Most popular programming languages shift at Github Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully. Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The Norse Map is a Wargames-style … Read more
Gallery: 13 images that helped define the look of the electronic age Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A full-color, large-format exploration of the electronic age, INSIDE THE MACHINE explains the history of technology through over 150 images from magazines, industry pamphlets, and out-of-print books to showcase the powerful graphic and artistic representations of this burgeoning field. … Read more
Ashley Madison leak 2.0: new dump is twice as large, and includes CEO’s emails Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Self-proclaimed Ashley Madison hackers the Impact Team today released what looks like another 20 gigabytes of ill-gotten data. The just-dropped “other shoe” includes emails from the cheater-dating website’s CEO. Swarm 3.0, over-gamified, missed its chance with me The … Read more
A NEWS FROM CENSORED WEBSITE [DAĞ MEDYA] : Twitter Transparency Report: 408 of 442 Content Removal Request Comes from Turkey Bianet :: English According to the same report, 408 content removal requests by court decision came from Turkey in the first six months of 2015; 125 twitter accounts were suspended, 1667 tweets were removed. Twitter increases scope … 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
Report Finds Majority of Journalists Wouldn’t Be Able to Function Without Social Media Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson Study: Journalists Increasingly Rely on Social for News Social Media Today by Carianne King A recent survey by Oglivy PR revealed social media’s role in the increasingly dynamic landscape of modern media communications. Co-operatives: redefining local journalism? open Democracy News Analysis – by Alon … Read more
The value of the witness: How the London attacks changed the news Mashable! by Colin Daileda The night after the deadliest peace-time attack on London, the BBC led its 6 p.m. newscast with a shaky video of screaming commuters, an ambulance siren howling in the background Twitter’s new article preview cards could be a boost for publishers … Read more
Europe: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality EFF.org Updates Americans won big on net neutrality in February, when the FCC voted to adoptnew rules that would allow it to rein in the abusive and discriminatory practices of big telecommunications operators, such as blocking or throttling of Internet data, and charging content providers for … Read more
The rise of the messaging economy The Next Web by Ritika Puri Listen to Wikipedia change and grow Boing Boing by Caroline Siede Hatnote lets users hear the edits that are happening to Wikipedia in real time.Read the rest Snowden vindicated Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza When the courts ruled NSA domestic spying illegal last week, it was … Read more
EU tackles Google over search ‘abuse’ BBC News | Europe | World Edition The European Union’s competition commissioner has announced details of its case against Google over its search engine. 400 immigrants drown off of Libya, say survivors EurActiv.com Up to 400 illegal migrants died after their vessel capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday (12 April), … Read more
How Important Are Keywords In 2015? Social Media Week by Nicole Brown This article originally appeared on Convince and Convert and is written by Pratik Dholakiya. With every passing year, SEO moves further away from the realm of clear and simple guidelines to the world of blurry indicators and stringent punishments for perceived transgressions.2 Microsoft: An … Read more
New version of SecureDrop, open-source whistleblower submission system originally created by Aaron Swartz Boing Boing by Trevor Timm At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we’re excited to announce the release of a brand new version of SecureDrop, our open source whistleblower system which media organizations can use to communicate and receive documents from sources. Facebook has open sourced … Read more
Most of web users may be aware of but Friendfeed had a real role in Turkish cybersphere. I have followed many power users there. I have learnt a lot. I wonder where this bunch of power users will migrate. They already have Twitter accounts but I guess it is never the same thing… Facebook is killing … Read more
The next stage in the battle for our attention: Our wrists Nieman Journalism Lab by Jack Riley View image | gettyimages.com Editor’s note: On Monday, Apple is expected to formally launch the Apple Watch, which will go on sale next month. As the company shows off what developers have built for its smartwatch, perhaps we’ll see … Read more