Turkish Energy Ministry first claimed a major cyber attack, then the Minister investigated the issue in person:

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As Mr. Albayrak, Minister of Energy, says in his Twitter account: He seriously warned those in charge about the ongoing problems.

Sonra BEDAŞ Genel Müdürlüğü'ne geçerek bu kez Avrupa Yakası'ndaki çalışmaları inceledik. Eksiklikler konusunda ciddi uyarılarda bulunduk. http://pic.twitter.com/f8ENLBIbQp

— Berat Albayrak (@BeratAlbayrak) December 31, 2016

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Major cyber attack on Turkish Energy Ministry reported

Turkish Energy Ministry has been under a major cyber attack, Turkish media reported citing a senior source from the ministry. The report followed the major power outages in Istanbul that has been ongoing for three days

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From Turkey with love: A husband who has allegedly sent sexually explicit messages, photos to 2,700 women on social media….

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Woman sues husband for sending sexually explicit messages, photos to 2,700 women on social media

Hurriyet Daily News

 

A woman in Istanbul has sued her husband and filed for divorce after she discovered he was sending sexually explicit messages and photos to 2,700 women on social media

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Isis claimed #ReinaMassacre, the Tragedy Transcends Borders as many foreign nationals are among the victims….

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Foreign nationals named among victims of Istanbul attack

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Jon Henley

Seven Saudis, four Iraqis, two Indians, two Tunisians and one each from France, Syria, Israel and Belgium reportedly killed

Istanbul: First Darkness, Then Terror

NYT > Turkey by By KAYA GENC

 

The New Year attack reinforces a sense that this nightmare is Turkey’s new reality.

Istanbul Tragedy Transcends Borders

 NYT > Turkey by By REUTERS and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

News of a shooting that killed and injured scores, many of them foreigners, at an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of New Year’s Day shook residents as well as victims’ families far beyond Turkey.

Isis claims Istanbul nightclub attack as perpetrator remains at large

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Jamie Grierson

 

Turkish military carries out raids on Isis targets in Syria in response to attack as authorities say they are close to identifying gunman

 

Istanbul attack: Video shows gunman approaching nightclub

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

 

Video shows bullets flying as a gunman approaches a nightclub in Turkey.

Bollywood filmmaker, fashion designer among 39 killed in Istanbul nightclub attack

 Mashable! by Sohini Mitter

 

Bollywood film producer and real estate tycoon, Abis Rizvi, was among the 39 killed in Istanbul’s Reina nightclub, when two gunmen reportedly dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at New Year’s Eve revelers.

Turkey nightclub attack: IS says it carried out shooting

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

 

So-called Islamic State says it carried out the new year attack on an Istanbul nightclub which killed 39.

Istanbul: Victims of Reina nightclub attack identified

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Many Arab nationals among 39 killed on New Year’s Eve in Turkish capital, officials said, as one remains unidentified.

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New photo from Facebook January 02, 2017 at 07:06PM

Türkiye’nin bir Ortadoğu ülkesi olmadığı buradan belli oluyor… via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Açık istihbarat. via @nedenttoldu via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook January 02, 2016 at 05:14PM

Angela Merkel Rügen adasındaki balıkçıları ziyaret ediyor. Yıl 1990. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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There is something not right: Scenes from Turkey’s Kurdish towns under siege…

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Kurds fleeing Cizre in winter cold, cursing the Turkish regime "They destroyed our homes, we dont know where to go" http://pic.twitter.com/UJqFJtzfGD

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Turkey welcomes 2016. People leave homes in Cizre where a curfew was imposed for operations against PKK terrorists. http://pic.twitter.com/fBrQhaco2B

— Celil (@csagir2015) January 1, 2016

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Criminal Complaint from HDP against President, Prime Minister

HDP has filed a criminal complaint against eight persons including President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Davutoğlu with charges such as “defaming or inciting people to hatred and hostility” and “restraining from exercising political rights”.

