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Reporters Find Exposed Personal Data Via Google, Threatened With CFAA Charges

Source: Techdirt

In a story that sounds mighty similar to the Andrew "weev" Aurenheimer situation, two reporters from the Scripps News service have been told that they may be hit with Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) charges after a Google se ...
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Watch the Star-Studded Webby Awards

Source: Mashable

Tune into the festivities on YouTube and flip through our gallery of red carpet and ceremony photos (below) to catch glimpses of the star-studded event, which required award recipients to limit their acceptance speeches to five words. "The Oscars s ...
Full article at: Mashable  More like this  7 hours ago

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High end Asus Taichi gets price drop
High end Asus Taichi gets price drop
lowest ever by $200 for the dual screen laptop/tablet hybrid w/ Core i7
 
Amazon Launches Kindle Worlds Fan Fiction Publishing Model
Amazon Launches Kindle Worlds Fan Fiction Publishing Model
Most budding writers are constantly in search of new platforms for their short stories or novellas. Amazon has just done them a favor by launching a commercial publishing platform called Kindle Worlds, where all sorts of fan fiction will get published.
 
Google’s Amazing Conversational Voice Search Activated on Chrome
Google’s Amazing Conversational Voice Search Activated on Chrome
There have been attempts to mimic human language and comprehension in computers without much headway. Yet today that has been flipped on its head thanks to Google’s amazing conversational voice search. The service has been activated on Chrome 27 and is a marvel to behold.
 

'It Was as If I Got Kicked Off a Cliff'

Source: AOL Small Business

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet. He had a girlfriend. He was a studen ...
Full article at: AOL Small Business  More like this  1 day ago, 10:53am CDT

Digital strongboxes won't solve whistleblower problem for journalists

Source: NetworkWorld

CSO - Following the news last week that the Department of Justice had secretly obtained records of phone calls made by the Associated Press in an attempt to find an information leak, the New Yorker magazine launched an online scheme to receive sens ...
Full article at: NetworkWorld  More like this  1 day ago, 5:00am CDT

Des centaines de Manitobains rendent hommage à Elijah Harper

Source: The Huffington Post

Ray Manzarek Le claviériste des Doors Ray Manzarek, l'un des membres fondateurs du mythique groupe de rock emmené par Jim Morrison, est mort à l'âge de 74 ans en Allemagne des suites d'un cancer. Huguette Oligny Huguette Oligny, comédie ...
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Reliving the fight to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act and other recent assaults on the open Internet

Source: Down With Tyranny!

by Ken From Demand Progress ("Demand Progress mobilizes the public to challenge entrenched power and promote freedom") comes book-publication news that includes a "pay what you wish" option for the e-book edition. OR Books has published Dema ...
Full article at: Down With Tyranny!  More like this  1 day ago, 8:00pm CDT

5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter ) into one of its sprawling leak investigations. As we wrote last week , by ob ...
Full article at: Electronic Frontier Foundation  More like this  1 day ago, 7:37pm CDT

'Strongbox' for Leakers Offers Imperfect Anonymity

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Anonymous sources face a huge challenge in leaking sensitive information to journalists without leaving a digital trail for government investigators to follow. The New Yorker aims to make anonymous leaks feel sligh ...
Full article at: IEEE Spectrum  More like this  1 day ago, 5:12pm CDT



 

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