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Dutch Parliament unanimously rejects ACTA
Dutch lawmakers have voted unanimously against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an international bill with severe repercussions against both free speech and information access. Although the EU’s vote is not scheduled until June, Holland’s
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Flame: World’s Largest Discovered Cyber Attack
A cyber-attack on a scale never before seen was recently discovered by the Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky. The cyber-attack, dubbed “Flame,” targeted not only businesses and universities but also Middle Eastern governments including
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Google Chrome OS Moves to the Next Level with Samsung
Samsung’s latest Chrome OS powered Chromebook was announced today along with a Chromebox. Using Intel Sandy Bridge processors, they boast speeds three times faster than the first generation Chromebooks. The new OS features a
Read More »HP’s WebOS Enyo HTML5 team clarifies Report of defection to Google, claims majority of group staying at HP
The Verge initially reported that HP’s core webOS Enyo team was defecting to Google. This is the group that developed the HTML5 framework featured on webOS, which was much lauded. However, the defections may
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Google to Make 7 Inch Tablet, Hires HP WebOS Team
Two separate but possibly related things happened at Google over the past few days. According to a report from DigiTimes, Google has been working on developing in 7″ touchscreen tablet with Asus. It expects
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Illegal File Sharing is Slowly Breaking Down North Korea’s Propoganda
Since the earliest times of the internet, once large organizations like the RIAA learned how to monetize it, there has been this idea that file sharing is wrong and actually damages a society. More
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Reddit Founder and Internet Activists to Build a “Bat Signal for the Internet”
Early this year, we saw the internet community rise up to defeat a threatening piece of legislation with the blackout of popular websites in an opposition to SOPA. But as the months go by,
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LimeWire Sued for $72,000,000,000,000
The RIAA has done it again. Half a year after a judge ordered that LimeWire must disable its filesharing service. Since then, it has filed a claim to $72 trillion in statutory damages calculated
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New York State Bill Would Ban Anonymous Internet Posting
A scary anti-privacy bill that has flown under the radar for the past two months is making its way across the Internet today, where it is receiving significant push back. Bill S6779, introduced in
Read More »Google Analytics for Copyright Infringement
Believe it or not– Google removes around a million links a month. Roughly half of those links are because Microsoft reports a link as hosting copyright infringing software. The second most reporting company is
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