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FileSonic, an online “digital locker” that provides users with 10GB of free storage for 30 days, has shut down the service’s file-sharing functions. The move is evidently a reaction to the bust on rival service Megaupload, which was shut down … Continue reading →

Sina Weibo, one of China’s premiere microblogs and alternatives to Twitter, saw a record number of messages sent per second Monday, in honor of the Chinese New Year. Kicking off the Year of the Dragon, the new record — 32,312 … Continue reading →

An IT security professional showed in an independent investigation that the average person with coding knowledge could access the world’s most important boardrooms unnoticed. Cameras, ideally perched on televisions or desks, can let hackers survey sensitive documents, passwords and financial … Continue reading →

Thanks to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), lots of tech junkies have become politics junkies, too. For that reason, we decided to figure out which candidates got the most money from the technology industry in 2011. It’s part of … Continue reading →

Batman, Superman and the rest of the Justice League of America are about to start fighting the famine in the Horn of Africa as part of We Can Be Heroes, a massive effort by DC Entertainment, Time Warner and three … Continue reading →

A team of engineers, drawn from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, have rebuilt Google to “focus on the user” and re-jigger Google’s recent Search Plus Your World changes, which put results for Google+ pages above sometimes more relevant pages like those … Continue reading →

Maria Ogneva is the head of community at Yammer, where she is in charge of social media, community programs, internal education and engagement. You can follow her on Twitter, her blog, and via Yammer’s Twitter account and company blog. If … Continue reading →

If you’re a cop and want to use a GPS device to track a suspect, you better have a warrant, the Supreme Court said Monday. In the decision, the court found that GPS tracking qualifies as “search” under the 4th … Continue reading →

The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload — which was shut down last Friday after the New Zealand police raided the man’s home at the request of the U.S. FBI — is still in custody Monday after a judge said he … Continue reading →

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) announced her resignation from Congress Sunday via a YouTube video posted on her website. Giffords, who is still recovering from being shot in the head during a public event last January, ultimately decided to resign … Continue reading →