Police Will Be Able To Read Everyone's Internet Search History Under New Plan
• trueactivist.comUK Police are asking the government for new surveillance powers to be able to view the internet search history of every single person in the country.
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Kim Dotcom Wants to Build an Alternate Internet Powered by Blockchains
• http://motherboard.vice.com, by RACHEL PICKKim Dotcom certainly hasn't been letting his ongoing fight against US extradition charges slow him down. On Thursday, according to Mashable, he remotely addressed a startup convention in Sydney, Australia to pitch his latest idea: an alternative in
This One GIF Explains How BitTorrent Finds Files
• http://motherboard.vice.com, by CLINTON NGUYENWhile services like Popcorn Time have been simplifying BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, for end users, it's becoming easier and easier to look at torrenting as an abstract streaming service rather than a tangle of users passing fil
Undersea Internet Cables Are Surprisingly Vulnerable
• http://www.wired.com,GREG MILLERSO, THE RUSSIANS are at it again, snooping around the undersea communications cables that connect the continents.
Google's Project Loon internet balloons to circle Earth
• http://www.bbc.com, By Leo KelionGoogle believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year.
Inside the Mansion--and Mind-- of the Net's Most Wanted Man
• WiredA. Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He's a hero. The savior of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur.
Facebook's Zuckerberg in India to get 'next billion online'
• Yahoo NewsSpeaking to about 900 students at New Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology, Zuckerberg said broadening Internet access was vital to economic development in a country where a billion people are still not online.
Europe votes on the future of its internet tomorrow
• theverge.comProposed legislation aims to protect net neutrality across the EU, but major loopholes threaten to undermine it
Mozilla Offers Up a Million Dollars in Awards to Open-Source Projects
• MotherboardThe Mozilla Foundation has had a grant program in place for many years intended to fund open-source projects, but, on Friday, CEO Mitchell Baker announced "a new level of support" in the form of $1,000,000 in awards to be distributed among 10 to-be-d
Yahoo's historic NFL live stream averages 2.36 million viewers
• CNN MoneySunday's live stream marked the first time that a single company had distributed an NFL telecast all around the world via the Internet.
Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for U.S. Comfort
• nytimes.comRussian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence ......
Uber covers 75 percent of the US, but getting to 100 will be really hard
• theverge.comThe road to total domination is not clear for the app-based cab company
Youtube Red Could Be The New Hulu Plus
• popsci.comLearn from Hulu's shortcomings, Google
The Internet's Countervailing Trend
• The Daily BellThe Internet May Be Changing Your Brain In Ways You've Never Imagined... Five years ago, journalist Nicholas Carr wrote in his book The Shallows: How The Internet Is Changing Our Brains about the way technology seemed to be eroding his ability to con
Disney's ESPN Said Planning to Eliminate as Many as 350 Jobs
• http://www.bloomberg.comWalt Disney Co.'s ESPN sports network, confronting rising programming costs and a loss of viewers, plans to eliminate as many as 350 positions, about 4.3 percent of its workforce, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Internet porn viewers 'should expect viewing histories to be made public'
• http://www.independent.co, Alexander SehmerBlogger warns that 'regular people' are the likely target for the next big internet privacy breach
NSA Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)
• Schneier on SecurityThe Internet is abuzz speculating the NSA is breaking the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol in the wild through massive precomputation. What's newly talked about is how this works inside the NSA surveillance architecture.
Wal-Mart Shares Plunge 10 Percent;...
• http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,Wal-Mart Shares plunged 10% Wednesday on profit warnings, the biggest one day decline in 25 years. The company blamed higher wages, e-commerce competition, and lower prices.
TPP sets a copyright term to life plus 70 years
• popularliberty.comIf you don't have a DVD or Blu-ray ripper and you want one, then you should consider buying one immediately because tools that assist in the circumvention of DRM could be banned if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is ratified.
Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China
• nytimes.comApple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign of how difficult it can be for foreign companies to manage the strict rules governing media and online expression there.
Dell. EMC. HP. Cisco. These Tech Giants Are the Walking Dead
• WiredHP. Cisco. Dell. EMC. IBM. Oracle. Think of them as the walking dead.
China asks world to impose 'code of conduct' on Internet
• washingtonexaminer.comA Chinese official on Friday called on the United Nations to impose an international code of conduct on the Internet.
Mobile ad-blockers could wipe out billions in ad revenue
• yahoo.comMobile Internet sites face a new threat as millions download ad-blockers to their phones and tablets, removing pesky adverts but potentially wiping out billions of dollars in advertising revenue.
Why Did Google Drive Go Down?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Xavier HardingThe disruption occurred for several hours this afternoon, but the reason remains unclear
Ranking The Peasants: China Introduces Orwellian "Citizen Scores"
• Zero HedgeThe following is extraordinarily creepy and disturbing. It's also extremely clever, from a jackbooted, fascist thug perspective. When massive censorship itself isn't enough...
European Court of Justice Rules Against Safe Harbor
• Schneier on SecurityThis is a big deal, because it directly affects all the large American Internet companies. If this stands, expect much more pressure on the NSA to stop their indiscriminate spying on everyone.
Mr. Robot Uses ProtonMail, But It Still Isn't Fully Secure
• WiredPlenty of of email systems claim to be highly secure.
FACEBOOK WILL BEAM INTERNET FROM SATELLITES TO AFRICA IN 2016
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dave GershgornBRINGING INTERNET.ORG'S MISSION TO FRUITION
Twitter Unveils New Moments Feature for Tracking Big Events
• http://www.bloomberg.comTwitter Inc.'s newly installed chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey, says a key to a turnaround is making the product more understandable for people who aren't hardcore users.
New Google Parent Company Drops 'Don't Be Evil' Motto
• http://time.comAlphabet, which took over as Google's new holding company on Friday, has dropped the tech giant's "Don't Be Evil" mantra from its code of conduct.
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