SAN FRANCISCO – Like a small-scale Powerball drawing for porn viewers, newly launched XBLAZE.com offers its users the chance to win cash and other prizes for watching porn. Billed as “the very first and only adult website that offers its users cash rewards to watch adult movies,”...

CYBERSPACE – When the malware known as Zeus first reared its ugly, keystroke-logging, form-grabbing head over 10 years ago, it was used to target a variety of government and corporate entities, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, the massive consulting firm Booz...

LONDON – As part of the UK’s upcoming age-verification scheme to prevent minors from accessing online porn, a 16-digit “porn pass” code will be made available for purchase by “newsagents or corner shops,” according to a report from the Telegraph published over the weekend. Citing...

LOS ANGELES – The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced Monday that intimate.io, the company behind the adult-friendly “intimate” (ITM) token, has joined the adult trade association as a Platinum-level member. “We know the discrimination adult businesses face from traditional...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In a pair of developments with a decidedly Digital Age flare, the Missouri Senate approved a new bill which would prohibit the distribution of revenge porn, doing so the day before jury selection began in the trial of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. Greitens is...

CYBERSPACE – From the inception of the commercial internet, there has been an ongoing game of sorts going on between advertisers, publishers and consumers. Ever hungry for clicks and the mission-critical sales they (hopefully) lead to, advertisers have experimented with an...

NICOSIA, Cyprus – PumaPay, an emerging cryptocurrency which counts among its early partners several major adult entertainment companies, has ended its private sale after raising over $117 million and the generation of 78,042,956,829 PMA tokens, PumaPay parent company...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In different chambers of the Missouri legislature, a familiar pair of porn-related bills appear to be headed toward very different fates. In the Missouri Senate, SCR 52, a nonbinding resolution serves to “recognize pornography as leading to individual and...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. – While it went largely unremarked at the time, back in early March the Minnesota legislature added the Land of 10,000 Lakes to the growing list of states considering a bill which would require all internet-connected devices manufactured, distributed and/or...

SEATTLE – In a deal reportedly involving $10 million in cash and $31 million in stock, Minds + Machines Group Ltd (MMX) has entered into a conditional agreement to “acquire the entire membership interests” of ICM Registry LLC, the operators of the top-level domains .xxx, .porn,...