law
Networks
Leaked: ISPs Worldwide To Become Copyright Cops?
11:20PM Danny Allen | New negotiations for an international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) kick off today, and this round focuses on a secretive internet piracy plan drafted by the US government. No text has been released, but secret copyright treaty details have surfaced. It’s not looking good. More »
Phones
Senate Passes Bill That Allows Mobile Phone Jamming In Prisons
9:00AM Sean Fallon | The US Senate has passed the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 — allowing authorities to jam mobile phone signals inside prisons. More »
Software
Cyanogen Custom Android Builds Will Live On, Sans Google Apps
9:52AM John Herrman | When Google started hurling lawyerisms at the maker of the souped-up, stripped-down Cyanogen custom Android ROMs, the outlook was pretty grim. Luckily for Android hackers, Cyanogen and Google have reached an agreeable, albeit still stupid, compromise. More »
Gadgets
Roadside Dope Tester Promises To Make You Even More Paranoid
8:40AM Sean Fallon | As if the stoners and dopers weren’t paranoid enough, the police may soon be able to detect whether or not you partake in one the five most popular recreational drugs: cocaine, heroin, cannabis, amphetamine, and methamphetamine. More »
Gadgets
Student Suing Amazon After They Deleted Homework From His Kindle
7:38AM Sean Fallon | Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski’s electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. More »
Business
Psystar Sobers Up, Lawyers Up, Prepares To
2:40AM John Herrman | Oh, thank god, we almost went a whole month without hearing from everyone’s favourite EULA-flaunters: Psystar is back, again, and ready to fight, again, except this time with real-sounding lawyers, and without the outward appearance of insanity. More »
Psystar Sobers Up, Lawyers Up, Prepares To Die Go To Court
2:40AM John Herrman | Oh, thank god, we almost went a whole month without hearing from everyone’s favourite EULA-flaunters: Psystar is back, again, and ready to fight, again, except this time with real-sounding lawyers, and without the outward appearance of insanity. More »
Online
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied After Judge Cleared Of Bias Accusations
2:16AM Sean Fallon | It looks as though The Pirate Bay will have to hope for the best on appeal now that a Swedish court ruled that the judge’s membership with two pro-copyright organisations does not constitute bias. More »
Random Stuff
Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Knows Stuff About Computers
1:00AM John Herrman | Pundits have framed President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as a judicial equivalent to her predecessor. Not quite: Justice Souter is a proud luddite who has never owned a computer. Sotomayor, on the other hand, is a nerd. More »
Online
In the Online Equivalent of Crude Bathroom Graffiti, Is the Bathroom Responsible?
12:00AM Dan Nosowitz | After her jackass ex-boyfriend created fake profiles on Yahoo! to persuade other men to call her repeatedly for sexual favours, Cecilia Barnes found little help from Yahoo! in having them removed. More »
Gadgets