HDP: 56 Civilians Killed in 5 Districts in Recent Curfews

 Bianet :: English

HDP Spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen has declared that the number of curfews declared in 20 districts of seven provinces for 56 times has reached 253 days in total.

Police Attack against Peace Activists

 Bianet :: English

I am Walking Towards Peace Initiative, DTK, DBP, HDK, HDP and KJA’s march towards Sur district has been prevented by police.

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Cyberculture agenda: A big loss: “Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide

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A Brief History of Debian – The Debian Manifesto

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Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Ian Murdock is half of the founding team of Debian, a popular and foundational flavor of GNU/Linux from which Ubuntu and Mint are descended. Earlier this week, he posted a series of bizarre, racialized tweets in which he threatened to commit suicide to call attention to the police brutality he was experiencing. He is now dead, though the cause of his death has not been disclosed. (more…)

Pirate Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2015

TorrentFreak

During December, all self-respecting search engines produce an overview of the most popular search terms of the past year.

The Return of the Patent Troll: 2015 in Review

 EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer

As another year goes by without action from Congress, patent trolls have returned in record numbers. The first half of 2015 saw an unprecedented number of patents suits, with most of the growth fueled by patent trolls filing in the Eastern District of Texas. If there is any lesson from this year, it is that the patent troll problem is increasingly localized to one troll-friendly federal district. Any comprehensive patent reform effort will need to address this phenomenon.

The First Ten Years of the Pirate Party: Lessons Learned and Road Ahead

Falkvinge on Infopolicy – Discussions on information policy and civil liberties by Rick Falkvinge-

Infopolicy: Exactly ten years ago, on January 1 2006 at 20:30 CET, the Swedish and first Pirate Party was launched by me setting up an ugly website. Since then, we delivered on the proof of concept on June 7, 2009, and the movement grew from there. We weren’t always successful, though, and it’s important to be humble and do a little retrospection.

Few Bright Spots, Lots of Dark Corners in Corporate Security Practices: 2015 in Review

EFF.org Updates by Karen Gullo

Corporations that make digital devices and software used by millions around the world for work, play and school had a spotty record of protecting that data in 2015. Because companies are responsible for safeguarding intensely private customer information, it’s important that companies do better. There were bright spots—in June our annual Who Has Your Back?  report showed that many major technology companies are adopting best practices around transparency and protecting user data when the government comes knocking.

Reddit in 2015

blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit by kristine [krispykrackers]

It’s the last day of the year 2015, and it’s been a heck of a year for Reddit, Inc. We’re once again wrapping up the year, mourning over our lack of hoverboards, whilst simultaneously thanking our lucky stars we didn’t end up actually dressing like this.

Artificial Intelligence Finally Entered Our Everyday World

Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz

Artificial intelligence is changing not only the way we use our computers and smartphones but the way we interact with the real world.

4 Digital Experience Trends Shaping the Future of Marketing

Social Media Today by Efrat Ravid

The days of optimizing user interface on a website and calling it a day are as archaic as door-to-door Britannica salesmen. The digital experience of the future is an omni-channel, multi-stage, behaviorally targeted, device-agnostic, user-journey-centric experience that seems part science-fiction, part psychology, and part technology. To understand the future of digital experience, we must stay abreast of emerging patterns and learn to let go of aging paradigms that no longer make sense in today’s (and tomorrow’s) virtual ecosystem.

Strangest Twitter Moment of 2015? Elijah Wood Wades into the Gollum-Erdogan Spat

Global Voices Online by Arzu Geybullayeva

Smeagol/Gollum and Erdogan. Widely shared.

With a 47-year-old Turkish doctor facing jail time for comparing one of the most powerful political leaders on Middle Earth to the Lord of the Rings character Gollum, demand grew for Elijah Wood to intervene.

