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Facebook to fact-check Canadian news stories and reduce spread of false articles
TORONTO — Facebook Canada will launch a third-party, fact-checking program to root out fake news and provide users with more context on articles they read on the platform.
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Netflix says piracy-filled Popcorn Time is a serious competitor
Last year Popcorn Time leveraged the technology behind Torrents and made peer-to-peer streaming mainstream. Users no longer had to hunt down Torrent files on shady, pornography advertisement filled websites, and instead could simply click a single button in order to […] -
How to hide your online identity with a VPN service
With the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act’s final portion going into effect on Jan. 1, forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to forward copyright holders violation claims to their customers, many Canadians are seeking ways to hide their identity online. The most common […] -
Trial of alleged Silk Road creator begins
The lawyers for 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht (known online as Dread Pirate Roberts), the alleged creator of the Silk Road, a shadowy online community where drugs and other illegal items were exchanged and sold, claim he is nothing more than the “perfect fall guy” for the […] -
U.S. Central Command Twitter and YouTube accounts allegedly hacked by ISIS
Early Monday afternoon, the U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) Twitter account began sharing images, allegedly of internal sensitive CENTCOM documents, as well as messages from the Islamic State (ISIS). The first tweet sent out links to a Pastebin post with links to […] -
Why illegal downloading just became riskier for Canadians
Downloading copyrighted content through file sharing services just became little more risky for Canadians. The final part of Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act went into effect on Jan. 1, requiring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website hosts to relay notices of copyright […] -
Hundreds of The Pirate Bay clone websites emerge in wake of shutdown
More than two weeks have passed since The Pirate Bay’s servers were raided by Swedish authorities, pulling the site permanently offline. In the wake of this shutdown, as many as 400 Pirate Bay clone websites have cropped up, with most […] -
Follow Mr. Claus around the world with the 2014 NORAD Santa Tracker
It’s the night before Christmas and Santa is hard at work right now delivering toys to boys and girls all over the world, and just like every year, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is meticulously tracking the jolly white bearded man’s […] -
Tortoise gets an incredibly cute Lego ‘wheelchair’
A Tiny tortoise named Blade suffers from a big problem – a metabolic bone disease that makes him too weak to hold up the weight of his own shell. His owner, Iris Pleste, realized the 127 g tortoise wasn’t as active […] -
2014: The year in privacy failures
From lost hard drives to hacked networks and ignored security breaches, 2014 was the year that should wake us up -
Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay, website goes down
Early Tuesday Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay halting the site’s operations and pulling it offline at approximately 2 a.m. PT. In a statement to Torrent blog Torrent Freak, Paul Pinter, the Swedish police’s national coordinator for IP enforcement said, […]