Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

Download the Entire Pirate Bay in Just 90 Megabytes

Users of Swedish piracy utopia The Pirate Bay have reason to be nervous, post-Megaupload. It’s survived everything companies and cops have thrown its way, but you never know—so download this archive of every single torrent from The Bay. Pirate Bay user “allisfine” ripped the text contents from the site, TorrentFreak reports, and luckily, that’s all…

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What Is HOIC?

Anonymous is on a destruction spree lately—after Megaupload was killed, their reaction was swift and powerful. They made it look easy—and that’s because thanks to the HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon), it is. Here’s the newest hacker superweapon. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-goes-on-megaupload-revenge-spree-doj-riaa-5877679 It’s the newest way Anonymous is attacking websites… Anonymous relies on the mob, corralled by a…

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Legally-Dubious Retro “Apple” iPhone Cases Will Be Sued into Oblivion

If you’re looking for a way to protect your iPhone and also stick a giant, MIA-sized middle finger into almost every possible realm of intellectual property law, these cases, “resembling” classic Apple computers, are for you. Cease and decisitalicious. I do kind of admire the extent to which Schreer Delights does not give a shit…

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An iPhone Used as a Hockey Puck at 82 MPH

If you want to sell something in tech, you can either employ cleavage or violence. In this case, the boys at G-Form are demoing their new iPhone case by beating the hell out of it with a hockey stick. Sure! There’s not a whole lot to say here. The case is meant to be tough.…

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Santorum Is Winning Caucuses but Still Losing Google

Rick Santorum decisively owned three GOP votes last night. On the internet, however, things aren’t going so well: Santorum’s top Google result is still “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.” http://gawker.com/5883254/shocker-rick-santorum-goes-three-for-three-in-tuesdays-elections-despite-being-rick-santorum At the moment, Dan Savage’s legendary Google bomb retaliation against then-senator Santorum for being…

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30,000 NY Hotel Maids Getting Anti-Rape “DSK Buttons”

Temporarily-accused sex criminal and Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be safely back in the motherland, but the spectre of hotel rape remains. The threat is apparently disquieting enough to justify mandatory rape alert buttons for New York’s hotel employees. Under a new labor contract brokered through the Hotel Association of New York, 30,000 maids and other…

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Logitech Cube Lightning Review: This Is Not a Mouse

Logitech arguably makes the best mice you can buy. I guess it tires of doing so, as the Cube mouse-plus-PowerPoint-clicker is an ergonomic war crime and peripheral abomination. At least it’s small enough to purge from memory. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-g400-lightning-review-im-going-to-murder-your-5837268 What Is It? A “compact” pinky-long touch mouse meant to be used during presentations, too. Who’s it…

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Facebook’s (Huge) New Photo Viewer Is Its Best Ever

Facebook is the place we look at photos online. And for years, those photos have been constrained to tiny boxes and ugly, low-resolution uploads. No more! Facebook’s new picture browser is here: your life is now giant and pretty. The new format also takes comments and tags and swings them over to the righthand side…

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7th Grade Idiots on Facebook: The Play

Theater has entertained man since the days of marble columns and poisoned philosophers. But what if the art were inspired not by medieval betrayal or star-crossed lovers, but by annoying middle school kids? Behold: Facebook tweens, a dramatic reenactment. The video, by funniness group The Navy Seals of Comedy, is wonderfully inspired. If you try…

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Santorum Attacks Gingrich’s Wild Moon Fantasies

Guy-who-won’t-win Rick Santorum has a new weapon in his arsenal against Space Admiral Newt Gingrich: a radio attack ad damning Newt’s moon base as financially irresponsible. The moon base is this election’s pivotal issue—is the dream dead? In addition to regular insanity, the ad blasts Newt’s space vision as “fiscal insanity,” citing a $500 billion…

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Russian Power Station Goes Haywire

You’re driving south of St. Petersburg, listening to some John Lennon. The traffic is a little heavy. God, this song is so great—and now, let us pause for an enormous electrical explosion that dominates the entire horizon. The video comes along with this article from Fontanka.ru, so poorly Google-translated that I’m only able to ascertain…

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Redbox Nabs 35,000 More DVD Kiosks

