DIGITAL

1. Digital rights are *all* human rights, not just civil and political: The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights consults with the field
2. Report: US Cyber Command took Russian trolls offline during midterms
3. Does Twitter Have An Anti-Conservative Bias, Or Just An Anti-Nazi Bias?
4. Latest Garbage Twitter/Terrorism Lawsuit Is The Stupidest Twitter/Terrorism Lawsuit
5. Twitter co-founder Ev Williams has stepped down from the $24 billion company’s board
6. Facebook Reportedly Let Marketers Advertise to Nazis: Advertisers can pay to make sure their messages reach neo-Nazis.
7. Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis – and let advertisers target them directly
8. These Apps Reportedly Shared Sensitive Personal Information With Facebook
9. Facebook Ups Surveillance Of Users To Keep Tabs On People Who Don’t Like Facebook
10. Facebook VPN that snoops on users is pulled from Android store
11. Facebook pulls the plug on its data snooping Onavo VPN service: Its research programs will also gain more clarity
12. The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
13. Facebook’s promised Clear History privacy tool to launch later this year following delay
14. Facebook Orders Animated Comedy Series Starring Anna Kendrick and Zac Efron, Sets ‘Real World’ Reboot Fan Voting
15. Beware The Rise Of Censorship Under The Guise Of Stopping Fake News: UK Regulators Push For Dangerous Plan
16. Open Letter From New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica Regarding Amazon
17. How a coat on Amazon took over a neighborhood – and then the internet: A case study of a trend that maybe wasn’t one.
18. Amazon Is Now Ditching on Seattle Plans, Too
19. When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
20. YouTube loses advertisers over “wormhole into pedophilia ring”
21. After Child Video Scandal, YouTube Says Ad-Friendly Videos Can Be Demonetized For Inappropriate Comments
22. YouTube And Demonetization: The Hammer And Nail Of Content Moderation
23. YouTube recommendations for ‘alt-right’ videos have dropped dramatically, study shows: But YouTube denies demoting content based on “specific political perspectives”.
24. When the Alt-right Loves Your App
25. Suicide instructions spliced into kids’ cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids
26. YouTube Demonetizes Anti-Vaccination Channels Following Advertiser Outcry
27. YouTube Music Launches New Mini-Series Format, Beginning With Billie Eilish
28. Michelle Obama Joins YouTube’s Book Panel Discussion Special
29. T-Series Surpassed PewDiePie For 10 Minutes Following Routine YouTube Audit
30. “Despacito” Becomes First Video In YouTube History To Pass 6 Billion Views
31. Legal Update: Influencing The Influencers
32. Lilly Singh Comes Out As Bisexual, Urging Fans To Embrace Their Differences As “Superpowers”
33. Crunchyroll, Portal A To Shine Light On Diverse Anime Fandom In New Docuseries
34. Amid 1 Billion Downloads, TikTok Launches Video Series To Protect Its Young Users
35. Police: Uber Data Helped Prove Jussie Smollett Faked Hate Crime
36. Apple closes two Dallas stores in apparent bid to ward off patent trolls
37. Apple Shutting Down Stores In East Texas To Avoid Patent Trolling Cases In The Troll’s Favorite Docket
38. Report: Apple is working on a new SDK for painless porting from iOS to Mac
39. Apple Car: Apple’s vehicle project, focused on building an autonomous driving system.
40. How Apple and app developers will try to entice you to subscribe, not just pay once
41. Investigating the Higbee & Associates Copyright Trolling Operation
42. One Person’s Unsettling Experience With A $20k Higbee Copyright Troll Demand Letter
43. Teen Musician Turns Down $3 Million Record Deal: No Need For A Label Thanks To The Internet
44. European governments approve controversial new copyright law
45. European Journalists Point Out That Article 11 Will Enrich Publishers At The Expense Of Journalists 
46. New EU Directive threatens the Internet as we know it (Andres Guadamuz)
47. Europe Against the Net
48. Who Needs Article 13: Italian Court Finds Facebook Liable For Hosting Links
49. Japanese Academics Issue The Tamest ‘Emergency’ Statement Over Proposed Copyright Amendment
50. Inside the Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme: Multiple misleading identities, more than 100 host accounts and 18 corporations were created to run an illegal hotel business in Manhattan, according to a lawsuit filed by the city. 
51. After Child Video Scandal, YouTube Says Ad-Friendly Videos Can Be Demonetized For Inappropriate Comments
52. YouTube’s Commenter Controversy Is Putting Creators in a Tricky Position
53. Major Companies Are Pulling Ads From YouTube Over Pedophile Concerns
54. One Month After Returning To YouTube, AT&T Once Again Yanks Ad Spending Following Discovery Of Pedophilic Comments
55. Disney reportedly in talks to buy AT&T’s stake in Hulu
56. Disney Pulls YouTube Ads Amid Child Video Scandal, As Platform Disables Comments On Tens Of Millions Of Videos
57. Anti-Vaccination Videos May Be YouTube’s Latest Front In Battle Against Conspiracies
58. YouTube Says No Ads on Anti-Vaccine Videos
59. Influencing the Influencer – how to be #CMAcompliant
60. Who Won The PewDiePie And T-Series YouTube Subscriber Battle? The Two Canadian Teens Behind FlareTV.
61. Jimmy Fallon Becomes First Late-Night Host To Hit 20 Million YouTube Subscribers
62. Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth: Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it’s aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience.
63. Netflix Spent As Much As $60 Million Trying (And Failing) To Win ‘Roma’ The Best Picture Oscar
64. Netflix and the Economics of Bundling 
65. ‘Bon Appétit’ Launches Free OTT Channel With Slate Of 3 New Series 
66. Older Adults Are Especially Prone to Social Media Bubbles  
67. Insights: Doing A Better Job Counting What Counts In Social Media 
68. Surprise: Uganda’s New Social Media Tax Seems To Have Led To Fewer People Using The Internet, And Total Value Of Mobile Transactions To Drop 
69. Be Careful What You Wish For: Demanding Platforms Delete Disinformation May Make It Harder To Understand What Happened
70. Court Refuses To Allow Defendant In Copyright Trolling Case To Proceed, But Hints At Reform
71. DoorDash Is a Bunch of Snakes
72. Beyond HoloLens: Microsoft expands its augmented-reality vision with iOS, Android apps 
73. Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View 
74. Microsoft Significantly Misrepresented HoloLens 2’s Field of View at Reveal
75. Employees urge Microsoft to pull HoloLens military contract
76. Microsoft CEO defends ‘principled and democratic’ HoloLens military contract
77. Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
78. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defends HoloLens military contract: “We’re not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy”
79. Why IBM’s “Dear Tech” Ad Is So Enraging
80. A New AI Draws Cats, and They’re Utterly Grotesque: No cats were harmed in the making of this creepy website.
81. AI Writes Article About AI: Does The Newspaper Hold The Copyright?
82. An NYU professor explains why it’s so dangerous that Silicon Valley is building AI to make decisions without human values 
83. Humanity + AI: Better Together
84. When Algorithms Think You Want To Die
85. Twenty minutes into the future with OpenAI’s Deep Fake Text AI 
86. How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
87. Google ends forced arbitration for all employees
88. Google Fesses Up To Hidden Microphone In Nest Home Security Platform
89. Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, and S10e hands-on: Samsung is slowly getting better
90. Guidemaster: The least-awful Android phones
91. Oppo’s foldable smartphone is another futuristic wraparound display device
92. LG’s V50 answers the foldable phone craze with a detachable second screen
93. Forget Face ID, the LG G8 comes with palm-reading “Hand ID” biometrics
94. USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse: People already get the names wrong, so the USB group has doubled down on bad naming.
95. Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update
96. Blockchain based smart contracts equal to written documents in Italy 
97. Surge In Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacking Activity 
98. Perhaps the QuadragaCX Story Will Have a Happy Ending
99. Upcoming Tech IPOs Will Mint Hundreds of Overnight Millionaires and Silicon Valley Vultures Are Licking Their Chops
100. Why Big Cap Tech is So Big
101. New FTC task force will take on tech monopolies: And they’re going to look at previous mergers
102. The FTC Probably Doesn’t Need A New ‘Big Tech’ Task Force. It Just Needs To Do Its Job
103. FTC’s first case over fake paid Amazon reviews targets dodgy diet pills
104. FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Independent Retail Website 
105. FTC Announces Settlement Involving Fake Amazon Reviews 
106. For the First Time, FTC Fines Company for Fake Amazon Reviews: “When a company buys fake reviews to inflate its Amazon ratings, it hurts both shoppers and companies that play by the rules.”
107. String of ions may out-compute best quantum computers 
108. Ariana Grande Becomes Most-Followed Female Creator On Instagram
109. Canada’s Internet Music Success Story: SOCAN’s Canadian Internet Streaming Revenues Surpass Radio Royalties (Michael Geist)
110. Here’s why we’re entering the Golden Age of Podcasts, in 10 graphs
111. Why Musicians Are Starting Their Own Podcasts  – and Why the Podcast Industry Should Pay Attention: In sidestepping media middlemen, artists are creating their own DIY music-media economy
112. Spotify launches in India amidst legal battle with Warner
113. Why Did Music Visualizers Disappear?
114. Providing Software Source Code Key to Powering Future Software Development (UNESCO)
115. Back to the Stratosphere: How the Rarest Music in the World Comes Back – Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue.
116. Unmasking the internet’s favourite novelist: Todd Noy was said to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a towering figure in the online fan-fiction community. His books were delivered around the world. But he may have never existed.
117. Kickstarter to Remove That Rat From the End of The Departed Whacked By DMCA Takedown
118. 2H 2018 Quick Links, Part 7: Content Moderation, Section 230, & More (Eric Goldman) 
119. Top Internet Law Developments of 2018 (Eric Goldman)

CREATIVITY

1. China Extends Its Censorship To Australian Books, Written By Australian Authors For Australian Readers
2. Clarence Thomas Has a Point About Free-Speech Law: The constitutional foundations of New York Times v. Sullivan are not looking all that firm.
3. Catholic School Teen’s Lawyers File $250M Defamation Suit Against The Washington Post; Fail To List Any Actual Defamation
4. Be warned – you can be held liable for the defamatory comments of another! 
5. ASA publishes new guidance to protect children from irresponsible gambling ads
6. Wherein The Copia Institute, Engine, And Reddit Tell The DC Circuit That FOSTA Is Unconstitutional
7. No Apologies: Nirvana v. Marc Jacobs
8. The company that commissioned “Fearless Girl” is suing its creator.
9. Ad Standards Announces New Dispute Procedure
10. EU, Chile, Singapore and Spain IP offices named most innovative in the world

