Nerd fight! 4chan hunts LulzSec after game attacks Two of the most brazen online communities are at each other's throats. The row between 4chan (the famed online message board) and LulzSec (the busy, bullying hacking group) got underway after LulzSec took out websites belonging to a variety of much-loved video games. Lulzsec Hackers Go to War with 4chan [Nerd Fight] # nerdfight The celebrity hacking group Lulz Security borrows its name and aesthetics from the roiling message board 4chan. But now the group has declared war on 4chan and its users—many of whom identify with the hacking group Anonymous—pissing off the nerds who are most likely to support their online shenanigans. More » 4Chan, LulzSec Bicker Over Gaming Targets Got the popcorn, interwebs? Defenders of Wikileaks and all around decent chaps Anonymous and new lulzists on the block LulzSec have begun trading barbs- apparently after some 4Chan users got pissy with LulzSec's habit of downing gaming services like MMPORG EVE Online. Users on /v/ were reportedly angered after yesterday's rampage of lulz resulting in [...] 4Chan, LulzSec Bicker Over Gaming ... Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot's New Startup Canvas Exclusive: 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) is announcing a round of funding today for his new startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson has led a $3 million series A round of funding, with all of the company's previous angel investors participating, including SV Angel , Lerer Ventures (who led Canvas' seed round ), Andreessen Horowitz , Founder Collective , and Joshua ... LulzSec Infects 4Chan Users, Uses Them to DDoS the World Group is waiting to address more takedown requests, says DDoS attacks aren't real hacks 4Chan Has 18M Uniques A Month, But Canvas Participation Is Optional 4Chan and Canvas founder Christopher Poole (Moot) took the stage to talk to Erick Schoenfeld about creating vibrant online communities. Poole revealed that that the eight-year-old 4Chan is averaging 8 million users according to Quantcast and 18 million users according to Google. Note: Poole says that the Google numbers used to be 14 million and shot up to 18 because of a recent Google Analytics ... Canvas Lures Union Square Ventures Into Its $3 Million Round Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan, just announced a $3 million Series A round for his latest startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures is invested, along with angel investors SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective and Joshua Schachter. One of the Forever-Alone Singles 4Chan Lured to Times Square Is Actually Rather Dashing 4chan's plan to entice lonely singles to Times Square for an involuntary flash mob-come-public shaming , didn't quite work out as they hoped. As planned, the hackers used fake OkCupid profiles to lure "forever alone" types to 46th and Broadway on a Friday night to catch them on-camera. But not all of the fellas were as pathetic as they imagined. One fedora-wearing young gent named Keats, for ... Canvas, Christopher Poole's New Venture, Announces New Funding Round Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, today announced a new $3 million funding round for his new venture, Canvas. Union Square Ventures is leading the round, with all of Canvas' previous angel investors also participating, including SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Andressen Horowitz, Founder Collective and Joshua Schachter. Canvas previously raised $625,000 in seed funding. The [Full Story…] /b/ - what does it mean? One of the most searched for trends on Google at the moment is /b/, but what does this odd set of characters mean.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
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