In the “yawn, nobody really cares” segment of our news, Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is still in the works. It’s been nearly a year and half since Microsoft released a test build of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 and during that time, MS has refused to acknowledge when,…
Category: Internet
Reddit’s most loved/hated troll, Violentacrez, has been doxed – actual identify exposed by gawker
Violentacrez is the Internet’s greatest troll – you either love him or hate him. He starts controversial subreddits such as Creepshots (pictures of unsuspecting women), Jailbait (pictures of scantily clad underage girls, most picked off of Facebook), RapeBait. Still, many redditers champion him as their poster boy for free speech. Other redditers on the other…
Universal orders takedown of dancing baby video because one of their songs was playing in the background
EFF has a big case this week in San Jose, California. The problem began in 2007 when Stephanie Lenz posted a video on YouTube. In the 29-second clip, Lenz’s young son is dancing in the kitchen to the tune of “Let’s Go Crazy” which is playing on a stereo in the background. Universal Music Publishing…
Facebook introduces share through Dropbox feature
Google finally agrees to offer do-not-track option in Chrome
Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Index rates countries
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has a new pet project that he hopes will shape the Internet of the future. His project, the “Web Index” measures and ranks over 60 countries on three broad states. These include: web readiness, such as infrastructure; web use, the quantity of web content available; and web…