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Enough is Enough: Bains Proposes CRTC Policy Direction Grounded in Competition, Affordability, and Consumer Interests (Michael Geist)
2. Proposed Order Issuing a Direction to the CRTC on Implementing the Canadian Telecommunications Policy Objectives to Promote Competition, Affordability, Consumer Interests and Innovation
3. The CRTC Opens a Penske File: Chair Ian Scott Commits to Little Action Despite Finding Misleading Telecom Sales Tactics (Michael Geist)
4. A CRTC More Interested in Protecting Incumbent Companies Than Consumers: My Appearance on the Broadcast Dialogue Podcast (Michael Geist)
5. Appeals court rejects government bid to reverse AT&T/Time Warner deal
6. Judge Ruling In AT&T Merger Again Highlights Broken Antitrust Enforcement, Court Myopia
7. AT&T Throwing FundRaiser For Senate Chair Ahead Of Privacy Hearings
8. FCC Uses Cherry-Picked Stats To Justify Giving Consumers A Giant Middle Finger
9. Super Bowl Commercial for “Us” Generates FCC Complaints
10. Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee despite horribly slow Internet
11. Trump Administration’s ‘National Broadband Plan’ Comically Refuses To Acknowledge A Lack Of Competition
12. Trump Calls For “6G,” Which Doesn’t Exist: Let’s focus on actually setting up 5G first.
13. Trump demands quick rollout of “6G” wireless tech, which doesn’t exist
14. Is 5G Being Weaponized?
15. 5G Is Going to Be an Incredibly Tough Sell in 2019
16. HTC Did the Unthinkable and Made a Hotspot That’s Cool
17. There’s No End in Sight to Our Robocall Hell
18. Industry Claims That Cord Cutting Would Be A Fad Aren’t Looking So Hot 
19. Investigators, Reporters Close In On The Origins Of Those Fake Net Neutrality Comments
20. Verizon says phone-sale fraud is up, wants to lock new phones to fight it
21. Windstream, ISP with 1 million customers, files for bankruptcy

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. ICO prosecutes Cambridge Analytica parent company
2. 9 Years After: From Operation Aurora to Zero Trust –  How the first documented nation-state cyberattack is changing security today.
3. Piracy v. Privacy – The Federal Court Significantly Restores the Balance in Canadian Mass Copyright Litigation by Insisting on “Best Available Evidence”
4. Consent: Is It Meaningful?
5. Yahoo! Data Breach Settlement Increases Risk for Companies’ Directors and Officers
6. Plain wrong: Millions of utility customers’ passwords stored in plain text – “It’s ridiculous vendors are replying to researchers via general counsel, not bug bounty.”
7. Court Says DOJ’s Attempt To Force Facebook To Break Encryption Can Remain Under Seal
8. Amazon Echo and Google Home should be able to snitch on owners, says professor: Marija Slavkovik at the University of Bergen, Norway wonders whether your digital assistant needs a moral, ethical dimension. But of course.
9. EU Law Enforcement Preps To Start Sharing Sensitive Data With A Number Of Human Rights Abusers
10. 8 GDPR compliance tips explained by Queen songs
11. How criminals are using the low-interest credit card scam to steal your identity
12. Many websites threatened by highly critical code-execution bug in Drupal
13. Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
14. Love (or hate) Data?
15. Five UK Privacy and Data Protection Predictions for 2019

GAMES

1. THQ Nordic inexplicably hosts AMA in a notorious internet cesspool
2. Three hours after allying with 8chan, THQ Nordic goes into full apology mode
3. FTC to begin loot box investigation with public workshop
4. FTC to hold a public workshop on loot box concerns this year: It will bring industry groups and advocates together
5. FTC plans to examine loot boxes with public workshop later this year
6. ZeniMax hit with trademark dispute over its application for ‘Redfall’
7. The duo behind the Running Man challenge are suing Epic over a Fortnite dance
8. Epic Games accused of exploiting African American talent in latest dance move lawsuit: Jared Nickens and Jaylen Brantley file for $20 million in damages over Running Man emote, despite questionable ownership of dance 
9. Epic pulls YouTube ads after predatory videos discovered: Fortnite pre-roll ads removed as YouTube continues to struggle with recommendation algorithm
10. Fortnite’s Marshmello concert beats game’s concurrent player record: 10.6 million players showed up to event, breaking past record by around 2.5 million
11. Fortnite Players Sue for Alleged Exposure of Payment Information for Vbucks 
12. PUBG’s dev team has turned to machine learning to fight off cheaters
13. EA and Activision Blizzard CEOs featured in ‘The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs’ report
14. Activision’s Bobby Kotick and EA’s Andrew Wilson among most overpaid CEOs in US: Latest study shows the two chief execs earn more than 300 times the average wage of their employees
15. ESA’s acting CEO stays neutral on unionization, opposes ‘gaming disorder’
16. A New Player Joins the Battle – The AFL-CIO Throws Its Support Behind Game Development Employees And Urges Them To Form A Union 
17. Devs pull Devotion from Steam following review bombing spree
18. Taiwanese developer under fire for mocking Chinese president: Red Candle Games’ Devotion removed from Steam for QA check after in-game art calls Xi Jinping “Winnie the Pooh moron”
19. Starbreeze applies for extended reconstruction period as it looks to regroup  
20. Starbreeze applies for extension on reconstruction period: Troubled publisher wants until June to “focus on its core business of internal game development and publishing” 
21. Report: Amazon, Comcast, and EA now among potential Nexon buyers  
22. EA, Amazon, Comcast reportedly bidding for Nexon: Companies join Netmarble, Kakao in pursuing founder’s controlling stake
23. Report: EA makes layoffs at Australian mobile studio FireMonkeys  
24. Massive layoffs at EA’s Australian studio: FireMonkeys will refocus on live services as up to 50 staff prepare for redundancy
25. Anthem: Critical Consensus – Exhilarating flight and stylish combat dazzle the critics, but they can’t hide a lack of substance in BioWare’s latest title 
26. Wave of layoffs expected at Guild Wars 2 dev ArenaNet 
27. ArenaNet bracing for layoffs: Owner NCSoft CEO says current situation not sustainable, plans for cuts across the board and merging of publishing divisions
28. Overkill’s The Walking Dead postponed, not cancelled on console: 505 Games confirms this is the same delay announced last month, despite confusion over PS4 pre-order refunds
29. Capcom COO calls out the growing value of PC as a platform
30. The Future of Gaming Is Subscription 
31. Psychonauts and surviving the publisher shuffle: Tim Schafer says the studio’s experiences with partners aren’t that unusual, addresses struggles of Psychonauts 2 publisher Starbreeze 
32. Superdata: Digital revenue down in January as major console franchises underperform – Premium PC games see largest decline, leaving Fortnite near the top on both console and PC
33. Rising development costs forced Square Enix to find its soul | Opinion: When Final Fantasy was no longer enough, the venerable publisher dug deeper
34. Brexit has fostered a culture of fear among British game devs  
35. No Deal Brexit will mean “dark, dystopian UK” | Opinion: Andy Payne discusses the potential impact of a No Deal Brexit on the UK games industry
36. Twitch’s fight against EU copyright laws continues with MEPs playing Mario Kart: Two members of the European Parliament will discuss how to combat the divisive Article 13 on Twitch’s official channel
37. Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime retires, Bowser taking over
38. How Reggie Fils-Aime Became A Nintendo Legend
39. Nintendo Announces Pokémon Sword And ShieldFor Switch
40. Pokémon Sword and Shield will hit Switch in “late 2019”
41. $100K Mario seller: “It’s probably the wrong move, long term, to sell” 
42. Mattel’s video game division eyes original IP: The joint venture between Mattel and NetEase plots three to four new games a year 
43. Report: Microsoft plans to announce two next-gen Xbox consoles at E3  
44. Microsoft to reveal new Xbox hardware at E3 2019 – Report: Code-named Lockhart and Anaconda to be shown, but not available until fall of 2020
45. Microsoft takes a big step towards putting Xbox games on Windows
46. Report: Xbox Game Pass headed to the Nintendo Switch
47. Game Pass, Xbox-exclusive games reportedly heading to Switch: Ori and the Blind Forest, others may be streamable to Nintendo’s console sometime this year
48. Why putting Xbox games on Switch isn’t as ridiculous as it might sound
49. Crackdown 3 shows a vision of the future | Opinion: The new Xbox title points toward the radical changes that Game Pass will bring to the industry’s commercial and cultural landscape
50. Fallout: Wasteland Warfare: A “rad” miniatures game full of Nuka-Cola flavor
51. Halo Infinite now linked to next Xbox’s launch, rumor suggests RPG elements
52. Report: Microsoft plans to announce two next-gen Xbox consoles at E3
53. Microsoft puts mixed reality, high-speed 3D rendering, and Kinect vision into cloud
54. Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2, promises greater mixed reality immersion
55. Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2: twice the field of view, eye tracking
56. Microsoft adds eye-tracking, doubles field of view for HoloLens 2: Will launch later this year for $3,500, Unreal Engine support on the way
57. Microsoft Significantly Misrepresented HoloLens 2’s Field of View at Reveal
58. Employees demand Microsoft cancels $479m HoloLens military contract: Engineers on the project believed it would “push the boundaries of gaming”, not “turn warfare into a simulated video game
59. Razer lays off 30 from shut down projects: Organization’s “realignment” plans result in cut of 2% of workforce
60. GOG lays off a dozen employees over reported financial strain
61. Funcom enters partnership with Legendary to create Dune games
62. Skybound cuts ties with Overkill’s The Walking Dead devs mid-release  
63. GOG lays off “around a dozen,” reportedly due to financial trouble: Estimated 10% of total staff may have been affected due to revenue share competition from other storefronts
64. GOG drops Fair Price Package program, blames rising dev revenue shares
65. Ebba Ljungerud’s grand strategy: A chat with Paradox’s CEO
66. THQ Nordic issues new shares to raise $225 million for future acquisitions
67. THQ Nordic raises $225m for further acquisitions: “Substantially oversubscribed” share issue brings on a range of new investors for growing publisher
68. Media Molecule to launch Dreams in paid Early Access this spring: Long-awaited game is among the first to introduce Early Access concept to PlayStation 4
69. NetEase maintains revenue growth despite Chinese approvals freeze: Online games revenue was up 11% in 2018, with ten new games still waiting for approval in China
70. Tencent and NetEase’s combined non-China mobile revenues leap 505% to $472m: IHS Markit says Chinese publishers’s efforts overseas helped weather game freeze, let by NetEase’s battle royale Knives Out
71. Tencent partners with Intel on its streaming service, Instant Play
72. Snail Games launches indie publishing label: Chinese outfit establishes Wandering Wizard to bring Western indie titles to the market, starting with Virtual Basement’s Outlaws of the Old West
73. Paratopic haunts the walking sim with verbs and violence
74. Blog: Why 2018 was a landmark year for accessibility  
75. Kabam founder forms blockchain gaming startup Forte: Kevin Chou hopes to encourage adoption of blockchain in the gaming industry by building, supporting new projects 
76. Embark Studios grows to over 50 people, working on first title: Patrick Söderlund’s new studio larger than anticipated as it starts work on co-op, free-to-play action game
77. Technical deep dive: The wild and windy aerodynamics ofJust Cause 4
78. FIFA announces eNations Cup tournament: Latest series is one of three officially hosted by the football association in partnership with EA Sports
79. Overwatch League Boston Uprising, New England Patriots owner charged with soliciting prostitution: Robert Kraft, 24 others charged after eight-month-long investigation in southern Florida
80. “China is saying is that esports is cool, and more healthy than gaming itself”: What role can “offline” esports events like summer camps play in repairing the industry’s relationship with the Chinese government?
81. Female viewership of esports increasing: Interpret finds girls and women account for 30% of esports watchers, up more than 6% in just two years
82. Hi-Rez Studios: Turning battle royale into an entertaining esport – Esports BAR Cannes speaker Alex Grimonpont explains why “we still haven’t seen a significant success” from battle royale in terms entertaining spectators
83. Use of excerpts of videogames and eSports competitions without the right holder’s consent: is it fair use (or the Princess is in another castle)? 
84. HTC is launching the Vive Focus Plus this year, complete with 6DoF controllers
85. US Future staff to unionize with Writers Guild of America: PC Gamer, GamesRadar, others join growing industry push for unionization
86. U.S. Patent No. 9,138,648: System and method for dynamically loading game software for smooth game play 
87. U.S. Patent No. 9,266,022: System to pause a game console whenever an object enters an exclusion zone 
88. U.S. Patent No. 8,882,594: Control scheme for real time strategy game 
89. 5 Ways Black Panther’s Success Could Inspire Video Games
90. How Black Women Made The Sims 4 Their Own
91. 5 Awesome Black Video Game Characters: In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate some of the best black characters in video games.
92. Jerry Lawson: The Black Man Who Revolutionized Gaming As We Know It – Meet Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, the man who pioneered the video game cartridge.
93. Games Developed By Black Developers You Should Look Out For: In celebration of Black History Month, here are some indie games that should be on your radar. 
94. No Doubt v. Activision Publishing, Inc. 
95. Resident Evil 2 Remake: The Tofu Survivor Challenge- Hot Keys
96. Resident Evil 2 remake ships 4 million copies in first month
97. The Interactivity of Reading
98. Amy Hennig calls single-player games ‘just a harder and harder proposition’
99. Opinion: Civilization VI’s (Green) New Deal
100. Blog: A student game postmortem (or how not to make a game)

