17th of June 2013 17:06 GMT
Google's announcement that it was retiring Reader at the end of June was quite fortunate for at least some people, namely those working on Reader alternatives. The Digg team saw this as an opportunity to push forward something they had already planned to build, a news reader. So, in the three months since the a...
17th of June 2013 12:51 GMT
The US' six strikes anti-piracy scheme has been off to a slow start, but it's picking up some steam. Only a few people got the educational letters that are part of the program, but those who received them are finding them quite "informative." The letters start out innocent enough, pointing users to legal a...
17th of June 2013 09:59 GMT
Americans have divided opinions regarding Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. 52 percent disapprove of his actions, but 44 percent think he did the right thing to reveal the two surveillance programs run by the NSA. More than half of those interviewed in a recent survey run by CNN and ORC, don’t think that...
17th of June 2013 07:35 GMT
U.S. officials continue to defend the NSA program, saying that there’s nothing illegal going on and that everyone in Congress knew. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote for the Detroit Free Press that neither program allows the NSA to read e-mails or listen to phone calls of Am...
17th of June 2013 07:11 GMT
Anti-piracy groups are doing quite well these days in the UK. They've managed to block the biggest file sharing sites, via a fairly straightforward and cheap process, and they have now even managed to block proxy sites that allowed pirates to bypass the block. This is just the beginning though. Now that the ent...