“Everybody in this country should learn how to programme a computer”, says Steve Jobs in this video from Code.org, a US non-profit “devoted to the vision that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn how to code”. It’s a clip from a 90s TV interview with a younger Jobs, but most […]
Der Spiegel reports that the German chancellor Angela Merkel phoned US President Barack Obama yesterday to express her concerns about reports that her communications may have been the target of US surveillance. The suspicions arise from the results of investigations carried out by Der Spiegel which the newspaper passed on to the German government. Germany […]
This week, Google are co-hosting a conference in New York titled conflict Conflict in a Connected World. The summit brings together “hacktivists,” security experts, entrepreneurs, dissidents and others to explore the changing nature of conflict and how online tools and can both harm and protect. We’re also assessing what might be done to better protect […]
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The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced that they were lifting restrictions on some parts of their image collection: the Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds all the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose This is even more open […]
So if you’re worried about the NSA (and other government agencies) reading your emails, documents etc., then maybe this new font is the solution. Here’s a video explaining both how it works, what it looks like and how standard OCR technology handles it (or doesn’t ..) What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Waste […]
While most of the media coverage and social media conversations around the NSA and Prism have focussed on the security and privacy implications, some people obviously thought that the NSA could have done a better job of the slides. So one industrious designer went off and re-did them: Dear NSA, let me take care of […]
Yesterday The Guardian not only revealed who was behind the PRISM leak, but also published an interview with him. The man in question is a 29 year old American, Edward Snowden. Here’s the interview: [youtube]http://youtu.be/5yB3n9fu-rM[/youtube] The Washington Post had been contacted by Snowden as well, but they didn’t want to publish as much of the […]
Hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for an Internet Blackout to protest CISPA. In a statement on YouTube they expressed concerns about CISPA and called for action: Dear citizens of the internet, We are Anonymous. The United States Government is again attempting to control and censor the internet. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has […]
It’s not often that Ireland and the UK are ahead of the US when it comes to “social” features. However in the case of Netflix Irish users have been able to share (or torment) their viewing habits with their social network since the service launched last year. This is now launching in the US and […]
While some governments seem to have “issues” with moving towards a more “open” government and recognising their citizens wishes, the US government seems to be doing quite a good job .. At least they’ve got a sense of humour and are familiar with popular culture. When someone started a petition on the White House site […]