Jon

DIGITAL

1.  The U.S. is About to Hit Facebook With a Multi-Billion Dollar Fine: It could be the largest tech fine in history.
2. Facebook may face multi-billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal
3. Facebook is a law-breaking “digital gangster,” UK government report says
4. 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
5. Facebook, Google, CDC under pressure to stop anti-vax garbage from spreading
6. Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users 
7. Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’ 
8. The Hatebook: Inside Facebook’s thriving subculture of racism
9. Facebook Blames Users for Its Latest Privacy Scandal as Lawmakers Ask to Chat
10. Roger McNamee: ‘It’s bigger than Facebook. This is a problem with the entire industry’
11. Zuckerberg defends big tech, says Facebook should remain free 
12. 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’
13. Zuckerberg, forgetting about Facebook’s Portal: ‘We definitely don’t want a society where there’s a camera in everyone’s living room’ 
14. ‘They have no clue about network security’: China data leak exposes mass surveillance across Muslim Xinjiang
15. When surveillance meets incompetence: Evil, and poorly done at that
16. A Court Just Sent a Man to Prison For 3D Printing a Gun
17. Someone Impersonated New Jersey’s Attorney General To Demand Cloudflare Takedown 3d Printed Gun Instructions
18. Florida inmate says prison sold him $569 of music, then took it away
19. Hollywood tries to cripple several alleged pirate TV services in one lawsuit
20. Study Reinforces How Much The Internet Has Enabled Content Creators To Make Money
21. Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda
22. HuffPost Fires Social Media Editor For Being Incredibly Racist On Social Media
23. Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
24. This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings: The future of the internet is lots and lots of fake stuff.
25. Twitter CEO Says Users Could Get a Feature to ‘Clarify’ Their Bad Tweets
26. Another Politician Probably Violated the First Amendment By Blocking a Constituent on Twitter–Campbell v. Reisch (Eric Goldman) 
27. Indian Lawmakers Considering TikTok Ban, Calling App “Inimical To Law And Order”
28. European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
29. The EU’s Digital Copyright Directive – where are we now? 
30. EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
31. The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: text agreed in trialogue discussions
32. EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths 
33. As EU Politicians Insist That It’s All Just ‘Bots’ And ‘Astroturf’ Tons Of People Showing Up In Real Life To Protest
34. Beijing’s denial of Huawei control bucks expert analysis
35. Can Russia Actually ‘Unplug’ From The Internet? 
36. Nestle and others have suspended YouTube ads over news of a pedophile network on the site
37. Disney Reportedly Pulls YouTube Ads Over Child-Exploitation Controversy
38. Disney reportedly pulls ads from YouTube following child exploitation controversy: Following Nestlé and Epic Games
39. 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.
40. How YouTube reactionaries are breaking the news media 
41. Texas Study Finds Majority Of ‘Flat Earthers’ Are Indoctrinated On YouTube
42. Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers: Conspiracy theories shown on video-sharing site persuade people to doubt Earth is round 
43. YouTube revamps community guidelines strike system: In an effort to make policies clearer and consistent
44. YouTube Is Changing Its Community Guidelines Strike System For The First Time In A Decade
45. 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.
46. German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google
47. Jimmy Fallon Becomes First Late-Night Host To Hit 20 Million YouTube Subscribers
48. Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge’s bad PC build advice
49. Users alarmed by undisclosed microphone in Nest Security System
50. Google Says Unlisted, Built-In Microphone on Nest Devices Wasn’t Supposed to Be ‘Secret’
51. Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
52. Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers
53. Google Play apps with >10 million installs drain batteries, jack up data charges
54. YouTuber Matt Watson Uncovers “Wormhole” Of Fetishizing Comments On Videos Of Young Children
55. Fitness Influencer ‘Scammer’ Brittany Dawn Is “Getting This Business In Order,” Though Some Fans Are Unconvinced
56. 7-Year-Old YouTube Megastar Ryan ToysReview Is Getting His Own Nickelodeon Series
57. Victoria Beckham Launching YouTube Fashion Channel
58. Matthew Patrick Slams Defy Media’s Bank For Comparing Itself To YouTubers Who Lost Money 
59. The latest Instagram influencer frontier? Medical promotions.: Big pharma is partnering with influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices.
60. The Latest In Trademark Abuse Is Registering Marks To Obtain Ownership Of Instagram Accounts 
61. 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.
62. Elon Musk Says He Filmed PewDiePie Collab As T-Series Subscriber Race Heats Up
63. Rooster Teeth Resurrects Select Machinima Series, Including ‘Inside Gaming’, In Wake Of Shutdown
64. Hulu Acquires Award-Winning Documentary About 16-Year-Old Influencer 
65. Hulu Ad Campaign Spells Out That Its Influencers Get Paid
66. Hulu’s New ‘Sellouts’ Ad Campaign Tells Viewers It Pays Influencers To Endorse It
67. Snapchat Expands NHL Pact to Add Hockey Highlights, Curated Stories
68. The New York Times quietly paused its Snapchat channel
69. New Algorithm Detects Fake Online Dating Profiles 
70. Netflix Unveils Canadian Production Hub To Accommodate Projects From Guillermo Del Toro, John Green
71. Claiming for Unlawful Prophets – $50 Million Satanic Netflix Suit Settled
72. Netflix’s The Punisher and Jessica Jones Are Officially Cancelled
73. Netflix makes it official, canceling Punisher and Jessica Jones 
74. How Dark Horse is building its own movie and TV empire out of comic books, from Netflix to a ‘Hellboy’ reboot 
75. Netflix isn’t talking about itself like a tech company anymore
76. “Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller
77. Feeling unwelcome, Amazon ditches plans for New York hub
78. Facing opposition, Amazon scraps New York HQ2 plans
79. Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York
80. Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well
81. Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t 
82. Amazon Launches Social Media Strategy For Massive ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prequel
83. Amazon Alexa And The Search For The One Perfect Answer
84. Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books—again
85. India is turning its back on Silicon Valley
86. The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’
87. 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?
88. Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans: Capitalism is just another game that the AI intends to win.
89. AI Executive Order – What’s Next? 
90. Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous to Release
91. The AI Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous To Make Public
92. OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release
93. Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI
94. Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too: A new documentary lets robots interview and film humans.
95. 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.
96. Gambling Commission announces new rules for online gambling 
97. New WIPO study on A.I. inventions and EDPB opinion on clinical trials 
98. This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
99. We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs
100. Ocasio-Cortez is right, algorithms are biased – but we can make them fairer
101. On WhatsApp, Rumours, and Lynchings
102. 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?
103. 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) 
104. Spotify Paid Nearly $340 Million to Buy Podcast Startups Gimlet and Anchor
105. SoundCloud Launches Tool to Distribute Music to Other Streaming Services
106. DJ Deadmau5 Quits Twitch After Platform Suspends Him For Homophobic Remarks 
107. 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.
108. It Sounds Like It Could Be a While Until We Actually Get Apple’s Streaming Service
109. Apple Taps Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams, More For Video Service Launch Event On March 25
110. Gambling, porn, and piracy on iOS: Apple’s enterprise certificate woes continue
111. Apple reportedly planning to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps by 2021
112. Samsung’s foldable phone is finally official—meet the Galaxy Fold
113. Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity
114. Florida Court Finds Virtual Currency Subject to Money Service Businesses Law 
115. Trouble in Paradise: Florida Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin is Money Transmission
116. JPMorgan is creating a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar
117. 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
118. 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.
119. GoFundMe: Hope, but no solution, for the needy 
120. Judges Are Struggling To Interpret Emoji In Court Cases
121. How Would You Feel Having Your Emoji Messages Read Out in Court?
122. 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.
123. Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
124. Welcome to the cyber world: The real-world tech behind Alita: Battle Angel

CREATIVITY

1. Alec Baldwin Wants to Know if Donald Trump Is Threatening Him
2. Fox News Bans Ad For Documentary About American Nazi Rally in 1939
3. Justice Thomas Is Apparently Serious About Completely Upturning Over 50 Years Of 1st Amendment Law
4. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, threatens to sue Mail on Sunday: Paper published letter from royal saying father Thomas Markle had ‘broken her heart’
5. Copyright May Protect a Car Wash’s Liability Disclaimer–Rassamni v. Fresno Auto Spa (Eric Goldman)
6. Red Sole Diaries: another chapter
7. How sexist will the media’s treatment of female candidates be? Rule out ‘not at all.’
8. One of Anime’s Biggest Voices Accused of Sexual Harassment
9. We get the journalism we deserve
10. Dentist’s failed suit demonstrates a copyright’s bite needs more than teeth 
11. The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
12. This Video Explores Starship Troopers’ Messy Satirical Relationship With Fascism
13. Smoke and mirrors? Big Tobacco slip(stream)s back into Formula One sponsorship deals 
14. If you call this firm a “patent troll,” it might sue for defamation
15. Appeals Court Takes No Time At All In Rejecting Patent Troll’s Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Cloudflare
16. Calling Out Copyright Troll Mathew Higbee
17. When does an Oscar speech become defamatory? 

