Okay, so it’s not an actual jet pack; it’s still purr geek and purr awesome: the U-pet Innovative Patent Bubble Pet Carriers, Turquoise lets you take your feline companion on walkabout. The space-age bubble lets her peek out at the… Read More ›
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Y2K!!!1!
Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… Read More ›
“Your Data Will Never Be Compromised!” ORLY???
Norton Anti-Virus must be WAY more effective in Japan for some reason. The transcript: Subs by evasivemaneuver, (Twitter: @wine_pimp) People have always been praying for safety People have always struggled to safeguard their privacy Today the Gods have answered thy… Read More ›
Teaching Decentralization in a Centralized Era
This article was written by Manuel Beltrán, Luis Rodil-Fernández and Pawel Pokutycki of the Alternative Learning Tank in the Netherlands; it originally appeared on their site. We are grateful to them and to ALT for allowing us to share it with our readers. In… Read More ›
Drone Wars: The Eagle Attack!
The latest in our ongoing coverage of the escalating Drone wars. Currently, biowarriors are kicking drone ass: first former sheeple, current rebel Rambro, and now this Unnamed Terror from the Skies. RMIT UAS Research team dogfights with the king of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for Monday
Welcome to your week. Somebody was surely shot over the weekend, but as far as we know there haven’t been any riots over it, so this week is already better than last week, right? Right? Clutching at straws here, people…. Read More ›
Defcon Pwn
So, this is how the Defcon Hacking Conference is going for someone today: In short, s/he was using a Wifi Pineapple to try to do some of the mentioned-in-that-link nefarious stuff to the wifi at the conference. Instead of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Stories from the Net
The Net; you never know what you’re gonna catch. The other day I caught up with ancient-by-internet-standards cinematic classic The Net and was surprised by a) how prescient it was b) the fact that I appear to have become Sandra… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News for Today
As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the… Read More ›
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