Founder of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, has revealed that he will be working with former rival companies and newcomers to come up with an open email system dubbed Dark Mail Alliance especially designed…
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IsoHunt.com finds a new home – IsoHunt.to
Just days after Gary Fung settled with MPAA and pulled the plug on IsoHunt.com, an IsoHunt lookalike in the form of IsoHunt.to has already surfaced on the web. Gary Fung pulled the…
ODI extends reach with 13 new worldwide ‘nodes’
The Open Data Institute (ODI), a London based foundation, has announced its global expansion plans owing to the creation of 13 New Worldwide ‘Nodes’. The ‘Nodes’ will be launched with an aim…
BPI wins blockade of 21 pirate sites in the UK
A British High Court judge has ordered a blockade of 21 new pirate sites including BitSnoop, TorrentDownloads, ExtraTorrent and mp3skull effective on all major UK ISPs effective today. The court order is…
British ISPs ordered to block 21 pirate sites including BitSnoop, ExtraTorrent, Torrentz
[Update 30/10/2013 @ 17:45 GMT: IsoHunt.com finds a new home – IsoHunt.to] British High Court has ordered major UK ISPs including BSkyB, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica and Virgin to start blocking…
Two weeks after original announcement h33t.to still in hiatus
H33t migrated to a new domain H33t.to after its .com and .eu domains were seized in quick succession, but it has been nearly two weeks since the original announcement of going live…
Mozilla dips its hands in geolocation data service
Mozilla is currently working on its geolocation data service which will be using cell tower and Wi-Fi signals to provide a more privacy-aware option to the developers as compared to other available…
CAPTCHAs are breakable claims AI startup
San Francisco-based startup Vicarious claims that it has developed an algorithm that can crack CAPTCHAs without requiring any human intervention at all. Researchers have been behind CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test…
Thames gets Google Street View treatment
Amazing views of the iconic river Thames have been recently added to Google’s Street View. The search engine giant, in collaboration with the Port of London Authority, captured 360 degree views of…
Feds seize 144,336 bitcoins valued at $28 million from Silk Road founder
US authorities have claimed to have seized 144,336 bitcoins valued at $28 million from a computer hardware belonging to Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht aka “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Feds seized Silk…
Google delists ExtraTorrent.cc homepage from search results
Google has removed the new home of ExtraTorrent – ExtraTorrent.cc – from its search results are MPPA and its members sent out targeting DMCA requests to Google. ExtraTorrent.com was seized last month…
ICANN begins gTLD expansion
Internet’s governing body, ICANN, has signaled the massive expansion of internet domain names by rolling out four new gTLD. The new domain names that are set to go live are regional domain…
Facebook backpedals on its beheading video u-turn; removes it and reviews policies
Facebook has removed the violent video of a women being beheaded after the video and its policy u-turn both went viral inviting fury from not only Facebook users, but also political leaders…
Adblock Plus now blocks 21 additional Facebook ‘annoyances’
Adblock Plus has announced that its tool is not capable of blocking a total of 21 additional Facebook ‘annoyances’ including Add to Movies, People You May Know, Rate These Places, and Recommended…
David Cameron lambasts Facebook over beheading videos
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has called Facebook ‘irresponsible’ and has said that it should explain its actions to worried parents. Through a tweet Cameron said “It’s irresponsible of Facebook to post…