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  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
2. FTC Opts Out of Updating Anti-Spam Rule 
3. Ajit Pai orders phone companies to adopt new anti-robocall tech in 2019
4. Ajit Pai says broadband access is soaring—and that he’s the one to thank
5. Sprint, T-Mobile Execs Continue To Hallucinate Competitors In Their Post-Merger Dreamscape
6. FCC Issues Staff Report on “Robocalling”
7. How an Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm 
8. In Wake Of Verizon Flub, New Law Would Ban Wireless Throttling Of First Responders
9. 5G Has Become The Magic Pixie Dust Of Tech Policy Conversations
10. Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Actually, Secretly Filming Students’ Cleavage Is Illegal, Canada’s Supreme Court Rules
2. The Supreme Court’s Jarvis ruling delivers a win for privacy, but it’s a missed opportunity for equality
3. Right to privacy not an all-or-nothing concept, says SCC in voyeurism case
4. “Privacy is Not an All-or-Nothing Concept”: The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Jarvis
5. R. v. Jarvis (2019 SCC 10)
6. Canadian Privacy Commissioners jointly issue guidelines to organizations for obtaining meaningful consent 
7. When a privacy policy is not enough: Canadian Privacy Commissioners issue new guidance on obtaining meaningful consent
8. Yet Another Breach 
9. The Lucrative Government Spyware Industry Has a New ‘One-Stop-Shop’ for Hacking Everything
10. Deputies Sued After False ALPR Hit Leads To Guns-Out Traffic Stop Of California Privacy Activist
11. With elections weeks away, someone “sophisticated” hacked Australia’s politicians
12. Inside the DNSpionage hacks that hijack domains at an unprecedented scale
13. Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car
14. Hard-to-detect credential-theft malware has infected 1,200 and is still going
15. Nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions of users for 14 years

GAMES

1. Oxford study finds no link between violent video games and teen aggression
2. 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”
3. Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents’ aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report (Andrew Przybylski & Netta Weinstein)
4. Niantic poised to settle Pokémon Go trespassing complaints
5. Pokémon GO Lawsuit Settlement Might Lead To Some Pokéstops And Gyms Being Removed
6. The mythos and meaning behind Pokémon’s most famous glitch 
7. Epic Games pulls Fortnite YouTube ads over child predator concerns  
8. Organizers of unsanctioned Fortnite festival facing lawsuit from Epic Games
9. Epic Games files legal claim against Fortnite Live event organizers: Organizer Exciting Events forced to stop trading to limit losses
10. Fortnite dance off: Fresh Prince star refused copyright on ‘Carlton Dance’ 
11. One Of The People Suing Fortnite Over ‘Stolen’ Dance Steps Gets His Dance Rejected By The US Copyright Office
12. Alfonso Ribeiro denied copyright to Carlton dance, damaging Fortnite lawsuit: US Copyright Office says routine is too simple to be protected by law
13. ‘Fortnite’ Publisher Pauses YouTube Ads After They Ran On Videos Where Commenters Fetishized Children
14. Respawn has already banned over 16,000 cheaters fromApex Legends
15. Ninja Wins Twitch’s First ‘Apex Legends’ Tournament By One Point 
16. Apex Legends already beat Fortnite’s single-day viewership record on Twitch
17. 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
18. ‘Fortnite’s’ Massively Attended Virtual Concert is a Potent Glimpse of VR’s Future
19. Wrestler Booker T Sues Activision For Copyright Infringement Over Fairly Generic Character Depiction
20. US labor organization AFL-CIO urges game developers to unionize in open letter
21. How did Yoshi’s Island music end up in an official US gov’t Web game?
22. Revenue and profit up as Paradox experiences best year to date
23. Paradox Interactive breaks new ground for modding on consoles: Independent Paradox Mods platform will provide a direct channel to console audiences “without pre-moderation”
24. Paradox and Microsoft have created an open modding platform for Paradox titles
25. Microsoft, Paradox allow open game modding on Xbox One for the first time
26. Devs accuse Sony of “playing favorites” with PS4’s cross-platform support 
27. Stubbornness over cross-play reminds us of bad old Sony | Opinion
28. Sony: We Are Totally Open For Crossplay, Game Developers: No, You Totally Are Not
29. Sony is readying to shut down PlayStation Vita production in Japan
30. PS4-exclusive Dreams is launching into early access this spring  
31. Employees at Blizzard’s France location unsure if their jobs are safe
32. 134 jobs in danger at Blizzard’s French office
33. 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
34. Nitro Games begins layoff talks, could cut workforce in half
35. Mobile dev Next Games lays off 26 staff  
36. Q&A: Non-profit Take This addresses mental health challenges among gaming community and creators 
37. Ubisoft holds steady in Q3 despite competitive holiday 
38. Ubisoft isn’t worried about an influx of new games stealingRainbow Six Siege’s thunder
39. 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”
40. 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 
41. Square Enix consolidating its business divisions: Company plans to reorganize from 11 to four units, won’t involve workforce reduction
42. Overkill’s The Walking Dead earned $3.7m from sales in Q4: Starbreeze full-year financial report underlines commercial performance of key title
43. Report: China freezes new game approvals as regulators tackle backlog  
44. Chinese government halts new game approvals to work through backlog: State Administration of Press and Publications to clear backlog before approving new submissions
45. Tencent introduces streaming rules to stay on the up-and-up with Chinese law
46. Report: Tencent wants to distribute Apex Legends in China 
47. Tencent in talks to bring Apex Legends to China – Report 
48. Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in Nexon bid
49. Report: Netmarble and Tencent could buy Nexon as part of consortium  
50. 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 
51. Revenue down by 5.4% at Rovio, but games segment holds firm
52. Com2uS acquires majority stake in visual novel developer Day 7  
53. That’s a wrap: Valve is axing Steam’s video section
54. Valve retires non-gaming content from video on-demand service: Blockbuster movies fail to find traction on Steam
55. Razer Game Store shutting down after 10 months
56. 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 
57. eSports: a new frontier for the advertising law and image rights? 
58. EA opts Origin users out of “real-name sharing” after complaints
59. Don’t Miss: Common problems when translating games into Japanese
60. Anthem review: BioWare’s sky-high gaming ambition crashes back to Earth
61. ‘Human Eye Resolution’ VR Is a Treat If You Know Where to Look
62. Retina resolution headset puts the “reality” into “virtual reality”
63. After Machinima Shutdown, Rooster Teeth Revives ‘Inside Gaming’ and Rescues Other Machinima Shows 
64. 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
65. Dealmaster: As Switch sales slow, Nintendo launches a new bundle
66. Porn Star Comes To The Nintendo Switch 
67. Report: Early adopters of the Nintendo Switch weren’t in target demographic
68. Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic—it’s a gameplay revolution
69. Breaking down categories of action in strategy games
70. Insights: How Marshmello, MassMutual and Microsoft Are Remaking Content Marketing
71. BOY, God of War won big at the DICE Awards
72. God of War sweeps 2019 DICE Awards: Meanwhile, Halo boss Bonnie Ross welcomed into Hall of Fame and Celeste wins two categories
73. Getting to the heart of art in the delightfully strange Art Sqool
74. Enjoy a ’93 video tour of id Software while Doom was being made
75. Blog: What is a meta-game?  
76. Blog: Examining the issues with battle royale game design

