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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

#Cyberculture agenda: “#DeleteUber: Users angry at Trump Muslim ban scrap app…

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Uber provided rides at JFK airport while other taxi drivers held strike over Trump’s ban on Muslim travellers.
 

The Trump administration’s immigration ban has prompted a fast response from two of the bigger names in the world of video games: Vlambeer and Playdots.

The Startups Ecosystem and Challenges

 

We all might agree that the web has become an open space for everyone to express his opinions, thoughts and experience without any borders or constraints. While this is incredibly powerful, it leads to some problems; one of them is an Information Overload where we have got an enormous amount of content out there but limited time and resources to process and make sense of it all.

Apple joins Amazon, Google and Facebook in AI research group

 
Apple published its first paper on AI last month and now the company is set to join five others in a newly-formed research group. The Partnership on AI announced today that Apple would become its sixth founding member, adding to a lineup that already.
Twitter is joining in the recent trend of tech companies disclosing FBI data requests after gag orders have lifted… and the news isn’t exactly comforting. The social network has revealed that two National Security Letters sent in 2015 and 2016 ask…
 
The President’s latest executive order could spell bad news for the tech industry that’s known for hiring overseas talents under a working visa. In fact, Google chief Sundar Pichai has just issued a memo to employees overseas, urging them to fly back…
 

President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” is causing fear and chaos among immigrants everywhere — even at Google.

A lively history of DRM and gaming

 

17 minutes of funny and informative notes from the history of DRM from Lazy Game Reviews, starting with Bill Gates’s infamous Open Letter to Hobbyists and moving through to the modern era with its activation codes, rootkits and scandals. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Amnesty reveals gigantic Mexican Twitter troll-bot mob that threatens journalists, hawks products, and hoaxes trending topics

Amnesty International has published a damning report on the organized networks of Mexican Twitter trolls and botmasters for hire who orchestrate massive harassment campaigns against investigative journalists, including death threats and misinformation/slander; they also hawk products and fake out Twitter’s trending topic algorithm, operating with relative impunity — thanks, in part, to Twitter’s underinvestment in Spanish-speaking anti-harassment staff.

Privacy and Data Protection Day: restoring trust for digital citizens

January 25, 2017,President Donald Trump signs documents at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Press Association. All rights reserved.Companies and governments are rushing to connect the next billions. And there is no shortage of tech solutions being proposed to improve the lives of the poor across the Global South using the web. From biometric readers to determine the age of refugees, to electronic cards to track and improve the habits of those receiving conditional cash transfers, there is a tendency to experiment with new technologies on marginalised or vulnerable communities, supposedly for their own good.

But what kind of web are the newly connected finding when they come online? A glance at recent reports of privacy and data breaches across the Global South shows that it may be a web where the citizens of these countries do not enjoy as safe an online environment as their western counterparts.

 

Revolution Messaging’s White House Inc is a tool that connects your phone to the main switchboard of a random Trump property somewhere in the world, because “Until Trump steps away from his businesses for real, their property is no different from the Oval Office.”

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

In the mean time, Cyprus peace talks: “all you need to know”

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Cyprus peace talks – all you need to know

Rival leaders of the Mediterranean island, which has been split since 1974, are meeting in Geneva for a summit

The purpose of the Geneva talks is to end the partition of the island between the predominantly Turkish north and Greek south, so that the whole island has a unified – if federated – political structure and can be recognised by the European Union. At present only the south is recognised by the EU, and UN troops oversee a buffer zone across the island. Any agreement would have to be sanctioned by the UN and put to a referendum on both sides of the island, probably in the late spring.

Erdogan offers citizenship to Syrian and Iraqi refugees

 
President Erdogan says some refugees who pass screenings will be granted nationality to “make use” of their skills.

Mavi Boncuk | The Battle For Al-Bab Is Bringing U.S.-Turkish Tensions To A Head By Fabrice Balanche

Policy Alert January 9, 2017 SOURCE

 
Turkey will seek the right of free movement for Turkish people and Turkish goods in Turkish Cyprus after a prospective reunification deal that would result in the entire island joining the European Union amid ongoing talks between Turkish and Greek Cypriots in Geneva
 
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet from Monday to Wednesday, before an multilateral conference on Thursday that could endorse a reunification settlement. Talks could still fail on Turkey’s role

The Observer view on Turkey and Putin’s malign patronage | Observer editorial

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blames the US for many of his country’s troubles but we must be wary of his closer ties with Russia

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