A new voluntary system aimed at rooting out online copyright piracy using a controversial ‘six strikes’ system is set to be implemented by US Internet providers soon, with the impact unclear. Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
Forty-seven Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 12 children, have been killed in Israel’s raids, Palestinian officials said. More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel, killing three people. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A Swedish intelligence agency gave crucial information to the US about targets for a bombing raid in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a Swedish newspaper reports, citing previously classified documents from the US military’s Central Command. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of an international summit because he doesn’t want to share a platform with the Original post on independent.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Words that Tony Blair spoke over the phone to George Bush on the eve of the Iraq war are to be made public, a tribunal has ordered. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) hasn’t received a whole lot of media attention yet, but it continues to pick up support from legislators. The bill is touted as being much worse than SOPA when it comes to privacy invasions. Just as SOPA put an emphasis on piracy, CISPA also appears to include [...] Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Human hunters cause drastic landscape changes by unsustainably hunting Australia’s large herbivores. These big animals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, a time when there was no large climate change. Original post on livescience.com Comments on digg.com