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Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and Chat Services
Back in 1999, Seattle-based activists formed the communication collective Riseup.net. The site’s email and chat services, among other tools, soon […]
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4K Blu-ray discs leaked, manage a whopping 100GB capacity
The Blu-ray Disc Association may not have announced the 4K disc just yet but a manufacturer has taken the plunge […]
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Meet Hacking Team, the company that helps the police hack you
In 2001, a pair of Italian programmers wrote a program called Ettercap, a “comprehensive suite for man-in-the-middle attacks” — in […]
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Securing a Linux Server
It is a rare to watch someone secure a freshly installed server right off the bat, yet the world we […]
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Scientists suggest spacetime has no time dimension
The concept of time as a way to measure the duration of events is not only deeply intuitive, it also […]
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Ed Snowden’s Email Provider, Lavabit, Shuts Down To Fight US Gov’t Intrusion
Early on in the Snowden leaks, it was revealed that Snowden himself was using email services from an operation called […]
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World’s oldest temple built to worship the dog star
Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, may have been built to worship the dog star, Sirius. The 11,000-year-old site consists of […]
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‘Extraordinary’ Mayan frieze found in Guatemala
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found an “extraordinary” Mayan frieze richly decorated with images of deities and rulers and a long dedicatory inscription. […]
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Digging for the truth at controversial megalithic site
It’s been raining at Gunung Padang, and the grass on the mountain’s precipitous eastern slope is slick with water and […]
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Ancient statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite
An ancient statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable […]
