Technology

The ‘Cyber Caliphate Army’ of the ‘Islamic State/ISIS’ launched an unsuccessful attack on the world’s most visited website, Google. The attack failed after the hackers wrongly targeted a website with a similar name belonging to an Indian man. Belfast Telegraph reports: “We promised to hack Google,” the group declared. “Keep the promise inshallah [God willing], expect us today.” However, a few hours later, they had instead defaced the website www.addgoogleonline.com, which is reportedly registered by someone named Gandani K. from India.

By EconMatters

An Analysis of the EIA Weekly Summary Report regarding the Oil Industry. Increasing Oil Imports right now are outpacing U.S. Production cuts, but the market is looking past this data metric, and focusing on increased gasoline demand numbers on a year over year basis.

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The FBI have joined forces with the National Science Foundation and invested $1 million dollars into a project aimed at gathering information on people who share anti-governemnt internet meme’s online. The goals of the project, according to the FBI, are: “The project is aimed at modeling the diffusion of information online and empirically discriminating among models of mechanisms driving the spread of memes. We explore why some ideas cause viral explosions while others are quickly forgotten.

Kanye West has been caught illegally downloading music from popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay this week, just days after rumors circulated that the rapper was suing the torrent website for enabling users to download his album  The Life Of Pablo.  Kanye posted a screenshot of his computer screen on Twitter, intending to publicise his watching of a Sufjan Stevens music video on YouTube.

The battle between the FBI and Apple over encryption took a turn in Apple’s favor this week, with a similar court ruling coming down on the side of privacy. Congress is eager to get in the game. What might we expect if they do?