Jon

DIGITAL

1. The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz: Facebook is irrelevant to Gen-Z
2. Sheryl Sandberg: The Teens ‘Consented’ to Putting Facebook Spyware on Their Phones
3. Facebook Bans Armed Rebel Groups in Myanmar
4. Facebook nukes hundreds of “inauthentic” accounts “tied to Iran”
5. Mark Zuckerberg still thinks Facebook has made the world better
6. The Tortured Case for Deleting Instagram 
7. NY AG Finds Use of Bots, Sock-Puppets Illegal  
8. Former FCC Official Attempts To Create An Aereo That The Supreme Court Won’t Kill
9. The Great Huawei Disconnect
10. Ambassador McCallum’s Controversial Comments on the Huawei Extradition Case Resulted in His Termination. But Was He Right?
11. Charges Against Chinese Hackers Are Now Common. Why Don’t They Deter Cyberattacks?
12. A Bold Proposal for Fighting Censorship: Increase the Collateral Damage
13. Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying
14. Italy Tells Rest Of EU To Drop Articles 11 And 13 From The Copyright Directive
15. Article 13 Is Back On: Germany Caves To France As EU Pushes Forward On Ruining The Internet
16. EU Copyright Directive Has Been Made Even More Stupid, And Some Are Still Trying To Make It Even Worse
17. US Newspapers Now Salivating Over Bringing A Google Snippet Tax Stateside
18. Authors Guild Attacks Libraries For Lending Digital Books
19. After Plan S, Here’s Plan U: Funders Should Require All Research To Be Posted First As A Preprint
20. Google releases Chrome extension that alerts users of breached passwords
21. With experimental “Never slow mode,” Chrome tries to stop Web devs making it slow
22. Google Play apps with >4.3 million downloads stole pics and pushed porn ads 
23. Harassment, Transphobia, and Racism: A Look Inside Blind’s Anonymous Chatting Forum for Google Employees
24. Amazon’s Next Targets Are Now Clear: Google and Facebook
25. Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking
26. Google+ shuts down April 2, all consumer data will be deleted
27. Impact of New Massachusetts Noncompete Law on Emerging Tech Companies
28. Lawyer punished for student’s social media use
29. Surprise, the social media agency behind Fyre Festival chronically steals other people’s work
30. Key Considerations for Social Influencer Agreements
31. Social media companies to owe duty of care to users?  
32. Inquests, social media and families searching for answers
33. Leaked nudes and talent morality clauses – A lesson for the digital age
34. This Viral Photo of a Homeless Person Freezing on the Street Is Actually From 2013… in Canada
35. Tech Companies Expand to Canada 
36. Shane Dawson Likely Lost Thousands In Ad Revenue After His Latest Video Was Mistakenly Demonetized
37. Vice To Cut 10% Of Workforce, Becoming Latest Digital Giant Hit By Layoffs
38. The forthcoming WarnerMedia streaming service will be partially supported by ads
39. Phil DeFranco Is Getting Into Hair Care Business With Launch Of ‘Beautiful Bastard’ Men’s Grooming Brand 
40. Ryan ToysReview Vastly Expands Licensing Empire With 40 Global Deals
41. YouTube is changing how its priciest ad format is bought to work more like TV — and it could start a bidding war among brands
42. YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
43. YouTube Is Brainstorming New Ways To Combat ‘Dislike Mobs’
44. YouTube Nears Major Milestone Amid Emphasis on Subscriptions
45. YouTube Hits 2 Billion Monthly Users, As Number Of Channels With 1 Million Subscribers Doubled Last Year
46. YouTuber Austin Jones Pleads Guilty To Persuading Underage Fans To Send Him Graphic Videos
47. YouTube Will Not Terminate Convicted Sex Offender Austin Jones’ Channel
48. YouTube Rolls Out ‘Explore’ Feature To More Users, More Devices, And Promotes Smaller Creators
49. YouTube Millionaires: NFL Hopeful Donald De La Haye Was Forced To Choose Between YouTube And Football — But Now He Aims For Both 
50. ‘Simpsons’ Producer David Mirkin Developing Live Action Sci-Fi Series For YouTube Premium 
51. From YouTube To Cannes To A Theater Near You: Joe Penna on ‘Arctic’
52. YouTube’s ContentID System Is Being Repurposed By Blackmailers Due To Its Failings
53. Disney+ Will Offer Non-Disney Content At Launch
54. Disney’s ESPN+ Streaming Service Nabs 2 Million Subscribers In Less Than A Year
55. Hulu Renews AwesomenessTV, Wattpad Thriller ‘Light As A Feather’
56. Criterion Collection To Launch Classic Film Streaming Service In April
57. Samsung tries to turn your refrigerator into Tinder: The Refrigerdating app aims to help you find a date based on what’s in your fridge.
58. Samsung cancels partnership with counterfeit Supreme brand
59. World Record Egg Teams With Hulu On Super Bowl Ad, As Stunt’s Founder Is Unmasked
60. Hulu Will Roll Out ‘Pause-vertising’ This Spring With Still, Silent Ads
61. Vice Media is laying off hundreds in an effort to reduce costs 
62. Amazon and Walmart hit hard after new e-commerce rules in India restrict sales: The two companies have pulled thousands of products off virtual shelves
63. Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking: And there’s no way a user would know
64. FaceTime bug lets callers hear you before you answer (really)
65. A Teenager Tried To Warn Apple About It’s Facetime Security Flaw, But Appears To Have Been Ignored
66. I Cut Apple Out of My Life. It Was Devastating
67. FBI catches another man allegedly stealing Apple self-driving car secrets
68. Apple pays France €500 million to cover a decade of back taxes
69. Apple revokes Google’s enterprise iOS certificate, shuts down internal apps
70. Apple restores Google’s own internal iPhone apps after privacy brouhaha
71. Apple, Facebook spat is over, for now—iOS certificate access restored
72. Angela Ahrendts, leader of Apple’s retail efforts, will depart the company in April
73. The 3rd Party Doctrine: Or Why Lawyers May Not Ethically Be Able To Use Whatsapp
74. Wisconsin’s Overhyped Foxconn Deal Keeps Getting Lamer By The Week
75. I Cut Microsoft Out of My Life—or So I Thought
76. Microsoft blames chip supply issues for drop in Windows revenue
77. Windows setup error messages will soon be much less useless
78. Spotify reportedly in “advanced stages” of acquiring podcast company for $230M 
79. Spotify Is Looking to Acquire Podcast Startup Gimlet Media
80. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media, Anchor Amid $500 Million Bet On Podcast Industry
81. Sirius XM Completes Acquisition of Pandora
82. The Case for an Automation-Powered 4-Day Work Week
83. AI are learning common sense through Pictionary 
84. Scientists Are Using Pictionary to Teach “Common Sense” to AI
85. Template License and Collaboration Agreements for AI Art 
86. Robo ART! – The human ‘hand’ and levels of AI
87. DeepMind releases an AI learning environment for the card game Hanabi
88. Protecting Creativity by Artificial Intelligence
89. Bless the overclockers: In the data center world, liquid cooling is becoming king
90. Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave 
91. Crypto Exchange Says It Can’t Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password
92. Did A Crypto CEO Fake His Own Death? The Great Quadriga Conspiracy, Day 6
93. Cryptocurrency investors locked out of $190m after exchange founder dies: QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest exchange, was unable to access password or recovery key after Gerald Cotten died last December
94. Digital Currency App’s Electronic User Agreement Held Enforceable 
95. eSignature and ePayment News and Trends
96. Man who stole $5M in cryptocurrency via SIM swap pleads guilty
97. Prosecutors: Two men used SIM swapping to extort cryptocurrency
98. Fire (and lots of it): Berkeley researcher on the only way to fix cryptocurrency 
99. Digital trends 2019: Every single stat you need to know about the internet­­­­­­
100. The culture of self-similarity: A fractal philosophy for a better internet
101. Tech Companies Expand to Canada  
102. Philosopher Hadn’t Seen “The Matrix” Before Publishing Simulation Hypothesis: Nick Bostrom doesn’t think you should try to break free from the Matrix.
103. Emoji Law 2018 Year-in-Review (Eric Goldman) 

CREATIVITY

1. Leafs in dispute with Snoop Dogg over cannabis trademark
2. The Perils of Comparative Advertising – A lesson from Super Bowl 53
3. Securing Necessary Copyright And Trademark Rights For Broadcasts And Promotions Related To The NFL Championship Games And Super Bowl 53
4. The Greatest Trick The NFL Ever Pulled Is Convincing The World It Holds Trademark Rights That Don’t Exist
5. Initial Fallout From McDonald’s Losing Its EU ‘Big Mac’ Trademark Is Mockery From Burger King
6. Las Vegas-based artist claims that Ariana Grande plagiarised his work: Vladimir Kush is suing the 7 Rings singer for copyright infringement
7. Money is on the Line in Billions Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
8. U.S. Supreme Court’s Denial of Actress’s Petition Highlights First Amendment Protection of Docudramas
9. Life + 70 Years: Copyrighted Works That Have Entered into the Public Domain in 2019 – a European Perspective
10. Photo-Trolls Still Target Broadcasters
11. Gavin McInnes Files Laughably Silly Defamation Lawsuit Against Southern Poverty Law Center
12. The Lawyer For Rapper 21 Savage, Who Was Detained By ICE, Says It’s Not His Fault He Was In The US Illegally
13. Good Girl Gone Mad
14. Bellino v. Judge
15. Copyright in a Taste – A “Work” in Progress
16. Ad Standards Overhauls Dispute Procedure
17. CAP censors political free speech
18. Knight Commission On Trust, Media And Democracy
19. Stupid Patent Of The Month: IBM’s Software Patent On Texting And Driving
20. Basquiat used invisible ink to make secret drawings in his paintings

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1.  Canada’s Bell Tried To Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Negotiations
2. The Real Over-the-Top: CBC President Likens Netflix to Cultural Imperialism Such As the British in India or French in Africa (Michael Geist)
3. Hidden in Plain Sight?: The Search For Canadian Content on Netflix (Michael Geist)
4. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Gets With Netflix For Wellness Docuseries
5. Gwyneth Paltrow and Netflix Seal Deal as Goop Expands Original Content 
6. Netflix buys into Goop hooey with deal to make a wellness docuseries
7. Netflix Debuts New Logo For Originals To Make Viewers Feel Like They’re In A Movie Theater
8. Canadians will be able to watch U.S. Super Bowl commercials — for now
9. Here’s a Roundup of All the Super Bowl Ads About Robots and AI: Tech was the star of Super Bowl LIII – during the commercials, anyways.
10. How to Watch the Super Bowl in VR With Friends for Free 
11. FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”: Skeptical judges question FCC’s justification of net neutrality repeal.
12. Net neutrality court case preview: Did FCC mess up by redefining broadband?
13. Ajit Pai loses in court—judges overturn gutting of tribal broadband program
14. Court Tells FCC Its Attack On Tribal Broadband Subsidies Wasn’t Based On The Facts
15. House Democrats tell Ajit Pai: Stop screwing over the public
16. Russian Site-Blocking Leads To An Explosion In ‘Pirate’ Sites, Tiny Dip In Piracy
17. Bogus Net Neutrality Comments Linked To Trumpland
18. Fake FCC Comments Linked to Ex-Trump Campaign Director’s Org, Boosted By Roger Stone
19. FCC Seeks Comments on Video Description Marketplace for Report to Congress 
20. Citing a Desire to Promote Spam-Protection Measures, FCC Classifies Wireless Messaging as an Information Service
21. Public Knowledge Petitions FCC to Reverse Decision Classifying Text Messages as “Information Services” 
22. AT&T’s misleading “5G E” indicator comes to 4G iPhones in iOS 12.2 beta
23. FCC Accused Of Colluding With Big Carriers On 5G Policy
24. Time Warner Cable Seeks to Defeat Class Certification in TCPA Wrong Number Case 
25. Charter will spend less on cable network in 2019 but charge customers more
26. The Revolving Door Spins Hard: FCC’s Clyburn Now Lobbying For T-Mobile
27. T-Mobile Tries To Save Its Unpopular Merger With A Few Concessions, But Nobody’s Buying

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. New York Attorney General Enters Into Groundbreaking Settlement With Seller of Fake Followers and “Likes”
2. DNA-Matching Company Decides To Open Its Doors To The FBI Without Bothering To Inform Its Users
3. New Japanese Law Lets Government Hack IOT Devices, Warn Owners They’re Vulnerable
4. GDPR – Impact on Canadian Business Obligations, Liability and Contract Terms
5. The rise of the GDPR in media law
6. Defense of Amazon’s Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Its Only Known Police Client
7. U.S. Prisons Are Covertly Gathering Inmates’ Biometric Voice Data
8. Privacy Primer: The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
9. Hyper-Personalisation: the brands who want to know your name 
10. To protect users’ privacy, iOS 12.2 will limit Web apps’ access to iPhone’s sensors
11. Revolving Doors And Regulatory Capture Are Ensuring E-Voting Remains An Insecure Mess
12. UK Forum Hands Out Public Records Request-Dodging Guidance To Over 100 Government Agencies

