PRIVATE PROFILES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN GOOGLE + AFTER JULY 31ST

Don't want anyone searching for you on Google+? No problem! Just leave your profile marked as private and Google will punt your page from the cloud after July 31st. If you still want your profile around come August, you'll need to mark it as public before that deadline. You can still keep most of your personal details under lock and key, limiting access to specific elements to yourself, your circles, extended circles, or anyone on the web -- Google does require that your full name and gender be available to everyone, however.

PIRATE BAY BEING BLOCKED BY COMCAST AND OTHER ISP'S?

Reports have begun sprouting up all over the Internet claiming that Comcast, and a handful of other ISPs, are blocking access to torrent treasure trove, The Pirate Bay.

Users have reported attempts to navigate to thepiratebay.org result in a timeout error, even switching DNS servers to make sure it wasn’t a name-server record error causing the behavior. After firing up a VPN client and initiating a session, connectivity to the site was immediately restored. Comcast now has more impetus to bar connections to the torrent index — its merger with NBC Universal means that the ISP owns content that is potentially being shared illegally — but the blocking of sites that do not further a corporation’s interests is a very slippery slope.

Comcast has issued the following statement: “We’re not blocking PirateBay [The Pirate Bay] and reports online indicate users from several ISPs around the world are affected.