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Friday, September 11, 2015

#CizreUnderAttack “Council of Europe urges immediate access to Cizre by independent observers…

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Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks has urged Turkish authorities to allow independent observers to enter Cizre, amid growing concerns of serious human rights violations

Deputies and Ministers from HDP March towards Cizre

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, ministers and about 40 deputies of HDP marched towards Cizre district. Although stopped twice on the road, HDP deputies continue to walk.

Investigation launched into HDP co-chair Demirtaş for ‘insulting the nation’

An investigation has been opened against HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on charges which include, among others, “openly insulting the Turkish nation” and “producing propaganda of a terror organization,”
COE and PACE have condemned the recent attacks targeting security forces by the outlawed PKK as well as the latest attacks on political parties and media outlets
No piece of news, no title of a story can be the justification for attacking and vandalizing a newspaper office, with chants of “We will torch you like Madımak.” (Madımak is a hotel in the eastern province of Sivas where 35 mostly Alevi intellectuals were burnt to death by an ultraconservative mob in 1993.)

Turkey’s south-east has seen almost daily clashes between Kurdish militants and security forces since the collapse of a ceasefire in July

Rising violence in south-east Turkey after the collapse of a ceasefire between the government and Kurdish insurgents will make it difficult to hold an election due on 1 November, the head of the pro-Kurdish parliamentary opposition has said.

Daily Hürriyet published the following statement on Sept 9, the day after the newspaper’s Istanbul HQ was physically attacked for a second time in less than 48 hours

Leaders ‘driving Turkey to civil war’

The head of the pro-Kurdish HDP accuses Turkey’s ruling party of orchestrating nationalist attacks and pushing the country towards civil war.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he disapproves any attacks on premises of political parties and condemned the perpetrators, after the hundreds of bureaus of the Kurdish problem-focused HDP were stormed
U.K. Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore has swiftly condemned an attack against daily Hürriyet’s Istanbul headquarters and Ankara offices, urging respect for the rule of law.
Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union Council, has voiced his concern over the recent attacks on the bureaus of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), as well as daily Hürriyet, in remarks at a joint press conference with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara late on Sept 9
A worker has died and five others have been injured in an explosion at a mining site in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: “Most popular programming languages shift at Github

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languagesDriven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully.

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The Norse Map is a Wargames-style visualization of ongoing attacks on servers around the world. Though it shows honeypots rather than actual private or government targets, the result is a live snapshot of trends in computer mischief.

New data from Pew Research has found that the proportion of online Americans who use Pinterest and Instagram has doubled since Pew first started tracking social media platform adoption in 2012. Use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, on the other hand, is now starting to slow.
With rare exceptions, if you Google a political candidate you’ll get a link to his or her Wikipedia page among the top five results. Certainly this is true for the presidential candidates, and certainly we can all understand why they should be extremely concerned about what’s said about them there. And while there is great motivation for candidates to either modify their entries themselves, direct their staff to do so or hire an editorial consultant, all of these actions are frowned upon by Wikipedia’s editorial policy

The End of the Internet Dream: the speech that won Black Hat (and Defcon)


“The End of the Internet Dream,” cyberlawyer Jennifer Granick’s keynote at Black Hat, was all anyone could talk about at this year’s Defcon — Black Hat being the grown-up, buttoned-down, military-industrial cousin to Defcon’s wild and exuberant anarchy.

 

YouTube Is the Sleeping Giant of Livestreaming

YouTube Is the Sleeping Giant of Livestreaming

YouTube is beginning to take livestreaming seriously, and it could change the Internet.

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The history of mosaic — the art of creating a whole picture with shards of glass or other materials, has been around since at least the 3rd millennium B.C., appearing in places like Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Damascus — is long and storied.

Convert your face into emoji

emojilauraLike most humans with a smartphone and a sense of joie de vivre, I enjoy peppering my communications liberally with emoji. But until today, I could not actually be emoji. All that has changed, thanks to the Emoji Mosaic tool created by Eric Andrew Lewis.

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The next time you go to send an emoji to a friend, there may be more options. The Unicode Consortium has accepted 38 new mock-ups as candidates for inclusion — but I accept only 37 of them. There are some cute ones, like a cowboy or a prince.
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SwiftKey’s keyboard for iOS got an update today that will show you the emojis you use the most. Yes, it has been keeping track of how many 🙈 you send. In July, people using the iPhone beta version got an update to show their signature emoji – the one they use more than anyone else. With this latest update, all SwiftKey Cloud users on iOS will also be able to see their signature emoji. It’s also tracking which emoji are used most frequently in each US state too, so it’ll tell you where you’d best fit in. No, I’m not joking. SwiftKey…
BuzzFeed said Aug. 18 it secured a $200 million investment from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, the latest major cash infusion into the digital news sector

NYT report: Amazon is hell to work at

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The New York Times exposes a brutal, cultlike environment of midnight phone calls, mind-numbing jargon and sadistic management. Bosses encourage workers to tear one another down. Workers cry at their desks.

