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Thursday, July 04, 2013

EU increases penalties for cybercriminals and hackers - Looking to deter cyberattacks on national infrastructure and halt the illegal interception of communications, the European Union toughens its laws.

EU increases penalties for cybercriminals and hackers

Major Android Flaw Leaves 99% Of Devices Vulnerable To Malware - Cult of Android

Major Android Flaw Leaves 99% Of Devices Vulnerable To Malware - Cult of Android

Yahoo, Facebook, Google and eBay weigh in on Singapore's online censorship law


Since then, Facebook, Google, eBay and Yahoo (which was affected by the new scheme), have sent collectively sent a letter to the Minister of Communications and Information via the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC).
The AIC was formed by these four companies in order to "promote the understanding and resolution of Internet policy issues in the Asia Pacific region".
The letter says that the new regulation could "unintentionally hamper Singapore’s ability to continue to drive innovation" in the country's aim to establish itself as a cloud computing and data analytics hub in the region, as well as calling the regulation "unwarranted and excessive" as well as "ambiguous and onerous".

Yahoo, Facebook, Google and eBay weigh in on Singapore's online censorship law

Monday, July 01, 2013

Remembrance of Everything Past - IEEE Spectrum

The pursuit of enhanced cognition—from sharper recall to more lucid reasoning—is now the greatest animating impulse behind innovative computer engineering. Across the world, clever designers are leveraging ever-expanding storage, processing power, and communications networks to build personalized encyclopedias that document all aspects of an individual’s inner and outer lives. If the engineers have their way, every idea, memory, and feeling—the recorded consciousness of a single lifetime—will be stored in the cloud

Remembrance of Everything Past - IEEE Spectrum

The digital demo - “SOCIAL media are the worst menace to society,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, on June 2nd. Such fears delight dissenters. Protesters’ placards in Brazil goad the authorities with slogans such as “We come from Facebook”.

Enthusiasts called protesters in Egypt, Iran, Moldova and Tunisia “Twitter revolutionaries”. That was premature: much of the social-media content supporting the pro-democracy cause came from supporters abroad. But protests in Turkey and Brazil, where digital media are especially popular, do show how technology can muster, manage and amplify demonstrations. Zeynep Tufekci of Princeton University interviewed scores of Turkish protesters. Most cited social media as a spur.

The digital demo

Sunday, June 30, 2013