DIGITAL
- The U.S. is About to Hit Facebook With a Multi-Billion Dollar Fine: It could be the largest tech fine in history.
- Facebook may face multi-billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal
- Facebook is a law-breaking “digital gangster,” UK government report says
- It’s time for a “radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people,” the British parliament says: Facebook acts like “digital gangsters,” “Mark Zuckerberg has shown contempt” toward governments
- Facebook, Google, CDC under pressure to stop anti-vax garbage from spreading
- Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users
- Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’
- The Hatebook: Inside Facebook’s thriving subculture of racism
- Facebook Blames Users for Its Latest Privacy Scandal as Lawmakers Ask to Chat
- Roger McNamee: ‘It’s bigger than Facebook. This is a problem with the entire industry’
- Zuckerberg defends big tech, says Facebook should remain free
- Mark Zuckerberg is ‘potentially interested’ in putting Facebook login on the blockchain: ‘There’s a lot of things I think would be quite attractive about that’
- Zuckerberg, forgetting about Facebook’s Portal: ‘We definitely don’t want a society where there’s a camera in everyone’s living room’
- ‘They have no clue about network security’: China data leak exposes mass surveillance across Muslim Xinjiang
- When surveillance meets incompetence: Evil, and poorly done at that
- A Court Just Sent a Man to Prison For 3D Printing a Gun
- Someone Impersonated New Jersey’s Attorney General To Demand Cloudflare Takedown 3d Printed Gun Instructions
- Florida inmate says prison sold him $569 of music, then took it away
- Hollywood tries to cripple several alleged pirate TV services in one lawsuit
- Study Reinforces How Much The Internet Has Enabled Content Creators To Make Money
- Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda
- HuffPost Fires Social Media Editor For Being Incredibly Racist On Social Media
- Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
- This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings: The future of the internet is lots and lots of fake stuff.
- Twitter CEO Says Users Could Get a Feature to ‘Clarify’ Their Bad Tweets
- Another Politician Probably Violated the First Amendment By Blocking a Constituent on Twitter–Campbell v. Reisch (Eric Goldman)
- Indian Lawmakers Considering TikTok Ban, Calling App “Inimical To Law And Order”
- European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
- The EU’s Digital Copyright Directive – where are we now?
- EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
- The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: text agreed in trialogue discussions
- EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths
- As EU Politicians Insist That It’s All Just ‘Bots’ And ‘Astroturf’ Tons Of People Showing Up In Real Life To Protest
- Beijing’s denial of Huawei control bucks expert analysis
- Can Russia Actually ‘Unplug’ From The Internet?
- Nestle and others have suspended YouTube ads over news of a pedophile network on the site
- Disney Reportedly Pulls YouTube Ads Over Child-Exploitation Controversy
- Disney reportedly pulls ads from YouTube following child exploitation controversy: Following Nestlé and Epic Games
- The YouTube Pedophile Commenting Scandal, Explained: The predator problem has been public knowledge since at least 2017. But the online video giant has been done nothing meaningfully to fix it.
- How YouTube reactionaries are breaking the news media
- Texas Study Finds Majority Of ‘Flat Earthers’ Are Indoctrinated On YouTube
- Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers: Conspiracy theories shown on video-sharing site persuade people to doubt Earth is round
- YouTube revamps community guidelines strike system: In an effort to make policies clearer and consistent
- YouTube Is Changing Its Community Guidelines Strike System For The First Time In A Decade
- How Kids YouTube Star Blippi Used Copyright Law to Hide His Harlem Shake Poop Video: Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
- German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google
- Jimmy Fallon Becomes First Late-Night Host To Hit 20 Million YouTube Subscribers
- Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge’s bad PC build advice
- Users alarmed by undisclosed microphone in Nest Security System
- Google Says Unlisted, Built-In Microphone on Nest Devices Wasn’t Supposed to Be ‘Secret’
- Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
- Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers
- Google Play apps with >10 million installs drain batteries, jack up data charges
- YouTuber Matt Watson Uncovers “Wormhole” Of Fetishizing Comments On Videos Of Young Children
- Fitness Influencer ‘Scammer’ Brittany Dawn Is “Getting This Business In Order,” Though Some Fans Are Unconvinced
- 7-Year-Old YouTube Megastar Ryan ToysReview Is Getting His Own Nickelodeon Series
- Victoria Beckham Launching YouTube Fashion Channel
- Matthew Patrick Slams Defy Media’s Bank For Comparing Itself To YouTubers Who Lost Money
- The latest Instagram influencer frontier? Medical promotions.: Big pharma is partnering with influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices.
