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A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked
Cloaked by malware, aliases, and misspellings, computer spies are usually invisible. This one made a mistake. A special investigation
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Creepy Side of Search Emerges on Facebook
Facebook highlighted special privacy restrictions on its new Graph Search social discovery engine that filter young teens from some search results delivered to adults. The restrictions, pointed to after concerns about pedophiles, differ from other aspects of Graph Search, which generally has no special privacy controls beyond those already in place for the rest of Facebook.
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Broadband ISPs put to the test: Real data speeds vs. advertised speeds charted by FCC
The Federal Communications Commission constantly monitors broadband service providers in the United States and the commission recently updated its report for the month of February.
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New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday
Starting Monday, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl.
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Former Obama advisor argues Comcast is a threat to the open Internet
Yet other sectors of the Internet economy are working better than she admits.
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It's True: More Expensive Hotels Charge More for Wi-Fi
When you plan a vacation you usually remember to budget for things like hotel, travel, meals and perhaps your coffee addiction. But do you remember to factor in charges for Wi-Fi?
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You Call This an Army? The Terrifying Shortage of U.S. Cyberwarriors.
When the Soviet Union launched the first satellite in 1957, it set off an intellectual arms race that led to more than $1 billion of federal investment in science education.
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What Is The Troll?
What distinguishes the troll from the mere asshole is, I believe, that he (1) has a target; (2) seeks to get a response—a rise—out of that target; and (3) believes he is acting out of some ordained moral purpose to destroy, to bring down his target.
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White House Grants Aaron Swartz's Wish: Taxpayer-Funded Research Will Be Free
Aaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay walls.
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The Internet Needs a Plan B
Internet and computer pioneer Danny Hillis thinks the internet needs a backup, a Plan B.
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You Don't Want Super-High-Speed Internet, Says Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Irene Esteves says you don't really want the gigabit speeds offered by Google Fiber and other high-speed providers.
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“Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds
And the Department of Justice says there's nothing illegal about it, either.
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Time Warner Cable's arrogance perfectly illustrates why the cable industry is so disliked
By now you've probably read the comments from Time Warner Cable (TWC) CTO Irene Esteves explaining that her company doesn't plan to build out fiber to the home because there's no evidence that Amer...
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Is Internet Addiction Real? [infographic]
Today’s graphic poses the questions we’ve all asked ourselves in the past. Are we addicted to this series of tubes?
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How the Internet Has Changed the World
From hactivism to the flipped classroom, the Internet has sparked an online revolution with digital tools.
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America's internet freedom hypocrisy
From telling Iran they shouldn’t torture quite so many bloggers to complaining about China hacking Google, America is big on pushing Internet freedom around the world these days. Even before the Arab Revolutions, ensuring Internet freedom was an official foreign policy objective. But you know what would make us more plausible advocates for a free Internet? If we had one.
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The Snapchat Lawsuit, Or How To Lose Your Best Friend Over $70 Million
“This is a case of partners betraying a fellow partner.” One week ago, Reggie Brown filed a lawsuit alleging that he is a co-founder of Snapchat, a red-hot impermanent photo messaging app, and is entitled to an original one-third ownership stake along with co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.
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The Internet according to The Oatmeal
There are things to know about Matthew Inman—very few of them actually matter. But what matters with Inman is that on an Internet of loudmouths, he speaks for everyone.
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Jack Daniels writes to copyright infringers with friendliness and class..
Lawyers who have to protect their clients’ brands from copyright infringement aren’t known for being particularly polite, let alone winsome. Jack Daniels’ team of attorneys appears to be an exception.
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Chinese Skype Surveillance Trigger Words Uncovered by Researcher
There is one thing that binds the phrases “kinky cinema,” “hired killer,” and “throwing eggs.” If you type any one of them into a special eavesdropping-enabled version of Skype used in China, you could find yourself under surveillance.
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