Cody Taylor

Twitter’s traffic is shooting through the roof right now — a recent Comscore report finds the site’s U.S. usage more than doubled in March, jumping a full 131 percent from the previous month — and now, the service’s founders seem to have some sort of surprise up their sleeves. So what’s the big secret?

Inspired by Seinfeld, DefectiveByDesign is “impeaching” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to drop DRM on the Kindle.

Support for The Pirate Bay doesn’t stop at the Swedish border, nor it is limited to blogs and forums. Today, a group of Russian Pirate Bay supporters will throw a street party at Pushkin Square in the center of Moscow, with the full approval of the Russian government.

Samsung announced the first line of consumer solid state laptop and drives for handhelds that encrypt all data written to them.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has overturned a lower court order permitting webcast of an oral argument in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, in Boston. As one commentator put it, the decision gives the RIAA permission to ‘cower behind the same legal system they’re using to pillory innocent people.’ Ironically, the appeals court’s own hearing had been webcast, via an mp3 file. The court admitted that this was not an appropriate case for a ‘prerogative writ’ of ‘mandamus,’ but claimed to have authority to issue a writ of ‘advisory mandamus.’ The opinion came as a bit of a surprise to me because the judges appeared, during the oral argument, to have a handle on the issues. The decision gave me no such impression. From where I sit, the decision was wrong in a number of respects, among them: (a) it contradicted the plain wording of the district court rule, (b) it ignored the First Amendment implications, and (c) there is no such thing as ‘advisory’ mandamus or ‘advisory’ anything — our federal courts are specifically precluded from giving advisory opinions.”

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More records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined as a result of a few large breaches involving payment cards, according to a report released on Wednesday. There were 90 confirmed data breaches and the top five breaches accounted for 93 percent of total records compromised