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The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has been arrested in Sweden

Jun 1, 2014

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde — also known as Brokep — has reportedly been arrested in Sweden by police forces...

Microsoft is going to unveil new Windows devices at Computex 2014

May 31, 2014

Computex 2014 is taking place next week and if you were looking forward to new products to be announced at...

How an American tech company won a $25 million lawsuit with fake emails

May 25, 2014

After winning a verdict of nearly $25 million in a federal trade secrets case earlier this year, Akin Gump Strauss...

Microsoft is finally getting around to fixing a 7-month-old IE8 security bug

May 24, 2014

There's a zero-day security flaw in Internet Explorer that's been known for at least the last 7 months, yet Microsoft...

Michael Jackson’s hologram lives on thanks to failed patent claim

May 18, 2014

Michael Jackson's hologram will live on — at least long enough to "perform" a song from the artist's posthumous album Xscape on stage...

Russia captures Lithuanian drone that was used to smuggle cigarettes

May 16, 2014

A Lithuanian self-made drone detained in Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad region last week was used for smuggling cigarettes into Russia, Oleg...

Microsoft reportedly removing Xbox Live paywall for Netflix and Hulu

May 13, 2014

Microsoft has always locked Xbox owners into its Gold subscription service to access streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu, but...

Intel finally introduces its new 9 Series chipsets

May 11, 2014

Today marks the official introduction of Intel's 9 Series chipset. Motherboards based on the chip have been selling for weeks, and we've...

How to use steganography to put secret messages in your tweets

May 9, 2014

Twitter offers a surprising freedom of expression within 140 characters, but what if you want to hide a message in...

Cogent CEO warns of the dangers of Comcast-Time Warner merger

May 9, 2014

If you don’t believe the proposed Comcast/Time Warner merger will make Comcast an even bigger threat to net neutrality, you probably...

AT&T urges the FCC not to reclassify broadband Internet access

May 9, 2014

In the ongoing Net Neutrality debate, AT&T has chimed in claiming that a proposed change simply won’t help. The company...

U.S. House votes unanimously to end the NSA’s bulk metadata collection

May 8, 2014

Lawmakers in the US House have unanimously voted to end the National Security Agency's bulk phone metadata collection program. Members of Congress...