And another batch of links for your enjoyment and edification. If you’re at all interested in Artificial Intelligence (and what that term might mean), have a read of Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI. There are, of course, lots of good ones in here, as I’ve been a bit remiss in publishing them despite having read the articles. Enjoy!
Censorship:
- Apple will reject DUI checkpoints app 9 June 2011, 1:33 pm
- U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors 13 June 2011, 11:55 am
- United States – Florida urged to reconsider media restriction measure 14 June 2011, 9:00 am
- Schools May Punish Students for Off-Campus, Online Speech 14 June 2011, 11:40 am
- U.S. Hopes “Internet in a Suitcase” Will Offset Internet Censorship 14 June 2011, 2:22 pm
- 1st Circuit Ponders a First Amendment Right to Videotape an Arrest 15 June 2011, 12:19 am
- Employer Concerns About NLRB Rulings on Facebook Speech 15 June 2011, 4:34 am
- This Week in Internet Censorship 15 June 2011, 8:41 am
- Can students be disciplined for online speech? 15 June 2011, 10:16 am
- Apple to ‘ban iPhone gig filming’ 16 June 2011, 5:10 am
- Disastrous Implications of New Apple Patent for Blocking Cellphone Video 16 June 2011, 1:47 pm
- Report: Bush White House Wanted CIA to Discredit Blogger 17 June 2011, 4:48 pm
- Appeals Court Deals Blow to ‘Hot News’ Doctrine 20 June 2011, 11:58 am
- Global internet freedom begins at home 21 June 2011, 4:32 am
- Apple’s infrared ‘camera kill switch’ patent application hits a nerve 21 June 2011, 5:39 am
- What the French ‘Civilised Internet’ Looks Like 21 June 2011, 10:38 am
- Most Australians will have their web access censored as of next month 22 June 2011, 2:32 am
- Sri Lanka: Press freedom bill rejected 22 June 2011, 5:14 am
Copyright / Patent:
- Reject the PROTECT IP Act 6 June 2011, 6:07 pm
- Senate Confirms Former RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General 7 June 2011, 6:55 am
- Supreme Court Affirms High Standard of Proving Patents Invalid 9 June 2011, 2:37 pm
- Studio Might Alter Tattoo in Hangover DVD Release 10 June 2011, 9:00 am
- Chrome Extension Gets You Past WSJ Paywall With One Click 10 June 2011, 9:54 am
- New Copyright Office Leader Wants Tech Industry Help 11 June 2011, 5:21 am
- Tennessee law bans ‘distressing images,’ opens your Facebook inbox 11 June 2011, 8:47 am
- Apple sued over use of iCloud name 12 June 2011, 12:35 am
- Microsoft Tries to Quash Innovation in Interoperability Battle Over Xbox 16 June 2011, 8:34 am
- Can Microsoft Use DMCA to Kill Competing Xbox 360 Accessories? 17 June 2011, 11:46 am
- US Senators ignore unintended consequences of criminalizing embedding videos 17 June 2011, 4:44 pm
- British student faces extradition to us over copyright infringement 17 June 2011, 5:15 pm
- EFF Asks Supreme Court to Protect “First Sale” Rights 21 June 2011, 11:27 am
- EFF Urges Supreme Court to Block Law That Erodes Public Domain 21 June 2011, 2:11 pm
- Tennessee’s Ban on Publishing Distressing Images: Let Us Count the Ways It’s Unconstitutional 21 June 2011, 5:17 pm
- Don’t be overzealous on Internet copyright limits 22 June 2011, 2:21 am
Copyright / Patent – Domain Seizures:
- Seized Domains Fight Back 13 June 2011, 11:54 am
- U.S. Faces Legal Challenge to Internet-Domain Seizures 13 June 2011, 2:22 pm
- Government Domain Name Seizures Violate First Amendment 21 June 2011, 8:06 am
Copyright / Patent – Trolls:
- Nude Nuns Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit is Terminated 10 June 2011, 3:48 pm
- Righthaven Copyright Troll Lawsuit Dismissed as Sham 14 June 2011, 4:32 pm
- Apple Returns Fire for App Developers in Lodsys Patent War 15 June 2011, 4:51 am
- Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven 15 June 2011, 12:25 pm
- Righthaven Deemed Unfit to Sue in Online Satire Case 16 June 2011, 4:45 am
- Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use 20 June 2011, 1:54 pm
- Troll Fail: Righthaven Smacked Down Again 20 June 2011, 5:07 pm
Employment:
- Why Everyone Should Learn to Program 11 June 2011, 6:08 am
- Tech startups face stiff competition for talent 14 June 2011, 10:22 am
- The Economist Debates: Are we in a new tech bubble? 14 June 2011, 10:24 am
- All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup 20 June 2011, 2:43 pm
Hacking:
- Sony: 37,500 users’ personal info stolen in hack 9 June 2011, 12:22 pm
- ‘Sophisticated cyber attack’ targets IMF 11 June 2011, 8:14 pm
- EU: “Making hacking tools should be illegal” 14 June 2011, 12:47 pm
