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US authorities began another round of domain name seizures a few hours ago, targeting several sports streaming sites.

Thus far, neither the Department of Justice nor Homeland Security’s ICE unit have officially commented on the seizures, but it can’t be a coincidence that sports streaming sites are being targeted a few days before the Super Bowl is due to be aired.

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The name is passed as a variable by reference, when the target is found it is stored in this variable.
This will change the variable type from string to object, this very information is used as a condition to stop further recursion.

Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

So what have you downloaded lately?

If you’re not using BitTorrent through a proxy or VPN, there’s a good chance that the rest of the world can see without asking.

YouHaveDownloaded is a new Russian-based service that claims to track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads.

However, they go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website.

Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen say they have been busy recently tracking down piracy ‘masterminds’. After busting who they claim is the leader of a huge movie piracy group, last week they had the police detain a less likely target – a 19-year-old law student who runs a file-sharing blog.

RettighedsAlliancen say that guides on his site showed readers how to break the law, an act serious enough to involve the police.

Amazon's just-shipping Kindle Fire has already become the most desired target for Android apps, an Appcelerator study found.

Of the Android developers it tracked on all platforms, 49 percent in North America wanted to target the reader tablet.

While the so-called "Facebook revolutions" in the Arab world were nothing of the sort*, what's going on in America right now may be the world's first genuine social-media uprising.

Besides the standard channels of Facebook, whose Occupy Wall St page now has nearly 170,000 fans, Twitter, where the hashtags #occupywallst and #ows spew out dozens of tweets a minute, and of course a dedicated website, Occupy Together, protesters are also organising via Meetup, which at the time of this writing shows events planned in over 1,300 cities worldwide.

Gmail has been the target of recent hacking attacks. Here are four solid tips to bolster security for you Google account information.