Cyberculture agenda: KickassTorrents might be back at https://katcr.co/

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KickassTorrents ex-staffers brought the torrent site back from the dead

The Next Web by Mix

 

Back in July, millions of pirates got their hearts broken when their go-to torrent site KickassTorrents suddenly shut down following the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin – but it seems not all is lost. A group of devoted ex-staffers has kicked off a reincarnation of the notorious torrent site in hopes of bringing it back to its former glory. Launched today, KickassTorrents has a new fully operational torrent site. While the website looks identical to its predecessor, it starts with a clean user database; the good thing, however, is that many members of the original staff have are back on board – including its…

Inside India’s big Twitter hacks: Legion group makes more, bigger threats

Mashable! by Manish Singh

 

For the big guns in India, Twitter is no longer a safe place.

Popcorn Time Goes International With Multi-Language Dubbing

TorrentFreak by Andy

 

After taking the world by storm early 2014, Popcorn Time – the ‘Netflix for Pirates’ – has had a relatively quiet 2016.

After building to a crescendo last year, the original fork of the open source project went down after being targeted by the MPAA, leaving others to continue the mission.

Digital Diplomacy Moments of 2016

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These are selected digital diplomacy highlights of 2016

Swiss President goes viral

Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann goes viral with straight-laced speech about the therapeutic effects of laughter

Who said what inside the Trump tech meeting: Immigration, maternity leave, the grid and becoming the ‘software president’

Recode – Kara Swisher – Dec 15, 4:53 PM

The leaders of tech were close-mouthed their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump yesterday in New York, saying little about it, both before and after in public or online. Save for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos calling the confab “very

 

John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI

Washington Post – Dec 15

John Podesta was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The more we learn about the Russian plot to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign and elect Donald Trump, and the failure of the FBI to adequately respond, the more shocking it

 

A Complete List of Facebook’s Misreported Metrics and What They Mean

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

 

Facebook has once again been forced to acknowledge an error with their metrics.

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