Cyberculture roundup: “Yahoo seems to have betrayed its users…

Yahoo has been secretly scanning your email and handing it over to US intelligence [Updated] The Next Web by Bryan Clark For years, Yahoo has been scanning the email of unknowing users and then turning this information over to US intelligence agencies. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Reuters broke the story today that Yahoo is … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Twitter is 10 #LoveTwitter

Twitter’s Character Limit Will Stay 140 — Not Expand to 10,000 All Facebook by Justin Lafferty Despite rumblings of a 10,000-character limit on Twitter, the company’s CEOtold The Today Show that the 140-character limit is here to stay. In an appearance on The Today Show, Jack Dorsey dismissed the rumors of long-form tweets, saying that the … Read more

Journalism agenda: “Twitter and Google are reportedly allying (against Facebook “Instant Articles”

Twitter and Google are reportedly launching their own version of “Instant Articles” Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman Google and Twitter are joining the growing group of tech companies looking to optimize publishers’ content for mobile devices. This fall, the two companies are planning an launching an open-source product that’s similar to Facebook’s Instant Articles, Recode’s … Read more