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

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde — also known as Brokep — has reportedly been arrested in Sweden by police forces after a raid on a farm in the country's southern...

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Microsoft is going to unveil new Windows devices at Computex 2014

Computex 2014 is taking place next week and if you were looking forward to new products to be announced at the event, well we’re pretty sure that will be happening....

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

After winning a verdict of nearly $25 million in a federal trade secrets case earlier this year, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has filed a motion to withdraw from...

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

There's a zero-day security flaw in Internet Explorer that's been known for at least the last 7 months, yet Microsoft has yet to release a patch. Perhaps it never will...

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

Michael Jackson's hologram will live on — at least long enough to "perform" a song from the artist's posthumous album Xscape on stage during Billboard's Music Awards on Sunday night. A federal judge...

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Russia captures Lithuanian drone that was used to smuggle cigarettes

A Lithuanian self-made drone detained in Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad region last week was used for smuggling cigarettes into Russia, Oleg Dzhurayev, the press service chief of the Kaliningrad border department...

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Microsoft reportedly removing Xbox Live paywall for Netflix and Hulu

Microsoft has always locked Xbox owners into its Gold subscription service to access streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu, but that might be finally changing soon. According to a report from Ars...

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Intel finally introduces its new 9 Series chipsets

Today marks the official introduction of Intel's 9 Series chipset. Motherboards based on the chip have been selling for weeks, and we've even reviewed one of 'em, but the press embargo for...

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How to use steganography to put secret messages in your tweets

Twitter offers a surprising freedom of expression within 140 characters, but what if you want to hide a message in plain sight -- say, to get around censorship? Well, it's now...

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

If you don’t believe the proposed Comcast/Time Warner merger will make Comcast an even bigger threat to net neutrality, you probably haven’t heard the whole story. As Comcast attempted to lay...

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

In the ongoing Net Neutrality debate, AT&T has chimed in claiming that a proposed change simply won’t help. The company is specifically speaking about reclassification of broadband Internet as a...

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

Lawmakers in the US House have unanimously voted to end the National Security Agency's bulk phone metadata collection program. Members of Congress were voting on the USA Freedom Act, a bill introduced...

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