This Week in Other News: Week of December 24
We look back on the week in headlines we’ve seen around the web. They may not quite fit in other sections, but they will certainly fit here.
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This Week In Other News: Week of December 17
We look back on the week in headlines we’ve seen around the web. They may not quite fit in other sections, but they will certainly fit here.
This Week in Other News: Week of December 10
We look back on the week in headlines we’ve seen around the web. They may not quite fit in other sections, but they certainly will fit here.
This Week in Other News: Week of December 3
In our first edition of this new feature, we find some of the more odd side of things in the news worth sharing that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
ZeroPaid Situation Deteriorates Further As Home Page Goes Offline
We’ve been actively monitoring the situation with famed filesharing news website ZeroPaid. Things recently took a turn for the worse as the last of the website has now gone offline.
CFAA Reform to Criminalize Teenagers for Reading News Online?
It’s an evolution of habits. Instead of opening a newspaper, many are turning to the Internet to find out what is happening in this world today. Unfortunately, it seems that part of the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) reform could inadvertently make it a criminal offense for teenagers to view many well-read news sites.
Digg Sold for $16 Million
It was once the pinnacle of social news. Now, the site has been thrown onto the digital scrapheap with various parts being sold to different entities. While Digg still generates some traffic, many users have been hypothesizing what went so horribly wrong with the site.
News Sites, Advocacy Organizations Discovered on UK Mobile Blacklists
The Open Rights Group has been investigating what websites being filtered on mobile networks. So far, the list has been quite startling as websites like Tor and La Quadrature du Net wound up on the blacklists that have obviously have nothing to do with pornographic content. Now, more revelations are coming forward from the blacklists […]
Faulty Google Result Caused Suspect Google Buying 4Chan Story?
A curious news story recently surfaced about Google possibly buying a well known website 4Chan. We did some digging into this to get to the bottom of this and found that this may have been the result of a faulty Google news result.
Media Gives LulzSec Credit for Another Hack They Never Carried Out
If there is anything that is surprising about the LulzSec story, outside of their success, is the poor quality of journalism when it comes to covering the hacking. After improperly giving LulzSec credit for breaking in to and compromising UK census data, now they are giving LulzSec credit for bringing down Australian domain registrar Distribute.it.
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