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#Cyberculture agenda: A massive ransomware attack – dubbed Petya- expanding… “Inside Facebook’s war against terrorism…
Large-scale cyberattack is spreading through Russia and Ukraine (updated) The Social Software Weblog A large-scale cyberattack is working its way through a number of Ukrainian and Russian targets today. So far,... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: “Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election The Intercept by Matthew Cole Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: “The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0”
The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0 Boing Boing by Richard MacKinnon In anticipation of the battle for the body, we can envision a conflict among competing interests in property located... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: “#DeleteUber: Users angry at Trump Muslim ban scrap app…
#DeleteUber: Users angry at Trump Muslim ban scrap app AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Uber provided rides at JFK airport while other taxi drivers held strike over Trump’s ban on... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: New PEW report on Americans and Cybersecurity…
Americans and Cybersecurity Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports by Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech (jmiks/iStock.com)Cyberattacks and data breaches are facts of life for government agencies, businesses and individuals... Read more
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#Anthropology agenda: “A Field Guide to Trump’s Swamp
A Field Guide to Trump’s Swamp SAPIENS by Janine R. Wedel The president-elect has populated “the swamp” with power brokers who are marred by potential conflicts of interest. Andrew Harnik/Associated... Read more
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#Eurosphere – “Finland Starts Handing Out a Basic Income
Finland Starts Handing Out a Basic Income MIT Technology Review A few unemployed Finns are receiving a monthly check with no strings attached—but it’s unlikely to tell us whether universal... Read more
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#Cyberculture – “Snap Inc. spent millions to get better at augmented reality…
Report: Snap Inc. spent millions to get better at augmented reality The Social Software Weblog The creators of Snapchat are running toward an IPO at full speed, but it seems... Read more
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Document: UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression to his visit to Turkey, 14-18 November 2016…
Preliminary conclusions and observations by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression to his visit to Turkey, 14-18 November 2016 ohchr.org ANKARA (18... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: It took 40 minutes to be hacked for Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets…
Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets get hacked within 40 minutes of being connected to the net Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The Atlantic’s Andrew McGill set up a virtual server on... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Digital Defenders” for kids about privacy and crypto… Israel and Survellance Industry…
Digital Defenders: a free open-licensed booklet for kids about privacy and crypto Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow European Digital Rights has created a free, CC-licensed kids’ booklet about privacy called Digital... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: Will be hard to find a cooler President: “Joi Ito interviews Barack Obama for Wired: machine learning, neurodiversity, basic research and Star Trek
Joi Ito interviews Barack Obama for Wired: machine learning, neurodiversity, basic research and Star Trek Boing Boing Joi Ito (previously) — director of MIT Media Lab, former Creative Commons chief, investor,... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Using Sound and Artificial Intelligence to Detect Human Rights Violations…
Using Sound and Artificial Intelligence to Detect Human Rights Violations iRevolution by Patrick Meier Video continues to be a powerful way to capture human rights abuses around the world. Videos posted... Read more
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I guess it is life… “Adblock Plus now selling ads”
Adblock Plus now selling ads Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Adblock Plus is to begin reselling the ads it blocks, replacing websites’ original ads with ones under its control—and which it... Read more
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Journalism agenda: Facebook, Twitter, and 30 other orgs forces to stop spread of fake news…
Facebook, Twitter, and 30 other orgs join First Draft’s partner network to help stop the spread of fake news Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton Thanks to social media, it’s never... Read more
