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Dirt Cheap: The Best Frugal Gardening Ideas on the Internet
Dirt Cheap: The Best Frugal Gardening Ideas on the Internet With the price of healthful groceries going no place but up, lots of thrifty folks are starting a garden to save money on their bills this year. But what about the money to start a garden? It can be a very expensive undertaking, especially if […]
The Big Bot Conspiracy
The Big Bot Conspiracy Bots. Is there anything they can’t do? The Internet Research Agency indictment accuses a troll bot farm of trying to influence the election in what the media claims is the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor. 9/11 need not apply. Bots are everywhere. “Bots Are Trying to Help Populists Win […]
Soros and the EU Commission are now against the free Internet
Soros and the EU Commission are now against the free Internet With his investments, Soros has become a billionaire. Unfortunately, for many years he has been interfering in the political and demographic developments in Europe and has been financially promoting ethnic replacement. Now he is turning against CSU, Facebook and Twitter because they are endangering […]
The Net’s Good Old Boys: Dr. (Don’t Be) Evil Meets Dr. Strangelove
The Net’s Good Old Boys: Dr. (Don’t Be) Evil Meets Dr. Strangelove Dr. Eric Schmidt has called for intelligence agencies to stop illegally prying into personal information and has been doing his best to convince the government to pay Google to do it legally instead. That said, in 2009 he was widely rebuked for telling […]
The Prepper’s Guide to Cybersecurity
The Prepper’s Guide to Cybersecurity How savvy are you about cybersecurity? Technology is ever-changing, and that alone can make it overwhelming. If you have put off learning how to protect your computer, however, I urge you change that ASAP. Preppers get a lot of information and products from the internet, so you’ll want to make […]
Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started List
Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening Throughout the near entirety of human history, a population’s understanding of what’s going on in the world has been controlled by those in power. The men in charge controlled what the people were told about rival populations, the history of their tribe and […]
Can Fake News Be Outlawed?
PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images Can Fake News Be Outlawed? French President Emmanuel Macron used the occasion of an annual New Year’s press conference this year to propose a new law to prevent the spread of disinformation online. But even if France’s restrictions work as intended, fake news is a global problem, and it will require […]
First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News” YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to […]
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018 Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up with the large and growing number of […]
The “Meltdown” Story: How A Researcher Discovered The “Worst” Flaw In Intel History
The “Meltdown” Story: How A Researcher Discovered The “Worst” Flaw In Intel History Daniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel, something we discussed in “Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” […]
“Everyone Is Affected”: Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” Are Staggering
“Everyone Is Affected”: Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” Are Staggering Earlier today, we reported that according to a press reports, Intel’s computer chips were affected by a bug that makes them vulnerable to hacking. Specifically, The Register said the bug lets some software gain access to parts of a computer’s memory that are […]
Welcome to 2018 – We Are All Connected
Welcome to 2018 – We Are All Connected To see a world in a grain of sand And to see heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill’d with doves […]
“We’ve centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg” says Pirate Bay Founder.
“We’ve centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg” says Pirate Bay Founder. At its inception, the internet was a beautifully idealistic and equal place. But the world sucks and we’ve continuously made it more and more centralized, taking power away from users and handing it over to big companies. And the worst […]
The Internet is Already Broken
The Internet is Already Broken Photo by irina slutsky | CC BY 2.0 Near the end of 2014 Kim Kardashian set out to “break the internet.” She posed naked for pictures. This went great, getting 1% of entire internet activity on the day she did it. Now the worry is that such expressions of democracy […]
Remember the Russian Attack on the Internet?
Remember the Russian Attack on the Internet? In 2016, a bot, named Mirai, wrecked havoc over the global internet with massive waves of DoS attacks on anything, from French telecoms, to U.S. web services, to Russian banks, to African airports and beyond. Per Wired, “As the 2016 US presidential election drew near, fears began to […]