- The Latest In Trademark Abuse Is Registering Marks To Obtain Ownership Of Instagram Accounts
- Meet The Beauty Influencer Who Isn’t Afraid To Say What She Thinks: Jackie Aina has been unapologetic about holding the makeup industry accountable to the black women who buy its products.
- Elon Musk Says He Filmed PewDiePie Collab As T-Series Subscriber Race Heats Up
- Rooster Teeth Resurrects Select Machinima Series, Including ‘Inside Gaming’, In Wake Of Shutdown
- Hulu Acquires Award-Winning Documentary About 16-Year-Old Influencer
- Hulu Ad Campaign Spells Out That Its Influencers Get Paid
- Hulu’s New ‘Sellouts’ Ad Campaign Tells Viewers It Pays Influencers To Endorse It
- Snapchat Expands NHL Pact to Add Hockey Highlights, Curated Stories
- The New York Times quietly paused its Snapchat channel
- New Algorithm Detects Fake Online Dating Profiles
- Netflix Unveils Canadian Production Hub To Accommodate Projects From Guillermo Del Toro, John Green
- Claiming for Unlawful Prophets – $50 Million Satanic Netflix Suit Settled
- Netflix’s The Punisher and Jessica Jones Are Officially Cancelled
- Netflix makes it official, canceling Punisher and Jessica Jones
- How Dark Horse is building its own movie and TV empire out of comic books, from Netflix to a ‘Hellboy’ reboot
- Netflix isn’t talking about itself like a tech company anymore
- “Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller
- Feeling unwelcome, Amazon ditches plans for New York hub
- Facing opposition, Amazon scraps New York HQ2 plans
- Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York
- Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well
- Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t
- Amazon Launches Social Media Strategy For Massive ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prequel
- Amazon Alexa And The Search For The One Perfect Answer
- Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books—again
- India is turning its back on Silicon Valley
- The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’
- Are the algorithms that power dating apps racially biased?: If the algorithms powering these match-making systems contain pre-existing biases, is the onus on dating apps to counteract them?
- Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans: Capitalism is just another game that the AI intends to win.
- AI Executive Order – What’s Next?
- Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous to Release
- The AI Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous To Make Public
- OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release
- Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI
- Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too: A new documentary lets robots interview and film humans.
- India’s first RoboCop: Kerala Police inducts robot, gives it SI rank: Chief Minister Vijayan welcomed the Sub Inspector (SI) ranked robot into the service with an honorary salute and the ‘RoboCop’ responded with a perfect salute. It has been named KP-Bot.
- Gambling Commission announces new rules for online gambling
- New WIPO study on A.I. inventions and EDPB opinion on clinical trials
- This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
- We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs
- Ocasio-Cortez is right, algorithms are biased – but we can make them fairer
- On WhatsApp, Rumours, and Lynchings
- Did an employer breach its duty of care to an employee when it changed the passwords on his personal internet accounts on his company-provided mobile?
- What happens when you create a fake music record label and upload bad music to Spotify: A scholarly experiment to figure out how Spotify works (and how to trick it)
- Spotify Paid Nearly $340 Million to Buy Podcast Startups Gimlet and Anchor
- SoundCloud Launches Tool to Distribute Music to Other Streaming Services
- DJ Deadmau5 Quits Twitch After Platform Suspends Him For Homophobic Remarks
- The Record Label of The Future is No Label At All: Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry.
- It Sounds Like It Could Be a While Until We Actually Get Apple’s Streaming Service
- Apple Taps Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams, More For Video Service Launch Event On March 25
- Gambling, porn, and piracy on iOS: Apple’s enterprise certificate woes continue
- Apple reportedly planning to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps by 2021
- Samsung’s foldable phone is finally official—meet the Galaxy Fold
- Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity
- Florida Court Finds Virtual Currency Subject to Money Service Businesses Law
- Trouble in Paradise: Florida Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin is Money Transmission
- JPMorgan is creating a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar
- Inside the London tech scene’s frantic plan to stop Brexit: Britain’s techies still want to bring Brexit crashing down – and they’re scrambling to build the tools to do so
- The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?: A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
- GoFundMe: Hope, but no solution, for the needy
- Judges Are Struggling To Interpret Emoji In Court Cases
- How Would You Feel Having Your Emoji Messages Read Out in Court?
- Queensland drivers set to get emoji number plates: Apparently there’s no stopping the spread of emoji – and road users are about to start seeing more of the little characters.
- Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
- Welcome to the cyber world: The real-world tech behind Alita: Battle Angel
CREATIVITY
- Alec Baldwin Wants to Know if Donald Trump Is Threatening Him
- Fox News Bans Ad For Documentary About American Nazi Rally in 1939
- Justice Thomas Is Apparently Serious About Completely Upturning Over 50 Years Of 1st Amendment Law
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, threatens to sue Mail on Sunday: Paper published letter from royal saying father Thomas Markle had ‘broken her heart’
- Copyright May Protect a Car Wash’s Liability Disclaimer–Rassamni v. Fresno Auto Spa (Eric Goldman)
- Red Sole Diaries: another chapter
- How sexist will the media’s treatment of female candidates be? Rule out ‘not at all.’
