“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” So, naturally, when Facebook went down, Twitter lit up, boosting the hashtag #Facebookdown to 40,000 tweets in approximately twelve hours. Looks like Zuckerberg finally worked out how to get #Facebook… Read More ›
Originally posted on Global News:
PITTSBURGH —A man who served 34 years in prison for the killing of a 15-year-old girl before new DNA evidence was discovered will not be retried, a prosecutor said Monday in announcing that all charges…
Originally posted on Global News:
WINNIPEG — Winnipeg police have seized and are processing what the Drag the Red group believe to be human teeth. READ MORE: Drag the Red finds what it believes are human teeth by Red River…
Are we over that whole Ashley Madison thing yet? Because I dunno about you’ze, kittens, but we’ze mighty bored with the whole damn thing. We may even get so bored we do an explainer, so we can just hand the… Read More ›
Originally posted on intelNews.org:
A report by Pakistan’s main intelligence agency warns that the personal records of up to 100 million Pakistanis may have been stolen by foreign intelligence agencies due to the alleged links of a software vendor…
Here’s your pull quote: If anything is clear about the statement that the Denver DA has released, it’s how little DPD values the lives of the people they are sworn to protect. Instead of someone equipped to deal with such… Read More ›
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. In case the embed screws up, it is a post from Drew Rightenberg in the 2600, The Hacker Quarterly group on Facebook, and it says: So Applebee’s… Read More ›
We’ve featured many different kinds of movies here on The Cryptosphere’s Film Friday. We’ve served up earnest. We’ve served up tragic. We’ve served up happy. We’ve served up sad. And now, my friends, clear the table; it’s time for the… Read More ›
We made it to Friday, kittens! With a little help from a long weekend and a LOT of technical difficulties, the posting schedule has been inadvertently light at Cryptosphere Global HQ this week, and for that we apologize. Still thanks… Read More ›
I know, kittens, that’s a huge GIF, but that’s a huge message, isn’t it? Rest in peace, Rowdy Roddy, our greatest hero. Next to Rowsdower. Zap Rowsdower. America gets the government it deserves, but Canada gets the heroes it needs,… Read More ›
Hope you’re taking the day off, kittens, whether the boss said it was okay or not. See you Tuesday!
This is it, kittens. The real thing. Not the first, but the biggest (though at the time a box office failure), baddest, and possibly the best of the 90’s cyberpunk genre, Hackers is nothing less than a great movie. As… Read More ›
Give sorrow words. – William Shakespeare Every death’s a knot, A thorn that snags the soul. I sing my grief into the ground And cover up the hole. No simple anodyne, These actions that we take To sanctify the absences… Read More ›
Whee, kittens! It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate and spread the kawaii luv with ISIS Chan, seen here with her identical twin bringing the “Yayyyyy” factor to an otherwise dour meeting of Daesh fighters. We at Cryptosphere World Headquarters are atoning for… Read More ›
The Syrian child whose body washed ashore and formed the subject of the most heartbreaking portrait of the year…was trying to come to Canada, where he has relatives who have been living for 20 years. Here is what you need… Read More ›
