Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
There are some things that make Utah unique—like floating in the Great Salt Lake, or setting a new land speed record at Bonneville, or maybe just getting attacked in your own home by a pair of…
Hackers
Team System Dz goes on hacking spree
UPDATED TO ADD: Get the latest on Team System DZ here. And gee thanks, YouKnowWhoYouAreMajorUKNewspaper, for reading our articles and not linking to them. Well, somebody’s on a roll. Much to the chagrin of over 200 victims around the world, including… Read More ›
Apple and Facebook Now Pay For Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Never Have to Stop Working
Help me out here. Was it 1984, or was it Brave New World? I can’t remember which of the two this is from…
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Here are a few facts about Ada Lovelace, whose day is today. No, it is not a stat/bank holiday, unfortunately, although if we lived in a just world sysadmins would have the day off at the very least. Ada Lovelace… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Post-Canadian Thanksgiving Cyber and Crypto News
Did you enjoy your long weekend and turkey poutine, kittens? What do you mean you didn’t have either? WHAT KIND OF GODFORSAKEN BACKWATER DO YOU INHABIT, where they don’t celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with turkey poutine and long weekends and fights… Read More ›
Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek
Well, this was predictable, wasn’t it? And somewhere, the actual Satoshi is still presumably negotiating with the guy who hacked his wallet.
Following In The Footsteps To Freedom
Originally posted on The Dish:
Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales retraced the steps of fleeing slaves along the Underground Railroad for her project Through Darkness to Light: Finding that there were few visual records of the secret stations along the escape route, she herself…
How The CIA Got Away With Murdering Revolutionary Che Guevara
Well, that’s sorta their job. People would be hard-pressed to list the other jobs the CIA has and successfully carries out. That includes intelligence gathering when judged by whether the government ACTS on that intelligence.
October 10, 2014 – 2 years ago …I
Originally posted on Carol Todd's Snowflakes:
Dear Amanda Two years ago tonight we lost a beautiful angel in this world. That was you. As you had the thoughts in your head that your pain was too much to bear,…
Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Ever since the web was invented, newspapers and other media entities have had to continually expand their view of who their competition is: in the good old days it was other newspapers, and then TV, and…
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!
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.
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 ›
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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