jones_supa writes As is the search engine company’s annual habit, DuckDuckGo has chosen to advance four open source projects by donating to them. The primary focus this year was to support FOSS projects that bring privacy tools to anyone who needs them. $25, 000 goes to The Freedom of the Press Foundation to support SecureDrop, which is a whistleblower submission used to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was given $25, 000 to support PrivacyBadger, which is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking your surfing habits. Another $25, 000 arrives at GPGTools to support GPG Suite, which is a software package for OS X that encrypts files or messages. Finally, $25, 000 was donated to Riseup to support Tails, which is a live operating system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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How to Maximize Your Free Storage Space on Every Cloud Service
Between Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and a half dozen other services, the sky’s the limit on how much cloud storage you can get. Here are some of the best ways to get extra free space on each service. Read more…
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Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail
blindbat writes While back home in the U.S., a man working in the United Arab Emirates posted negative comments about the company he worked for. Upon returning to the country to resign, he was arrested and now faces up to a year in prison under their strict “cyber slander” laws designed to protect reputation. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Nvidia Announces The Shield Set-Top Box
At a post-GDC keynote at the Nob Hill Masonic Center, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just took to the stage for a series of big announcements. The video processing technology company today unveiled its plan to further its push into user hardware with a new device aimed at the Apple TV and Roku, which it’s calling the Shield. The new game console isn’t too far of a… Read More
Company Promises Positive Yelp Reviews For a Price; Yelp Sues
jfruh writes Many restaurants and other small businesses live and die by Yelp reviews. Revleap operates a paid service that it says can “create a large constant flow of positive reviews that stay on top of your [Yelp] profile, and remove fake reviews.” But Yelp is suing Revleap for what it says are practices that are fraudulent and in violation of Yelp’s terms of service; among other things, Revleap promises users gift cards in exchange for good reviews. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The World’s Email Encryption Relies on a Guy Who Is Going Broke
The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive. Read more…
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Amazon’s Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books
If you’ve been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting, Amazon has a new option for you: Kindle Convert, a program for Windows that turns print books into digital versions fully compatible with Amazon’s Kindle software, including adjustable font, Whisypersync for making sure you’ll be able to go to the… Read More
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Finally, A Way To Feel Magnetic Fields Without Implants
I’ve always been captivated by biohackers who implant tiny magnets under their skin, giving themselves the ability to physically feel magnetic fields. However, I’m not quite dedicated enough to go through the hassle (or commitment) of actually going under the knife. Read more…
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Staples To Buy Office Depot For $6.3 Billion
An anonymous reader writes: Today Staples announced plans to buy Office Depot in a deal worth $6.3 billion. This is a huge consolidation within the office supply industry. Office Depot and OfficeMax were the second- and third-biggest suppliers when they merged in 2013. Adding those to the enormity of Staples would effectively bring the U.S. under a single office supply chain. “The move is expected to draw scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, though regulators have been increasingly willing to approve retail mergers in light of burgeoning e-commerce competition. … This isn’t the first time Staples has tried to buy Office Depot. In 1997, the FTC derailed Staples’ acquisition of its rival as anticompetitive. By 2013, though, the agency’s view had shifted. When the FTC allowed Office Depot to buy OfficeMax, it said the advent of online retailing ensured competition in the market for office supplies. Consumers today also rely more heavily on big-box chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for office products, the commission said.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Report: Amazon Might Buy Up Radioshack Stores
Earlier today, RadioShack stumbled one step closer to death with the news that the NYSE is trying to delist its stock — basically, the company is fucked. And according to Bloomberg , Amazon — which is, let’s be honest, the number one RadioShack murder suspect — might buy up some of their retail stores. Read more…
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