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
Gallery links: http://imgur.com/a/cF5Yh#0 http://imgur.com/a/kXjnf#0 http://imgur.com/a/cF5Yh#0 American Redditor in Egypt Shares Moving Protest Photos An American redditor caught in Egypt’s current state of chaos has uploaded a trove of pictures for anyone to use, view or share. Turkey?s ?unfortunate UN attempts? unlikely to succeed: Egypt Egypt has expressed ?dismay? at what they said were ?unfortunate? attempts … Read more
Snowden points to US moral decline The debate reinstates the most morally problematic aspect of imperialism: rules that apply to the ?civilised? do not apply to outsiders Snowden: Your Emails or Facebook Profile Can Make You an NSA Target How does the National Security Agency choose who to target for surveillance? Snowden interviewed on NSA … 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
Churnalism: discover when the “news” you’re reading is a press-release from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account from FP Passport After the Associated Press tweeted, “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” it literally took only seconds for people to … Read more
Anyone Can Be Found on Social Media in 12 Hours from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review The Disconcerting Details: How Facebook Teams Up With Data Brokers to Show You Targeted Ads from EFF.org Updates by Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman Recently, we published a blog post that described how to opt out of seeing ads … Read more
Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel Anonymous’ hackers launch cyberattack on Israeli sites Fox News JERUSALEM ? A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday. The attacks following warnings in the name of the hacking group Anonymous that it was launching a massive Hackers attack Israel, … Read more
FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows from TorrentFreak by Ernesto US Army to use pre-emptive cyber-strikes against threats from Hurriyet Daily News U.S. military officers have endorsed the principle of pre-emptive cyber-strikes Rupert Murdoch claims Chinese hackers are still attacking the Wall Street Journal from The Next Web by Jon Russell Trolls and Tribulations … Read more
This Week in Review: Twitter?s ongoing war with developers, and plagiarism and online credibility from Nieman Journalism Lab by Mark Coddington [Since the review was off last week, this week’s review covers the last two weeks.] Prominent Academics Respond to the TPP from EFF.org Updates by Carolina Rossini We asked several academics to let … Read more
Reddit Rising: Community Site Just Had Its Coming-Out Party from Mashable! by Christina Warren How Obama Won the Internet ? in an Hour from Mashable! by Chris Taylor This Is What Barack Obama Looks Like Doing a Reddit AMA from Mashable! by Annie Colbert Romney confirmed as rival for White House against … 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
File-Sharing Church Weds First Couple from TorrentFreak by Ernesto All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities. But while copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates, there is a large group of people who actually consider copying to be a sacred act. Kopimism: File-Sharing Religion … Read more
Apple and Microsoft backed trade group parties to celebrate CISPA?s passage from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm Reddit’s TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA’s daddy from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow TestPAC, the PAC founded on Reddit to carry on the momentum from the SOPA fight earlier this year, is in the … Read more
Yandex processes 2 million+ people searches daily, debuts ?social search program? from The Next Web by Robin Wauters Yandex, Russia?s biggest Internet search and related services company, this morning announced the launch of a?social search program? (note: links to page in Russian), aiming to inject content and account information from a wide variety of local … Read more