Lavabit and Silent Circle are making headlines again. This time its not because they shut down but actually starting a new one and they are calling it the Dark Mail Alliance. Lavabit, by the way, was the company that Snowden used and ended up shutting down its operation in a bid to resist surveillance. Doesn’t easy to use snoop proof email for all sound lovely? Dark Mail Alliance is expecting to launch 2014, and with its Kickstarter campaign, it is seeking over 196 thousand to revive and extend Lavabit's legacy by open sourcing it, so others will be tempted to adopt the dark mail protocol. This is hard sometimes though. End to End encryption means both parties, the sender and receiver must use it. Cant you find it hard to convince people to get used to this?

An alleged Silk Road 2.0 is launching, promising a resurrected black market for the dark web. It came back online just Wednesday, promising a new and improved version of the site. This new version will use the anonymity tool Tor and those crypto Bitcoins to protect the user's identity. The former Silk Road was a trust based site, how easily are people going to trust the new one? As of Wednesday, it already sported close to 500 drug listings; ranging from marijuana to cocaine. Only visible difference from the last Silk Road, is a new security feature that allows users to use their PGP encryption keys as an extra authentication measure.

Blockbuster is no more. This took a lot longer than all of this thought, right? Blockbuster really did it wrong when it came to competition. They had chance after chance to go with the market and try out streaming and ridding of their late-fees. Because they weren't willing to change by the time they offered stream and mail, it was too late.

McDonalds is considering 3D printing their happy meal toys. Obvious first thought? I hope they don’t try to cook to order because a printed toy takes a couple hours. They are tinkering around with the idea to install 3D printers in its stores. Isn't this surprising? Wouldn't it be expensive? I wonder if a plastic melting machine would pass code for use in a food outlet.

Finally. Gross Alert. This biohacker, Tim Cannon, decided to implant a smartphone sized sensor into his arm. Calling himself a DIY Cyborg, the implant is a Circadia 1.0 computer chip, wirelessly charged, and developed for 18 months by him and his hacker friends. It is supposed to monitor his vital signs then transmit that real-time data to his Android phone.