(ChrisGoldNY) There you are in Lesotho, enjoying a nice cold Maluti beer and feeling pretty pumped about the Instagram picture you’re totally going to take to show your friends back home how exotic everything is here. But oh, what’s that? It’s just another one of the 210 brands owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller? The … Continue Reading
New submitter BetterThanCaesar writes “The Swedish Pirate Party and their ISP Serious Tubes have received a letter from ‘The Rights Alliance’ (formerly Antipiratbyrån, The Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau), demanding they cease supplying Internet access to The Pirate Bay. Referring to the final sentence on the four Pirate Bay profiles, they threaten with legal action if access … Continue Reading
sfcrazy writes “Mark Shuttleworth has for the first time talked about the privacy issues in Ubuntu Dash after being criticized by EFF and FSF. He mentioned some changes in the way use can ‘disable’ the search results. However the company has showed that under no circumstances they will disable the online search by default as … Continue Reading
It’s strange enough that so many people were able to capture video of the meteorite that streaked over Russia on Friday exploding over populated areas causing injury and large amounts of damage. We knew as of Friday that the meteorite had exploded with enough force to knock glass windows out of many buildings in the … Continue Reading
Bob the Super Hamste writes “On Tuesday Comcast announced that it would accelerate its acquisition of NBCUniversal and purchase the remaining 49% owned by GE for $16.7 billion. Previously GE and Comcast were expected to operate NBCUniversal jointly until mid 2014 with Comcast having the option to extend that out until 2018. So far there … Continue Reading
Bob the Super Hamste writes “On Tuesday Comcast announced that it would accelerate its acquisition of NBCUniversal and purchase the remaining 49% owned by GE for $16.7 billion. Previously GE and Comcast were expected to operate NBCUniversal jointly until mid 2014 with Comcast having the option to extend that out until 2018. So far there … Continue Reading
During the State of the Union speech, President Obama revealed that he signed an executive order to push through the establishment of “voluntary cybersecurity standards.” This comes after a series of cyberattacks that have been made public, revealing the extent to which American media and companies have had to deal with increasing cybersecurity issues from … Continue Reading
Presto Vivace sends this news from the Hill: “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said Friday that they plan to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) next week during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The bill is … Continue Reading
An anonymous reader writes “According to an Al-Jazeera report, ‘Charlottesville, Virginia is the first city in the United States to pass an anti-drone resolution. The writing of the resolution coincides with a leaked memo outlining the legal case for drone strikes on U.S. citizens and a Federal Aviation Administration plan to allow the deployment of … Continue Reading
Just this past Saturday, it officially became illegal for anyone to unlock a smartphone without the carriers’ consent. Obviously, this fired up a lot of people, who argue that if they buy an unsubsidized phone without a contract, they should be able to do what they want with it. And now, it looks like there’s … Continue Reading
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