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• Muslim Hacking Crew The Intrud3rs Attacks, Defaces NASA sites, French Universities

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Well, this is a new one: a Muslim hacker crew attacking the US because they believe the US created ISIS, and ISIS makes Muslims look bad. And then moving on to French universities in protest of what they say are… Read More ›

• Celebrate Back to the Future Day With This Doc Brown Facebook Bot

  By raincoaster on October 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Oh hell, this is just flat-out cool. We’re normally no fans of robots around these parts (seen too many Terminator movies) but a Doc Brown bot that interacts with fans on Facebook? That’s something we can get legitimately excited about…. Read More ›

• Apple Bans More Than 250 Apps From App Store For Accessing Users’ Information

  By raincoaster on October 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Sure, sure, but they still let the NSA all up in your Candy Crush. Something to keep in mind whenever you see one of these “Digital giant pushes back against corporate surveillance” stories. In related news, Facebook has announced that… Read More ›

• Hail Amazon, Slayer of Zombies!

  By raincoaster on October 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  On a scale of one to ten, how trusted are Amazon reviews? Well, you should add a star to that number, because the etail giant has taken up arms against professional spam reviewers and launched a lawsuit against over 1000… Read More ›

• Trolling Level: Nobel Prize

  By raincoaster on October 9, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Presented without further comment: Well, just one little comment: the actual Nobel Prize Twitter account has 165,000 Twitter followers. This upstart has only 17 at the time of posting this article. The real winners were the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet…. Read More ›

• Journalist and Accused #Anonymous Collaborator Matthew Keys Awaits Verdict—UPDATE: Guilty!

  By raincoaster on October 7, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  That was bullshit. — Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) October 7, 2015 Matthew Keys’ fate is out of his hands. Possibly for the next several decades. Keys, a self-made meteor who’d rocketed to significant heights in the social media news desk firmament,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 7

  By raincoaster on October 7, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Is the week over? Are we there yet, kittens? We at The Cryptosphere Global HQ are somewhat distracted lately. Between hardware crashes and CMS’s failing to M, let alone Control S, we’re about fed up with technology lately, and if… Read More ›

• Meet Jpeg James, Canada’s Most Mysterious Candidate!

  By raincoaster on October 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In this groundbreaking article Vancouver eminence grise and literatus extraordinaire Sean Cranbury lays out a devastatingly effective campaign plan for the Conservatives’ most mysterious candidate in the upcoming federal election, Jpeg James Low, the almost-certainly-doomed Tory candidate for Vancouver East…. Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 6

  By raincoaster on October 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Two days into the week and already I’m dreaming of being rescued by Laser Girl here. You can tell she’s badass by the rollerskates. Badasses love rollerskates. FACT. Until she skates into each of our lives, we have the soothing… Read More ›

• Juggling Robot Deftly Handles Balls

  By raincoaster on October 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Hmm, I guess this puts it on par with most Redditors. Source: Juggling Robot Deftly Handles Balls A well-designed robot can do any action a human can do. Whether this is an acrobatic performance, or just writing with a pen, there’s… Read More ›

• US commander says Afghans requested US airstrike in Kunduz

  By raincoaster on October 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Afghan forces who reported being under Taliban fire requested the U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan, U.S. forces, Gen. John F. Campbell said. Source: US commander says Afghans requested US airstrike in Kunduz I… Read More ›

• A Greater Giving Potential: Introducing Micro-Donations by AnonyOdinn

  By raincoaster on October 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This is a reprint from the Anony Odinn blog at Cyberguerrilla, another in Odinn’s ongoing series of boundary-pushing alt-finance posts. In some previous posts to this blog (1, 2), I have alluded to the compassion and microgiving potential being developed… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 5

  By raincoaster on October 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Are you ready for the first Monday of the rest of your lives, kittens? Not that we have any choice, at least until some kind soul invents a time machine and makes it free to fans of The Cryptosphere: The… Read More ›

• “Saudi Arabia, You Should Have Expected Us” IntelGroup Interviews #OpNimr

  By raincoaster on October 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Another interview with OpNimr, this time from the international collective AnonIntelGroup.

• Exclusive Interview: #Anonymous #OpNimr Seeks Mercy for Saudi Teen Sentenced to Crucifixion

  By raincoaster on September 30, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Arab Spring: for supporters around the world, it marked that glorious season when the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East rose up against oppressive governments to reclaim their human rights. To seventeen-year-old Ali Mohammad Al-Nimr of Saudi Arabia,… Read More ›