And, another few weeks’ worth of linkeage. Enjoy!
Privacy / Copyright / Legal Issues
- Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition
- Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut
- Who’s Talking About Me?
- House lawmakers push ban on peer-to-peer software
- Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Access
- Google Book Search Settlement Revised: No Reader Privacy Added
- More Freedom Necessary as Top Developers Abandon iPhone
- Keeping a Global Eye on Copyright Law
- Other People’s Data
- US Denied: Berlin Against Anti-Terror Bank Data Deal
- EFF to Represent Yes Men in Court Battle Over Chamber of Commerce Action
- Convicted Murderer To Wikipedia: Shhh!
- Is it plagiarism to use real quotes in poetry and fiction?
- From EFF’s Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
- Validity of Software Patents Goes on Trial Today at Supreme Court
- Netherlands Road Fees: New Pay-as-You-Go Tax for Dutch Drivers
Security
- A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / U.S. not ready for cyberwarfare, government warns as attacks rise
- Terrorism Concerns: Danish Politicians Want Stricter Checks on American Travelers
- Facebook Offers Poor Personal Data Protection
- ACLU of Northern California Launches dotRights Privacy Campaign
- McAfee warns of Cold War-style computer attack
- How Secure Is Cloud Computing?
- NIST Test Proves ‘the Eyes Have It’ for ID Verification
- Home security systems ease remote monitoring
- What Happens When Good Robots Go ‘Bad’?
Semantic Web
- Library group offers text search to 4.6M books
- It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet That Knows What Is Said–and Meant
- Social Tags Complement the Learning Resource Metadata, a Finnish Researcher Finds Out
- Video Fingerprinting Offers Search Solution
Cloud Computing
- How Secure Is Cloud Computing?
- Self-Policing Cloud Computing
- Microsoft’s cloud computing system is growing up
Environment
- Gender and Climate Change: Poor Women Bear Brunt of Global Warming
- Energy Efficiency: How Italy Beat the World to a Smarter Grid
- A Warming Arctic: Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever
- A Fine Drop: Global Warming Brightens the Outlook for British Wine
- Planting Seeds for a Fertile Future
Health
- Hackers Create Tools for Disaster Relief
- New Social Networking Tool to Improve Well-Being Awareness
- Scientists Put Interactive Flu Tracking at Public’s Fingertips
- Cellphone App to Make Maps of Noise Pollution
- Disease-Matching Software Could Save Children
- Software for Solving Life-Threatening Medical Puzzles
- YouTube to add automatic captions to aid deaf
- Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
- Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can’t use it
Humanity / Computing
- Try on that outfit, share the look online
- University of Basque Country Research Proposes Improvements for Electronic Voting by Internet
- China Plans for Humanoid Olympics
- SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’
- More users offload laptop work to smart phones
- Digitized inscriptions reveal ancient messages
- What Computer Science Can Teach Economics
- Labour Shortage in IT Industry Despite Recession
- Software Knowledge Unnecessarily Lost
- Evaluators Sought for Degree Programs in Computing
- Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
- Become a Google Policy Fellow and Work with EFF Next Summer
Technology
- Macworld polishes 2010 show without Apple
- NIST Demonstrates ‘Universal’ Programmable Quantum Processor for Quantum Computers
- IBM Announces Advances Toward a Computer that Works Like a Human Brain
- IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines
- Contact Lenses to Get Built-In Virtual Graphics
- Super-Fast Quantum Computer Gets Ever Closer: Quantum Particles Pinned Down
- Creating 3D Models With a Simple Webcam
- Secret Math of Fly Eyes Could Overhaul Robot Vision
- NASA brings chemical sensor to iPhone
- Michigan State Collaboration Spawns Robotic Fish to Monitor Water Quality
Comics / Funnies