Want to create a huge botnet to distribute malware, pump out spam, crack passwords or knock your enemy’s website offline? Don’t bother with designing malware to break into strang... Read more
When Web surfers sign up for a new online service or download a Web application for their smartphone or tablet, the service typically requires them to click a seemingly innocuous box and acc... Read more
Language does not come naturally to machines. Unlike humans, computers cannot easily distinguish between, say, a river bank and a savings bank. Satire and jokes? Algorithms have great troubl... Read more
“The Guardian’s Open 20: fighters for internet freedom” Rickard Falkvinge – Founder, the Pirate party Falkvinge founded the Swedish Pirate party in 2006 to focus on reforming copyrigh... Read more
Phone calls and e-mail messages poured in to Congressional offices WASHINGTON — When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the r... Read more
In the beginning, the language of the World Wide Web was English. Times change though, and the United States’ military’s gift to civilization knows no national boundaries, and growing worldw... Read more
Image via Wikipedia by Tim Berners-Lee (Scientific American) The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy its... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined — win at chess, predict the weather — and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced or... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Placing internet ads on websites will be easier and more profitable in the future thanks to a new technology developed at the University of Toronto that allows ads to be... Read more