- One of Anime’s Biggest Voices Accused of Sexual Harassment
- We get the journalism we deserve
- Dentist’s failed suit demonstrates a copyright’s bite needs more than teeth
- The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
- This Video Explores Starship Troopers’ Messy Satirical Relationship With Fascism
- Smoke and mirrors? Big Tobacco slip(stream)s back into Formula One sponsorship deals
- If you call this firm a “patent troll,” it might sue for defamation
- Appeals Court Takes No Time At All In Rejecting Patent Troll’s Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Cloudflare
- Calling Out Copyright Troll Mathew Higbee
- When does an Oscar speech become defamatory?
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Canada’s telecom industry uses misleading and unacceptable sales practices, CRTC report confirms: CRTC report says aggressive practices harm vulnerable consumers, such as seniors, and exist across all sales channels
- FTC Opts Out of Updating Anti-Spam Rule
- Ajit Pai orders phone companies to adopt new anti-robocall tech in 2019
- Ajit Pai says broadband access is soaring—and that he’s the one to thank
- Sprint, T-Mobile Execs Continue To Hallucinate Competitors In Their Post-Merger Dreamscape
- FCC Issues Staff Report on “Robocalling”
- How an Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm
- In Wake Of Verizon Flub, New Law Would Ban Wireless Throttling Of First Responders
- 5G Has Become The Magic Pixie Dust Of Tech Policy Conversations
- Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Actually, Secretly Filming Students’ Cleavage Is Illegal, Canada’s Supreme Court Rules
- The Supreme Court’s Jarvis ruling delivers a win for privacy, but it’s a missed opportunity for equality
- Right to privacy not an all-or-nothing concept, says SCC in voyeurism case
- “Privacy is Not an All-or-Nothing Concept”: The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Jarvis
- R. v. Jarvis (2019 SCC 10)
- Canadian Privacy Commissioners jointly issue guidelines to organizations for obtaining meaningful consent
- When a privacy policy is not enough: Canadian Privacy Commissioners issue new guidance on obtaining meaningful consent
- Yet Another Breach
- The Lucrative Government Spyware Industry Has a New ‘One-Stop-Shop’ for Hacking Everything
- Deputies Sued After False ALPR Hit Leads To Guns-Out Traffic Stop Of California Privacy Activist
- With elections weeks away, someone “sophisticated” hacked Australia’s politicians
- Inside the DNSpionage hacks that hijack domains at an unprecedented scale
- Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car
- Hard-to-detect credential-theft malware has infected 1,200 and is still going
- Nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions of users for 14 years
GAMES
- Oxford study finds no link between violent video games and teen aggression
- No link between violent video games and increased aggression in teens, study finds: Oxford University describes study as “one of the most definitive to date”
- Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents’ aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report (Andrew Przybylski & Netta Weinstein)
- Niantic poised to settle Pokémon Go trespassing complaints
- Pokémon GO Lawsuit Settlement Might Lead To Some Pokéstops And Gyms Being Removed
- The mythos and meaning behind Pokémon’s most famous glitch
- Epic Games pulls Fortnite YouTube ads over child predator concerns
- Organizers of unsanctioned Fortnite festival facing lawsuit from Epic Games
- Epic Games files legal claim against Fortnite Live event organizers: Organizer Exciting Events forced to stop trading to limit losses
- Fortnite dance off: Fresh Prince star refused copyright on ‘Carlton Dance’
- One Of The People Suing Fortnite Over ‘Stolen’ Dance Steps Gets His Dance Rejected By The US Copyright Office
- Alfonso Ribeiro denied copyright to Carlton dance, damaging Fortnite lawsuit: US Copyright Office says routine is too simple to be protected by law
- ‘Fortnite’ Publisher Pauses YouTube Ads After They Ran On Videos Where Commenters Fetishized Children
- Respawn has already banned over 16,000 cheaters fromApex Legends
- Ninja Wins Twitch’s First ‘Apex Legends’ Tournament By One Point
- Apex Legends already beat Fortnite’s single-day viewership record on Twitch
- Apex Legends beats Fortnite record for single-day Twitch viewing: Respawn’s Twitch Rivals event racked up 8.4 million hours viewed, streaming platform’s fourth highest in five years
- ‘Fortnite’s’ Massively Attended Virtual Concert is a Potent Glimpse of VR’s Future
- Wrestler Booker T Sues Activision For Copyright Infringement Over Fairly Generic Character Depiction
- US labor organization AFL-CIO urges game developers to unionize in open letter
- How did Yoshi’s Island music end up in an official US gov’t Web game?
