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Our Algorithms Can Predict Future Disasters — Now What?
California is studded with a network of sensors that can perceive almost any motion in the ground, including the slightest perturbation of the Earth’s crust. The network began as a seismology research project, to...Pirate Bay ‘Advert’ Appears on Hacked Billboard
The Pirate Bay is known for its technical ‘playfulness’, as was demonstrated earlier this week with a hack which led many to believe that the site had moved to the dictatorial waters of North...Feds to take a closer look at patent trolls with patent trolls
US antitrust enforcers are getting mighty interested in patent trolls. The Federal Trade Commission has even taken to calling these lawsuit-happy companies "patent assertion entities," or PAEs. "There's a possibility of competitive harm here," said...Pirate Bay Users Hide IP-Addresses to Counter Copyright Enforcement, Research Finds
April last year The Pirate Bay renamed itself to The Research Bay to conduct the largest ever survey among file-sharers. The BitTorrent site teamed up with the Cybernorms research group at Lund University, who...The Russian underground economy has democratized cybercrime
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