Twitter Introduces New Measures to Combat On-Platform Harassment and Abuse

 Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

Online bullying and abuse is a major concern, and there are countless examples of the pain and suffering caused by such behaviors. As such, Twitter’s taken another step towards tackling such behaviors on their platform, re-vamping the official ‘Twitter Rules’ to clarify what’s considered to be abusive behavior and hateful conduct.

Windows 10 covertly sends your disk-encryption keys to Microsoft

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

There’s no way to turn off the “recovery” feature that sends your disk encryption keys to Microsoft by default, without notice — though you can (and should) ask Microsoft to forget the keys later. (more…)

New Wireless Tech Will Free Us From the Tyranny of Carriers

Wired Top Stories by Klint Finley

Soon, your phone will be able to switch between carriers without you having to swap out cards or phone numbers–even if you’re in the middle of a call.

Videos from the thirty-second Chaos Communications Congress

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

More overtly political than security events like Vegas’s Defcon, more regular than New York’s HOPE, CCC events in Hamburg are an annual gathering of the hacktivist tribes. (more…)

Positivity Rules: Joy, Love Among Apalon’s Top 10 Emojis of 2015

 All Facebook by Brandy Shaul

Mobile developer Apalon has announced the top 10 emojis of 2015, based on data from its Emoji Keypad app on iOS. The data showed positive emojis are the most popular with users, with the ‘face with tears of joy’ emoji coming in at the No. 1 spot. This same emoji was recently selected as the ‘word of the year‘ by Oxford Dictionaries.

Security’s Biggest Winners and Losers in 2015

 Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter

2015 had several wins for privacy and security—but they were kept in check by losses and failures.

Facebook’s FUDdy, full-page anti-Net-Neutrality Indian newspaper ads

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Facebook is desperate to ensure that the Internet never takes hold in developing nations — they want a walled garden that they get to own and operate. (more…)

How the Internet of Things Got Hacked

Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg and Kim Zetter

From cars to medical devices to guns, this was the year hackers found and exploited computers in everything.

What Happened With Crypto This Year? 2015 in Review

EFF.org Updates by Joseph Bonneau

Under the glare of the modern surveillance state, EFF’s long-held goal ofencrypting the web has only grown more pressing. And crypto remains on the march, with promising developments ranging from the public beta launch of the Let’s Encrypt project, to the expansion of CloudFlare’s Universal SSL program, or the Facebook announcement of PGP-encrypted notifications. But there’s also been misguided chatter from law enforcement and elected officials, calling to weaken that crypto with backdoors, “golden keys,” and other efforts to undermine security.

Who’s Driving This Thing? Anti-DRM Victories and Milestones: 2015 in Review

 EFF.org Updates by Parker Higgins

Sometimes news events make your point better than you ever could. That was the case this year as we completed the triennial rulemaking cycle of requesting exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA)’s restrictions on circumventing DRM.

 

Free Speech in the Middle East and North Africa: 2015 in Review

 EFF.org Updates by Jillian York

For an increasing number of Internet users in parts of the Middle East, posting to social media is a liability, a risk not worth taking. Since the 2011 uprisings, the region has seen an increase in laws governing online speech, as well as an increase in arrests related to political speech. 2015 has been a particularly bad year for those wishing to speak freely about their governments.

The Best of the Weird Internet in 2015

Slate Articles by Jacob Brogan

The Internet has always been weird. It’s weird because it encourages us to pursue increasingly fragmentary slivers of experience, and weirder still because it allows us to share those shavings with others like us. In this regard, at least, 2015 may not have been unusual, but it was still thick with a surreal slurry all its own. This was, after all, the year when Jon Hendren, a Twitter personality who goes by the handle @fart, trolled an HLN interviewer by responding to questions about Edward Snowden as if he’d been asked about Edward Scissorhands instead. And that wasn’t even the silliest Snowden-specific prank of the season.

Best of 2015: Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level

 MIT Technology Review

In a world first, a machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move. From September 2015…

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