A very clever, very useful do-goodery project that includes electronic components: a solar charger for a lamp, also included, so the children can do their homework even after sunset. We need more projects like this!
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Exclusive: The Legendary #Anonymous Paypal 14 Speak Out Post-Sentencing
Yesterday the famous Paypal 14 hacktivists were sentenced: all their felony charges were dropped, leaving them with misdemeanors and a bill for restitution. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was the only journalist actually present at the sentencing. Since the conditions… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Halloween
Happy Halloween, kittens! Before you go out a-haunting this evening, it’s best to catch up on your cybernews, for safety’s sake. You never know who you might meet out there in the darkness: A would-be loverboy ready to sell you… Read More ›
Pro-ISIS hackers Team System DZ take on Sweden
They’re at it again. Or perhaps they never stopped. The last we heard from the Algerian hacking crew of anti-Israeli ISIS sympathizers called Team System DZ, they were exulting in very poor English about a string of over 200 defaces. The attacks… Read More ›
Omidyar-funded candidate takes seat in new Ukraine parliament
Yes, two panderdaily reblogs today. Because I don’t see this story anywhere else, do you? To what extent should people who don’t live in a country affect the outcome of elections in that country?
Freaked out by artificial intelligence? Don’t watch the trailer to “Ex Machina”
Tron now looks actually retro. Check out this trailer and see what digital artists can do in the scope of cyborglandia. My first interview as a journalist was with John Lassetter of Pixar and he told me, “Right now we’re… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 30
Welcome to All Hallows Eve Eve. Have you got your costume ready? Which is it to be: InfoSec Taylor Swift or Slutty Jian Ghomeshi? Perhaps an ISIS Social Media Consultant, with burnoose in a QR code pattern. If you’re all… Read More ›
The New Hercule Poirot mystery: The Monogram Murders
If you like detective fiction as much as I do, which is to say almost as much as detective NON-fiction, you’ll probably need to be buying this. Immediately. And now brb I have to trundle to Munro’s bookstore and get… Read More ›
Why teaching Kindergarten is among the scariest jobs in America
Americans are scared of 5 year olds.
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 29
Happy hump day, kittens! Grab yourself some warming caffeine and settle in for your morning homework. Hey, what are commutes for, amirite? That’s right: they are a carefully socially engineered phenomenon designed specifically to give North America and Europe enough… Read More ›
Taibbi takes time out from First Look after “disagreements.” Can I publish our emails now, Matt?
This media scandale du jour says a lot about an organization that could well be the premiere media outlet of our age, if it ever matures.
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for October 28
I shall never be silent. Because that’s lousy for hits. Welcome to Tuesday, kittens. In glamourous Scamcouver it’s a moist, drizzly morning illuminated by neon reflected in greasy puddles and tail lights receeding into the distance, desperately questing for the… Read More ›
Photos: A crazy 36 hours with the man who started Ukraine’s revolution
Quite a fascinating photoessay. Reminiscent in many ways of WikiLeaks’ film Mediastan, which featured a group of itinerant WLers trundling around Everywhereistan trying to get people to run their leaks.
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber #News for October 27
Happy Monday, kittens! Was your weekend full of good food, good company, and hundreds of thousands of Facebook posts about Jian Ghomeshi? No, just me? Here are a handy bunch of links with which you can stuff your Facebook feed, blotting… Read More ›
#ObeyParty666 supports the #Anonymous #Paypal14 All Day October 25th
ObeyParty666:It’s a 24-hour fundraiser with an ambitious goal: to get the Paypal 14 closer to paying off the $86,000 restitution. The Paypal 14, you’ll recall (or fake it if you don’t) were charged with participating in the 2010 DDoS attack… Read More ›
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