If you’ve heard that the feds raided a woman’s house after she innocently searched for a pressure cooker, and her husband for a backpack online, well, that’s not quite the whole story. Freelance writer Michele Catalono attracted intense media attention today after blogging about a raid by “six agents from the joint terrorism task force.” […]
Twitter says it is planning to make it easier for users to report abusive and illegal posts. It follows a barrage of threats of rape made against a feminist campaigner. Caroline Criado-Perez began receiving the messages after successfully leading a campaign to have writer Jane Austen featured on a new edition of a British banknote. […]
Eight major online advertising firms, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, have agreed to withdraw ads from sites that are involved in copyright piracy. The agreement, which also includes 24/7 Media, Adtegriry, AOL, Conde Nast and SpotXchange, was coordinated by the US government. It relates to ad networks that supply ads to websites (usually based on […]
Contributing writer Meredith Placko is hard at work on San Diego Comic Con costumes, but she found time to make this handy flow chart to break down the steps of how to make a costume!
The National Security Agency can gather and keep information about US citizens from online communications without a warrant for up to five years — as long as they get it by “accident”. That’s the revelation in the latest leaked documents in the NSA scandal. To date the story has largely centered on the ability of […]
Google is testing a way of using balloons to carry Internet signals to areas where a wired or cellphone connection isn’t financially viable. It’s part of a grand project with the stated aim of making the net available to every person in the world by the end of the decade. The company appears relaxed with […]
All of the stuff that people do on the internet in the span of 1 minute. Including emails, Google searches, tweets, Facebook likes, Instagram uploads, Amazon purchases, and more. [Buzzfeed Videos]
The closest thing to a “Facebook phone” has been delayed indefinitely in Europe. Officially it’s to allow time to tweak some of the software, but it follows a poor initial response in the United States. Facebook has always insisted it won’t make a handset itself, reasoning that there’s no point putting its efforts into something […]
That’s it, now you know. The guy who invented the format says that the acronym is pronounced “Jif” and NOT “Gif.” I don’t know about you, but because of this, all my childhood dreams have just been shattered. Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go sit down in a corner and cry. Tumblr […]
A former IT manager has created a website with 12,000 “secret” codes for making your way through automated call center menus. Amazingly it appears to be entirely his own work rather than crowdsourced. The Please Press 1 site was created by Nigel Clarke and reportedly took seven years to compile. Although some firms have provided […]