The official premiere of Tenet has drawn many people to the movie theaters this week. On pirate sites, there’s been plenty of interest too, as thousands of people are being tricked into downloading fake copies. Pirates are not the only ones being fooled though, as Warner Bros. has its eyes set on fake releases too. TorrentFreak reports: All around the world,…
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The Pirate Bay Blocked By MalwareBytes But Normal Service Will Be Resumed
The Pirate Bay returned to the clear web this week after a month-long hiatus. However, the structure of the infamous torrent index presented an access problem to users of the popular anti-malware software MalwareBytes, which persistently blocked an essential element of the platform due to the presence of “a few” cryptocurrency miners on a secondary domain. TorrentFreak reports: The problem lay…
Copyright Lobby Calls Out Plex For Not Doing Enough To Stop Piracy
An anonymous reader shares a report: For those who don’t want to dive fully into torrents, Plex is a great alternative for streaming television shows and movies for free. Officially, Plex is a “neutral” media player, and it first became popular with people looking to stream content between devices at home, like from their desktop in the study to their laptop…
Is Russia Trying to Deanonymize Tor Traffic?
A contractor for Russia’s intelligence agency suffered a breach, revealing projects they were pursuing — including one to deanonymize Tor traffic. An anonymous reader shared this report from ZDNet: The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by the name of 0v1ru$ hacked into SyTech’s Active Directory server from where they gained access to…
How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I mentally revisit the various homes of my childhood, wandering from room to room, turning on lights and peering in closets until I conk out. Turns out these imaginary tours are also handy mnemonic tools, as Vox’s Dean Peterson explains above. Hey, that’s good news… isn’t the subconscious rumored to […]
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