This the the crypto standard that the NSA sabotaged The New York Times has published further details of last week’s leaked documents detailing the NSA’s program of sabotage to crypto products and standards. The new report confirms that the standard that the NSA sabotaged was the widely-suspected NIST Dual EC DRBG standard. The Times reports … Read more
The Swarm Economy Is Not Silicon Valley?s ?Sharing Economy? Swarm Economy ? Zacqary Adam Green:?When we talk about the end of workplaces and lifetime employment, please don?t get the wrong idea. This has nothing to do with what Silicon Valley and venture capitalists are now calling the ?sharing economy.? It was once the darling of … Read more
Turkish gamers head to police after online characters stolen Almost 150 people have complained to police in Turkey on the grounds that their characters Turkish student wins Google science award Turkish high school student Elif Bilgin has been announced as the winner of the Voter?s Choice Award Nokia: Rise and fall of a mobile … Read more
Snowden reveals US intelligence?s black budget Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked the government?s ?black budget? for fiscal year 2013 to The Washington Post How to Use the New Facebook Insights Do you rely on Facebook Insights to track the performance of your Facebook page? Are you wondering how the new Insights … Read more
New Archive Makes Available 800,000 Pages Documenting the History of Film, Television & Radio Click images for larger versions Film buffs and scholars have a new cache at their fingertips. The Media History Digital Library has made hundreds of thousands of pages of film and broadcasting history available in a searchable digital archive they?ve called … Read more
Akademisyenler için birkaç çevrimiçi araç? Twitter araçlarından sonra yeni bir araç listesiyle geldik: Aslına her araç akademisyenlerin de işine yarayabilir. Yine de özellikle yarayabileceğini düşündüğüm birkaç şeyi sıralayayım. Çevrimiçi akademik kimliğinizi inşa ederken, bir yayın yaptığınızda naparsınız? Öncelikle kendinize ait sitenizi güncelleyin: http://erkansaka.net/about-2/erkans-cv Sonra hızla büyüyen akademik ağ olan Academia.edu’da güncelleme yapın. Hatta telif hakkına … Read more
PRISM: Nedir, Neden Önemli, Neler Olacak? Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning ve Wikileaks ekibinden sonra son yılların en büyük ve önemli sızıntılarından birisini gerçekleştirdi. Aslında sızdırdığı belgeler yeni bir şeyi ortaya çıkartmadı. Herkesin tahmin ettiği ve üzerine komplolar ürettiği bir konuda gerçekten neler olup bittiğini bize kanıtlarla gösterdi. Bir anlamda efsanenin gerçek olduğunu gösterdi. … Read more
Faruk Çelik, ‘Millet yeni bir anayasa istiyor’ Türkiye Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanı Çelik, milletin yenilenmiş bir anayasadan yana olmadığını, yeni bir anayasa istediğini söyledi. Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanı Faruk Çelik, yeni anayasa çalışmalarına ilişkin, “Millet yenilenmiş bir anayasadan yana Bozdağ’dan CHP’ye yeni anayasa eleştirisi HABERTURK Başbakan Yardımcısı Bekir Bozdağ, anayasa çalışmalarında ana muhalafet … Read more
A huge coalition of tech companies unites to petition the US government for more NSA transparency Silicon Valley tech giants have united against a common cause: seeking greater transparency from the US?s National Security Agency and openness when it comes to surveillance activities. House Judiciary Committee Rails Against Domestic Spying The House Judiciary Committee’s hearing … Read more
Reinventing American cable news from Qatar: Why everyone?s talking about Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America will launch on August 20 and, according to increasingly contentious recent coverage, it?s either going to save American cable news or be a disaster. How Google Glass can evolve as a tool for journalists Editor?s note: This is a guest … Read more
The real reason Google wants to kill RSS Marco Arment: RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it?s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new and disrupt anyone else they?d like because nobody has to fly six salespeople out … Read more
Google Launches Balloons to Bring the Internet to Remote Regions Google is launching huge balloons to bring the Internet to remote and difficult terrain ? think mountain ranges, archipelagos and jungles ? beginning with New Zealand. How Google plans to use balloons do deliver broadband to the great unwired Wired has a neat story out … Read more
Five ways to protect journalists and their anonymous sources Washington Post (blog) In a speech Thursday at National Defense University, President Obama discussed the Justice Department’s prosecution of leakers, emphasizing the need to ?strike the right balance between our security and our open society.? Many observers believe that Scott Lewis: Learning from social platforms … Read more
WordPress Is Now 10 Years Old Ten years ago today, the first public release of WordPress became available. Initially started as a fork of the little-known blogging platform b2/Cafelog, WordPress has grown to be the largest CMS in the world, powering an astounding 18% of the web WordPress is 10 years old today: Here?s … Read more
Twitter builds internal guidelines for handling legal battles over patents Twitter officially patented its ?pull-to-refresh? technology for streaming on its mobile app today, The Verge reports. But Twitter also has an original, internal approach to patent applications. Twitter Launches Innovator?s Patent Agreement With patent trolls and patent wars creating a massive drag on … Read more