- MIT professor’s hack to recruit students 19 June 2011, 3:29 am
- Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users 19 June 2011, 1:08 pm
- U.S. Government Wants to Double Prison Sentences for Hackers 20 June 2011, 12:57 pm
Hacking – Anonymous:
- Three of the top Anonymous leaders allegedly captured in Spain 10 June 2011, 9:50 am
- ‘Anonymous’ Attacks, Shutters Spanish Police Website 13 June 2011, 9:14 am
Hacking – LulzSec:
- LulzSec Claims Another Sony Hack 6 June 2011, 3:09 pm
- Etc: Sony has acknowledged Lulz Security’s hack of sonypictures.com, and says that the dates of birth, names, phone numbers, and addresses of some 37,500 users were compromised, but no credit card information was exposed. 8 June 2011, 12:25 pm
- LulzSec hacks NHS. 10 June 2011, 6:18 am
- LulzSec hacks into Bethesda Softworks accessing 200k Brink user accounts 13 June 2011, 1:39 pm
- LulzSec Hacks Senate 14 June 2011, 5:49 am
- LulzSec rampage continues: 62k e-mails and passwords, CIA attacked 16 June 2011, 9:50 am
- Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records. 21 June 2011, 3:42 am
- Metropolitan Police confirm arrest of LulzSec “Mastermind” 21 June 2011, 5:40 am
Legal Technology:
- Company Alleges E-Discovery Malpractice by McDermott 9 June 2011, 3:58 am
- Open Source Could Change the Future of E-Discovery 15 June 2011, 4:47 am
Medical Technology:
- Synthetic Biologists Use DNA to Calculate Square Roots 3 June 2011, 7:00 am
- App for mobile phones helps diagnose concussions 6 June 2011, 12:22 pm
- Poll: Should Sick People Be Paid to Risk Their Lives? 7 June 2011, 2:16 pm
- ‘Living Laser’ Engineered From Human Cells 13 June 2011, 7:45 am
- Miraculous New Spray On Skin Technology Treats Burns Without Scars 14 June 2011, 10:28 am
- A pulse no longer necessary for life 15 June 2011, 5:49 am
- The first cancer vaccine that works 21 June 2011, 5:44 am
- Designer Babies – Like It Or Not, Here They Come | Singularity Hub 22 June 2011, 5:09 am
Miscellany:
- Oh, Crap! Moscow Mulls Terrorist-Proof Toilets 9 June 2011, 1:59 pm
- Google’s Les Paul Doodle consumes record 5.3M hours, RescueTime estimates 10 June 2011, 3:22 pm
- Mindblowing Experiment demonstrating Laminar Flow 14 June 2011, 9:42 am
- Microsoft Helps Army Avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’ 17 June 2011, 4:00 am
- ‘Shallows’: Nicholas Carr on information overload 20 June 2011, 12:12 pm
- Seeing the world through British eyes 22 June 2011, 3:17 am
- A Voice of Their Own: Contemporary Roma Art Is Opening Eyes in Europe 22 June 2011, 6:12 am
Museum / Library / Archive:
- Civil War Project Shows Pros and Cons of Crowdsourcing 15 June 2011, 9:38 am
- U.S. Congress/NARA: “National Archives May Digitize Searches” « INFOdocket 19 June 2011, 3:43 am
Politics:
- U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right 3 June 2011, 11:47 am
- European Opposition to Death Penalty: German Minister Denies US Request for Execution Drugs 9 June 2011, 5:37 am
- Iceland Pursues a User-Generated Constitution 10 June 2011, 1:00 am
- Tech-savvy Iceland online for new constitution 10 June 2011, 7:12 am
- Alaska releases Sarah Palin’s official emails 10 June 2011, 1:10 pm
- UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right – Now What? 13 June 2011, 5:04 am
- Freedom in the Fifty States – An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom 13 June 2011, 5:06 am
- Wisconsin public Internet fights telecom attempts to kill it off 13 June 2011, 11:59 am
- US Fed chief urges raising of debt ceiling 15 June 2011, 4:38 am
- US, NZ, Sweden, others condemn “three strikes” Internet laws 15 June 2011, 4:57 am
- New documentary #killswitch exposes media consolidation and government collusion 15 June 2011, 4:57 am
- Obama’s data.gov CIO quits White House 17 June 2011, 5:20 pm
- Obama’s Puerto Rico visit spurs anger, discontent 18 June 2011, 12:18 pm
- Obama's broken promises 22 June 2011, 4:54 am
Politics – War:
- Developing Autonomous Fighting Machines 6 June 2011, 11:32 am
- Real-Life Mercenaries to Star in Blackwater, the Videogame 7 June 2011, 3:23 pm
- Panetta: Escalate Shadow Wars, Expand Black Ops 9 June 2011, 2:21 pm
- Obama resists pressure over Libya campaign 15 June 2011, 4:31 pm
- Student Loans and DOE S.W.A.T. Teams 18 June 2011, 1:04 pm
Privacy:
- Study: Web users worry about snooping businesses 6 June 2011, 12:22 pm
- School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces 8 June 2011, 9:48 am
- Leakage of Private Information From Popular Websites Is Common, New Study Finds 8 June 2011, 10:13 am