GAMES

1. Senator Pushes FTC Head for Loot Box Investigation Timeline
2. Lootboxes and Skin Gambling in Swiss Gambling Law
3. Second YouTuber complains of DMCA abuse from Escape From Tarkov developer: Battlestate Games accused of misusing copyright takedown notices to silence “negative hype”
4. Ubisoft apologizes for The Division 2 email promising ‘a real government shutdown’
5. Twitch Streamer And Game Studio Employee Arrested In Child Sex Sting 
6. Parents increasingly worried about kids spending in games – Study: UK regulator finds 39% of parents with 5-15-year-olds concerned about pressure to purchase, 17% of kids 12-15 have accidentally spent money online
7. Pennsylvania legislators want to slap a tax on mature games
8. Failure to Launch: Not Identifying the Proper Parties Can Prematurely End an Video Game IPR Challenge 
9. CD Projekt agreed to pay The Witcher author additional royalties
10. Take-Two hires games veteran Michael Condrey to form new, diverse studio: Dead Space and Call of Duty leader plans to open new outfit in Silicon Valley 
11. Take-Two raises fiscal outlook as recurrent spending experiences record growth
12. The history of how Pac-Man encouraged women to pursue game dev
13. Fair Play Alliance expands Fair Play Summit for GDC 2019
14. “Isolation for all of us is corrosive” – The power of addressing social issues in games: Fullbright co-founder Steve Gaynor on making games about people rather than policy
15. Blog: How player choice can backfire
16. What drives retention?: A look at the mechanics that keep players playing
17. GDC Speaker Q&A: Cherry Thompson explores disabled representation in games
18. Monster Hunter helps Capcom to record third quarter profits
19. Capcom posts record profits in latest financials: Success driven by strong performance of core titles like Monster Hunter: World which broke 11 million sales 
20. Capcom tops Metacritic publisher rankings for 2018: Activision Blizzard highest-rated “mid-sized” publisher, followed by Paradox and 505 Games 
21. 4A Games embroiled in controversy over Metro Exodus’ Epic Games Store exclusivity: Koch Media/Deep Silver once again stresses it is responsible for the decision after studio employee threatens no future PC games
22. Epic vs Steam: Exclusives raise the stakes | Opinion – Epic is Steam’s first real competitor in years – with console-war style exclusive tactics being a controversial, but fair, escalation of the struggle
23. Blog: How are the Steam algorithm changes affecting indies?
24. Achievements and support are opt-in features on the Epic Games Store
25. Opt-in review system in the works for Epic Games Store: Developers will be able to decide whether they want to allow consumers to leave reviews on their games
26. Early teens gaming online more – Study: 75% of gamers aged 5-15 have played online, up from 66% last year; girls play online less than boys, particularly as they get older 
27. What drives retention?: A look at the mechanics that keep players playing
28. Gaming innovators must ensure their intellectual property is protected
29. Kingdom Hearts III conquers UK charts with impressive debut week: Resident Evil 2 slips to No.2
30. Kingdom Hearts III sells more than 600,000 copies in Japan at launch: Square Enix’s RPG Disney mash-up more than doubled debut sales of Resident Evil 2 remake 
31. Disney says its future video game efforts lie in licensing, not publishing
32. Kingdom Hearts 3 ships 5 million copies a week after launch
33. Kingdom Hearts III: Critical Consensus – Reviewers praise the scope and magic of this long-awaited entry, but warn it’s no picnic for newcomers
34. Nintendo lowers full-year hardware forecast for Switch 
35. Nintendo trims Switch target as net sales near $10 billion for fiscal year: Platform holder celebrates record-breaking success of Smash Bros and Pokémon, delays Mario Kart Tour
36. Lifetime Switch sales have surpassed 32 million units
37. Putting Switch’s 32 million shipments in context
38. Report: Nintendo eyeing a smaller, more portable Switch for release this year
39. Nintendo’s next Switch model will reportedly shrink the size, cost, features
40. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold over 12 million copies in December
41. Smash Bros Ultimate is the fastest selling console game in Nintendo’s history: In Japan, the new Smash Bros outpaced the lifetime sales of any previous title in four weeks 
42. Mobile game based on Dr. Mario due to launch this summer: Dr. Mario World will be co-developed with LINE, Mario Kart Tour delayed to improve quality
43. Nintendo will bring Dr. Mario to smartphones this summer
44. Nintendo bringing Dr. Mario to iOS, Android this summer
45. Nintendo delays Mario Kart Tour mobile game to ramp up quality
46. The 3DS Is Even Dying Better Than The Vita
47. Nintendo to open first official retail store in Japan: Located in Shibuya, Nintendo Tokyo is the first store to be managed by Nintendo of Japan
48. EA turns in bummer fiscal report: “We’re disappointed in our underperformance”
49. Did EA beat Nintendo at its own game?: 10 Years Ago This Month: A closer look at John Riccitiello’s bold claim that EA would rival Nintendo’s quality of software on the Wii, and a breakdown of a post-layoff pep talk
50. EA has a subscription service for ‘another major platform’ in the works
51. Packaged sales continue to rise at Sega, but profits are in decline
52. Sega Sammy revenue and profit down in latest financials: Japanese firm posts $24.5 million loss from digital games
53. Microsoft reports “largest gaming revenue quarter ever”: Software and services drove Xbox to $4.23 billion revenue despite declining hardware sales
54. Microsoft’s Xbox Live is coming to Switch, iOS, Android
55. Microsoft Expanding Xbox Live To Nintendo Switch And Mobile
56. Microsoft bringing Xbox Live to Switch and mobile: GDC session report reveals company’s cross-platform plans
57. Microsoft Studios renamed Xbox Game Studios in bid for better branding
58. Software driving sales in Sony’s games division as hardware stutters
59. Sony reports slowdown in PS4 sales: Growth in software offsets expected hardware dip as system begins sixth year on shelves; PS Plus subscribers up 15% to 36.3 million
60. Cloud gaming isn’t an immediate threat to consoles, says Sony CFO
61. What can this Japanese patent tell us about PS5 backward compatibility?
62. Nearly Half of the Videogame Industry Wants to Form A Union – Can Game Development Companies Avoid This Boss Fight? 
63. Failbetter’s final push to ensure Sunless Skies flies at launch: One year on from disappointing Early Access sales, the Fallen London studio is gearing up for a confident launch
64. Netmarble readying bid for Nexon: South Korean games firm reportedly forming consortium to go up against Kakao and Tencent
65. Machinima closes down with more than 80 jobs lost: The YouTube gaming network is no more
66. Machinima Ceases All Consumer-Facing Operations, Lays Off Most Of Staff
67. Konami enjoys a profitable 9 months thanks to strong sports game sales
68. Mobile and esports drive Konami revenues to $1.75 billion: Nine-month financials show steady growth in games for Pro Evolution Soccer publisher 
69. McLaren’s drive to turn gamers into Formula 1 racers: Director of esports Ben Payne discusses the firm’s five-year plan for Shadow Project and sourcing new champions 
70. Peter Moore quit video games, but the Liverpool FC chief still fears Fortnite  
71. Twitch streamers racked up 9.36 billion hours viewed in 2018: Over one billion of those were dedicated to Fortnite, but battle royale title’s viewship is on the decline
72. This Year’s Overwatch League Pass Lets Twitch Viewers Experience Matches From Players’ Perspectives
73. The sloth behind the scenes of 2019’s biggest Twitch stream
74. Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins Lands Starring Spot In Super Bowl Commercial 
75. The long decline of the “narrative paramedic” in games writing
76. Apex Legends attracts 1 million unique players in under 8 hours
77. Apex Legends Drew In 2.5 Million Players In 24 Hours: The latest free-to-play battle royale title is off to a strong start.
78. Titanfall Dev’s Battle Royale Apex Legends Officially Revealed
79. Respawn wanted to let Apex Legends ‘speak for itself’
80. How Apex Legends Monetization Works: We sat down with the developers of Apex Legends to talk about their monetization systems. Apex Legends is a completely free to play game but will allow you to earn and purchase cosmetic items.
81. EA didn’t pre-announce Apex Legends because it was scared to | Opinion – And it may well have been a really smart decision
82. Apex Legends, Anthem, and EA’s (possible) February disaster
83. EA will lean harder on Anthem and Apex Legends after a ‘difficult quarter’
84. ‘Fortnite’ Had 10 Million Concurrent Players In The Marshmello Concert Event
85. More Than 10 Million People Attended Marshmello’s Live Virtual Concert In ‘Fortnite,’ DJ Says
86. More than 10 million ‘Fortnite’ players logged on to watch a 10-minute concert over the weekend, proving there’s more to the craze than just playing the game
87. Full Marshmello Fortnite Concert Event!!: Marshmello and Fortnite teamed up to deliver an amazing in-game concert. Check out the entire event with this video! 
88. Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think: Much has been said about Fortnite’s revenue, users, business model, origin and availability. But these narratives are overhyped.
89. Newly Discovered Spiked Dinosaurs From South America Look Like Creatures From ‘No Man’s Sky’
90. ‘Angry Birds VR’ Now Available on Rift & Vive, More VR Platforms Coming Soon
91. 26 years later, Groundhog Day gets revived as… a VR game?
92. Blog: How AR and VR investment stabilized in Q4 2018
93. Rise to Ruins dev wraps up Patreon and donates double pledges back to supporters  
94. Rise to Ruins developer promises to repay Patreon pledges back double: SixtyGig Games closes Patreon, offers double refunds on lifetime pledge amounts as studio thrives
95. Human: Fall Flat sells 5 million units: Solo indie project continues to see sales uptick following console releases 
96. Hypnospace Outlaw weaving a tangled Web: Jay Tholen talks about making a ’90s internet simulator that works by modern standards
97. Insurgency developer New World Interactive opens Canadian studio: New World North follows sustained growth 

