First, I am not going to give you the common brush off to your question: "We didn't evolve from monkeys, monkeys and humans share a common ancestor". That's just avoiding the question, and frankly, I don't agree with it. I'm going to assume that when you say "monkey," you not only include those ani... Read more...
Let me tell you a story about Dan Harmon, who was fired from "Community" on Friday night. Several years ago, when "The Sarah Silverman" program debuted, I wrote a review of it. I didn't like it much; it just wasn't my thing, and I said as much in my review. Within a day or two of that review... Read more...
Seizure orders have been executed against 150 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works. The 150 seized domains are in the custody of the federal government. Visitors to the sites will now find a seizure banner that... Read more...
Twitter has just announced a new partnership with three music data services, The Echo Nest, Gracenote, and Rovi are, to help scale the distribution of Twitter account data for musicians for integration in consumer-facing apps. Via the pilot program, Twitter developers can now work with partners to... Read more...
Documentary by Gil Noble on the intentional destruction of Black America by the FBI using infiltration, counter-intelligence programs and drugs. From Marcus Garvey to Paul Robeson to Martin Luther King to Malcolm X to Fred Hampton, to the Black Panthers to heroin and crack, the FBI has worked to... Read more...
While the UK government maintains its stance that the British web should remain open and uncensored, measures are to be introduced to ban cyber-criminals from the web. The UK’s cyber-security strategy released on Friday spells out the increased use of “cyber-sanctions”, where those who misu... Read more...
The FBI is looking to monitor all public information posted on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. The organization is asking for an app to do all the scraping automatically. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking to develop a Web app that can continuou... Read more...
Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unveiled today the latest batch of released files from the whistleblowing organisation. Speaking to a number ... Read more...