $100-million (U.S.) thr

Google Invites Everyone to Be Friends—on Its Social Network

09-20-2011 • www.technologyreview.com

After 12 weeks of socializing in select circles, Google has announced that anyone can sign up for its fledgling social network, Google Plus. The uptake of the service now it is widely available will be crucial to the success of Google Plus

Rebecca MacKinnon: Political activism needed to protect the Internet

08-15-2011 • http://www.rawstory.com/

Former CNN journalist Rebecca MacKinnon said during a TED Talk that new political innovations are needed to create a “consent of the networked” to protect the Internet from censorship and surveillance.

Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

08-15-2011 • Bloomberg

Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to buy smartphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its biggest deal, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business.

Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack

08-12-2011 • http://www.bbc.co

IT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks.

Anonymous hacks Syrian Defense Ministry web site

08-08-2011 • youtube (h/t The Agitator)

Anonymous took over the Syrian Ministry of Defense's website on 8/7/2011 and displayed this message to the people of Syria.

NSA is looking for a few good hackers

08-02-2011 • Washington Post

The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: Prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.” Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. government to fight the cyberwars that pose a grow

House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history

07-31-2011 • Rawstory

The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain records about Internet users' activity. CNET reported the bill would require ISPs to retain customers' names,

How to Live Free in an Unfree Internet - by DataPacRat

07-24-2011 • The Libertarian Enterprise

Here are a list of steps that will allow you to have a reasonably anonymous pseudonym, allowing you to fully exercise your right to free speech, and proof against anything short of investigation by a Three-Letter Agency... and, as long as you avoid d

‘Anonymous’ launches social networking website AnonPlus

07-19-2011 • Rawstory

Infamous hacker group Anonymous launched Monday its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community. "Today we welcome you to begin anew," the hacker alliance said at the website anonplus.com, which it describ

16 Arrested as F.B.I. Hits the Hacking Group Anonymous

07-19-2011 • NY Times

In the most visible law enforcement response to a recent spate of online attacks, the FBI announced the arrests of 16 people across the country in connection with strikes carried out by a loose, secretive federation of hackers called Anonymous.

Google suspends ad for book critical of atomic bomb cover-up

07-19-2011 • Rawstory

A book that delves into the cover-up a film documenting the horrors suffered by victims of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been deemed too violent for Google's advertising program.

LulzSec hacks The Sun, publishes fake story about Murdoch’s death

07-19-2011 • Rawstory

The infamous hacker group LulzSec made a comeback on Monday by hacking the website of the British tabloid The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and redirecting the frontpage to a fake story about Murdoch being found dead.

Freedom's Phoenix Drops to 19 on 'Top 50 Libertarian' Websites

07-15-2011 • dbkp

...but we're still in damn good company!

Pentagon to treat cyberspace as "operational domain"

07-15-2011 • Reuters.com/

The Defense Department unveiled a new strategy for protecting military computer networks from hackers on Thursday, designating cyberspace as an "operational domain" U.S. forces will be trained to defend.

Rights Group Urges Congress To Scrap Privacy Busting Internet Bill

07-14-2011 • http://www.prisonplanet.com/

Data retention measure would force ISPs to store user information and hand it over to authorities

Pentagon to unveil cybersecurity strategy

07-13-2011 • Washington Post

The Pentagon is set to unveil a strategy for protecting its computer systems that goes beyond erecting firewalls and stresses the use of sensors, software and data collected by US intelligence. In an effort to counter perceptions the US is militarizi

Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways

07-13-2011 • Ryan Singel via WIRED.com

The end of the internet comes not with a bang or a procession of four lolcats of the apocalypse, but just with two blinking lights on a modem.