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Cyberculture agenda: It took 40 minutes to be hacked for Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets…
Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets get hacked within 40 minutes of being connected to the net Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The Atlantic’s Andrew McGill set up a virtual server on... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Using Sound and Artificial Intelligence to Detect Human Rights Violations…
Using Sound and Artificial Intelligence to Detect Human Rights Violations iRevolution by Patrick Meier Video continues to be a powerful way to capture human rights abuses around the world. Videos posted... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “How to protect whistleblowers on the internet…
Jacob Appelbaum, Tor developer and Wikileaks staffer, resigns amid sex abuse claims Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Appelbaum, whose work has put him in the crosshairs of his own government and... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: A big loss: “Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide
A Brief History of Debian – The Debian Manifesto debian.org [ previous ] [ Contents ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ A... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Wikipedia-Mining Algorithm Reveals World’s Most Influential Universities…
Negotiating the WSIS+10 and the Future of the Internet Dipnote – U.S. Department of State Official Blog by Daniel Sepulveda After two and a half years of technical analysis and discussions,... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW v. DEA… “Facebook, Twitter and Google pledge to increase hate speech moderation efforts in Germany…
A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW v. DEA EFF.org Updates by Mark Rumold In a victory for millions of people in the U.S. who have placed telephone calls to locations... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: A new study shows “Slacktivism” might actually be helpful…
New Study Shows Armchair Activists Actually Make a Difference – Social media “slacktivism” plays an important role in social movements. Upvoted by Gabrielle Canon In the wake of the devastating November... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: French (and probably other) governments are after Encryption software…
French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A leaked memo from the Ministry sets out new bills it would like to see introduced... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: Big Data might justify racism in wrong hands… Wikipedia’s use of artificial intelligence…
Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to get more actual humans writing articles The Next Web by Napier Lopez Better artificial intelligence is often associated with the detriment of a human workforce, but judging... Read more
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Journalism agenda: “The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked…
Narcodata, an In-Depth Data Journalism Project That Contextualizes the Drug War in Mexico Global Voices Online Screenshot from Narcodata’s introduction video. The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers Boing... Read more
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Journalism agenda: A journalist, Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel… Twitter and Reddit moves more into journalistic production…
Nobel Prize in literature goes to journalist from Belarus EurActiv.com Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and dissident writer, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday (8 October) “for her polyphonic writings,... Read more
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Data battles in Europe: “NSA spying means US servers are not a fit home for Europeans’ data…Cyberculture agenda..
EU top court: NSA spying means US servers are not a fit home for Europeans’ data Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Historically, US companies have been able to get around the... Read more
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Literati roundup: “IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment…
IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment At its 14 August 2015 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the IFLA Governing Board endorsed an IFLA Statement on Privacy... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Car information security is a complete wreck…
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... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Most popular programming languages shift at Github
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.... Read more
