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“Atlantis” Online Black Market Flaunts Itself On YouTube
Most of us have heard of these so-called ‘underground’ websites like the Silk Road lurking amidst the “dark web”, where it’s supposedly possible to buy anything from drugs to guns and even assassins for hire, but actually locating them is an altogether different story. To access the Silk Road for example, you’ll need to navigate ...
PayPal Boldy Goes Where No Payment Processor Has Gone Before…
We all know how to buy things in cyberspace, but how on earth do we go about doing business in outer space? The answer to this problem could well be something we’re already familiar with, for PayPal thinks it already has the solution. Stating its belief that mankind is on the threshold of a new ...
Microsoft Adds Engine Yard to its Azure Cloud
Microsoft has added Engine Yard’s platform-as-a-service into its Windows Azure marketplace as it looks to push its cloud product out to developers. The two companies announced the addition of Engine Yard’s technology to Azure yesterday, saying that it’ll give developers the option of using Engine Yard instead of Azure’s own platform features, which have been ...
How To Get in FONT of the NSA : Fight PRISM with Coded Design
Since the revelations erupted over the PRISM spying program, we've seen all manner of weird and wonderful ways to avoid the NSA's security dragnet. But this new method tops them all, and by some distance too, and not just because it's totally insane and fun.
Making YouTube Faster
Watching some of the garbage on YouTube can be tortuous at the best of times, and even more so when you’re doing it with a piss-poor internet connection that causes it to freeze every few seconds. You sit there waiting for twenty seconds, the video plays for three or four seconds, then it starts buffering ...
Google Surpasses Apple as World’s Most Valuable Company
Google has apparently surpassed Apple as the most valuable company in the world. Rolfe Winkler writes in a MoneyBeat report for the Wall Street Journal that Google’s enterprise value finally overtook that of its fruity rival last week, attaining a value of $241 billion compared to the latter’s $233 billion. “The search giant eclipsed the ...
How Shodan Searches for Holes in The Internet of Things
Few people realize, but most search engines index all kinds of things besides just web pages and services. In fact, search engines can be used to find just about anything – from printers that can be controlled remotely to openly accessible web cams, and numerous other devices that are connected to the web without any ...
The Frantic Race To Replace Google Reader
Google’s surprise announcement that it’s going to kill off its popular Google Reader at the end of this month has spurred a race among developers all eager to get their own alternative nSews delivery products out into the wild. This week and last, we’ve seen a whole bunch of new RSS readers emerge out of ...
Samsung Denies It’s Dumping Desktops, But Maybe It Should?
Samsung could be about to shift away from its desktop PC business in light of falling demand caused by legions of consumers swapping them for mobile devices instead. The news comes from the Korea Times, which says that the move is a further signal that OEMs are entering a period of consolidation as they switch ...
Federal Circuit Upholds Patent on “Viewing Ads Online”
Concerns have been raised that a recent decision by the Federal Circuit court of appeal could lead to an escalation in so-called patent abuse in the technology industry. The decision, which was taken last Friday, upheld a controversial patent owned by a company called Ultramericial, and has been called a “missed opportunity” to finally rein ...