- Revenue and profit up as Paradox experiences best year to date
- Paradox Interactive breaks new ground for modding on consoles: Independent Paradox Mods platform will provide a direct channel to console audiences “without pre-moderation”
- Paradox and Microsoft have created an open modding platform for Paradox titles
- Microsoft, Paradox allow open game modding on Xbox One for the first time
- Devs accuse Sony of “playing favorites” with PS4’s cross-platform support
- Stubbornness over cross-play reminds us of bad old Sony | Opinion
- Sony: We Are Totally Open For Crossplay, Game Developers: No, You Totally Are Not
- Sony is readying to shut down PlayStation Vita production in Japan
- PS4-exclusive Dreams is launching into early access this spring
- Employees at Blizzard’s France location unsure if their jobs are safe
- 134 jobs in danger at Blizzard’s French office
- Rewarding profit and nothing else | Opinion : Activision Blizzard’s mass layoffs amid record profits fits the company’s disregard for optics, but it may be self-defeating in the long run
- Nitro Games begins layoff talks, could cut workforce in half
- Mobile dev Next Games lays off 26 staff
- Q&A: Non-profit Take This addresses mental health challenges among gaming community and creators
- Ubisoft holds steady in Q3 despite competitive holiday
- Ubisoft isn’t worried about an influx of new games stealingRainbow Six Siege’s thunder
- Why Ubisoft moved The Division 2 to the Epic Games store: CEO Yves Guillemot praises Epic’s terms, but says move was to “increase player exposure to our own store”
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider ships 4.12 million: Lara Croft’s latest adventure “got off to a weak start” for Square Enix alongside Just Cause 4
- Square Enix consolidating its business divisions: Company plans to reorganize from 11 to four units, won’t involve workforce reduction
- Overkill’s The Walking Dead earned $3.7m from sales in Q4: Starbreeze full-year financial report underlines commercial performance of key title
- Report: China freezes new game approvals as regulators tackle backlog
- Chinese government halts new game approvals to work through backlog: State Administration of Press and Publications to clear backlog before approving new submissions
- Tencent introduces streaming rules to stay on the up-and-up with Chinese law
- Report: Tencent wants to distribute Apex Legends in China
- Tencent in talks to bring Apex Legends to China – Report
- Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in Nexon bid
- Report: Netmarble and Tencent could buy Nexon as part of consortium
- Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2 can’t stop January US sales dip: NPD Group finds gaming revenues down 19% year-over-year to $893 million; growth of Switch sales offset by declines in all other platforms
- Revenue down by 5.4% at Rovio, but games segment holds firm
- Com2uS acquires majority stake in visual novel developer Day 7
- That’s a wrap: Valve is axing Steam’s video section
- Valve retires non-gaming content from video on-demand service: Blockbuster movies fail to find traction on Steam
- Razer Game Store shutting down after 10 months
- Live support for Heroes of Newerth scaled back to essentials only: Former League of Legends rival to receive one last major update after ten years of live service
- eSports: a new frontier for the advertising law and image rights?
- EA opts Origin users out of “real-name sharing” after complaints
- Don’t Miss: Common problems when translating games into Japanese
- Anthem review: BioWare’s sky-high gaming ambition crashes back to Earth
- ‘Human Eye Resolution’ VR Is a Treat If You Know Where to Look
- Retina resolution headset puts the “reality” into “virtual reality”
- After Machinima Shutdown, Rooster Teeth Revives ‘Inside Gaming’ and Rescues Other Machinima Shows
- Nintendo’s greatest strength this generation is self-acceptance | Opinion: The platform holder has returned to its roots, and it is stronger and more well-rounded as a result
- Dealmaster: As Switch sales slow, Nintendo launches a new bundle
- Porn Star Comes To The Nintendo Switch
- Report: Early adopters of the Nintendo Switch weren’t in target demographic
- Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic—it’s a gameplay revolution
- Breaking down categories of action in strategy games
- Insights: How Marshmello, MassMutual and Microsoft Are Remaking Content Marketing
- BOY, God of War won big at the DICE Awards
- God of War sweeps 2019 DICE Awards: Meanwhile, Halo boss Bonnie Ross welcomed into Hall of Fame and Celeste wins two categories
- Getting to the heart of art in the delightfully strange Art Sqool
- Enjoy a ’93 video tour of id Software while Doom was being made
- Blog: What is a meta-game?
- Blog: Examining the issues with battle royale game design
Jon
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
Great (but troubling) add Jake.