The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) will now have a say in standards review process at the W3C – specifically the one that seeks to protect interests of copyright holders on…
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Yahoo Mail defaults to HTTPS
Yahoo is now automatically encrypting connections to its Yahoo Mail service as promised in November last year. All connections to Yahoo Mail servers from clients across the globe will now be encrypted…
Sky reclassifies, unblocks TorrentFreak after censorship row
Sky has updated its network-level filtering to remove the block on TorrentFreak after the news sites was blocked following a false classification as a file-sharing site. TorrentFreak co-founder, Andy Maxwell revealed through…
What.cd, Broadcasthe.net, PassthePopcorn.me down following DDoS attacks
What.cd, Broadcasthe.net, and PassthePopcorn.me – three of the world’s largest private BitTorrent trackers – are under prolonged DDoS attacks following which all of them have been down since days. Despite being invite…
The Pirate Bay insider reveals the torrent site’s censorship-beating plans
The Pirate Bay had a difficult domain hopping 2013, but team behind the torrent indexing site is steadily progressing towards its goals of beating censorship by circumventing IP and domain name blockades…
Vine’s 6-second videos go online
Twitter-owned Vine has announced full web profiles for all its users thereby taking the 6-second videos to the web and has also announced a new TV Mode enabling you to watch videos…
YouTube to stream 4K videos thanks to Google’s VP9 codec
YouTube is going to show off low-bandwidth 4k video streaming at CES 2014 with the help of Google’s VP9 code, GigaOM reports. For those who are not aware about 4K format or…
Facebook faces class-action lawsuit over alleged private message snooping
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit initiated by two of its users, Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley, who claim that the social network’s ‘private’ message feature is actually not private. The duo…
Google to pull Bump and Flock file-sharing apps on January 31
Google has announced that it will pull Bump and Flock sharing apps on January 31 and both the apps will stop working starting that day. Google acquired Bump back in September and…
Top three pirated movies of 2013: The Hobbit, Django Unchained, Fast and Furious 6
Some of the top grossing movies of 2013 also made it to the top pirated charts of 2013 including the likes of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Iron Man 3 and Django…
Vdio shuttered without warning
On-demand video streaming service Vdio has been shuttered without any warning by Rdio owning to its inability to deliver a business model that was attractive to its investors. The service, which was…
Facebook isn’t cool anymore
A new European Union-funded study has found that teenagers are migrating away from Facebook to other services including Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Whatsapp. University College London (UCL) material sciences professor Daniel Miller,…
Bitcoin operators, exchanges in India suspend operations amid government warning
Bitcoin operators and exchanges in India have suspended operations temporarily after Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a circular on Christmas eve cautioning users of the risks involved with virtual currencies like…
Dogecoin suffers first ever hack as $13,000 in virtual currency stolen from Dogewallet
The virtual currency Dogecoin has suffered its first ever setback as a hacker has made away with approximately 21 million in Dogecoins valued at $13,000 ($0.00062 per Doge) from online wallet service…
Google Chrome extension ‘Go Away Cameron’ defeats ISP level porn filters
UK ISPs may have announced their porn filters but developers have already worked on ways to circumvent the filter with a particular one ‘Go Away Cameron’ hogging the limelight. The tool comes…