The Pirate Bay might be resurrected soon
Police raided The Pirate Bay’s servers in Sweden almost two weeks ago, and while fans believed the massive online downloads resource would quickly be brought back online, the group behind it didn’t appear to be ready to resurrect the service as fast as some might have expected. However, Torrent Freak reports that the first signs The Pirate Bay is coming back up are here, as ThePirateBay.se domain name is back online, waving a pirate flag.
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This great free app is the camera your Android phone deserves
Early Android phones had awful cameras that took poor quality photos, but that has completely changed in the modern smartphone era. The gap in quality between pictures captured on iPhones and pictures taken on high-end Android phones has narrowed to a sliver, and there are even some Android handsets that offer camera quality that is arguably better than Apple’s iPhones.
Camera software is a different story though, and Android vendors often build default camera apps that are overly complex and very difficult to use. Thankfully there are some third-party offerings that tone down the bells and whistles to help you focus more on the essentials, and A Better Camera is one of the best options we’ve found thus far.
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Rogen’s revenge? It looks like someone’s attacking North Korea’s networks
You just knew that someone, whether it was the United States government or an independent hacker collective such as Anonymous, would try to make North Korea pay for its role in getting Sony to cancel the theatrical release of The Interview. And now it appears that some sort of reprisal is underway — Re/code reports that analysts at DYN Research have determined that North Korea’s networks are under attack from an unknown source and are showing “signs of distress.”
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Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen first hand what can happen when corporations are the victim of internet hacking. Sony has had the private emails of high ranking employees leaked, damaging reputations and hurting business prospects. Plus, a scheduled film due to release soon has also been cancelled due to the threat of further action.
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How the Sony hack felt from the inside
Even though the recent Sony Pictures hack did not affect as many individuals as the Target or Home Depot hacks, the cyber heist is still one of the most talked-about attacks to date, considering the massive amount of internal information the hackers stole, releasing some of it online and exposing personal data belonging to Sony employees in the process. Many reports have detailed the various things hackers revealed about Sony’s daily operations and business plans, but a new report gives us an idea of how the cyber caper felt from the inside.
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Do you love the iPhone 6 but miss the iPhone 5’s design? You need this $14 case
There is no question that Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus include one of the best looking designs of the year. They’re shockingly thin and sleek, with smooth round edges that replace the hard lines from the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. Sure there are a couple of curious design decisions to be found, but Apple’s new iPhones are still beautiful devices that are a cut above almost every other smartphone on the market.
Even still, there are some people who miss the look of last year’s iPhone 5s and the three iPhone models that came before it. What’s more, the iPhone 6 is an accident waiting to happen because it is so unbelievably slippery.
Now, you can kill two birds with one stone for as little as $13.99 thanks to a new case from Elago.
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MASSIVE LEAK: These are the secret tricks CIA spies use to beat airport security checks
Airport security is supposed to prevent individuals with malicious intentions from entering or leaving a country, but that doesn’t mean all security measures used in airports are fool-proof. In fact, WikiLeaks has published not one, but two internal CIA documents that teach agents how to act and what to do in order to make sure they’re able to fool airport security while traveling from country to country using fake passports, and how to keep their cover intact in the process.
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Here’s what critics who saw ‘The Interview’ are saying about it
The most talked-about new movie of 2014 won’t even be released in theaters. In fact, for all of the buzz that Sony Pictures Entertainment’s “The Interview” has generated, almost no one has actually seen the movie. Sure, we’ve all watched the scene where North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un meets his untimely demise, but theatrical release of The Interview has been cancelled as Sony tries to minimize additional damage from the massive hack it suffered over the past few months.
Of course, even though the film hasn’t been released, there are still a handful of critics who were able to screen The Interview before its release was cancelled.
Here’s what they had to say.
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Amazon’s huge Christmas sale will give you $220 worth of Android apps for free
Amazon definitely loves to play Santa Claus when it comes to giving away Android apps and the company on Monday announced that it’s having a blowout Christmas Amazon Appstore sale that will let you download up to $220 worth of paid apps for free.
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This is the best way to fight back against the Sony hackers
Hackers have attacked Sony Pictures in late November, crippling the movie studio’s internal network, stealing a huge amount of data and ultimately convincing the company to pull the controversial The Interview movie from cinemas a few days before it was supposed to be released. Since then, Sony changed its mind, saying the movie will be available to viewers at some point. And movie fans who’d like to fight back now have an interesting, out-of-the-box way to do it.
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