Cory Doctorow has a fantastic opinion piece over in the Guardian in which he talks about how unfortunate it is that people seem to think that it’s okay to damage the internet in any and all attempts to stop copyright infringement. The whole… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
Patrol stopped a fishing boat near the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and arrested three divers. Original post on tribune.com Comments on reddit.com
That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie by Gizmodo UK. You might’ve read some headlines today—in very reputable publications—saying that there’s an internet attack underway. The biggest in history. Enough t. Original post on gizmodo.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A squabble between a group battling spam and a Web hosting company said to be sending it has escalated into an attack clogging up infrastructure worldwide. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Don’t let popularity set your standard. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
Google just announced a TV white spaces trial that will provide broadband connectivity to ten schools in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Launching the test network is Google’s most direct… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
A new study from BYU finds that while most of us go online regularly for help in diagnosing health issues, very few of us actually post information, including questions or our experiences, on health topics. Original post on byu.edu Comments on reddit.com
An Internet Sales Tax is inching its way closer to being the law of the land: The U.S. Senate supported a non-binding vote of approval, 75-to-24, for a law th.. Original post on techcrunch.com Comments on reddit.com
(Reuters) – HBO could widen access to its HBO GO online streaming service by teaming up with broadband Internet providers for customers who do not subscribe to a cable TV service, according to HBO’s Chief Executive Richard Plepler. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Could this be the start of a wider roll-out for Google’s super-fast Internet service? Original post on forbes.com Comments on reddit.com
Reddit and Craigslist are just two of the more than 30,000 websites joining a Original post on mashable.com Comments on reddit.com
Bruce Schneier says our surveillance state is efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell, and consumers are given little chance to opt out Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
From the blog Off the Cuff: “I was always a weird kid. My dad can certainly attest to that,” Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, told “Off The Cuff.” “He’s still waiting for me to outgrow a lot of that, but it’s not happening. I’ll be thirty … Continue reading Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Even if it really was invited by Pyongyang “to fight our battles from their network”. Original post on hexus.net Comments on reddit.com
Peter Gabriel joined big thinkers and one of the Internet’s founding fathers Friday in launching an ‘Interspecies Internet’ for animals to communicate with us and each other. Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Irene Esteves says you don’t really want the gigabit speeds offered by Google Fiber and other high-speed providers. Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable’s Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is having on consumers…. Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
P2P music sharing is declining as users move to Internet streaming services. Between 2011 and 2012, the practice is down 17 percent. Original post on thenextweb.com Comments on reddit.com
Internet entrepreneur fighting extradition from New Zealand says file storage service now has more than 3 million users. By Charles Arthur Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Yet other sectors of the Internet economy are working better than she admits. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has moved to make the results of federally funded research available to the public for free within a year, bowing to public pressure for unfettered access to scholarly Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
The much-discussed U.S. six strikes anti-piracy scheme is expected to go live on Monday. The start date hasn’t been announced officially by the CCI but a source close to the scheme confirmed the plans. During the coming months millions of BitTorrent users will be actively monitored by copyright holders. After repeated warnings, Internet subscribers risk a heavy reduction in download speeds and temporary browsing restrictions. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally funded research freely available to the public—generally within one year of publication. Original post on whitehouse.gov Comments on reddit.com
After a 19-year old struggled to find a lawyer using the telephone, an Alberta court has ruled that police must provide an accused with Internet access to exercise their right to counsel. Original post on thestar.com Comments on reddit.com
An analysis of 10,000 porn stars’ careers and demographic profiles that uncovers what they really look like, what they do, and how their role has changed Original post on rd.com Comments on reddit.com
Critics fire back: Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
The Conservative Canadian government is abandoning its much-criticized internet surveillance bill, which would have allowed the government to keep tabs on its citizens and was disguised under the cloak of fighting child pornographers. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Not only do optical fibers transmit information every day around the world at the speed of light, but they can also be harnessed for the transport of quantum information. In the current issue of Nature Photonics, a research team led by Rainer Blatt and Tracy Northup report how they have directly transferred the quantum information stored in an atom onto a particle of light. Original post on uibk.ac.at Comments on reddit.com