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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: PEW report on Information Overload… Mr. Robot Killing the Hollywood Hacker….

Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports

Since the 1970s, the term “information overload” has captured society’s anxiety about the growth in the production of information having potentially bad consequences for people as they struggle to cope with seemingly constant streams of messages and images. The advent of the internet, it was thought, would only exacerbate this, with the onset of ubiquitous connectivity turning information overload into something even more debilitating.

Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

animation-1 Mr Robot is the most successful example of a small but fast-growing genre of “techno-realist” media, where the focus is on realistic portrayals of hackers, information security, surveillance and privacy, and it represents a huge reversal on the usual portrayal of hackers and computers as convenient plot elements whose details can be finessed to meet the story’s demands, without regard to reality.

Why are hackers so political?

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

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Gabriella Coleman is the “hacker anthropologist” whose book on the anthropology of Anonymous is among the best books on hacking I’ve ever read; her new paper in Current Anthropology, From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek, poses a fascinating question: given that hackers are as well-paid and privileged as doctors, lawyers and academics, how come hackers are so much more political than other members of the professional elites?

Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker

MIT Technology Review

The popular portrayal of computers as magic boxes capable of anything has done real societal harm. Now one TV show wants to save us.

EU urges US tech giants to act faster against hate speech

EurActiv.com by admin

US tech giants including Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube and Microsoft will have to act faster to tackle online hate speech or face laws forcing them to do so, the European Commission said on Sunday (4 December).

Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to stop terrorist content

Mashable! by Karissa Bell

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Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google are teaming up on a new effort to prevent the spread of terrorist content on their networks.

Twitter Releases Year in Review Data – The Top Trends and Stats

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

Twitter has released their annual year in review data, looking at the top trends on the platform.

IGF2016: Internet Society urges all Internet stakeholders to find coherent voice on key issues

Internet Society – News Headlines

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Kathy Brown speaking at the 2016 IGF

Kathy Brown, President & CEO, provided the following statement at today’s Opening Ceremony at the 11^th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Guadalajara, Mexico.

Apple will publish its AI research

The Social Software Weblog

Apple isn’t exactly known for sharing its research with the world, but it’s making a big exception to that rule. Company AI director Russ Salakhutdinov has revealed that Apple will publish its machine learning research. In other words, some of the…

Twitter in 2016 was a pretty depressing place to be

The Social Software Weblog

Let’s not be mealymouthed: 2016 sucked. As a stark reminder, Twitter has released its “Top 10 Global Conversations” for the year, a change from last year’s #YearOnTwitter format. This time, it lumped events into categories like #RIP, #Brexit, #Trump…

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Diyanet, Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, claimed gathering intelligence on suspected Gülenists via imams in 38 countries…

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Turkey’s prime minister (Binali Yıldırım) and his wife, returning from the Russia trip

One-year halt in Turkey, Russia ties ‘over’: Turkish PM

A year-long hiatus in relations between Russia and Turkey is over, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said Dec. 6 in his first visit to Moscow as prime minister

Diyanet gathers intelligence on suspected Gülenists via imams in 38 countries

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has gathered intelligence via imams from 38 countries on the activities of suspected followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, widely believed to be the mastermind of the failed July 15 coup attempt.

Turkey’s EU membership bid set to enter ice age

EurActiv.com by Albrecht Meier

The EU’s accession talks with Turkey are, in practice, not going anywhere. Now, the Netherlands wants clarity on how the negotiations will progress in the future, if at all. EurActiv’s partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

Gülenists and PKK poisoning our relations with EU: Deputy PM

Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has accused the followers of the Gülen movement, believed to have orchestrated the July 15 coup, as well as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), of trying to harm Turkey’s relationship with the European Union after ties between Ankara and Brussels recently soured

Turkey alleges US charter schools are a front for man accused in failed coup

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Tom Dart in Houston

Law firm is investigating a large chain of schools in Texas and the US amid allegations they funnel taxpayers’ dollars to dissident cleric Fethullah Gülen

With brightly coloured halls and gadget-filled classrooms where students work on science projects from sound waves to hovercrafts, the Harmony Science Academy in Houston is like any other science and technology-focused high school in the US.

Turkish prosecutor demands dismissal of flotilla raid case after Israel deal

The prosecutor in the Mavi Marmara case demanded its dismissal on Dec. 2, citing a reconciliation deal signed between Turkey and Israel, one day after Israel’s new ambassador to Ankara, Eitan Na’eh, arrived in the Turkish capital to take up his post

Dutch join push for EU-Turkey accession talks freeze

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

The Dutch government has lent its weight to calls for the EU to freeze Turkey’s membership talks, diplomats said yesterday (1 December), raising the prospect of European leaders making such a move at a summit in two weeks.

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Eurosphere agenda: Geert Wilders found guilty of hate speech…

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Manuel Valls: Tough-talker with French presidential ambitions

EurActiv.com

When two journalists published the book ‘A President Shouldn’t Say That’ which quotes François Hollande disparaging judges, insulting footballers and revealing state secrets, Prime Minister Manuel Valls could not hide his “shame” and “anger”.

Geert Wilders hits back at guilty verdict

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

A court in the Netherlands finds Geert Wilders guilty of inciting discrimination, but gives no punishment.

The ‘extraordinary’ case of Geert Wilders

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Anna Holligan reports on Geert Wilders’ hate speech and what his conviction means for politics.

Netherlands trial: Geert Wilders guilty of incitement

BBC News | Europe | World Editio

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is convicted in hate speech trial but no penalty is imposed.

Debate: Why did Renzi’s referendum fail?

euro|topics

Young voters and people in southern Italy in particular voted against Renzi’s constitutional reforms. Some commentators say the Italians have missed a crucial opportunity. Others blame Renzi’s excessive egotism for Italy’s current predicament.

Debate: Eurogroup gives Athens some debt relief

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The Eurozone finance ministers agreed on Monday to certain measures that will give Greece a little more time to repay its debts. At the same time they insisted that Athens must negotiate further austerity measures. This latest agreement is only seemingly good news for the country, commentators conclude.

Debate: Parliamentary elections in Romania

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The Romanians will vote for a new parliament under a revised electoral law on Sunday. Commentators hope that the people will be guided by their common sense despite a vacuous election campaign dominated by nationalist themes.

Who is UKIP’s new leader Paul Nuttall?

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Unhappy birthday: EU low-key on Maastricht’s 25th anniversary

EurActiv.com by Matthew Tempest

A quarter of a century after the summit in the Dutch town of Maastricht that gave birth to the euro, the EU will mark the anniversary today (9 December) with little fanfare as it battles a wave of crises.