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Rudy Giuliani to defend Activision in Manuel Noriega lawsuit
And now, for your moment of WTF, Manuel Noriega is suing game developers for making him a baddie in their video game. And Rudy Guiliani is defending the video company. It’s 90’s nostalgia time!
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FireChat is verifying users in Hong Kong, hoping to add trusted voices to its anonymous chat network
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Off-grid messaging app FireChat is giving its users the option of lifting their anonymity and verifying their identities for other users to see. The first 15 verified accounts popped up in FireChat feed and chatrooms this… -
‘The cub of Baghdadi’: ISIS reports its youngest jihadist ‘got martyred’ in battle
This is tragic. ISIS is using child soldiers as young as ten, and one of them is reported dead. No just cause invites the death of children.
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 9
Good morning, kittens! And how is your day progressing so far? Teeth brushed, hair (if any) combed, caffeine ingested? Excellent. You’re all ready for today’s newer, shorter, list of links. Because life is too small to link to paywalls, kittens…. Read More ›
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Nymwars II: Facebook Welcomes Drag Queens, Bans weev. UPDATE: and he’s BACK!
Congratulations, Facebook! You finally acknowledged peoples’ right to be known by the names they choose. Last week you acceded to demands from the LGBT community and acknowledged that drag queens would be able to have personal profiles under their drag… Read More ›
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Thync Has Raised $13M To Change Your Mood With Ultrasound Waves (And Electricity)
Why bother trying to manage your moods with problem-solving or coping skills when you can do it via a $13 million consumer electronics corporation? Eh?
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 08
And the headlines just keep on coming, kittens! While we were momentarily sidetracked with the buzz around the first-on-then-off tv series based on that Cusack classic Say Anything, the world turned, so did many special agents, and so here we… Read More ›
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AnonSec Hackers Tangodown Turkish e-Commerce Sites
AnonSec, the mysterious Kurdish Peshmerga-supporting hacker crew which has become the bane of Indonesian government webmasters (among others), and who claim to have hacked an NSA drone, has a new target. Tiny Turkish ecommerce sites. In a list posted to… Read More ›
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More Black people killed by police than were lynched during Jim Crow
An amazing statistic. Clearly it’s more important than ever to participate in our Police Shootings Index project (use the search box) and make sure that we have accurate statistics. We are in a new age of ethnic cleansing in North… Read More ›
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What possible reason can eBay have for standing by ultraconservative climate change deniers at ALEC?
Pauvre Pierre! The former social enterprise thought leader is now activists’ favorite punching bag for his part in prosecuting Anonymous’ revered Paypal 14 and now for going along with eBay’s support of the ultra-right wing think tank ALEC staffed entirely,… Read More ›
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Twitter Sues The Government Over Data-Request Disclosures
Good. Another company joins the growing army (led by Yahoo) of pushbacks against government co-option.
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Interwebbed Part 2: Cyber and Crypto News, continued
We’ve neglected you for too long, and the news as well, so today ONLY we are offering a two-for-one special on our Interwebbeds. Herein lies part deux. Download o’ the day: Business Password Analysis (Trustwave) Cue the DRONE NAVY! (c4isrnet)… Read More ›
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#NASASocial brings bloggers on board!
Okay, it’s not exactly a free ride into orbit, but it’s the next best thing for civilians who aren’t as rich as Richard Branson; NASA has announced that it will be accepting applications to cover the launch of the new… Read More ›
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The patentability of living things: the latest in the BRCA gene saga
As always, a fascinating debate. And as always I say that the amount of money you spend researching something should have no bearing on your right to commodify the thing; in this case, the literal stuff of life. UK Human… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 7
And we’re back! Still slightly feverish, and three pounds lighter, but nothing to worry about, kittens. Let’s not think of it as a lost day of work; let’s think of it as that time I finally broke through the Level… Read More ›
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