Algorithm Set to Revolutionize Image Search

02-18-2015 • Technology Review

The ability to spot faces from any angle, and even when partially occluded, has always been a uniquely human capability. Not anymore.

Twitter under pressure to act more aggressively against terrorists

02-18-2015 • Yahoo! News blog

How Twitter as well as YouTube and Facebook polices content is emerging as a central issue in a debate that pits the limits of free speech against the government's need to confront the messaging of IS and related terror groups.

Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a 'Monumental' Constitutional Threat

02-18-2015 • The National Journal

Google is warning that the government's quiet plan to expand the FBI's authority to remotely access computer files amounts to a "monumental" constitutional concern. A Justice Department proposal that would grant judges more leeway in

Feds Unveil New Surveillance Tool Developed by DARPA that Could Kill the 'Dark Web'

02-17-2015 • http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo

The so-called "dark web" is where the visible Internet – easily accessible by public search engines and web crawlers – ends, and, everything else begins.

Hackers steal up to $1 billion from banks

02-16-2015 • http://finance.yahoo.com, By Mae Anderson

Cybersecurity firm says international hacking ring steals up to $1 billion from banks

Hands Off The Internet---Abolish the FCC! - by L.Neil Smith

02-15-2015 • L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise

I am deeply concerned with people in government expressing a desire to control what appears on the Internet, the greatest arena of free speech in human history, or to decide who can put it there. The Federal Communications Commission

Megaupload programmer pleads guilty, sentenced to a year in prison

02-13-2015 • ars technica

Andrus Nõmm--who was arrested this week in Virginia after years of fighting extradition in the Netherlands--pleaded guilty to felony copyright infringement. He was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison,

South Carolina inmates can be punished for decades for using Facebook

02-13-2015 • Rawstory

Prison officials in South Carolina penalize inmates for using Facebook so much that some sanctions exceed their actual jail sentences, One of them, Tyheem Henry, was sentenced to 37.5 years in detention and

Facebook blocks Native American users for having 'fake' names

02-13-2015 • alternet

Facebook is having a problem with names again. This time, the social media platform is accused of forcing native peoples to use fake names that sound more "American" (oh, the irony!), and in some cases, kicking them off the network for having nam

Dems on FEC open to new regs on donors, Internet

02-11-2015 • washingtonexaminer.com

Claiming that thousands of public comments condemning "dark money" in politics can't be ignored, the Democrat-chaired Federal Election Commission on Wednesday appeared ready to open the door to new regulations on donors, ....

Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

02-11-2015 • https://www.eff.org,BY CORY DOCTOROW

Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash.

Republican FCC Member Warns Net Neutrality Is Not Neutral

02-10-2015 • breitbart.com

Ajit Pai, one of two Republican Commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), inferred in a tweet that President Barack Obama's secret, 332-page "Net Neutrality" document is a scheme for federal micro-managing of the Internet..

Ross Ulbricht Didn't Create Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts. This Guy Did

02-10-2015 • http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg

More than 14 months after his arrest, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, the masked figure who ran the Silk Road's unprecedented online supermarket for drugs.

Darpa Is Developing a Search Engine for the Dark Web

02-10-2015 • http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter

new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement and others track illegal activity.

Hands Off The Internet--Or Else - by L.Neil Smith

02-08-2015 • L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise

The Internet was filled, today, with news about Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and their urgent desire to bring the that system under control, about the FCC and "net neutrality", whatever the hell that means.

The Silk Road trial is proof positive that bitcoin is not (and has never been) anonymous

02-07-2015 • http://pando.com, BY MICHAEL CARNEY

So much for the anonymity of bitcoin.

WESTERN SPY AGENCIES SECRETLY RELY ON HACKERS FOR INTEL AND EXPERTISE

02-06-2015 • https://firstlook.org,BY GLENN GREENWALD

The U.S., U.K. and Canadian governments characterize hackers as a criminal menace, warn of the threats they allegedly pose to critical infrastructure, and aggressively prosecute them, but they are also secretly exploiting their information and expert

EERO WANTS TO REPLACE ALL YOUR WIRELESS ROUTERS

02-06-2015 • http://www.popsci.com,By Dan Moren

NETWORK SETUP THAT'S EASY AND EFFICIENT. COULD IT BE REAL?

FCC CHIEF PROPOSES STRICTER NET NEUTRALITY RULES FOR BROADBAND

02-06-2015 • http://www.popsci.com,By Dan Moren

REGULATIONS APPLY TO BOTH WIRED AND WIRELESS PROVIDERS

FCC CHIEF PROPOSES STRICTER NET NEUTRALITY RULES FOR BROADBAND

02-06-2015 • http://www.popsci.com,By Dan Moren

REGULATIONS APPLY TO BOTH WIRED AND WIRELESS PROVIDERS

People are turning away from Google Search

02-05-2015 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Joshua Barrie

Google's search share has fallen below 75% for the first time since 2008, according to statistics from StatCounter.

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying Adblock Plus huge fees to get their...

02-05-2015 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Lary O'reilly

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying Adblock Plus huge fees to get their ads unblocked

More Powerful Raspberry Pi 2 Will Run Windows 10

02-03-2015 • http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Moren

Microsoft's giving away its OS for free to interested makers

Bitcoin 'Elites' Plan Secret Bilderberg Style Confab

02-03-2015 • http://www.prisonplanet.com

Fifty of the world's most prominent Bitcoin chieftains are set to gather in secret at an undisclosed Caribbean resort in a roundtable gathering that some are already comparing to The Bilderberg Group meetings.

Silk Road trial: How the Dread Pirate Roberts embraced violence

01-30-2015 • ars technica

Dread Pirate Roberts didn't show any interest in giving into that demand. "I need his real world identity, so I can threaten him with violence," DPR told RealLucyDrop. "I don't know how I feel about that solution," said RealLucyDrop. In a later me

Interactive intent modelling gives SciNet the edge over other search engines

01-29-2015 • gizmag.com

Google may be dominant in the battle of the search engines, but its ever-evolving page rank algorithm and straightforward list of results don't always get you the information you want – especially when you're not sure precisely what keywords to use

Silk Road trial: Prosecutors compare Ulbricht's e-mail with DPR's online life

01-28-2015 • ars technica

Prosecutors weren't able to show any direct mentions of Silk Road on Ulbricht's Gmail or Facebook. Instead, they associated e-mails from Ulbricht's personal life and receipts for travel and electronics with the data found on his laptop,