The Right to Record Police Doesn’t Disappear When You Put Your Phone in Your Pocket American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 142018
 

In Massachusetts, a federal court affirmed that the First Amendment protects secret recording of police performing their duties in public. The First Amendment right to record the police is a critical check and balance for people living in a free, open, and democratic society. It promotes the free discussion of governmental affairs as well as protects the democratic process. And for some communities, it’s a vital tool for uncovering, if not deterring, police misconduct. But…

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How Urban Core Amenities Drive Gentrification and Increase Inequality CityLab | All Articles

Dec 142018
 

The gentrification of cities like New York, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. has soared in recent years, as the affluent and educated have poured back into them. These superstar cities and tech hubs are epicenters of the “new urban crisis” with high and worsening levels of income inequality, economic segregation, and increasingly unaffordable housing, all of which have disproportionate negative effects on the less advantaged.But what is actually behind these shifts? One popular…

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Facing Criticism from All Sides, EU’s Terrible Copyright Amendments Stumble into the New Year Deeplinks

Dec 142018
 

Today, EU negotiators in Strasbourg struggled to craft the final language of the Copyright in the Single Digital Market Directive, in their last possible meeting for 2019. They failed, thanks in large part to the Directive’s two most controversial clauses: Article 11, which requires paid licenses for linking to news stories while including more than a word or two; and Article 13, which will lead to the creation of error-prone copyright censorship algorithms that will…

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Documentation for Public APIs at the Internet Archive Internet Archive Blogs

Dec 132018
 

Internet Archive is well-known for our interactive user services.  These include the Wayback Machine, the archive.org website, and OpenLibrary.  Less well known are the programmatic, or API (Application Program Interface) tools that can allow users and computer programs to access archived information “at scale.” Our APIs evolved over time, adapting to address specific projects and expanding as we introduced new services and capabilities into our operations.  Although not entirely uniform, these APIS were created to…

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Intel Working On Open-Sourcing The FSP – Would Be Huge Win For Coreboot & Security Phoronix

Dec 132018
 

Intel’s Architecture Day on Tuesday was delightfully filled with an overwhelming amount of valuable hardware information, but Intel’s software efforts were also briefly touched on too. In fact, Raja Koduri reinforced how software is a big part of Intel technology and goes in-hand with their security, interconnect, memory, architecture, and process pillars and that’s where their new oneAPI initiative will fit in. But what learning afterwards was most exciting on the software front…

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Was your phone imaged by border agents? They may still have the data Ars Technica

Dec 122018
 

Enlarge / After arriving from China, Wenhong Chen and Funina Wu, from Frederick, Maryland, are photographed at Dulles as part of the US Customs and Border Protection’s newly implemented biometrics system. (credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) A new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has concluded that the agency does not always adequately delete data seized as part of a border search of electronic devices, among other concerns. According…

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The Fire Trucks Are Too Damn Big CityLab | All Articles

Dec 122018
 

This summer, proposed changes to Baltimore’s fire code sparked vitriolic public discord.Some lawmakers and bike advocates there were pushing to revise the code to legalize the use of narrower street lanes for emergency vehicles, in order to create more room for protected bicycling. They argued that there was plenty of space to share the road; firefighters disagreed, saying that bike lanes would block emergency access. For a fight that was ultimately over what counts as…

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Google CEO Hammered by Members of Congress on China Censorship Plan The Intercept

Dec 122018
 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai came under fire from lawmakers on Tuesday over the company’s secretive plan to launch a censored search engine in China. During a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee, Pichai faced sustained questions over the China plan, known as Dragonfly, which would blacklist broad categories of information about democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest. The hearing began with an opening statement from Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who said launching a censored…

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Doom at 25: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins The Register

Dec 112018
 

Who cares? Let’s whip out the BFG and blow up the boss 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) genre. Hours later IT admins wanted id’s guts for garters.…

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Four million Europeans’ signatures opposing Article 13 have been delivered to the European Parliament Deeplinks

Dec 112018
 

Lawmakers in the European Union (EU) often lament the lack of citizen engagement with the complex policy questions that they wrestle with in Strasbourg and Brussels, so we assume that they will be delighted to learn that more than 4,000,000 of their constituents have signed a petition opposing Article 13 of the new Copyright in the Single Market Directive. They oppose it for two main reasons: because it will inevitably lead to the creation of…

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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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