The MP3 format is officially dead The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal If you grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, you probably still remember downloading MP3 files to build your music collection, and burning up to 10 times as many of these onto audio discs than you could with traditional CD tracks. I didn’t … Read more
This mesmerizing map shows what cyber attacks look like Mashable! by Nicole Gallucci The global cyber war is raging on, and this mesmerizing map shows just how serious it has become. Yesterday’s internet-destroying outages were caused by “amateurish” IoT malware Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Some of the internet’s most popular, well-defended services — including Twitter — … Read more
Good and bad reasons to be worried about WCIT from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced ?wicket?) opened Monday in Dubai. If you?re heard about the conference, it?s likely because many articulate and smart proponents of an open internet have been waving arms and warning of the … Read more
United Nations: Disconnecting People From the Internet Is a Violation of Human Rights by Stan Schroeder Digital democracy, Plato, and web 2.0, Giorgio Fontana from open Democracy News Analysis – by Giorgio Fontana Far from being the natural and easy remedy to the evil of bureaucratic delegation, digital democracy risks becoming its inconvenient appendix – … Read more
VIDEO: Cyber attack targeted Paris G20 from BBC News | Europe | World Edition The French finance ministry has confirmed it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the G20 summit held in Paris in February. It appears that somebody was trying to sneak a look at documents ahead of the … Read more