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Cyberculture roundup: United States Refuses to Sign UN Internet Treaty, Google Zeitgeist, Microsoft?s 2013 security predictions..and more

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United States Refuses to Sign UN Internet Treaty by Alex Fitzpatrick The US refuses to ratify the proposed UN telecom treaty over Internet regulatory worries by Alex Wilhelm   Unexpected Controversy Erupts at UN Internet Conference by Alex Fitzpatrick Compromise UN language on Internet regulation may still be too strong for the US delegation?s tastes … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Strong Passwords, Google’s Transparency Report, Samsung vs. Apple, Cybersecurity Act…

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When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga from EFF.org Updates by Hanni Fakhoury and Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman The unfolding scandal that led to the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, started with some purportedly harassing emails sent from … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: How Wikipedia works, Top 5 uTorrent Tips,

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How Wikipedia works: Building the world?s most expansive encyclopaedia from The Next Web by Mez Breeze Top 5 uTorrent Tips From BitTorrent Inc. from TorrentFreak by enigmax With around 150 million active users each month, uTorrent is by far the most used BitTorrent client in the West. But, despite finding the client incredibly useful, millions … Read more

DRM screws people with visual disabilities, Linux Drives the Open Source Car, Top 5 Mobile Apps for the Techie Traveler, Chinese Internet superpowers and more…

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How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow ZDNet’s Rupert Goodwins is going blind. Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology … Read more

While Pirate Bay Celebrates 9th Anniversary, a list of Top BitTorrent Countries In The World

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Top BitTorrent Countries In The World, Top Torrent Towns In The UK from TorrentFreak by enigmax The Digital Music Index is a report produced by Musicmetric, a data and analytics company that maps the trends and preferences of music fans around the world. The data collated and crunched is then supplied to the music industry to … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: most torrents are monitored, and much more..

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New research: Most top torrents are monitored, your IP address can be logged within three hours from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski If you?ve downloaded a popular torrent in the last three years, you may have had your IP address logged and your activities monitored, according to new research. Computer scientists from the University … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Nieman Journalism on Twitter?s ongoing war with developers, Prominent Academics Respond to the TPP…

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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

Samsung vs. Apple trial aftermath and a cyberculture roundup.

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Google distances itself from Apple-Samsung ruling: Most claims don?t relate to core of Android from The Next Web by Jon Russell Apple vs. Samsung Head Juror: ?Evidence Was Overwhelming? from Mashable! by Emily Price These Apple Products Have Samsung Parts from Mashable! by Samantha Murphy Will Samsung Smartphone Sales Be Banned in the U.S.? We … Read more

$1,049,343,540 Samsung has to pay Apple..Assange case… A cyberculture roundup…

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Samsung ordered to pay $1,049,343,540 in Apple patent lawsuit defeat from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff via Apple wins software and design patent judgements against most Samsung devices in trial over iPhone and iPad from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino   Apple scores huge win over Samsung in patent case from Hurriyet Daily … Read more

Asylum granted to Assange, More blows to copyright trolls… A cyberculture roundup

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Asylum Granted by Ecuador to Julian Assange … Civil rights implications of Big Data by Cory Doctorow An excellent editorial by Alistair Croll on the civil rights implications of Big Data contains a number of points I hadn’t considered before, as well as great analysis of the way that the Big Data situation arrived: France’s … Read more

“Google Starts Punishing ?Pirate? Sites but will it be effective? WikiLeaks Resumes Operations, meet the Virus Gauss.. A cyberculture roundup…

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I never search google to download stuff. I know where I should go. I guess like porn sites, torrent people directly go to the addresses they already know. A different dynamic… Not the pirates but Google loses here… I hope… Google Starts Punishing ?Pirate? Sites In Search Results from TorrentFreak by Ernesto For years entertainment … Read more

EA vs. Zynga, Apple vs. Samsung. Clashes at cybersphere. A roundup…

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EA to Zynga: Enough already, The Ville is The Sims and we?re going to sue you from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff   Zynga?s reaction to EA: Lawsuit is both unfortunate and ironic from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff   Apple v. Samsung: Why the Future of Ideas Is at Stake by Lance … Read more

Hallelujah! Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Joins Instagram…. a cyberculture roundup…

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Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Joins Instagram, Posts Pics by Kate Freeman Twitter Political Index from social media vb by DavidMeermanScott The Twitter Political Index is a daily measurement that evaluates the sentiment of Twitter users feelings about the candidates based on an estimated two million Twitter mentions of the candidates in a given week relative … Read more