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Following a New York Times piece on the alleged stifling work conditions at Amazon, a company spokesman forwarded an email to us penned by CEO Jeff Bezos: Dear Amazonians, If you haven’t already, I encourage you to give this (very long) New York Times article a careful read:

Mobile Live Streaming for Business: Periscope and Meerkat

With so many different live mobile video streaming services and apps out there, it’s hard to know which one to use. That’s why we’ve detailed the ups and downs of using Periscope and Meerkat in this post.

A New Kind of Digital Crime: Cyber Flashing

Last year the Internet focused on the much-reported backpack video of a woman being catcalled more than 100 times in three hours of walking around New York City. In that instance, the viral video showed us through digital devices the kind of harassment women–or at least women living in cities– have to deal with every day.
Dhaka police looking for six men over the death of Niloy Chatterjee, after two suspects were arrested on Thursday.

The hit list: Endangered bloggers of Bangladesh

Blogger deaths in Bangladesh intimidate activists and hurt the freedom of speech.


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Monday, June 1, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: Thanks to partially Snowden, “The NSA is no longer authorized to spy on US citizens

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The US Senate failed to pass legislation extending legal authority of the country’s spy agencies — including the National Security Agency (NSA) — to collect data on American citizens’ communications on Sunday, reports Reuters. Senator Rand Paul blocked an extension of the Patriot Act in a rare Sunday meeting at the Senate.
PATRIOT Act expires — now what?

For the first time since its passage in 2001, Congress has declined to renew section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which provided for mass, warrantless surveillance — now what happens? Read the rest

Parts of Patriot Act Expire Tonight After Senate Fails to Pass Reform

US senators failed to pass a bill tonight that would reform one of the NSA’s most controversial surveillance programs. Without it, sections of the Patriot Act expire at midnight.

What Deep Web’s Director Learned Investigating Silk Road
What Deep Web’s Director Learned Investigating Silk Road

If you to turn on Epix this weekend and think it’s the news, you won’t be alone. The network’s new doc about Ross Ulbricht is incredibly timely.

The 38 New Emojis Proposed For 2016
At this moment, if I wanted to use emojis to express to a friend “Hey, call me, an owl just stole my scooter – face palm!” I wouldn’t be able to.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: UN: Encryption and Anonymity Must Be Protected

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spyFor the past several years and particularly in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, interest in encrypted and anonymous communications has spread to a much wider audience.

As reported by SocialTimes last year, many users are signing user agreementswithout reading them. As a result, they are giving away the rights to the reproduction of their content often without even realizing. A recent survey fromScoopshot, a photo and video service that connects content creators with advertisers, shows that the situation has not improved.

The discovery last week of another major flaw in TLS was announced, nicknamed “Logjam” by the group of prominent cryptographers who discovered it. It’s getting so hard to keep track of these flaws that researchers at INRIA in France created a “zoo” classifying the attacks (which is not yet updated to include Logjam or the FREAK attack discovered in March). Despite the fact that these attacks seem to be announced every few months now, Logjam is a surprising and important finding with broad implications for the Internet. In this post I’ll offer a technical primer of the Logjam vulnerability.

In part 1, we described the technical details of Logjam. Here we’ll discuss some of the disturbing questions this vulnerability raises about secure communication on the Internet and NSA’s apparent failure in its “information assurance” role to keep the Internet safe from large-scale threats.

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Every year, Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, releases her internet trends report full of insight about everything from mobile device usage to internet usage breakdowns. Meeker unveiled the 2015 report at Recode’s Code conference today. Here’s the full report:
Earlier this year, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo lamented the platform’s poor handling of bullying and trolls on the site. “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform, and we’ve sucked at it for years,” came Costolo’s blunt assessment. Now the platform seems to be taking the next step, banning controversial blogger Chuck Johnson from the platform, a well-known troll who’d made it his mission to “tell the stories the mainstream media won’t”.
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In the beginning there was SMS. Then came emoji. Now, there is MimeChat. If you’ve ever wanted to dye your hair purple or fish-slap a friend in the face but didn’t quite have the nerve, now’s your chance. Virtually, of course. A free app for iPhone and Android, MimeChat allows you to create an animated avatar that can converse with others through the act of mime. Choose from more than 60 mimes expressing the full spectrum of human emotion, from happy, excited and in love to mildly violent. You can also customize your avatar with an array of skin tones, hairstyles, clothes and accessories. If you…

The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals.

The surveillance project was launched by a joint electronic eavesdropping unit called the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, which includes spies from each of the countries in the “Five Eyes” alliance — the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

Silk Road: The Untold Story
Silk Road: The Untold Story

The story of Silk Road, how it grew into a $1.2 billion operation, and how federal law enforcement shut it down.

danah boyd explains student privacy bills

“The conversation is constructed as being about student privacy, but it’s really about who has the right to monitor which youth“.

tpbhydraxEarlier this week the Stockholm District Court ordered the Pirate Bay’s .SE domains to be handed over to the Swedish state, arguing that they were linked to copyright crimes.

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Emoji are incredibly popular. Our traffic stats show that unequivocally. Stories about new emoji, how we use them and just about every other aspect of the culture around them do incredibly well.
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Search giants Google and Yahoo are interested in buying Flipboard, a newsreader app, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Another day, another hack. The Associated Press is reporting that hackers stole sensitive tax information from over 100,000 taxpayers.

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