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A microblog service launched Tuesday by the Web site of the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party became inaccessible by Wednesday. The service was bombarding visitors with a set of pop-up messages apparently added by a hac
The White House tapped a corporate cyber security expert and former Bush administration official to lead the effort to shore up the country's computer networks and coordinate with companies that operate 80% of those systems.
Maybe there's hope for Wikipedia yet: Wikipedia’s climate change alarmist and censor William Connolley has gotten the axe. His administrator status was revoked in September, but news of the change is just now getting out.
In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. (Excellent lesson in how/why the Internet is _not_ controlable.... and shouldn't be.
Here's a tip if you need lecture notes from a classmate: don't threaten to put her up on Match.com and other sites--including Craigs List--if she doesn't give them to you.
Did elements of Iran's unpopular regime hack into social site Twitter last night? Only a cryptic message was left behind, but only minutes ago, Reuters reported that an Iranian dissident site was also hacked. Iran was said to be upset at Twitter and
Over the past week, Facebook has been nudging its users — first gently, then firmly — to review and update their privacy settings. You may have procrastinated by hitting "skip for now," but Facebook eventually took away that button and forced you to
The Federal Communications Commission unveiled a laundry list of proposals to meet a congressional mandate to give every U.S. home access to high-speed Internet service. Include revising a rural phone subsidy program, revamping the market for televis
In Australia, new restrictions on what adults can see in their own homes on the Internet are wrapped with a pretty "It's for your own good" ribbon.
It's the "human" element that makes videos go 'viral'.
Quantum computing has long dangled the possibility of superfast, super-efficient processing, and now search giant Google has jumped on board that future. New Scientist reports that Google has spent the past three years developing a quantum algorithm
Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday.
Follow-up article with links. "...Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents, including e-mail, of a subscriber’s account."
"We think it's something you cannot live without in modern society. Like banking services or water or electricity, you need Internet connection."
Senators Feinstein and Durbin have introduced an amendment to a press shield law. It specifically leaves out protections for bloggers and citizen-journalists. Coincidence?
A Princeton researcher finds himself bombarded with demands to pay up after swapping adult movies online—but he didn't do it. It appears to be another case of extremely-lazy IP "enforcement" using bad BitTorrent data collection.
Google announced changes--including a proposed registration--to head off a challenge by Bing. Bing is attempting to partner with media that's upset over Google's workaround of paid subscription sites.
Government Agencies Withholding Information on Data-Gathering from Facebook, Twitter, and Other Online Communities
New FCC Internet regulations are coming. The proposals are scary for Americans, but Stalin and Mao would be proud.
The infamous serial huffer is back in the news: this time he's threatening Amazon, CafePress and Getty Images, among others, with using his mug shot without his permission.
According to reports, online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, lost 49,000 editors during the first three months of 2009.
If the US is proposing draconian rules to implement the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, it's nothing compared to the British proposal....an unelected official with the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight in the name of protectin
All those Dazzle White ads you've seen lately? Think the “Free Trial” offer from Dazzle White teeth whitener is a good deal? Think again: customers were shocked to discover the “free trial” had turned into a consumer scam credit card nightmare.
A struggle we have to win.
I got an email ostensibly from a friend last night saying he was just mugged in London and needed over $3,000 to get his hotel bill paid and come back home. Could I help?
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Google said, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. Murdoch accused Google of stealing stories from News Corp. newspapers for
When a dozen Cuban bloggers wanted to stage a protest last month, they simultaneously tweeted, texted and posted messages like "Freedom.'' One later used a blond wig to sneak into a government building and complain against censorship of the Intern
[Thanks for the book sales!] A federal judge has ordered self-described anti-terrorism investigator to remove from his Web site some of the 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity efforts. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center brings together various government organizations
