Can't say we didn't see this one coming: The Pirate Bay is experiencing downtime due to a DDoS attack, according to TorrentFreak. The attack comes just a few days after the site criticized Anonymous attacks on behalf of the site, calling them 'censorship.'
One undeniable trend about the Olympics over the last eight years is that its presence in online and mobile platforms has absolutely exploded. In 2004, NBC launched a mobile website dedicated to people wanting to check out the latest medal counts and breaking news on their phone, but it was little more than truncated text and a few tiny images. This year, you’ll be able to watch every moment of the international sporting event from your phone.
Foxconn is denying reports that its CEO Terry Gou confirmed any plans for the much rumored Apple television set. The China Daily reported last week that during a speech at the start of building Foxconn’s new headquarters, Gou revealed that the company had already begun preparations for Apple’s iTV.
Late last week it was discovered that if you asked Siri what it’s favorite smartphone was, the Nokia Lumia 900 would pop up. it was mildly amusing, and a good time was had by all. Now it looks like Apple has patched the possible answers. Asking Siri what the best smartphone is results in such answers as “You’re holding it” and “Wait… there are other phones?”
DDR4 memory, the successor to DDR3 DRAM, will be available in computers next year, Micron announced on Monday. The company says that it has already started shipping samples of the upcoming memory type, reports Techworld Australia.
Net neutrality might be a bit of a touchy subject in the United States, but progress is being made in Europe. The Netherlands has become the first country to enact net neutrality laws, preventing ISPs from blocking or slowing down different types of internet traffic. It also stops ISPs from charging extra to access specific websites or services. The legislation was first put forward in June 2011, but just passed into law on Tuesday.
As you read this, tens of thousands of brokers and investors are scraping together every loose penny they can find to get a chunk of Facebook’s initial public offering. But one technology investor won’t be joining them: Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.com and current NYC-based angel investor. He’s not concerned with bubbles or percentages, just with Facebook’s corporate culture: he objects to the fact that the social networking giant supports the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or .
We've said it before, but yeah, we're really not sure what to make of this one. Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has apparently been arrested after a raid conducted by the Belezian equivilent to a SWAT team, as is being reported over at The Washington Post. McAfee is being charged with 'unlicensed drug manufacturing and possession of unlicensed weapons,' charges that McAfee says are bogus.
Recently, you may have noticed that sites such as The Pirate Bay and other torrent havens have been coming under more intense media onslaughts than normal. Now, while these sites are well experienced in these attacks, the UK decision to simply block the site entirely on an ISP-wide basis has had its repercussions.
One of the first UK ISPs ordered to has slammed down the shutters on the torrent site. Having been instructed by UK courts on Monday that they must prevent users from visiting the site, Virgin Media now shows an apologetic message and advises subscribers that it “has received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement.”
The Pirate Bay website is under attack once again. that the High Court has ruled that all of the UK's Internet Service Providers must block access to the site, which many believe promotes online piracy of content.
«Well, there goes $36,000 worth of good computers,» as Upper Allen Elementary School staff must have been thinking to themselves after an eleven-year-old boy dropped his pants and urinated all over a computer cart full of 36 MacBook computers on Wednesday. All 36 MacBook computers were damaged in the incident.
Luckily for denizens of the internet, SOPA was struck down not too long ago, but there’s another bill which was passed by the House of Representatives that proves just as menacing. It’s called CISPA, and was voted for 248 to 168. The bill would require private companies to hand over information they pertaining to you if requested by any government agency. That includes websites like Google, YouTube, and Facebook.
Iranian authorities said the country was hit by a cyber-attack during the weekend, a malware-based threat targeting institutional sites and (possibly) key infrastructures for oil extraction. The attack forced officials to cut the affected systems off the Internet, but now everything should be fine and investigators are working to find the true extent of the breach.