- NJ court: No shield law for message board posters 8 June 2011, 12:21 pm
- EFF Joins Amicus Brief Urging Ohio Supreme Court to Find Warrantless GPS Tracking Unconstitutional 8 June 2011, 4:58 pm
- Shield Law Doesn’t Guard Blogger, N.J. Court Rules 9 June 2011, 3:57 am
- How I Learned to Live Google-free 10 June 2011, 9:54 am
- Nissan Leaf leaks your current position to RSS feed providers 13 June 2011, 5:04 am
- ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ – Misunderstandings of Privacy [PDF 2008] 13 June 2011, 5:06 am
- Lawmakers Propose Warrant Requirement for GPS Data 15 June 2011, 9:42 am
- FBI keeping 257.5 mln records on pre-9/11 travelers 15 June 2011, 9:50 am
- AES text encryptor 16 June 2011, 3:20 am
- Senate Bill Requires Permission to Collect & Share Location Data 16 June 2011, 3:31 am
- Fed judge orders ISP to release names of online commenters who slammed retailer 17 June 2011, 5:08 pm
- Anonymity has real value, both in comments and elsewhere 21 June 2011, 5:50 am
- Has China Wiretapped 20,000 Hong Kong Cars? 22 June 2011, 5:07 am
Security:
- Troy Hunt: A brief Sony password analysis 6 June 2011, 5:56 am
- Spotlight falls on Sony’s troubled cybersecurity 6 June 2011, 12:22 pm
- RSA Agrees to Replace Security Tokens After Admitting Compromise 7 June 2011, 9:41 am
- Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal $300K From Customer 7 June 2011, 5:09 pm
- IMF Breached by Sophisticated Hack Attack 13 June 2011, 9:53 am
- If you think breaches are huge now, just wait another year 14 June 2011, 5:49 am
- CIA website ‘hit by hackers’ 16 June 2011, 12:52 am
- Citi Credit Card Hack Bigger Than Originally Disclosed 16 June 2011, 7:35 am
- Defeating Skype Encryption Without a Key 17 June 2011, 5:25 pm
- New security issue at Dropbox 20 June 2011, 8:05 am
- Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hours Sunday 20 June 2011, 5:32 pm
Security – BitCoin:
- New malware steals your Bitcoin 17 June 2011, 4:46 pm
- Bitcoin trojan caught in the wild 17 June 2011, 5:13 pm
Security – CyberWar:
- Experts: Few Cyberattacks Are Cause for Major Retaliation 10 June 2011, 11:19 am
- Foreign government allegedly behind cyberattack on IMF 12 June 2011, 2:00 pm
- Fighting Internet Threats: Germany Arms Itself for Cyber War 16 June 2011, 6:08 am
- Computer Security: Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare? 17 June 2011, 6:01 pm
Social Media:
- The Social Media/First Amendment Face Off 9 June 2011, 3:59 am
- How to Disable Facebook’s Facial Recognition Feature 9 June 2011, 11:15 pm
- Facebook facial recognition prompts complaint 10 June 2011, 7:12 am
- Third-Party Twitter Apps Can Access Your Private Messages Without Authorization 10 June 2011, 9:56 am
- NATO’s Newest Bombing Tool: Twitter 10 June 2011, 1:31 pm
- Facebook users drop in the US and Canada 13 June 2011, 5:05 am
- Open letter to FB from protest leaders in macedonia. 17 June 2011, 1:56 am
- Software Extracts Your Location on Twitter Even When It’s Secret 20 June 2011, 3:41 am
Technology:
- Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Back Search Metadata Project 6 June 2011, 11:32 am
- Superfast Search Engine Speeds Past the Competition 6 June 2011, 11:37 am
- Partly Cloudy Skies: Apple’s Cloud Services Are Promising, But We Still Want A Freedom of Choice Button 8 June 2011, 11:59 am
- Listen, Google: we want a Google Scholar API 10 June 2011, 10:21 am
- How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper 10 June 2011, 3:38 pm
- It’s official: developers get better with age. And scarcer. 13 June 2011, 11:58 am
- Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8 14 June 2011, 10:13 am
- China’s Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments 15 June 2011, 5:03 am
- Nanotechnology makes inroads in the construction industry 17 June 2011, 5:34 pm
- US nuke regulators weaken safety rules to keep old reactors running 21 June 2011, 5:50 am
- Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI 21 June 2011, 2:05 pm
Whistleblowing:
- WSJ and Al-Jazeera Lure Whistleblowers With False Promises of Anonymity 7 June 2011, 2:36 pm
- NSA Whistleblower to Plead Guilty to Misdemeanor 9 June 2011, 5:24 pm
- How WikiLeaks has changed today’s media 12 June 2011, 3:24 am
- WikiLeaks Grand Jury investigation widens 12 June 2011, 3:50 am
- How Journalists Data-Mined the Wikileaks Docs 13 June 2011, 12:00 pm
- Disingenuous Transparency: Whistleblowers Suffer More than Ever Under Obama 14 June 2011, 6:48 am
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