Russia to start censoring pirate sites
While hints of censorship still make their way through the United States and Europe, Russia may set the bar as high as it can go in their fight against piracy...
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It will only take one monster hit for Linux to be successful in gaming
Despite the long history of Linux, it has yet to have had a breakout game. Once it has one, the platform should explode according to an expert on games that...
Can Cadillac find electric car success if they’re more expensive than Tesla?
It's admirable that General Motors is launching a luxury Volt. The rise of environmentally friendly vehicles means that every manufacturer needs to try. However, should they really have put so...
EFF is getting sucked into politics
They are self-proclaimed zealots. They fight through information and grassroots efforts. With the rise of what they call "the surveillance state" and an atmosphere that demands political action, the Electronic...
Social media 2013: 5 shockers
The shocks keep coming. Every year, we hear statistics that blow us away. Many of us think, "okay, that's it, it can't get any more mind-blowing." The next year rolls...
Palistinian hackers did it the old school way. They faxed their way in.
In the movie Swordfish, Hugh Jackman is given access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and infrastructure in order to hack into a single account. Sometimes, hackers...
Ford EcoBoost engine helps obliterate Dayton’s speed record
Who ever said green can't be fast? Electric cars have proven time and again that they can out-accelerate their gas brethren. Now, the combo of the two seems to be...
Kickstarter launched to reunite the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club
When geniuses get together, cool things can happen. When old geniuses come back together after they've done cool things, well, we may get to see what happens if a new...
Most of the $100,000 Microsoft bounty will go to winner’s company, tax collectors
The $100,000 that James Forshaw won as a bounty from Microsoft for helping him find a major bug won't go to him, at least not very much of it. James...
Pinterest buys Hackermeter, shuts it down
The dream of one day having a site that could test the qualifications and creativity of coders has died again, this time at the hands of Pinterest. If you were...
Is personalization making the internet less personal?
It's an interesting question, one that sounds absurd at first but that actually starts hitting home once you think about it. If websites are in the business of guessing what...
NSA wins right to continue tapping phones
While most of the world is outraged by the practices of the NSA and other organizations that tap into our personal lives, they do have one fan in high places....
Do Not Track suffers another casualty
Cookies are a good thing when baked in an oven. They're a potentially bad thing on the internet. Tracking is now a part of a virtual lives that it would...
Lavabit lays out its case
The US government has beef with Edward Snowden and they're willing to take any measures necessary to make that happen even if it tramples on rights as Lavabit's CEO has...
iOS 7 jailbreak… soon?
Has iOS 7 mastered the vulnerabilities that have allowed all of its predecessors to be jailbroken quickly and easily? So far, so good, but don't expect it to last. Apple...
Two icons of Silicon Valley were cutthroats
Nice guys finish last. Mean guys have a chance of building multi-billion dollar companies. That's the moral of the story, as bad as it may sound. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos...
AT&T makes a major market share grab and you’re the beneficiary
If you're a future AT&T customer, you're in luck. Their new data plans are intended to get you and keep you. AT&T confirmed on Friday its plan to do away...
The Facebook privacy settings that you now need to change
It seems that whenever we finally get an understanding of how to position our Facebook settings for maximum privacy, they go and make changes. This is the latest batch of...
Skynet: US military testing robots with machine guns
Didn't we already see how bad of an idea it was to put machine guns in the hands of robots? Didn't the Terminator series already warn us of the consequences....
Mother Russian… search engine. Yep, it’s going to be called Sputnik.
There is a state-controlled search engine in the works in Russia. It's name is Sputnik and while it won't be housing its data in orbit, it does need to hit...