Bennie Thompson The End of the Free Internet Is Nearreason.com - Declan McCullagh Not too long ago, conventional wisdom held that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that …
Facebook Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing jokeThe Verge - Nilay PatelFacebook’s stock went up after news of a record-breaking $5 billion FTC fine for various privacy violations broke today. That, as The New York Times’ Mike Isaac points out, is the real story here: the
Creative Commons How Creative Commons drives collaborationVoxThe internet makes it possible to share creative work, discoveries, and innovations in a more expansive way than ever before. And that concept of the open internet has spurred on users who want to build
Design 'I amsterdam' sign returns with a powerful new message | Creative Bloqcreativebloq.com - Dom Carter The giant red and white letters of the 'I amsterdam' sign were a popular tourist destination in the Dutch capital, but they were controversially …
Opinion (UK) It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even triedThe Guardian - Shoshana ZuboffSurveillance capitalism is an economic logic that has hijacked the digital for its own purposes In a BBC interview last week, Facebook’s vice-president, Nick Clegg, surprised viewers by calling for new
Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!medium.com - Jonathan Leitschuh A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially exposes up to …
Emoji Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret themCNN - By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — Can a knife emoji double as a threat to kill someone? Does a heart emoji from a manager constitute sexual harassment? More emojis are showing up in court cases throughout the
British Airways British Airways faces $230 million fine over data theftReuters - By Paul SandleLONDON (Reuters) - British Airways-owner IAG is facing a record $230 million fine for the theft of data from 500,000 customers from its website last year under tough new data-protection rules policed the
Mobile Technology Yes, your emails are being tracked. Here's how to stop it.Mashable - Karissa BellHere's something you might want to think about next time you check your email: chances are, at least some of your messages are being tracked. From how many times you open a message, the time of day, and
Podcasting Global podcast ad revenue set to pass $1 billion this yearwhatsnewinpublishing.com - Esther Kezia Thorpe Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by the end of 2019, according to figures from PwC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook …
Play buttonEuropean Union The English language is evolving here's how it will change after BrexitThe Conversation UK - Emma Seddon Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country’s woeful inability to …
Geolocation Superhuman is Spying on You » Mike Industriesmikeindustries.com Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters, to work …
Fourth Industrial Revolution These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2019weforum.org - Johnny Wood Which of today’s technologies will shape tomorrow’s world? A new report compiled by the World Economic Forum reveals some of the breakthrough …
Verizon The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet OutagesWIRED - Lily Hay Newman In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped up around …
Play buttonCats An Amazon engineer made an AI-powered cat flap to stop his cat from bringing home dead animalsThe Verge - James VincentMachine learning can be an incredible addition to any tinkerer’s toolbox, helping to fix that little problem in life that no commercial gadget can handle. For Amazon product manager Ben Hamm, that problem
World News German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit BritainThe Guardian - Philip OltermannThe scene is Europe, about 40 years from now. Climate change has turned the Netherlands into a swamp and Portugal into an economic powerhouse, thanks to wave-energy plants paid for by wealthy Brazilian
World Economic Forum How Mobile Technology Is Changing The Airport Boarding ProcessForbes - Leslie WuOne of the best places to witness the the breakdown of social norms is an airport boarding line, where all sorts of misbehavior can be observed, even with an on-time flight (toss in delays and the pitchforks
Opinion (UK) An app using AI to 'undress' women offers a terrifying glimpse into the futureThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiSign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. Want to see Taylor Swift naked? There’s an app for that. It’s called DeepNude and it uses AI to “undress” of
Wikipedia Wikipedia Has Been A Safe Haven From The Online Culture Wars. That Time May Be Over.buzzfeednews.com - Joseph Bernstein The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. Now a single-user ban has exposed the deep …
Remote Working How to make an impression when you work remotelyQuartz - Kristen RuttgaizerThe option to work remotely is a huge draw for employees today. With commutes averaging nearly half an hour each way in the US, working from the comfort of home, a local coffee shop, or nearby co-working
Retail Automated Communications By Brands Frustrates Customersmediapost.com - Chuck Martin While brands are moving to automated communications with customers, many of those customers still yearn for human interaction. The growth of systems …
Deepfakes This Horrifying App Undresses a Photo of Any Woman With a Single Click - VICEVICE - Samantha ColeThe $50 DeepNude app dispenses with the idea that deepfakes were about anything besides claiming ownership over women’s bodies. Update June 27, 3:03 p.m. EST: The creator of DeepNude announced that he's
Snapshot Comparing changes in webpages gets easier with Wayback MachineTNW - Ravie LakshmananSince its launch in 2001, the Wayback Machine has been a very useful digital archive of the World Wide Web. By frequently crawling and caching pages for the archive, the Wayback Machine has amassed over
Google Maps The cost of an ad-free internet: $35 more per monthRecode - Rani MollaInternet companies collect data about you — what sites you visit, what you buy, what demographic you fit into — in exchange for “free” use of their products, like Google’s Gmail and Maps or Facebook and
Tesco Tesco Working on Cashierless Stores as Competition With Amazon Heats UpBloomberg - Yaacov Benmeleh Tesco Plc has turned to an Israeli startup for help as it looks to become the next major food retailer to remove cashiers from some of its stores. The …
Play buttonISPs A DIY Internet Network Has Drastically Expanded Its Coverage in NYCVICE - Karl BodeWith the installation of "Supernode 3," NYC Mesh now covers large swaths of both Manhattan and Brooklyn. A community-run operation named NYC Mesh is on a mission: to deliver better, cheaper broadband to
Facebook Once More With Feeling: There Is No Legal Distinction Between A 'Platform' And A 'Publisher'techdirt.com - Mike Masnick Alexis Madrigal, over at the Atlantic has a mostly interesting piece recounting the history of how the big internet companies started calling …
Virtual Assistants The downfall of the virtual assistant (so far)computerworld.com - JR Raphael It's tough to do much of anything involving technology these days without running into a virtual assistant. Pick up your Android phone or Chromebook, …
Media Industry Twitter is removing precise location data on tweets — a small win for privacy but a small loss for journalists and researchersNieman Lab - Joshua BentonFor the past decade, location-tagged tweets have been a useful (if imperfect) tool for anyone trying to connect time, place, and information in ways that told us something about the world. When Twitter
