Your Porn Is Watching You
• http://motherboard.vice.com, by Brian MerchantThirty million Americans regularly watch porn online, according to the Wall Street Journal. That's a lot more than fess up to it, even in anonymous surveys:
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Encryption Is 'Depressing,' the FBI Says
• motherboard.vice.comOn Tuesday, pretty much everyone from the tech industry, including giants such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, sent a letter to President Barack Obama to tell him to say no to any request to weaken encryption to make life easier to law enf
The Pirate Bay's new logo sends a loud message to the authorities trying to shut it down
• Business InsiderThe Pirate Bay has been facing legal issues for years.
PayPal stuck with $25 million in fines for signing users up to its credit program
• http://www.theverge.com, By Josh LowensohnIts 'Bill Me Later' program ended up costing PayPal too
Backlash Against Facebook's Free Internet Service Grows
• Wired.comThe backlash against Facebook's Internet.org project is growing.
Kerry: Internet 'Needs Rules to Be Able to Flourish and Work Properly'
• weeklystandard.comCalls for more international Internet laws.
Welcome to the Internet of Skin
• motherboard.vice.comThe average adult has between 1.5 and 2.0 square-meters of skin--all of it feeling all of the time.
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall
• http://www.wired.comTHE DESCENT WAS stunning. Chris Tarbell, a special agent from the New York FBI office, was in a window seat, watching a green anomaly in a sea of blue as it resolved into Iceland's severe, beautiful landscape. On approach to Keflavík International
ICANN sees privatization of Internet management soon
• Yahoo NewsThe head of the nonprofit group that oversees the world's Internet addresses expressed confidence Thursday that it would be privatized and out of US government control by year's end.
De-Google your life: it's worth the hassle if you value your privacy
• irishtimes.comData privacy may seem like a distant and abstract concept but what is more personal than the information you are sharing with Google?
Chinese search big Baidu unveils what it calls the world's smartest artificial intelligence
• nydailynews.comChinese web search giant Baidu unveiled its latest technology Monday, saying it had taken the lead in the global race for true artificial intelligence.
US Companies Are Throwing a Fit Because They're Losing Control Over the Internet
• motherboard.vice.comControl over the internet is slipping away from the US government and American corporations in favour of a more global approach, and the corporations don't like how they're being treated so far.
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05-13-15 -- The Simpleton of Project SAFE (John Ferguson) - (MP3 & VIDEO + BONUS LOADED)
Program Date:The Simpleton of Project SAFE, John Ferguson (The Crossroads of Project SAFE) carries the first podcast dedicated exclusively to the technology, application, news, ideas and people surrounding the SAFE Network; distributed internet.
How the Internet Forever Changed Starting Your Own Country
• motherboard.vice.comThere are essentially two kinds of people who start their own country. The first group are the libertarian techno-utopianists who dream of tax havens and life on the high seas; they existed in the 1970s, and they exist today.
Periscopes, pirates, and pugilists: the battle between TV and live streaming apps
• http://www.theverge.com, By Ben PopperNews of pay-per-view's death is greatly exaggerated
UK High Court Censors Many Links To Popcorn Time: Useless, Dangerous Gesture
• Privacy Online NewsThe courts seem to still live in the book burning times, when they had some kind of authority over what information was allowed to exist and what information could be effectively silenced. That has not been the case for 20 years.
Surprising photos show how online shopping has affected even China's most far-flung regions
• Business InsiderIn China, like many other places around the world, online shopping is spreading rapidly, connecting consumers to goods they may never have had access to before.
This man has $220 million and a plan to take down Amazon
• http://www.theverge.com, By Ben PopperJet founder Marc Lore has tangled with Jeff Bezos before
Do Not Track: The Series
IntelinatusInteractive series of videos (3 so far) released about 2 per month in German (subtitled) and English on how business is analyzing our cookies and social media to classify who we are, what we like / dislike and what we will do.
Entered By: Powell Gammill
Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There's A Website To Prove It
• http://naturalcuresnotmedicine.comRemember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location back to a central database? That's tomorrow.
Google Says the Internet of Things' Smarts Will Save Energy
• http://www.wired.comAs the Internet of Things expands, with everything from thermostats to cameras to cars plugging into the net, so does the need for machines that can handle those connections.
Twitter Co-Founders Just Lost Almost $750 Million
• http://www.bloomberg.comTwitter stock crashes after ugly earnings report
The Untold Story of Silk Road
• Wired.com"I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be good to have a detailed account of it."--home/frosty/documents/journal/2012/q1/january/week1
Mothers are buying breast milk online --because they don't have better options
• http://www.theverge.comAdd this to the list of "things you can buy online": a stranger's breast milk.
YouTube to start making feature films with its biggest stars
• http://www.theverge.comYouTube is continuing to put money behind its community of video makers, and today it's announcing five new partnerships including one to begin making feature films this year.
Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Won't Get a New Trial, Judge Rules
• http://motherboard.vice.comA judge denied Ross Ulbricht's appeal for a new trial Monday, saying that there is an "overwhelming" amount of evidence against the convicted mastermind of the dark web's Silk Road market.
The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Network
• http://motherboard.vice.com"The house is filled up," she said in a calm but audibly tense voice. Richard, having just woken up and now trying to make sense of the call, thought there must have been another water leak in the basement.
Google Is About to Make Your Wireless Carrier a Lot Less Relevant
• Wired.comGoogle's new wireless phone service, Project Fi, offers a long list of modern day perks.
Beginners' Guide To PGP
• http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.comPGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. At it's core, it is an internet standard (called OpenPGP) used for data encryption and digital signatures. Software that employs this standard is available in both a free,
New Dark-Web Market Is Selling Zero-Day Exploits to Hackers
• http://www.wired.com, ANDY GREENBERGHACKERS HAVE FOR years bought and sold their secrets in a de facto gray market for zero-day exploits--intrusion techniques for which no software patch exists.
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