DIGITAL

1. NZ court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US on copyright charges
2. Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight, Will Try To Appeal Again
3. Technoleviathan: China, Silicon Valley, and the rise of the global surveillance state.
4. Spy For Us – Or Never Speak To Your Family Again: China is using its huge digital surveillance system, and the threat of sending family members to reeducation camps, to pressure minorities to spy on their fellow exiles.
5. China producing x86 chips nearly identical to AMD server processors
6. iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese gov’t
7. Uganda Bans VPNs To Prevent Users From Dodging Its Absurd New Social Media Tax
8. A Numerical Exploration Of How The EU’s Article 13 Will Lead To Massive Censorship
9. EU sends controversial internet copyright reforms back to the drawing board: It’s a strong rejection of the legislation in its current form, but not the end of the battle
10. European Parliament rejects discussions on controversial copyright law
11. EU Parliament Votes To Step Back From The Abyss On Copyright For Now
12. EU copyright law sent back for a rethink
13. Don’t Believe Those Who Wish To Diminish Digital Rights By Falsely Implying It’s All Big Tech Lobbying
14. What can the Copyright Directive vote tell us about the state of digital rights? (Andres Guadamuz)
15. Movie Industry Denies Lawsuit Strategy Despite Proliferation of Legal Actions and Settlement Demands Against Thousands of Canadians (Michael Geist)
16. Lawyer loses appeal, fails to expand internet privileges
17. Trump’s Supreme Court pick: ISPs have 1st Amendment right to block websites
18. Online Review Website Cannot Be Forced To Remove Defamatory Posts
19. Section 230 Immunity Protects Yelp from Injunction Order to Remove Defamatory Posts
20. Section 230 Helps Facebook Defeat Pro Se Defamation Suit–Jefferson v. Facebook
21. Amazon Again Avoids Liability for Defective Marketplace Item–Fox v. Amazon
22. Over The Top Sports Streaming Comes To Europe With Amazon’s Deal With The Premier League
23. Court Rejects Evidentiary and CFAA Vagueness Challenges to Conviction for Botnet Hacking Scheme
24. Sales tax in the digital era : major impacts for retailers in the United States
25. How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos And Confusion In Myanmar: The social network exploded in Myanmar, allowing fake news and violence to consume a country emerging from military rule.
26. Facebook Says It’s Sorry for Removing a Part of the Declaration of Independence That Includes a Racial Slur
27. Facebook Runs Full-Page Ads in Indian Newspapers to Fight Fake News
28. Blaming The Messenger (App): WhatsApp Takes The Blame In India Over Violence
29. Fake News Is A Meaningless Term, And Our Obsession Over It Continues To Harm Actual News 
30. Fining Facebook: ICO issues £500,000 fine following data breach 
31. Facebook could face legal claims totalling ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’
32. When a Facebook Like Lands You in Jail: NYPD’s Social Media Monitoring Raises Civil Liberties Issues
33. Sex, Beer, And Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days – When the young Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto in 2004, he and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.
34. Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
35. Regulation coming for Facebook
36. Facebook Watch May Pay Upwards Of $10 Million For Cristiano Ronaldo Reality Series
37. Facebook will broadcast live Premier League games in Asia: The £200 million deal helps Facebook’s push into the world of sports.
38. Facebook To Launch News Programming On July 16, Will Organize ‘Watch’ With New Categories
39. Reddit CEO tells user, “we are not the thought police,” then suspends that user
40. More Than Half of ICO-Funded Startups Fail Within 4 Months, Study Says
41. Are the UK’s intellectual property laws ready for AI?
42. Google Applies More Machine Learning To Increase The Reach Of Ads Across Its Properties
43. “Google Was Not A Normal Place”: Brin, Page, And Mayer On The Accidental Birth Of The Company That Changed Everything
44. Inside X, The Moonshot Factory Racing To Build The Next Google: Seven years after its secretive launch, X is starting to spawn mind-blowing companies – and show us what an ever expanding Google means for the world.
45. Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” 3 major news sites aren’t HTTPS
46. What Soda Taxes And Lead Paint Have To Do With Internet Regulation
47. Malaysian Government Decides To Dump Its Terrible Anti-Fake News Law
48. YouTube, Whose Users Promoted Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Bitconnect, Is Added As Defendant In Lawsuit
49. After Losing NCAA Scholarship Due To YouTube Channel, Donald De La Haye Gets A Win In Court
50. YouTube to fight fake news with links to real news and context
51. YouTube Tweaks Site Design, Dedicates $25 Million to Combat “Fake News”
52. YouTube Pledges $25 Million To News Organizations As It Continues Fight Against Fake News
53. YouTube Launches Initiative to Fight Fake News, Pledges $25 Million to Support News Orgs
54. YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song
55. YouTube Guitarist Claims He Got A Copyright Strike For Infringing Upon His Own Song
56. YouTube Rolling Out ‘Copyright Match’ Tool To Creators With More Than 100,000 Subs
57. YouTube to Launch Tool to Detect Re-Uploaded Videos Automatically: New Copyright Match tool initially will roll out to channels with more than 100,000 subscribers
58. YouTube TV Outages Draw Ire From World Cup Viewers
59. Two Co-Creators Of Travel YouTube Channel High On Life Die After Waterfall Accident
60. Constitutional Challenge Against FOSTA Filed–Woodhull v. US
61. More Police Admitting That FOSTA/SESTA Has Made It Much More Difficult To Catch Pimps And Traffickers 
62. Preparing for the Next Phase of Influencer Marketing – The CGI Influencer 
63. Jake Paul’s Team 10 Involved In Yet Another Lawsuit For Trashing Rental Property
64. Logan Paul Is Filming A Documentary About “What Actually Happened” During Suicide Video Scandal 
65. Hank Green Apologizes To Tana Mongeau For VidCon Slight, But Calls TanaCon “Inexcusable And Terrifying”
66. Twitter is Suspending More Than One Million Accounts Per Day in Latest Purge
67. Twitter Users To Lose Tens Of Millions Of Followers After Company Excludes ‘Locked’ Accounts
68. Twitter Sheds $3.1 Billion After Suspending Millions of Questionable Accounts
69. These are the ‘invisible’ challenges that make it harder for Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter to grow
70. Snap and Amazon Are Reportedly Working on a Visual Search Feature for Snapchat
71. Tinder Users Can Now Upload Two-Second Looping Videos On Their Profiles
72. Are You Ready for Even More Expensive Netflix Options?
73. Netflix To Create A Digital Comedy Festival By Releasing 47 Specials At Once
74. Netflix Is Shutting Down User Reviews This Summer
75. Netflix is killing off user reviews
76. European Networks Are Joining Forces to Take On Netflix and Amazon
77. HBO must ‘change direction’ to flourish, says its new boss: User engagement must be increased to make HBO into a perennial product.
78. AT&T Is Very Excited To Try And Ruin HBO 
79. Here are all of the future TV shows that Apple has signed deals for
80. Feds arrest Apple employee for stealing self-driving project secrets
81. Woman who once bought bitcoins for $300,000 cash in paper bags sent to prison
82. ‘It’s not just video games’: Concordia partners with Ubisoft on VR: The initiative will focus on a set of technologies called extended reality, or XR.
83. Ubisoft Opens XR:MTL An Innovation Factory Focused On XR Technologies At Concordia University – The Factory’s focus will be on developing applications that have market potential. 
84. 10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR
85. VR Treatment, Even Without a Therapist, Helps People Overcome Fear of Heights
86. Driving Without a Smartphone: A new law in Georgia discourages drivers from even touching a screen. Whether or not it improves safety, it could help break people’s phone habits.
87. How Music Fans Built The Internet
88. What I’ve learned from nearly three years of enterprise Wi-Fi at home
89. Strategies for the Shadows: Protecting your Company’s IP Rights on the Dark Web
90. A Field Guide to “Social Engineering” Cyber Scams
91. How will 3D-printing challenge IP rights?
92. A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box For DIY Guns: Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.
