Twitter Policy?s Latest Victim: If This Then That from Mashable! by Peter Pachal IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers on September 27th to comply with new API policies from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino Why IFTTT being forced to remove its Twitter triggers is a red alert for developers from The Next Web by … Read more
U.S. Still Requests More Google User Data Than Any Other Country from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Alan Turing?s 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web from Mashable! by Allegra Tepper HOWTO think like Alan Turing from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In early celebration of the Turing centenary this week, Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar … Read more
Firefox 13 Brings New Home Page, One-Click Fix for Big Issues from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder The latest iteration of Mozilla?s web browser, Firefox 13, is now available for download. The new version brings several important new features to the table; most notably, a new Home page, which offers easy access to bookmarks, downloads, history, … Read more
The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation from EFF.org Updates by parker New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. In addition to the net neutrality provisions, the law contains language that restricts when ISPs can wiretap their users, and limits the circumstances under … Read more
The History of File-Sharing from TorrentFreak by Guest Digital filesharing has come a long way since the early days of the floppy disk, starting with a 79.7 kB storage capacity in the early 1970s. Google Spends More on Lobbying Than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft Combined from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Internet freedom fighters listed from Boing … Read more
CISPA Authors Confident Bill Will Pass Despite Rising Opposition from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Google’s Sergey Brin: China, SOPA, Facebook Threaten the ‘Open Web’ from Wired Top Stories by Tim Carmody Google’s search engine was created when most of the web’s information was open and available to anyone willing to capture it. In today’s … Read more
Is Twitter Trying to End the Tech Patent War? by Sam Laird Julian Assange’s TV debut from FP Passport by Joshua Keating The first episode of Julian Assange’s new TV show, The World Tomorrow, premiered on RT today with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as the first guest. Aside from a quick intro and a … Read more
ACTA: The State of Play in the US from EFF.org Updates by maira In the last few weeks, we?ve seen surprising and significant developments with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in both the US and the EU. As we?ve noted before, ACTA is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property enforcement … Read more
LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer by Xeni Jardin The Guardian has more on the big hacking news which Fox News broke yesterday (as noted in a post by Rob). “Sabu,” the trash-talking, self-appointed leader of LulzSec, has been working for the FBI for the last … Read more
Record Labels Threaten the Open Internet, isoHunt Tells Court from TorrentFreak by Ernesto In 2010 a conglomerate of record labels ? including the ?Big Four? of Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal ? went after BitTorrent site isoHunt. 25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown from Wired Top Stories by Quinn Norton Police in four … Read more
Pew Survey Finds Over 60% of Social Network Users Have Deleted a Friend from Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project & American Life found that most people choose restricted privacy settings. Over half of social network users (52% to 60% depending on demographic) keep their … Read more
Forget Generation Y: 18- to 34-Year-Olds Are Now ?Generation C? from Mashable! by Zoe Fox HTML Editor Calls HTML5 Video Copy-Protection Proposal ‘Unethical’ from Wired Top Stories by Scott Gilbertson Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have teamed up to propose a copy protection protocol– AKA DRM — for HTML5 video. It’s just a draft right … Read more