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Yahoo Discloses Data Request Numbers From US Law Agencies

Yahoo is the latest tech company to disclose the number of government requests for data over the past 18 months after the NSA spying scandal.


Redbox doesn't have a foothold where I live. It's not even available in the UK.

Verizon Letting Netflix Streaming Quality Slide

If you’re a Verizon customer and your Netflix experience is sub-par, with regular buffering, SD-quality video that stutters or tears, you can likely blame your provider, as Verizon seems to be deliberately hindering the quality of Netflix streams – some say, because it has a large stake



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NSA: We Are Listening To Your Phone Conversations Without a Warrant

A recent admission by the NSA may have undone all the denials made by some government officials as well as the US president himself. The admission is that the NSA is, in fact, listening in on your phone conversations and, no, they don’t need a warrant to do that at all.


And by the time I took this picture, it was nearly 285,000.

Pro Edward Snowden petition hits 250,000 in 24 hours

In less than a day, over 250,000 people have signed the digital petition to have NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden be treated “fairly, humanely and given due process,” in the wake of his revelation of the US based PRISM program, which has seen the NSA and CIA spying on consumers through s


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Rep. Peter King: Prosecute Reporters Who Publish Leaked Information

There’s been a lot of developments since our previous report on the NSA PRISM leak. This includes how government officials have been put on the defence with respect to the program and the calls for reporters who report on these leaks to be criminally prosecuted.



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Kim Dotcom’s US Extradition Hearing Delayed Yet Again

Kim Dotcom’s scheduled extradition hearing has been delayed a third time and is now scheduled for November 21, 2013. In the past 18 months, Kim Dotcom has certainly had his fair share of legal battles over his previous file-storage website Megaupload.


Normal guns though, he has no problem with.

Mega Growing in Wake of PRISM Leak

Update: To help clear things up, Kim Dotcom got in touch with Zeropaid and said the following: “We don’t have access to decrypted files. We can’t search files. All is encrypted. 3D gun links taken down were posted on gun maker site.


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Pipe: New Facebook App for Sharing Files Up to 1GB with Friends

Now you can easily share files up to 1GB in size with family and friends on Facebook. A widely anticipated new file-sharing app for Facebook called Pipe has finally left beta testing and gone live, bringing quick and easy file-sharing to the millions of users of the popular social networking site.


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WatchTorrents Player: Watch Video Torrents While They Download

Browser extension for Chrome, IE, and FireFox allows users to instantly watch moves and TV show torrents in your browser without having to wait for them to finish downloading.


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NSA PRISM Program Rocks The American Privacy Landscape

The media has been buzzing with the latest leak of the American spying program known as PRISM. Numerous companies were reportedly compliant in handing over personal information to the US government. We sift through the flurry that has occurred over the weekend.


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Top 5 iPhone Apps for Downloading Free Music

A roundup of the top 5 iPhone apps for finding and downloading free music online. The great thing about smartphones these days is that they’ve basically become portable computers that give users the ability to listen to and watch pretty much anything their desires whenever and wherever they want.


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Masses of VPN Subscriptions Taken Out During Turkish Protests

A virtual private network (VPN) is a great way to hide your web based activity. It keeps you anonymous and makes it hard for someone to track down what you’re doing online and who you are.


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Shazam Now on iPad, Features Auto-Tagging & Music Discovery Map

New features include lightning-fast tagging, full-screen lyrics, and an interactive map that enables music fans to explore what people are listening to in any city around the world.


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BitTorrent Announces Free Download of Official Roots Picnic Mixtape

Free album download containing songs from scores of artists scheduled to appear at the 6th Annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia on June 1st. BitTorrent Inc.


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Anonymous Calls Twitter Hack a Joke and Techsites Idiots

A few hours ago, Anonymous twitter soap box, AnonyOps took a swing at some of the major tech sites for reporting on what they said was just a “practical joke.” According to some sources, the other Anonymous twitter account, YourAnonNews, had been hacked. AnonyOps disagrees.


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Kim Dotcom Wins Case, Police Have to Return Seized Materials

New Zealand judge orders the police to return any irrelevant data to Kim Dotcom and destroy any cloned hard drives containing personal information. Since January 2012, Kim Dotcom has been no stranger to courts.


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What is BitTorrent Bundle?

Many BitTorrent users have been asking the question: What exactly is a BitTorrent Bundle and why would I want to download it? BitTorrent Bundle is an attempt to promote artists, monetize content and bring legality to the BitTorrent technology.


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Piracy is Still More Convenient

One of the biggest reasons given for piracy over the past decade, has been convenience.


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Social Downloader: Instantly Download Copies of all Your Facebook, Instagram Pics

Program allows you to quickly make a backup copy of all your Facebook and Instagram pics as well as those of friends and family members, including any pics you’re tagged in.


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Germany is not Happy with Potential Xbox One Spying

Microsoft and its newly announced Xbox One console have taken a variety of different beatings over the past week. Whether it was for its lack of backwards compatibility, the fact that it looks like a clock radio from the 80s or its ridiculous licensing system for used games.


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