Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies? Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons #AnthroForward Post-Election Resources American Anthropological Association by Anne Kelsey On December 7th the AAA asked our members to join us in a live … Read more
NSA and GCHQ’s crappy Big Data techniques may be killing thousands of innocents Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Researchers have taken a second look at the NSA SKYNET leaks, as well as theGCHQ data-mining problem book first published on Boing Boing, and concluded that the spy agencies have made elementary errors in their machine-learning techniques, which … Read more
Pirate Music Site Op Pleads Guilty, Faces Five Years in Prison TorrentFreak Over the past five years, Operation in Our Sites, the U.S. initiative tackling copyright-infringing websites, has produced several arrests and the seizure of thousands of domains. Car information security is a complete wreck — here’s why Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Sean Gallagher’s long, … Read more
Most popular programming languages shift at Github Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully. Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The Norse Map is a Wargames-style … Read more
Health Wearables: The Sherlock Holmes Effect Wired Top Stories by Dr. Richard Hu, Vivametrica Wearing his now-iconic hat, clamping a pipe between his teeth, Sherlock Holmes endures as the very definition of deductive reasoning. His encyclopedic knowledge and diamond-sharp observation skills make him a larger-than-life figure that continues to fascinate audiences on both the small and … Read more
Silk Road trial verdict: Ross Ulbricht found guilty on all counts Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Ulbricht faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison. Read the rest Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht found guilty for all 7 conspiracy charges The Next Web by Napier Lopez Today, Ross Ulbricht, known by his online alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,”was … Read more
10 tech conferences around the world to attend in 2015 The Next Web by Ashley Hefnawy Ashley Hefnawy is an associate editor for Shutterstock’s blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Sexual insecurities found in Google search results FlowingData » Visualization by Nathan Yau Seth Stephens-Davidowitz continues … Read more
Google Says Driverless Cars Will Join The Roads In Less Than 5 Years Social Media Week by Tyler Becker In two to five years, Google’s driverless cars could be on the roads, primarily collecting data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians. Chris Urmson, the Head of Google’s Self-Driving Car initiative, said they are … Read more
Detekt: A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance EFF.org Updates by Eva Galperin Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including spyware that provides its purchasers the unchecked ability to target remote Internet users’ computers, to read their personal emails, listen in … Read more
Aaron Swartz was no criminal Boing Boing by Dan Purcell Dan Purcell, one of Swartz’ lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT’s gutless support of his prosecutors. Read the rest Porn stars use their assets to discuss net neutrality Mashable! by Adario Strange The debate over net neutrality and the fight … Read more
Why the World Needs Anonymous MIT Technology Review Anonymity may encourage antisocial behavior, such as trolling, but we can also identify a noble political imperative behind the mask. FBI Seizes Silk Road 2 Boing Boing by Ivan Hernandez Global Internet Gumshoes Say They Broke the Super-Privacy Tool Tor FP Passport by Elias Groll / Huge raid shuts 400 ‘dark … Read more
Kickstarter passes $1 billion in pledges, with more than half pledged in the last 12 months Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has passed $1 billion in pledges nearly four years after it made its debut on April 28, 2009. More than half of the $1 billion was pledged in the last 12 months alone, a testimony … Read more
Join Boing Boing, Reddit, and websites all over the world on the 11th to fight mass surveillance In two days, the Internet will erupt in a protest to rival the uprising against SOPA: in Aaron Swartz‘s memory, websites everywhere will add code from TheDayWeFightBack.org to their templates, helping to flood Congress — and the world’s … Read more
Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time An anonymous reader writes with this bit from The Next Web “Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on Mt. Gox, one of the largest exchanges. Texas Hacker … Read more
We’re TPP Activists: Reddit Asked Us Everything As another of round of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meetings began in Salt Lake City this week, EFF joined Knowledge Ecology International, Public Citizen, Techdirt, andOpen Media, in a Reddit AMA (?Ask Me Anything?) to answer users’ questions about the leaked TPP ?Intellectual Property? chapter. Alleged Silk Road founder?s matter-of-fact journal details accounting, bug fixes and murders Details … Read more