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Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart New Web TV

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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US general warns on Iran cyber-soldiers

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 18 (News) - Cyber-attacks on Iran are turning it into a "force to be reckoned with," America's top cyber-soldier has warned.

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Aaron's Law

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Lawrence Lessig - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - A week ago, Aaron Swartz -- social activist, geek genius -- took his own life. Facing the choice between a federal prosecutor who insisted that he either accept the label "felon" and go to jail or fight a million-dollar lawsuit against 13 felony indictments, Aaron took the third option, and hanged himself. And with that we all lost an incredible soul, one who had literally spent half of his 26-year-old life doing nothing except working for (at least his conception of) the public good. Aaron's alleged "crime" was that he used MIT's network to access a database of academic journal articles (JSTOR) and download millions of those articles to his laptop computer. He didn't "hack" the network to secure those downloads: MIT is a famously open network. He didn't crack any special password system to get behind JSTOR's digital walls. He simply figured out how JSTOR was filing the articles that he wanted, and wrote a simple script to quickly gather those articles and then copy them to his machine.

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Google report reveals sharp increase in government requests for users' data

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 13 (News) - Authorities made more than 20,000 requests in first half of 2012, with US government making most demands for online details • Get the data behind this report and charts Government surveillance of citizens' online lives is rising sharply around the world, according to Google's latest report on requests to remove content and hand over user data to official agencies. In the first six months of this year, authorities worldwide made 20,939 requests for access to personal data from Google users, including search results, access to Gmail accounts and removal of YouTube videos. Requests have risen steeply from a low of 12,539 in the last six months of 2009, when Google first published its Transparency Report. Authorities made 1,791 requests for Google to remove 17,746 pieces of content in the first half of 2012, almost twice as many as the 949 requests made in the same period last year, and up from 1,048 requests made in the last six months of 2011. "This is the sixth time we've released this ...

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Banks fail to repel cyber threat

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By E. Scott Reckard, Andrew Tangel, Jim Puzzanghera - Sep. 27 (News) - A shadowy but well organized hacker group in the Middle East has disrupted the electronic banking operations of America's largest financial institutions in recent days, underscoring U.S. vulnerability to online terrorism.

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Survey OF Effects Of Cloud Outage Shows How Much Of The Web Runs On Amazon

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Anthony Wing Kosner - Jul. 01 (News Analysis) - All of the news reports about the Amazon Web Services Outage Friday night mentioned the same few big name companies, Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram. A few tech blogs mentioned Heroku, the well-known Ruby and JavaScript-based cloud application platform. Clearly Amazon and all of the companies affected are working on damage control, which means, for the most part, a tweet or three but no public acknowledgement on their websites.

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It's a Googly World: A Map of the Planet's Most Visited Websites by Country

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Rebecca J. Rosen - Jun. 10 (Special Report) - Facebook makes a decent showing, but the search-engine giant dominates as the most-visited site around the world.

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The Fight For The Fifth Screen (Fifth Screen!?) In Your Life

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Kit Eaton - Apr. 22 (News Report) - Smartwatches, AR goggles, and more: There's a mighty scramble afoot for your last sliver of attention. Is the the start of ad-mageddon?

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Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Andy Baio - Apr. 18 (Special Report) - I don’t watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In 2008, I was hooked on one drug for my daily fix: Memeorandum, a completely automated aggregator that surfaces popular stories from political news sites, often within minutes.

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Selling You on Facebook

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 07 (News Report) - Many popular Facebook apps obtain sensitive information about users—and users' friends—so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.

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Hotel's Free Wi-Fi Comes With Hidden Extras

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian X. Chen - Apr. 07 (News Report) - A Web engineer notices an odd glitch while using the wireless access at a Courtyard Marriott in New York -- and discovers that the hotel's Internet service is injecting advertising code into every Web page he visits. A site selling the technology for this system refers to it as "Web experience manipulation."

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Google's Project Glass: You ain't seen nothin' yet

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Martin LaMonica - Apr. 06 (News Report) - The augmented-reality Project Glass provides a peek into Google's ambitions with artificial intelligence and how AI software could further shake up mobile computing. Google's Project Glass demo is certainly the coolest hardware demo so far this year. Behind the scenes is something equally intriguing: artificial-intelligence software.

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Email and web use 'to be watched'

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 01 (News Report) - The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time. The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and terrorism, but civil liberties groups have criticised it. Tory MP David Davis called it "an unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people". Attempts by the last Labour government to take similar steps failed after huge opposition, including from the Tories. 'Unprecedented step'

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The State of the News Media 2012

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 25 (Special Report) - In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day – in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified — the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news.

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Put Down the Phone and Learn to Be Alone (And to Listen), Says Sherry Turkle at TED

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Sherry Turkle - Mar. 02 (News Report) - We constantly text and social network so we don’t have to feel lonely, but while peering into our phones we’re ignoring the people and the world around us. That’s a serious problem, one that should be addressed by technologists, regulators and norms, acc

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Apple: Poor working conditions inside the Chinese factories making iPads

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - Jan. 29 (News) - Staff and safety experts have spoken out about the conditions in Chinese factories, with banners in one giving a warning of: 'Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow'.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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Powerhouse Websites Consider Internet Blackout

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - Dec. 30 (News) - Anti-SOPA pop-up banners online protest a law that many argue will dramatically alter the Internet. In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coord

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Stop Online Piracy Act Vote Delayed

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 16 (News) - The House Judiciary Committee considering whether to send the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House floor abruptly adjourned Friday with no new vote date set – a surprise given that the bill looked certain to pass out of committee today. The committee’s ch

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Net founders oppose piracy laws

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Dec. 16 (News) - Some of the founding fathers of the modern web have signed a strongly-worded letter opposing US piracy laws.

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The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Liz Gannes - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely, and

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Sandia Labs: SOPA will 'negatively impact' U.S. cybersecurity

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNET News - Nov. 17 (News) -

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Is Lying On The Internet Illegal?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - Under a Department of Justice interpretation of existing law, it's possible for the government to bring charges against Internet users who for example lie about their weight on Match.com.

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Wall Street Protest Spurs Online Conversation

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jennifer Preston - Oct. 08 (News) - What began as a small group of protesters expressing their grievances about economic inequities last month from a park in New York City has evolved into an online conversation that is spreading across the country on social media platforms.

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