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Brazil does not plan to grant asylum to Edward Snowden, according to sources cited by Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo Snowden stoked the Brazil asylum speculation Tuesday when he offered, via an open letter, to help Brazil investigate the extent of spying on Brazilian citizens and President Dilma Rousseff....
Some people are objecting to North American Aerospace Defense Command online updates on the whereabouts of Santa The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood is particularly off-put by a video that shows Santa's sleigh being escorted by fighter jets (roughly the :24 mark)....
Norway's government ruled that Bitcoins don't qualify as a real currency, and it will treat them as an asset -- as opposed to a legitimate currency -- that is subject to capital gains tax Many countries have been weighing in on how they will treat Bitcoins. Earlier this month, China said that its banks and financial institutions shouldn't handle th...
China has "substantial evidence" on Qualcomm in an antitrust probe, according to a report in the state-run China Daily that quotes Xu Kunlin, the head of the National Development and Reform Commission's anti-price-fixing bureau. The Daily didn't divulge any specific details -- just Xu's confident assertion that Qualcomm is squarely in the crosshairs...
The Australian state of Victoria has made it illegal to distribute explicit images without consent The new law specifically outlaws "non-consensual sexting," which generally takes place when lovers split and there is post-breakup payback in the form of intimate photos of the former partners....
Scientists in China will use the country's Tianhe-1A supercomputer to forecast and analyze smog in major cities The Tianhe-1A will be used to create a simulation that will collate data from across more than 100 Chinese cities. Theoretically, this will enable scientists to predict the density of smog, how long it will linger, and where it might go n...
Ecuador hosted an Internet freedom forum last week, welcoming guests from the pro-transparency community The nation's president, Rafael Correa, is also funding a new research project designed to overhaul traditional copyright laws. To that end, the FLOK Society, based at a public university in Quito, is exploring ways to liberate Ecuador's Internet...
China's central bank said Thursday that the nation's banks and payment systems were prohibited from handling Bitcoins Bitcoins are "virtual goods" and have no legal weight, the banking body said. Individuals can still toy with them at their own risk, but financial institutions and payment systems can't touch -- no selling, no trading and no storing...
India's home ministry reportedly will seek advice from the U.S. to help decrypt communications taking place on platforms like Skype, BlackBerry and WeChat Sharing such spying techniques is a potential "area of cooperation," according to Indian law enforcement....
Alan Rusbridger, the top editor for The Guardian, told British parliament that government agencies in Britain and the U.S. have tried to "intimidate" the newspaper since it obtained and leaked loads of secret documents from Edward Snowden Over the course of 100-plus meetings, American and British government made it clear to The Guardian that the ou...
Nearly 700 websites pushing counterfeit products were seized by American and European authorities, according to Europol U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement teamed with European law enforcement agencies to execute the holiday cybersting....
China has launched a rover that is en route to the surface of the moon, marking the first time the Middle Kingdom has embarked on a moon-bound rover mission The rover, called "Jade Rabbit," is affixed to a rocket that launched at 1:30 a.m. Monday morning local time. If all goes to plan, it is expected to land on the moon in mid-December....
Perhaps to celebrate the anniversary of last year's U.S.-China telecoms showdown, Beijing has launched an antitrust probe into U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm The announcement comes on the heels of comments from Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs in which he told The Wall Street Journal that the company was "definitely seeing increased pressure" in China because of ...
Workers at Amazon in Germany are striking yet again in an effort to coax the company into better pay and conditions Hundreds of workers at two Amazon centers, one in Bad Hersfeld and one in Leipzig, walked out on Monday....
Australian police are investigating an Aussie who is openly advertising and, presumably, selling marijuana on Facebook The dealer, who operates under the pseudonym "Rick Kush Dispenser," has posted advertisements for multiple strains of marijuana on a "swap and sell" Facebook page that is generally used for clothes, children's toys and electronics....
China's massively popular WeChat messaging app has exposed school students to prostitutes through its "People Nearby" feature, which is sometimes used by prostitutes as a form of, shall we say, mobile advertising A survey among students, conducted in a handful of major Chinese cities, found that the kids had indeed come across prostitutes' accounts...
Six people have been arrested for their involvement in a worldwide ATM heist that resulted in the theft of US$45 million from two Middle East banks Five men and one woman, all from the suburbs of New York City, were charged with being members of a cybercrime outfit that lifted debit card information from MasterCard. The six people were accused of b...
A private company in South Africa has created "Memorial Alert," a microchip-based technology designed to thwart tombstone robberies. There recently has been a spate of these crimes in Johannesburg The microchip is inserted into a memorial. When it is disturbed, it will sound an alarm and send a text message to relatives and integrated security comp...
The U.S. government once again heads the list of those requesting data from Google, and lately it's been asking for a lot more Google's Transparency Report, a twice-a-year reminder of how often governments ask for information, says that the U.S. submitted 10,918 requests for 21,683 user accounts during the first half of 2013. U.S. requests had the ...
Italian authorities are investigating Apple for allegedly hiding 1 billion euros -- about US$1.34 billion -- from the taxman Prosecutors in Milan claim that Apple didn't declare more than $250 million in 2010 and more than $1 billion in 2011. Apple's Italian subsidiary booked some profits with an Irish subsidiary, thereby lowering its taxable incom...
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