You might think Redbox, after partnering up with Verizon this morning, is getting out of the disc business. Hardly! The kiosk king is actually beefing up its physical presence. https://gizmodo.com/redbox-and-verizon-joining-forces-for-a-streaming-movie-5882598 Fast Company reports Redbox will now own NCR, which ran Blockbuster Express kiosks you might have stumbled upon in a pharmacy or something. Now the…

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Anonymous May Have Completely Destroyed This Military Law Firm

Anonymous’ gutting of Puckett & Faraj, the firm that defended the Marines behind the Haditha Killing, might have been more than a major embarrassment. The hack attack might have killed the group entirely. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-leaks-marine-corps-massacre-case-updated-5882057 In an email released by Anonymous in the wake of the attack—suggesting they still had their hands inside the attorneys’ bowels…

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Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest

When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family-sex. Íslendingabók—meaning “book of Icelanders”—is an online incest avoidance search engine. Plug in your name and that…

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Woman Who Assembles iPads Shown iPad for First Time in Her Life

“Mrs. Chen,” as CNN calls her, works in a Foxconn plant installing iPad screens for virtually every waking hour of her life. Despite this, she never actually saw an iPad until CNN whisked her away. Her reaction will surprise you. The video investigation, popping up (deliberately) close to the NY Times’ piece on Apple labor…

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There’s One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie Online

Using the internet is only worthwhile if you can show off the perverse and wonderful things you’ve found on it. So, now that we’re always online and always in touch, we’re constantly sharing links. But what if you’ve seen it already? Lie. You’ve probably encountered this already: most of your friends are bored all day,…

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Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case (Updated)

The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005’s Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn’t think the Marine in charge should have gotten off so lightly. This is their payback. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-smashes-boston-police-departments-website-up-5881987 Seven years ago, (then Sergeant) Frank Wuterich and several other marines he commanded killed…

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Sharing with “Friends of Friends” on Facebook Exposes You to 150,000 People

Well this is mildly terrifying: according to a new Pew study, the Facebook privacy mode a lot of us rely on for photos and status updates is, on average, anything but private. Time to reconsider your settings, everyone. The finding is staggering—Friends of Friends can hit as many as over seven million people: Facebook users…

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Anonymous Leaks an Entire Secret FBI International Conference Call (Updated)

Usually the FBI is the one doing the wiretapping, but Anonymous has turned the tables on the feds, intercepting an entire phone conversation between American and British cops. The investigation? Anonymous and LulzSec. Irony! The cops talk elite arrested members of the hacking squads, referring to their “Project Mayhem or whatever the hell that was,”…

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Anonymous Smashes Boston Police Department’s Website (Updated)

Anonymous has had a nice breather after last month’s Megaupload blitzkrieg, so it’s apparently time for more vengeance: the Boston Police Department’s site is defaced to hell. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-goes-on-megaupload-revenge-spree-doj-riaa-5877679 Anonymous claims the attack is a response to Occupy Boston police brutality, in addition to their general fuck the police ethos: Is that it? Hell no, there…

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Download the Entire Pirate Bay in Just 90 Megabytes

What Is HOIC?

Legally-Dubious Retro “Apple” iPhone Cases Will Be Sued into Oblivion

An iPhone Used as a Hockey Puck at 82 MPH

Santorum Is Winning Caucuses but Still Losing Google

30,000 NY Hotel Maids Getting Anti-Rape “DSK Buttons”

Logitech Cube Lightning Review: This Is Not a Mouse

Facebook’s (Huge) New Photo Viewer Is Its Best Ever

7th Grade Idiots on Facebook: The Play

Santorum Attacks Gingrich’s Wild Moon Fantasies

Russian Power Station Goes Haywire

Redbox Nabs 35,000 More DVD Kiosks

Anonymous May Have Completely Destroyed This Military Law Firm

Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest

Woman Who Assembles iPads Shown iPad for First Time in Her Life

There’s One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie Online

Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case (Updated)

Sharing with “Friends of Friends” on Facebook Exposes You to 150,000 People

Anonymous Leaks an Entire Secret FBI International Conference Call (Updated)

Anonymous Smashes Boston Police Department’s Website (Updated)

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