Doom’s next expansion pack, made by John Romero, will be free—or cost up to $166 Ars Technica

Dec 112018
 

Romero Games Ltd. John Romero—co-creator of the classic and influential 1990s first-person shooter Doom—has announced that he will release 18 new levels for the game for its 25th anniversary next year. Scheduled for a mid-February 2019 release, the free megawad of levels will be called “Sigil.” Romero’s website describes it as “the spiritual successor” to the fourth episode of Doom, picking up “where the original left off.” It will include nine single-player levels and nine multi-player Deathmatch…

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Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography Stories by Rococo Modem Basilisk on Medium

Dec 102018
 

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Because of the recent 50th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos, we’re getting a fresh batch of them. Fuck that.These folks weren’t trying to predict our current future. They were trying to create a future worth living in,…

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Doom turns 25 – the FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers and enraged admins The Register

Dec 102018
 

Who cares about that, let’s whip out the BFG and blow up some of our coworkers On December 10, 1993, after a marathon 30-hour coding session, the developers at id Software uploaded the first finished copy of Doom for download, the game that was to redefine first-person shooter (FPS) gaming. Hours later IT admins wanted their guts for garters.…

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Congress Is Trying to Use the Spending Bill to Criminalize Boycotts of Israel and Other Countries American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 102018
 

Congress is trying to sneak an unconstitutional ban on political expression into the spending bill in order to avoid public scrutiny. According to recent reports, congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle are planning to sneak a bill criminalizing politically motivated boycotts of Israel into the end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill. The bill’s original sponsor, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), is pushing Democratic leadership to include this bill, which has not moved forward thus far primarily…

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Rights Groups Turn Up Pressure on Google Over China Censorship Ahead of Congressional Hearing The Intercept

Dec 102018
 

Google is facing a renewed wave of criticism from human rights groups over its controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China. A coalition of more than 60 leading groups from countries across the world have joined forces to blast the internet giant for failing to address concerns about the secretive China project, known as Dragonfly. They come from countries including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, France, Kazakhstan,…

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TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction Deeplinks

Dec 102018
 

The Transportation Security Administration has set out an alarming vision of pervasive biometric surveillance at airports, which cuts against the right to privacy, the “right to travel,” and the right to anonymous association with others. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which included language that we warned would provide implied Congressional endorsement to biometric screening of domestic travelers and U.S. citizens, became law in early October. The ink wasn’t even dry on that bill when…

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New EU Piracy Watchlist Targets Key Pirate Sites and Cloudflare TorrentFreak

Dec 102018
 

In recent years the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has released several reports detailing “notorious markets” that contribute to large volumes of copyright infringement worldwide. The annual reports are aimed at guiding the U.S. Government’s position towards foreign countries where these sites and services are located. With a focus overseas, US-based platforms are not included. Earlier this year the EU announced that it would be following the example set by the United States…

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Unhinged GDP Growth Could Actually Destroy the Economy, Economists Find The Intercept

Dec 062018
 

For decades, scientists have warned of the pending crisis for the planet and humanity in the event of runaway climate change. But a new paper from prominent economists frames the situation in language that people might actually understand: Not addressing climate change, they conclude, will lead inevitably to “worldwide economic collapse.” Researchers also have a warning for renewable energy evangelists and techno-optimists, concluding that it is a fantasy to believe that the economy can grow at…

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Giuliani can’t figure out how URLs work, blames Twitter for liberal bias Ars Technica

Dec 062018
 

Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Simpsons) Rudy Giuliani, who briefly advised Donald Trump on cybersecurity before taking a role as his personal attorney, doesn’t understand how domain names work. And that lack of understanding led him to invent a ludicrous conspiracy theory about Twitter. It all started when Giuliani tweeted about special counsel Robert Mueller: If someone tweets out a valid URL, Twitter automatically converts it into a hyperlink. In this case, .in is the country code…

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Join us for A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain — January 25, 2019 San Francisco Internet Archive Blogs

Dec 062018
 

On January 1, 2019 in the United States, tens of thousands of new works will join iconic pieces such as Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa as a part of the public domain.                 Save the date! Please join us on January 25, 2019 for a grand day of celebrating the public domain! Co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Creative Commons, this celebration will feature a keynote…

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Critical Kubernetes privilege escalation disclosed LWN.net