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election (Nir Grinberg, Kenneth Joseph, Lisa Friedland, Briony Swire-Thompson, David Lazer)
2. Older, right-leaning Twitter users spread the most fake news in 2016, study finds
3. Emma Best’s New Transparency Project Targets Russian Leaks She Says Wikileaks Refuses To Touch
4. Chinese Court Creates App To Alert Citizens Of Deadbeat Debtors In Their Area
5. Cameroon Military Arresting, Trying, And Jailing Journalists On ‘Fake News’ Charges
6. U.S. Charges Huawei with Theft of Trade Secrets; Risks for Carriers Using Huawei Equipment Increase 
7. US indicts Huawei for stealing T-Mobile robot arm, selling US tech to Iran
8. Bell and Telus have been using Huawei equipment to deploy fibre-optic networks for years
9. Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
10. Facebook pays teens to install an app that could collect all kinds of data
11. Facebook Got Busted Paying Teenagers $20 A Month For Private Data
12. Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive
13. Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents’ Credit Cards and Did Nothing to Stop It 
14. Facebook Hires Up Three Of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
15. The rise of the Facebook divorce
16. I Cut Facebook Out of My Life. Surprisingly, I Missed It
17. Tuning out: What happens when you drop Facebook? 
18. Facebook’s Privacy Problems Are Piling Up Too Quickly To Chronicle
19. Apple revokes Facebook’s developer certificate over data-snooping app—Google could be next
20. Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Fix That Op-Ed You Wrote: I can tell the people what it is you’re really trying to say.
21. State-aligned trolling in Iran and the double-edged affordances of Instagram
22. Inside The UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of American Mercenaries: Ex-NSA operatives reveal how they helped spy on targets for the Arab monarchy – dissidents, rival leaders and journalists
23. Brands Crack Down On Instagram’s Content Moderation After Ads Run Alongside Posts About Self-Harm, Suicide 
24. John Mayer’s Instagram Talk Show Returns
25. Notice of Terms via Buried Link within a Post-Sale Email Unenforceable 
26. The Copyright “Meme” Game: Can an Internet Meme Containing a Copyrighted Work Be Considered Infringing? 
27. Vine Successor ‘Byte’ Won’t Showcase Follower Counts On Users’ Profiles, Founder Says
28. The Egg Is Now Trying to Sell Us Hulu
29. Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood studios shut down maker of “free TV” box 
30. CE Family Announces YouTube Hiatus, Comeback Docuseries In Wake Of Phallic Lollipop Incident
31. In Bizarre Tweet, Pope Francis Calls Virgin Mary “The First Influencer”
32. As U.K. cracks down on social media endorsements, where does Canada stand? 
33. The CMA clamps down on social media endorsements 
34. Facebook to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
35. Can the internet be made safe for children? (Andres Guadamuz)
36. Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality
37. A Nesting Doll Of Stupidity: Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter Typo Leads To Bogus Trademark Threat Letter
38. The Roger Stone indictment shows a conspiratorial comedy of Opsec errors
39. Arizona The Latest To Explore Dumb Porn Filter Law, This Time To Help Fund Trump’s Fence
40. Apple News is officially launching in Canada next week
41. Apple News Launches in Canada with iOS 12.2 Beta, Supports English and French
42. Apple says iPhones were down 15% last quarter, but everything else was up 19%
43. Apple Expects to Benefit From Climate Change: The company says that severe weather will increase “customer loyalty or brand value.”
44. Apple cuts 200 people from its autonomous vehicle team
45. Apple Is Blowing It
46. Apple Will Finally Launch Its Streaming Service In April (Report)
47. Aetna makes an Apple Watch app—promises not to use activity data against you
48. Samsung Pursued by Pixel Plaintiffs
49. Microsoft Office is now available in the Mac App Store
50. Amazon plans to launch a new Middle East marketplace, two years after buying Souq for $580 million 
51. Sundance: Amazon Scores Comedy ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ for $14 Million
52. Tubular Labs, VICE, BuzzFeed, and Group Nine Media Launch Global Video Measurement Alliance
53. BuzzFeed To Cut 15% Of Workforce As It Wrestles With Profitability
54. BuzzFeed Layoffs Gut National News Desk, National Security Team
55. Human Rights Groups Plead With The EU Not To Pass Its Awful ‘Terrorist Content’ Regulation
56. Author Ken MacLeod: Please Don’t Pass The EU Copyright Directive In My Name
57. Google doesn’t want employees to use work email to organize, per report
58. Google Threatens To Shut Down Google News In Europe Over Article 11 As Publishers Whine About ‘Publicity Stunt’
59. Google Asks Supreme Court To Overturn Crazy Ruling About Copyright In APIs
60. I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything
61. Google Fiber outage leaves KC customers offline two weeks after storm
62. Crashing the Internet: Cars, CarGurus and Copyright in the Digital Age
63. Independent Musician Explains Why Article 13 Will Be An Utter Disaster For Independent Artists
64. Study Shows Piracy Can Sometimes Be Beneficial To Markets & Consumers Alike
65. Who Benefited from FOSTA? (Spoiler: Probably No One) (Eric Goldman)
66. RackaRacka Claims YouTube Is Breaking Its Own Content Policies And Community Guidelines With New Original ‘Wayne’
67. YouTube Is Going to Bury ‘Borderline’ Content. It Won’t Tell Us What That Means
68. Matthew Patrick Claims Defy Media Stole $1.7 Million In YouTube AdSense From 50 Channels
69. These YouTubers are owed $1.7 million, and they’re probably never going to get it: Ally Bank responds to concerns from creators
70. YouTube says it will recommend fewer videos about conspiracy theories: Taking steps to reduce the spread of misinformation
71. YouTube’s Latest Attempt To Cut Off Conspiracy Content Is A New Algorithm
72. YouTube Suspends Advertising on Tommy Robinson’s Channel
73. Scammers On YouTube Impersonate Philip DeFranco, Jeffree Star, Send Fake Private Messages To Subscribers
74. YouTube is working to prevent impersonation after top creators hit by major scam: Philip DeFranco, James Charles, and others affected
75. Amanda Steele Becomes Latest YouTube Star To Launch Her Own Fashion Label
76. YouTube Vets Shane Dawson, KSI Both Surpass 20 Million Subscribers 
77. Guy Who Forged A Court Order To Delist Content Issues More Bogus Takedown Notices To Remove Posts Discussing His Forgery
78. Study Again Finds That Most VPNs Are Shady As Hell
79. ‘Baby Shark’ Videos Have Amassed 5 Billion Views, Becoming No. 1 Education Trend In YouTube History
80. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 1/27/2019
81. Android TV Is Good Now
82. Roku Adds First Paid Channels, Including Starz, Showtime, Tastemade 
83. Fyre Festival Documentaries Dissect Attendees’ – And Your – Fomo
84. Dumpster Fyre of Advertising Issues 
85. Diary Of A Web Series: Crowdfunding — Expectations vs. Reality
86. Spotify data shows how music preferences change with latitude: The farther from the equator, the greater the seasonal swings.
87. Foreign Stream-Ripping Site Wins Against Music Labels Based On Jurisdiction 
88. The Dolan Twins Forced To Ask Fans Not To Attend Their Late Father’s Funeral
89. Social-media influencers are pretty; their meltdowns are anything but
90. Alisha Marie And Remi Cruz To Take Their Popular Podcast On Tour
91. Snapchat Solicits Bhad Bhabie To Garner Buzz For Original Content Slate
92. Snapchat Considering Longer Lifetime For Users’ Public Content (Report)
93. Verizon Lays Off 800 Employees Within ‘Media Group’, Comprising Yahoo, Tumblr, More
94. Verizon cuts 7 percent of staff in failing Yahoo/AOL division
95. Judge rejects proposed settlement to Yahoo data breach lawsuit
96. WarnerMedia shuts investment arm that backed Mic, Mashable and other digital media startups
97. Lawyer Steps Up To File Doomed Lawsuits On Behalf Of Catholic School Teens Called Racists On Social Media
98. Yes, “algorithms” can be biased. Here’s why
99. Compassion through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias
100. On Human Predictions with Explanations and Predictions of Machine Learning Models: A Case Study on Deception Detection (Vivian Lai, Chenhao Tan)
101. We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next: Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning may come to an end.
102. “Disruptive” Bezos healthcare venture accused of copying competitor
103. Robots Will Take Jobs From Men, The Young, And Minorities
104. This Automation Platform Helped Eliminate 40,000 Jobs, and Now It’s Available to Companies Everywhere
105. A New Algorithm Trains AI to Erase its Biases: It’s like sensitivity training for algorithms.
106. Deep Fakes: Let’s Not Go Off The Deep End
107. Nvidia and AMD’s Nerdiest Fight Is the One That Matters Most
108. Nvidia CEO warns of “extraordinary, unusually turbulent, disappointing” Q4
109. Nvidia shares tank 15% following Q4 revenue adjustment
110. Nvidia trims quarterly revenue forecast as its RTX cards undersell
111. Why Choosing Between Windows and macOS Still Matters
112. Modern slavery in the tech sector: Ethical supply chains
113. Undersea cable damage wipes out most Internet access in Tonga islands
114. Open innovation: A shift to new intellectual property models?
115. Fair Use in Flux: Second Circuit TVEyes Ruling May Have a Lasting Effect on Fair Use Analysis 
116. Another Nail In The Coffin For Fair Use: TVEyes Agrees Not To Carry Fox News
117. Neuroscientists Translate Brain Waves Into Recognizable Speech
118. Listen To A Gadget That Translates Thoughts Into Speech 
119. Columbia Engineers Translate Brain Signals Directly into Speech: Advance marks critical step toward brain-computer interfaces that hold immense promise for those with limited or no ability to speak.
120. Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex
121. Update Regarding Website Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act: Robles v. Domino’s Pizza, LLC
122. Ninth Circuit reversal delivers blow to defense of website accessibility class actions 
123. Tolerating Piracy Can Benefit Consumers, Creators and Retailers, Research Finds

CREATIVITY

1. Olivia de Havilland’s Right-to-Publicity Suit Is Gone With the Wind
2. Michael Jackson Documentary Leaving Neverland Is ‘Shocking, Sad, Disturbing, Devastating’ 
3. Well, this is brutal: Father of a murdered child has his own Parkland-based “stand-up set” for Louis CK
4. NY Governor Offers Journalists A Gift No Journalist Would Be Interested In Receiving
5. Trademark’s reputation must be based on Canadian not foreign use, says FCA
6. Copyright Office identifies visual arts copyright problems, solutions 
7. One bad lawyer: Kurt Dahl is a lawyer by day, rock star by night and an advocate for artists throughout
8. Humorless Pittsburgh News Station Fires Employee For Graphic Calling Tom Brady A “Known Cheater”
9. As Super Bowl Approaches, Advertisers Should Be Aware of The NFL’s Efforts to Protect Its Golden Goose – 2019 Update on Super Bowl Advertising and Promotions 
10. Kimberly-Clark Unable to Flush Wet Wipes Case 
11. Step inside NYC’s competitive slotcar racing scene

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadians Pay The Highest Rates For Wireless Data, And The US Is About To Follow Suit
2. ACTRA Wants Government To Penalize Search Engines that Refuse to Promote Canadian Content in Search Results (Michael Geist)
3. Building a Digital Wall: What Lies Behind The Emerging Battle Over New Taxes to Support Canadian Content (Michael Geist)
4. Netflix: competition, not regulation, is the way to stimulate Canadian content
5. “Immediate War Footing”: Phil Lind Recounts the Big Three Battle Against Wireless Competition in Canada  (Michael Geist)
6. Bell Urged Canadian Government To Ban Some VPN Services in NAFTA Submission (Michael Geist)
7. Comcast Network Investment Drops Despite Repeated Claims Killing Net Neutrality Would Trigger Investment Wave 
8. Ajit Pai and Republicans in Congress Helped Enable ‘Bounty Hunters’ to Track Your Phone
9. These Wireless Location Data Scandals Are Going To Be A Very Big Problem For Ajit Pai
10. Verizon caves, won’t charge “spam” fee for texts from teachers to students
11. T-Mobile/Sprint merger turns two disruptors into one “mega company,” Dems warn
12. Anna Eshoo, Other Lawmakers Offer Gushing, Facts-Optional Support For T-Mobile Sprint Merger
13. Robocalls Really Were Worse Than Ever Last Year, Report Finds
14. Dozens Of Privacy Experts Tell The California Legislature That Its New Privacy Law Is Badly Undercooked
15. California and European Privacy FAQs: Can a business share its marketing list with social media platforms in order to target advertising messages to specific social media users?

