While The Pirate Pay is certainly notorious, it’s always oddly lingered in the mid-table when it comes to real-world file sharing. No longer, though: according to fresh analysis by Torrent Freak , the site has now sailed into the top spot as the world’s most-used file sharing site. More »
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The Pirate Bay Is Now the World’s Largest File-Sharing Site
As though Graph Search wasn’t enough to turn your Facebook world upside down, the company’s retooling its news feed again. So what will new new new (new) Facebook have in store? We’ll find out next Friday. More »
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Facebook’s Getting a News Feed Overhaul Next Week
An anonymous reader writes “After a huge meteor recently exploded over Chelyabinsk (population 1,130,132), Russia, NASA has approved $5 million for funding for ATLAS project (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System). From the article: ‘”There are excellent ongoing surveys for asteroids that are capable of seeing such a rock with one to two days’ warning, but they do not cover the whole sky each night, so there’s a good chance that any given rock can slip by them for days to weeks. This one obviously did,” astronomer John Tonry of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii told NBC News Friday.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding
Space is noticeably short on gas stations, requiring spacecraft to carry huge reserves of expensive and cumbersome propellant which limits their range. But with NASA’s newest Sun-powered propulsion concept, future astronauts could sail to the stars on solar winds. More »
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The World’s Biggest Solar Sail Launches Next Year
Not too long ago, BitTorrent launched a little project called Sync , which provides practically unlimited “cloud” storage. Now the professional sharers are rolling out yet another service called “SoShare” which promises to let you easily send huge files to friends and coworkers with little to no hassle. Up to a whole terabyte at the click of a button . More »
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BitTorrent’s New Trick: Letting You Send Terabyte-Sized Email Attachments
Ever since Microsoft acquired Skype and confirmed the end of Windows Live Messenger , a merger has been a tiny dot off on the horizon. Now Microsoft has pinned down when the two will become one : this April. More »
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Microsoft Is Finally Merging Skype and Windows Live Messenger This Spring
Spanish authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 10 people who were allegedly involved in a massive “ransomware” ring. The European Cybercrime Centre estimated that the criminal operation “affected tens of thousands of computers worldwide, bringing in profits in excess of €1 million euros ($1.34 million) per year.” The Spanish Ministry of the Interior described (Google Translate) the lead suspect as a “a 27-year-old citizen of Russian origin who was arrested in December in the United Arab Emirates,” and now awaits extradition to Spain. The newly arrested 10 were linked to the financial cell of the ransomware operation, and include six Russians, two Ukrainians, and two Georgians. The Ministry added that the operation remains “open,” suggesting that more arrests could be forthcoming. (Spanish authorities posted a video (RAR) of the new arrests and raid.) Madrid dubbed the ransomware used by the ring a “police virus” because it throws up a notice that appears to come from law enforcement. The malware requires the user to pay €100 ($134) as a “fine” from a false accusation of accessing child pornography or file-sharing websites. When the victims submit their payment details, European authorities added , the “criminals then go on to steal data and information from the victim’s computer.” Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Spanish police bust alleged “ransomware” ring that took in $1.34M annually
A Google Fiberhood-style rollout in the U.S., says a Goldman-Sachs estimate, would cost in the neighborhood of $140 billion. Even for Israel, a country approximately the size of New Jersey, there’s a high pricetag (“billions of shekels”) for installing fiber optics dense enough to reach most of the population, but just a massive fiber-optic rollout is planned, with the project led by Swedish firm Viaeuropa. If the scheme succeeds, it will cover two thirds of the country over the next 10 years or so. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade
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The Soviets Made a Hobbit Movie In 1985. It’s So Terrible it’s Incredible.
If Bravo’s Start-Ups: Silicon Valley makes you gag and, in turn, makes your gags want to gag , you could be in luck. HBO has bought the pilot for a very different Silicon Valley that might serve as an effective antidote to that reality TV schlock. More »
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HBO Just Greenlit a Silicon Valley Comedy By Mike Judge That Could Actually Be Good