Cyberculture agenda: Another secular blogger murdered in Bangladesh… “Vice Staff Unionizes…

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“No Country For Secular Bloggers”: Niloy Neel is the Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger To Be Killed in 2015

Global Voices Online

Murdered blogger Niloy Neel, Image by Reza Sumon. Copyright Demotix (7/8/2015)

Fourth secular Bangladesh blogger hacked to death

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Gang armed with machetes kill blogger at his home in Dhaka in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year.

Vice Staff Unionizes as New Media Gets Old

 Wired Top Stories by Julia Greenberg

Vice Media joins Gawker, Salon, and the Guardian US in a growing trend after its US editorial staff voted to unionize

Big-time Twitter investor says Jack Dorsey should be full-time CEO

 Mashable! by JP Mangalindan

Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca is at it again

Reddit finally bans incredibly racist communities in biggest-ever purge

Mashable! by Seth Fiegerman

The next stage of the Reddit crackdown has begun.

Reddit Announces New Content Policy; Bans Hate-Based Subreddits

All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Reddit’s new content policy goes into effect, many horrible subreddits banned or quarantined

Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

UK govt wants your opinion on sending file-sharers to jail for 10 years

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Jim from Open Rights Group writes, “Should file-sharers be threatened with up to 10 years in prison? The UK’s Intellectual Property Office are consulting on this idea.”

Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking

 EFF.org Updates by Rebecca Jeschke

Browser Add-On Prevents Data Collection from Ads and Other Hidden Trackers

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.

More than a quarter of a million users have already installed the alpha and beta releases of Privacy Badger. The new Privacy Badger 1.0 includes blocking of certain kinds of super-cookies and browser fingerprinting—the latest ways that some parts of the online tracking industry try to follow Internet users from site to site.

6 Recent Changes by Facebook to Make Your News Feed Smarter

Social Media Today by Prasant Naidu

Facebook recently posted a healthy Q2 2015 earnings report – mobile monthly active users were 1.13 billion and 75% of total ad revenue of $4.04 billion was contributed via mobile. This growth is also due to the seriousness that Facebook has shown towards making the News Feed intelligent over time. This year itself Facebook has been quite rampant with occasional tweaks to the News Feed, while keeping both users and brands happy.

YouTube retires its classic 301+ views counter

 Mashable! by Christina Warren

YouTube 301+ view counts, we hardly knew youYouTube is retiring the 301+ views quirk — which was previously used as a placeholder until YouTube could verify the number of views a video received — and moving to a real-time viewing algorithm.

Hacking Team reverse engineered WhatsApp, Facebook and others to steal your iPhone’s data

The Next Web by Owen Williams

After extensive amounts of Hacking Team’s internal data leaked online recently, researchers have been combing through it to find what kind of attacks the company was using.

The top passwords of 2014 will make you feel comparatively ingenious

Mashable! by Samsung Portable SSD T1

Given that it’s 2015, and we have been logging onto the world wide web for decades, you’d assume people would have a healthy grasp on what makes a good password by now. But no, that doesn’t appear to be the case — if the list of the 25 most popular passwords of 2014 is anything to go by, anyway.

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