Previous generations dealt with the scourge of pirates on the open seas. Our curse involves coping with the various rogues, ranging from the Anonymous hackers to everyday garden-variety spammers, trolling the electronic waters of the Web. If you’ve encountered delays and service interruptions going online this week, the cause might be traced to what authorities are calling the most massive cyber attack in the history of the Internet.
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The Glove and Boot puppets, Mario and Fafa, go surfing on the Internet and identify 10 websites that leave them perplexed. These range from an Emergency Yodel site to another one presenting Nic Cage as anyone and everyone.
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The faceless hackers who belong to the collective Anonymous want to wipe Israel from the Internet. It’s time these slugs who hide under the cloak of secrecy were exposed to the sunlight. These vigilantes not only mistakenly think they have a right to police the Internet, but also to serve as its self-appointed judges and executioners. They fashion themselves as modern-day Robin Hoods, when in reality, they’re low-life criminals and ego-frigging maniacs. H/T SourceFed
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Whatever the question, Google has the answer. The search engine is ubiquitous and ever-expanding. If George Orwell was alive today, perhaps Big Brother would not broadcast over a big TV screen, but instead via the Internet.
Alex Gibson, Molly Gallagher, Josh Israel, Olivia Dunn, Jake Satterfield and Elizabeth Oldak star in this AVbyte original musical.
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The 7 Deadly Sins have taken new forms now that multi-player online gaming is all the rage. H/T Cracked
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More than 4,000 videos exist starring Keyboard Cat. The original cat, Fatso, owned by Charlie Schmidt of Spokane, Wash., died in 1987. But the Keyboard Cat videos didn’t become a big craze until two decades later. Vice interviews Brad O’Farrell, who popularized the cat and forever changed how we perceive the Internet.
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Iceland’s Interior Minister is leading an investigation into the possibility of banning online pornography from the country. If such a measure is enacted, Iceland would become the first Western democracy to apply the thumbscrews to Internet porn.
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When two people join an online dating site, they are matched according to shared interests and how they answer a number of personal questions. But how do sites calculate the likelihood of a successful relationship? Christian Rudder, one of the founders of popular dating site OKCupid, spills the beans by detailing the algorithm behind ‘hitting it off.’
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Kim Dotcom has divided opinion on whether he’s the first Robin Hood of the Internet era or the web’s biggest pirate. Mark Davis, from Australia’s SBS Dateline, travels to New Zealand to reveal the man behind the bravado. Dotcom not only recalls last year’s military-style raid on his mansion outside Auckland, but also shares his obsessive passion for video games, notably Call of Duty.
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Unhappy over YouTube’s refusal to take down the controversial film The Innocence of Muslims, the Egyptian government has banned the site and other social media outlets for one month. What’s next? Will Switzerland block the Internet for five weeks because there are holes in Swiss cheese? And maybe the French should call for a moratium because YouTube shows skimpier Brazilian bikinis than their French counterparts? Now, this could get interesting.
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