All Bitcoin news have been promoting scams by the past : CoinLenders, Inputs.io, MtGox, ...
Most of Bitcoin news writers have no clue what they are talking about. The just want to make a buzz.
I am waiting for someone to review the code.
Unless it is done by several people, you should not send any money.
EDIT :
The MaidSafe Foundation, a registered charity, actually own the patents.In order to use MaidSafe, you have to trust The MaidSafe Foundation who is simply the MaidSafe staff.
It is against the idea of decentralized and free Internet. MaidSafe aim to replace Internet by making it centralised. This is absurd.
MaidSafe will have access to your data any time, will be able to sell it and I think they will do as they are greedy as hell.