Since Thursday, the web has seen a bunch of big sites fall victim to hacker attacks. And yes, our favorite hacker group, Anonymous, has been behind it all.

Sites run by Universal Music, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and several others were taken down.

A tweet from Anonymous stated that Thursday's DDoS attacks were the biggest they've been able to do thus far, with about 5,600 users contributing to the attacks.

Even today, CBS.com was taken down. Then, Universal suffered yet another hit.

Pretty interesting considering the group tends to go into hibernation mode from time to time.

It's been a big week for Anonymous. In fact, some us are really just waiting for more hacker headlines to break through the news...

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Yesterday was an exciting day for Apple gadget lovers and ebook junkies. The new ebook authoring tool by unveiled by Apple, called iBooks Author, allows anyone to easily create a multimedia-rich ebook, complete with dynamic features and graphics. Photo galleries, video clips, Keynote presentations, built-in quizzes and other user-interactive features like images and 3D objects are all part of the iBooks Author deal.

The app is available now for free from the Mac App Store. One of the goals of this launch is to increase iPad usage in educational institutions and student learning. Apple has already partnered with a number of textbook publishers to help make it happen.

In other delightful news, it seems that the collective actions from across the web regarding the blackout protest against SOPA and PIPA this past Wednesday really made a large enough impact to have the chief sponsor pull the SOPA bill today, until further notice.

Lamar Smith (chief sponsor of SOPA) said that the bill will be pulled "until there is wider agreement on a solution."

Of course, this doesn't mean that it's not coming back. Clearly, Smith and his committee heard our crying and enraged voices, which was enough to make them rethink what they were trying to do here.

Online piracy will always be a problem as long as the Internet continues to exist, but the web made it quite clear that the proposed legislation was not the answer. Let's hope that more appropriate measures will be taken in the future to help battle copyright infringement and better protect the rights of content creators.

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On January 18th, several sites are planning to go black in protest of proposed online piracy legislation by U.S. law.

At this point, we know that two of the biggest sites that plan on participating include Wikipedia.com and Reddit.com. Google doesn't plan on shutting down for the day, but they will be displaying some information to their users as a way to educate them about the proposed legislation and to voice their opposition.

Despite the shared interest of protesting from around the web, other big sites like Facebook and Twitter will remain online and working for all users. And while angry blog posts and "STOP SOPA" avatars continue to float around the web, a lot of people seem to be left confused and misguided about what exactly is going on.

If you can handle it, you should read the bill for yourself.

Of course, I know that a lot of people won't actually read it, so as an alternative you can also watch this recent SOPA debate, which aired this past Sunday introducing the legislation and touches on some of the most important issues involved with it.

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Yesterday, Google announced some new changes to search results on the official Google blog. It's called "Search, plus Your World" or something like that. With the new changes, you can expect to start seeing more personal results, profiles in search, people and pages when you search for phrases and keywords in Google. Basically, public Google+ pages will be blended with regular search results.

So, this is supposed to be good, but the folks over at Twitter responded negatively to the new changes. Here's what they said:

"As we've seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter. We're concerned that as a result of Google's changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone."

Twitter's not the only one to speak out against the new Google+ integration in search. TechCrunch writer Josh Constine also wrote a pretty negative opinion piece about the whole thing.

I can personally admit that I haven't even looked at my G+ account news feed in weeks, perhaps even a month or so. Facebook is where I like to be and G+ is not unique enough for me to switch.

Interesting move by Google, but it doesn't seem like everyone is very pleased with it right now.

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