Tag: Internet
In a riveting new profile of Russia’s pro-government trolls, Max Seddon explains the details of Kremlin’s newest campaign to adjust the world’s view of Putin Country. According to strategy documents leaked by “a mysterious Russian hacker collective,” a firm called Internet Research Agency employs a small army of English-speakers to diligently troll major websites. These trolls go […]
Artists Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach (Gay Check Online, Fuji Cannon) have collaborated on a song about a uberhacker impervious to the NSA, Google, Facebook and all other nefarious entities spying on your personal data, because he is “invisible on the internet, lalalala.” Enjoy the video above and download the mp3 here. Happy Monday. Here are the lyrics, translated into […]
The beaches of the Rockaway Peninsula will become the latest NYC public spaces to get free Wi-Fi, Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver announced over the weekend. The city will provide internet access at Beach 9th through Beach 12th streets, Beach 73rd, Beach 86th, Beach 97th, Beach 106th, and Beach 116th streets, DNAinfo reports. Good news: you’ll be able […]
This morning, the New York based multi-media design collective Eyebodega (Rob Chabebe, Joe Perez) premiered the music video “When I Look” for electronic artist Bobmo. The video features vintage internet-influenced psychedelic 3D visuals, which Eyebodega made in a trans-Atlantic collaboration with UK artist Michael Willis, a former member of Euopean artist collective Panther Club. Chabebe told ANIMAL that […]
Putin has just signed new laws requiring individual bloggers to register their identity with the government, among other restrictions on internet freedom and privacy. Bloggers will now be treated as “media outlets” and be subject to similar regulations, vague guidelines and severe punishments. This is your five-minute explainer, with information culled from several English and Russian-language […]
We’ve been hearing rumblings about a plan to turn NYC pay phones into free, public Wi-Fi hotspot for years now, but not much has materialized. According to the de Blasio administration, however, that could change soon. Yesterday, the city issued a request for proposals to transform up to 10,000 of the mostly unused telephones into […]
In an anonymous leak, an alleged former Google employee, is accusing the company of deliberately trying to cheat websites who publish Google AdSense ads. The accusation, published on Pastebin, states that Google created a policy explicitly to steal profits, while turning a blind eye to “VIPs.” Google executive Matt Cutts took to a popular developers’ forum, Hacker […]
“Grams” (address at grams7enufi7jmdl.onion) was just launched last week, and true to its stolen web design, it’s trying to be a Google for the dark web. The developer has given out an API to let owners of these secretive dark web stores appear on Grams. These dark web stores sell anything from drugs and guns […]
Downtown Brooklyn became the latest NYC neighborhood to get free public Wi-Fi this week, launching wireless internet service in the areas surrounding Fulton Mall. The $150,000 project, financed by the city’s Economic Development Corporation, brings Wi-Fi to the region bounded by Tillary Street, Cadman Plaza West, Schermerhorn Street, and Flatbush Avenue. Borough President Eric Adams, in […]
The Heartbleed bug is upon us. All of us. In the words of security expert Bruce Schneier: “On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.” WHY The Heartbleed bug is a security disaster that strikes at the most popular security software on the internet, OpenSSL. Server administrators all over are scrambling, and security certificate […]