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. FamilyTreeDNA Hands the FBI Access to Its Database
2. Secret UAE Spy Team Used “Cyber Super-Weapon” To Hack Any iPhone
3. FBI, Air Force investigators mapped North Korean botnet to aid shutdown
4. Northern District of Georgia Rules in Equifax Data Breach Cases 
5. Apple Disables Group Facetime to Prevent Remote Spying
6. Bizarre Apple Bug Let Facetime Callers Spy On Each Other
7. Disable FaceTime Right Now [Updated] 
8. What’s the Latest on Apple’s Catastrophic FaceTime Bug?
9. More Than Two Years After It Took Them, The FBI Still Won’t Return Family Videos Seized During A Raid Of A Security Researcher’s Home 
10. Google Defeats Alleged BIPA Violations for Retention and Collection of Face-geometry Scans via Google Photos 
11. San Francisco lawmaker: Our cops should be banned from using facial recognition
12. French Defense Secretary Says Country Is Willing To Fire First In Cyber Wars
13. Amazon and Chase Will Not Give Me a Straight Answer About What They Do With My Credit Card Data
14. The FBI Says It Can Neither Confirm Or Deny Social Media Monitoring Programs It Publicly Secured Contracts For
15. Malvertisers target Mac users with steganographic code stashed in images
16. Hackers Are Passing Around A Megaleak Of 2.2 Billion Records
17. DHS: Multiple US gov domains hit in serious DNS hijacking wave
18. Internet watchdog Citizen Lab targeted in comically inept undercover sting
19. Privacy In The Iot Age
20. The Top 10 Privacy Changes in 2018 and What’s on the Horizon for 2019 
21. One Incident, Potentially Multiple Breach Reporting Requirements – OSFI Introduces Cyber Breach Notification Guidelines for Financial Institutions

GAMES

1. EA backs down over loot boxes in Belgium: “While we are taking this action, we do not agree with Belgian authorities’ interpretation of the law,” says publisher
2. EA amends FIFA loot boxes in Belgium after regulators increase pressure
3. EA gives in to Belgian regulators, stops selling FIFA loot boxes
4. Anthem gameplay premiere: Pretty jetpack combat, too much Bio-wear and tear
5. EA BioWare refutes lack of planning for troubled Anthem demo: BioWare defends against accusation of “under-planned” VIP weekend, highlights “Fortnite-type” numbers on Twitch
6. Sensor Tower: EA Sports free-to-play mobile games generate $1bn lifetime revenue – US consumers account for 62% of revenue, with Madden NFL grossing $490 million to date
7. Loot Unboxing (Fortnite)
8. Fortnite puts an end to random loot box purchases
9. DOJ Reverses Wire Act Opinion as It Applies to Non-Sports Gambling
10. Gaming mirrors Facebook’s crisis of credibility: On addiction and loot boxes, the industry’s lack of transparency will prevent it from getting the benefit of the doubt
11. Facebook shot down safeguards to keep kids from overspending in Facebook Games
12. Facebook ignored solution to children overspending in games: Unsealed documents reveal social network instead wanted to “maximise revenues”
13. Senators ask Facebook why it tricked kids into spending parents’ money
14. Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics
15. Disney Goes All Disney On The Kingdom Hearts 3 Title Screen Over Streaming
16. A modder has spent three years recreating The Legend of Zelda in Doom
17. Model accuses Tencent of using her likeness without permission in Ring of Elysium: “I feel like, in a way, people have been deceived, and that’s really, really not okay,” says Mei Yan
18. Tencent uses model’s likeness for Ring of Elysium without permission 
19. 95 more games approved in China, including some from Tencent and NetEase
20. China finally greenlights new Tencent, NetEase games – but Fortnite and PUBG still left waiting: Nation’s leading publishers included in latest batch of approvals
21. NetEase to introduce mobile game curfew in China
22. NetEase to impose restrictions on young gamers in China: Anti-addiction measures include an 11-hour curfew and a limit of one hour a weekday for people age 12 and under
23. NetEase acquires minority stake in Quantic Dream
24. NetEase grabs stake in Quantic Dream as studio prepares for multi-platform future
25. February marks the final round of PlayStation Plus games for Vita and PS3
26. Detroit maker Quantic Dream looks beyond PlayStation
27. Beyond PlayStation 5: Quantic Dream’s next-gen, multi-platform vision – NetEase investment will allow Detroit: Become Human studio to target new fans in China and “compete with the best AAA studios”
28. Star Control: Origins restored to GOG after DMCA block – Publisher thanks Valve and GOG for their “timely review of the situation”
29. Developer DMCAs Steam For Hosting Its Own Game To Wrest Control Back From Rogue Publisher
30. Blog: Why did we DMCA our own game a few weeks after launch?
31. Halo and Call of Duty co-developer Certain Affinity expanding into Canada
32. Certain Affinity sets up Toronto studio: Trump’s America, non-stop flights, and distressed students helped decide where the Halo co-developer opened its new office.
33. A ‘major reorganization’ could see RuneScape dev Jagex put up for sale
34. Jagex up for sale as Chinese owner seeks to restructure: Fukong Interactive announces intention to seek buyer for all or part of its stake in the Runescape developer
35. Game on in trademark dispute
36. Westworld Mobile shutting down following lawsuit settlement: Behaviour Interactive says removal from App Store and Google Play was not connected to “amicable resolution” of copyright dispute
37. PUBG esports introducing profit-sharing for its teams
38. How FIA Esports interest could change motorsport: The FIA’s desire to follow Formula 1 and the World Rally Championship into Esports is not an attempt to jump on the bandwagon – instead it could inform the future of motorsport
39. Why a Farming Simulator esports league isn’t as ridiculous as it sounds: Giants Software CEO Christian Ammann on the world of competitive farming
40. FanAI acquires esports data firm Waypoint Media: Sports monetisation platform unites with technology and data specialist
41. Playtika opens $6m R&D centre in Bucharest: New Romanian outfit will provide QA and testing for mobile company’s games
42. Epic acquires SkookumScript creator Agog Labs
43. Deep Silver pulls Metro Exodus from Steam in favor of Epic Store
44. Epic Games Store snags Metro Exodus away from Steam [Updated]
45. Deep Silver owner THQ Nordic distances itself from Metro Exodus exclusivity deal
46. So you want to compete with Steam: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache
47. THQ Nordic CEO ‘fully supports’ Metro Exodus exclusivity deal
48. THQ Nordic “fully supports” Metro Exodus exclusivity: Parent company clarifies comment distancing itself from decision to pull PC version from Steam in favor of Epic Games store, says it will change name to avoid future confusion
49. Should PC games cost less on Epic’s Games Store?
50. Report: Apple is eyeing its own game subscription service  
51. Apple hopes to offer a Netflix-like subscription service for games, report claims
52. Ubisoft will modify Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC following feedback
53. Ubisoft will change divisive Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC: Enforced heterosexual relationship in Shadow Heritage DLC will be altered by an upcoming patch
54. Opinion: The latest Assassin’s Creed Odyssey controversy was easily avoidable 3
55. Nintendo restarting Metroid Prime 4 development with series originator Retro Studios
56. Metroid Prime 4 Development Restarting With Retro Studios
57. Nintendo throws out Metroid Prime 4 work, restarts with Retro Studios
58. Development restarts on Metroid Prime 4, Retro Studios back in the fold: Nintendo says it was not satisfied with the quality, warns of “extensive” delay
59. Nintendo’s Honesty Around Metroid Prime 4 Sets An Important Standard: Nintendo has set a good precedent for publisher transparency moving forward.
60. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe tops EMEAA charts: Just Cause 3, Mortal Combat XL, and Need for Speed –  Payback pushed into top ten thanks to digital discounts
61. Nintendo isn’t considering a Switch price cut or successor quite yet
62. Nintendo president: No price cut needed to meet Switch sales goal: Shuntaro Furukawa says the platfrom holder is “not considering” a discount – or even new hardware – at this time 
63. 12 years in, Nintendo is closing down the Wii Shop Channel 
64. GDC State of the Industry: Nearly half of devs say they’re most interested in the Switch
65. Nintendo’s former ‘indie advocate’ Damon Baker joins up with Xbox
66. Games and services fuel rising Xbox earnings as console sales falter
67. NPD crowns Call of Duty the top-selling console game franchise in U.S. for 10th year in a row
68. Resident Evil 2 remake has shipped 3 million copies in four days
69. Capcom shipped 3 million units of Resident Evil 2: Sales expectations are in line with Resident Evil 7, which has now sold 6 million units
70. Blog: $5.7 billion games investment in 2018 doubles previous record  
71. Breaking down nearly 50 years of video game revenue
72. Games investments raised $5.7 billion in 2018: Amount of fundraising was more than double that of 2017, led by Epic Games’ $1.25 billion round
73. GameStop is looking at other options after plans to sell the company fall through
74. Game retailer GameStop says it can’t sell itself, sees stock dive 27%
75. GameStop gives up on selling the company: Stock tumbles 25% as retailer terminates search due to lack of acceptable financing terms for potential buyers 
76. Meet The Fan Who Can Beat Mario Games Without Moving Right
77. DICE throws future of Battlefield custom rental servers into doubt
78. Report: Netflix will continue streak of video game series with Resident Evil
79. Resident Evil 2 debuts at No.1 in UK charts (again): Strong first week for remake, more than 20 years since the original
80. Just 6% of devs say Steam earns its 30% cut – Survey: GDC poll shows which storefronts developers are depending on and which platforms they’re working on
81. GDC 2019 State of the Industry: Nearly 50% of devs support unionization
82. Only 16% of devs anti-union – Survey: GDC Survey finds 47% of respondents think the industry should unionize, another 26% say maybe 
83. The crazy and costly world of First 4 Figures: How one Facebook group is transforming the fortunes of the company making $600 video game statues 
84. Fable Studio Pivoting to “Virtual Beings,” Building Stories Around Persistent AI-powered Characters
85. An AI crushed two human pros at StarCraft—but it wasn’t a fair fight
86. DeepMind AI faces off against (and defeats) StarCraft IIpro players
87. Introducing Gamedev.world, the first global game developer conference: Rami Ismail talks us through his ambitious plans for a free online conference translated into eight languages
88. In response to visa woes, indie game devs create their own virtual gaming expo 
89. Fellow Traveller: “Indie publishers need to stand for something” – Chris Wright on recovering from the collapse of the Australian games industry to found an indie publisher with a distinct voice 
90. Unity targets kids, educators with Unity Playground: New tool offers introduction to creating 2D games, simplified version of Unity interface
91. Unity acquires voice and text-based chat tools maker Vivox 
92. Unity acquires Vivox: Engine maker picks up voice-and-text service, well have it continue operating independently 
93. Sea of Thieves experiencing second wind thanks to Twitch
94. Talking up the positives about gaming | Opinion: Hbomberguy’s wonderful charity Twitch marathon has made headlines — let’s boost these stories, instead of letting trolls and misanthropes define our medium 
95. Twitch no longer advertising big streamer events on smaller channels
96. Blog: Making game music with external collaborators
97. Blog: Game accessibility quotes of 2018
98. How do you rejuvenate the skateboarding genre? Put a bird on it!
99. GLAAD Media Awards list nominees for video games with outstanding LGBTQ themes
100. GLAAD announces nominees for first ever Outstanding Video Game category: Assassins Creed, Guild Wars, The Elder Scrolls Online, Pillars of Eternity, and The Sims Mobile all up for award from LGBTQ advocacy group
101. Unearthing the Pokemon-inspired Diablo game that never was  
102. Magic Leap’s AI ‘Mica’ Won’t Turn Off Your Lights, Play Your Music, or Give Directions
103. VR Cameras Now on International Space Station to Capture Space Walks & Missions
104. VR’s Most Bizarre Game ‘Mosh Pit Simulator’ to Launch into Early Access Tomorrow
105. See what ray tracing can do to a game like Quake 2  

Jon