Dec 052018
 

A critical flaw in the Kubernetes container orchestration system has been announced. It will allow any user to compromise a Kubernetes cluster by way of exploiting any aggregated API server that is deployed for it. This affects all Kubernetes versions 1.0 to 1.12, but is only fixed in the supported versions (in 1.10.11, 1.11.5, and 1.12.3). “With a specially crafted request, users that are authorized to establish a connection through the Kubernetes API server to…

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There’s No Real Difference Between Border Walls and Border Fences American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 042018
 

Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, are playing word games when it comes to funding Trump’s border wall. Sometime between now and Dec. 7, when the current appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security will expire, Congress needs to provide the agency with another’s year’s funds. A single word has become a sticking point for the politicians who will vote on that funding: “wall,” as in President Trump’s border wall.  Trump and his Republican allies…

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SpaceX flies rocket for the third time, will attempt fairing re-use [Updated] Ars Technica

Dec 032018
 

SpaceX Monday p.m. Update: At the top of its launch window, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared into space on Monday from a launch site in California, sending 64 smallsats on their intended path toward a Sun synchronous orbit. Shortly thereafter the first stage descended to a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean and landed safely. This is the third time this particular first stage has flown into space and returned safely to Earth. Meanwhile, SpaceX…

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After delays, SpaceX to attempt historic launch Monday [Updated] Ars Technica

Dec 032018
 

SpaceX Monday a.m. Update: Originally scheduled to launch on Nov. 19, the Spaceflight SSO-A mission has been delayed three times due to the need for additional rocket checks as well as some weather concerns. Now the historic mission—SpaceX will attempt to launch the same Falcon 9 first stage for the third time, set an annual record for total launches, and fly the most smallsats into space on a U.S. booster—is scheduled for Monday at 1:32pm…

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SpaceX delays attempt to fly the same rocket for a third time [Updated] Ars Technica

Dec 022018
 

SpaceX Sunday a.m. Update: SpaceX said early Sunday that it is standing down from Sunday’s launch attempt “to conduct additional inspections of the second stage.” The company is working toward its backup launch attempt on Dec. 3, when the launch window opens at 1:32pm ET (18:32 UTC). Original post: Sunday’s launch attempt of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with a primary launch window from 1:32pm ET (18:32 UTC) to…

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Government Use of Tear Gas Is Illegal in War. It Should Be Illegal Here, Too. American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 022018
 

The chemical agent is outlawed in international warfare but used regularly by police here at home. This piece originally appeared at The Washington Post’s PostEverything.  Pictures of migrant women and children fleeing in panic as tear gas canisters were fired at them by U.S. border agents this week shocked many Americans, but the Trump administration praised the Border Patrol for responding “admirably and responsibly” in deploying the “accepted use of nonlethal force.” But using tear…

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SpaceX will attempt to fly the same rocket for the third time Sunday Ars Technica

Dec 022018
 

SpaceX Sunday’s launch attempt of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with a primary launch window from 1:32pm ET (18:32 UTC) to 2pm ET (19:00 UTC), is significant for a number of reasons. For one, this will be the company’s 19th launch of 2018, and if successful, it will break SpaceX’s record for most missions flown in a calendar year. With a handful of launches remaining on its manifest in…

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jwz mixtape 200 jwz

Dec 012018
 

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 2ØØ.Two hundred!By the numbers: that’s 1,625 audio tracks on the first 75 mixtapes, and then 2,732 videos on the next 125 mixtapes, for a total running time of just over 12 days. That averages out to pretty close to my goal of 90 minutes each, at an average of one every six weeks.I wanted to do something to commemorate the bicentennial (bicentapial?) so here’s a double-length mixtape (a pair of C90s)…

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Yes, the EU’s New #CopyrightDirective is All About Filters Deeplinks

Dec 012018
 

When the EU started planning its new Copyright Directive (the “Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive”), a group of powerful entertainment industry lobbyists pushed a terrible idea: a mandate that all online platforms would have to create crowdsourced databases of “copyrighted materials” and then block users from posting anything that matched the contents of those databases. At the time, we, along with academics and technologists explained why this would undermine the Internet, even as…

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In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 012018
 

A growing movement wants to amend the US Constitution and weaken its due process protections in its ill-advised pursuit of victims’ rights.  Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of the midterm elections, a quieter trend also gained momentum through the ballot box: a budding, national threat to due process and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. On Nov. 6, six states adopted, through ballot initiatives, what is known as “Marsy’s…

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