Oct 09
The internet is a wondrous place, but for every fantastic website out there, it seems like there are two weird ones. We asked you, dear readers, what some of the strangest sites you’ve ever seen were
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Oct 08
Yahoo Mail update brings redesign, Mail Plus features, and 1TB storage boost
Posted in: Today's ChiliYahoo has begun pushing out a redesign for Mail, bringing with it a variety of themes that users will be prompted to choose from upon first logging on after the update arrives. With the design changes come a new compose box, as well, and a storage boost, giving users 1TB of storage. Mail Plus features […]
Oct 07
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, and others have joined forces to deliver low-cost web access to developing nations, revealing the newly-founded Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) as a way to make getting online cheaper. Started by the World Wide Web Foundation, A4AI has taken as its first target the UN Broadband Commission’s goal of “entry-level broadband […]
Oct 05
China’s internet is not exactly famous for its freedom, but it takes a lot of effort to keep it tied down. Folks have done math to suggest there are thousands of government employees censoring China’s Twitter-clone Weibo alone. Now the Beijing News is pegging that total at more like two million.
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Oct 05
Ofcom, Google, Microsoft, others launch visionary “white space” exploration
Posted in: Today's ChiliOfcom, the U.K. counterpart to the U.S.’s FCC, has commenced the largest exploration of “white space” frequencies the world has ever seen. Google, Microsoft, Spectrum Bridge, and upwards of 17 other private and public organizations over the next six months will test a wide variety of white space applications, including rural broadband delivery, HDTV broadcasting, […]
Oct 05
Here in the US, it’s easy to slip into the comfortable idea that the internet is unrestricted, a home for free speech and exploration, whether it’s meaningful and important, or dumb hashtags. It’s not that way everywhere though, and Freedom House has mapped out the current state of affairs across the globe.
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Oct 04
As promised earlier today, an update for Grand Theft Auto Online for the PlayStation 3 is now available. With the update comes some big fixes in game stability, as well as nearly a dozen other fixes and changes that will hopefully correct the issues GTA Online players have been experiencing. The Xbox 360 update is […]
Oct 04
The most popular sites on the internet? Boring and predictable. The one site that each state reads more of than average? That’s a world where USA Today and Huffpo reign supreme, and New Yorkers don’t read the New York Times.
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Oct 03
This week as Silk Road is raided and billions in Bitcoins are taken in by the FBI, representatives for the secure internet system known as Tor have stepped up to suggest that the government did not break down security in Tor itself. Instead, they say, the FBI found out the Silk Road network and took […]
Oct 03
Earlier this week, Yahoo was accused of using change in its sofa cushions as compensation for reports of security exploits, but now the whole ordeal has generated enough buzz to bring about change for the internet pioneer. As it turns out, these small prizes (along with rewards such as t-shirts) were paid for out of pocket by Ramses Martinez, the director of Yahoo’s security team, who took a moment today to explain the company’s new — and far more lucrative — bounty program. Moving forward, Yahoo will reward security researchers with payments that range between $150 and $15,000 for issues that it deems “new, unique and / or high-risk.”
The company is still in the early stages of hammering out a new policy, but promises that payments will be determined “by a clear system based on a set of defined elements that capture the severity of the issue.” Yes, these amounts still pale in comparison to the massive sums that Microsoft recently offered, but researchers now have reasonable incentive to inform Yahoo of the exploits, rather than sell them on the black market. According to Martinez, Yahoo’s revised policy will be available by the end of the month, and as a nice gesture, its new reward structure will retroactively apply to all bugs submitted from July 1st onward.
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Source: Yahoo! Developer Network
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