“No Country For Secular Bloggers”: Niloy Neel is the Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger To Be Killed in 2015 Global Voices Online Murdered blogger Niloy Neel, Image by Reza Sumon. Copyright Demotix (7/8/2015) Fourth secular Bangladesh blogger hacked to death AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Gang armed with machetes kill blogger at his home in Dhaka in the fourth … Read more
New attack infects Macs in seconds, even without internet The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal Apple computers have always been touted as more secure than other PCs because their firmware couldn’t be penetrated. Unfortunately, that’s no longer true, as a newly created self-replicating worm has shown. Games, chat and personalized content: Ray Chan on the future of … Read more
Lessons from the Digital Classroom MIT Technology Review Technologists and venture capitalists are betting that the data online learning generates will reshape education. Hacking Team Leak Shows How Secretive Zero-Day Exploit Sales Work Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter It was not easy for Hacking Team to buy zero-day exploits to sell to governments. Once again: … Read more
Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case Google’s massive book-scanning project that makes complete copies of books without the authors’ permission is perfectly legal under U.S. copyright law, a federal judge ruled today, deciding an 8-year-old legal battle. Google Finally Gets Legal OK to Scan the World?s Books Larry Page?s dream of making … Read more
I know Chrome still loads faster and it has goodies in app forms but I prefer Open Source tools if they are effective enough. And Firefox 4.0 is just fine! Firefox 4 Has Arrived by Christina Warren After months of development, no fewer than 10 beta releases and a release candidate, Firefox 4 is finally … Read more