Nicholas Webber, serving five years for creating a hacker’s forum site, is somehow invited into an IT class in jail. The consequences are difficult. [Read more]
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Why teens are tiring of Facebook
Facebook has become a social network that’s often too complicated, too risky, and, above all, too overrun by parents to give teens the type of digital freedom they crave. [Read more]
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Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Hides a Tiny Computer
Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter is 50 bucks. That’s expensive. Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter hooks up your iOS devices’ Lightning port to HDMI. But it lags and gives artifacts. Apple’s Lightning Digital AV adapter actually hides a tiny computer inside in the cable…wait what? Yes. More »
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The Government Can Use Your iPhone to Figure Out Where You’ve Been
Court documents obtained by the ACLU reveal just how vulnerable information about your private life is to prying government eyes that get a hold of your phone. It’s more than just your text messages, folks. It’s every connection point your phone has used. More »
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The Government Can Use Your iPhone to Figure Out Where You’ve Been
Illegal music downloads dropped in 2012, says report
Online and offline sharing of copyrighted music took a nosedive last year, according to NPD. [Read more]
Google Releases Chrome 25 With Voice Recognition Support
An anonymous reader writes “Google on Thursday released Chrome version 25 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 24 was largely a stability release, Chrome 25 is all about features, including voice recognition support via the newly added Web Speech API and the blocking of silent extension installation. You can update to the latest release now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome.” But if you’re more interested in the growing raft of Google-branded hardware than running Google OSes, some good news (via Liliputing) about the newly released Pixel: Bill Richardson of Google posted on Thursday that the Pixel can boot Linux Mint, and explained how users can follow his example, by taking advantage of new support for a user-provided bootloader. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mark Zuckerberg co-sponsors $33M prize to extend human life
Backed by tech luminaries, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, a $3 million reward, is being presented to 11 different scientists for their efforts to cure diseases. [Read more]
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Backblaze shares third-gen storage server design
Want to launch your own high-capacity networked storage infrastructure? Backblaze just shared its new 180-terabyte Storage Pod design. [Read more]
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Microsoft to begin connecting Skype and Lync by June 2013
Microsoft’s mission to connect its consumer and business communications services is running later than many expected, according to the latest Lync road map. [Read more]
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Firefox 19 Arrives, Finally Adds a Built-in PDF Viewer
Firefox users, the wait is finally over. Now you can read PDFs in the browser without needing a plugin. Firefox 19 also adds startup performance improvements, new features for developers, and the usual bug fixes. More »
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