93. Wait—the RateMyProfessors.com “hotness” chili was about attractiveness? 
94. Hulu Hit ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Bafflingly Launches Wine Line
95. How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood
96. What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media
97. The AI revolution has spawned a new chips arms race 
98. Understanding Media and Information Quality in an Age of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Algorithms and Machine Learning (Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts & Nikki Bourassa)
99. Algorithms and Justice (Christopher Bavitz & Kira Hessekiel)
100. Global Governance and Inclusion: Reframing the Global Debate Around AI (Ryan Budish, Urs Gasser & Amar Ashar)
101. Designing frameworks that allow for Intentions, Commitments and Exuberance in AI (Bobi Rakaova)
102. The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era
103. Q2 2018 Quick Links, Part 4 (Social Media, Section 230, Defamation) (Eric Goldman)
104. Q2 2018 Quick Links, Part 3 (Privacy, Advertising, E-Commerce) (Eric Goldman)

CREATIVITY

1. Unpacking Canada’s IP Strategy: Countering IP Abuse, Addressing IP Administration and Removing IP Barriers to Innovation (Michael Geist)
2. No, you can’t patent the ability to pause a lesson recording, EFF says
3. Lombardo v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P.
4. Selling Items with Political Messages? What about “Impeach 45”?
5. President Trump Sends North Korean Dictator a CD of Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ Because Our World is Just One Big Joke
6. Girl Arrested in Iran for Posting Videos of Herself Dancing on Instagram
7. How Warner Brothers Resisted a Hollywood Ban on Anti-Nazi Films in the 1930s and Warned Americans of the Dangers of Fascism
8. Free Speech Doesn’t Protect Nazis. It Protects Us From Nazis
9. Ninth Circuit Recently Slams PETA Over Monkey Selfie Lawsuit
10. Post Office owes $3.5M for using wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp
11. Police Union Upset Not All Books Paint Cops As Heroes, Calls For Removal Of Titles From School’s Reading List 
12. You Can Only Listen To Jaden Smith’s New Album On Instagram
13. Hobbyists Lose Fight to Escape the FAA’s Toy Drone Rules
14. Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm
15. 54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation: “Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural.” 
16. Cortés-Ramos v. Martin-Morales
17. What You Need to Know About Toronto’s New Arts and Culture Property Tax Subclass 
18. Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518 – Five centuries ago, the world’s longest rave took place in Strasbourg – a ‘plague’ of dancing that was fatal for some. What caused it? Art, poetry and music of the time can provide some clues
19. Creative types all go through hot streaks of superior production  

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government Memo Suggests Netflix Outspends Canadian Private Broadcasters on Canadian English Scripted Programming (Michael Geist)
2. The State of Canadian Wireless in One Chart: No One Has Carriers That Generate More Revenue With Less Usage (Michael Geist)
3. Ajit Pai’s FCC Doesn’t Want to Hear Your Complaints Unless You Pay Them $225
4. “This is bonkers”: FCC wants to stop reviewing most complaints about ISPs
5. FCC stands by decision to raise broadband prices on American Indians
6. FCC Refuses to Back Down From Plan to Strip Phone and Internet Subsidies for American Indians
7. Ajit Pai finally gets around to fighting fraud in FCC comment system 
8. Second Circuit Follows D.C. Circuit’s Reasoning in Vacating FCC’s Interpretation of an Autodialer
9. SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh Bought Verizon’s Silly Argument That Breaking Net Neutrality Is A 1st Amendment Right 
10. CRTC Issues $250,000 in Penalties for Malware Distribution
11. CASL Enforcement Action – $250,000 in Penalties for Aiding the Distribution of Malvertising
12. Net neutrality makes comeback in California; lawmakers agree to strict rules 
13. Yes, Privacy Is Important, But California’s New Privacy Bill Is An Unmitigated Disaster In The Making
14. Ten Reasons Why California’s New Data Protection Law is Unworkable, Burdensome, and Possibly Unconstitutional 
15. DOJ’s Challenge to Vertical AT&T/Time Warner Merger Experiences Failure to Launch
16. Magic Leap grabs investment from AT&T as it sets up US distribution deal
17. Echoing Apple’s iPhone Launch, Magic Leap Taps AT&T for Exclusive US Distribution
18. AT&T wants to overhaul HBO, says it isn’t profitable enough 
19. After Backlash To AT&T Chicanery, California Salvages Tough Net Neutrality Law 
20. Streaming Video Sees Wave Of Price Hikes In Apparent Bid To Mimic Cable & Embolden Piracy
21. Two years after buying, Univision wants to sell its Gawker, Onion portfolios
22. Charter launches mobile service, throttles all video to 480p
23. US forces smartphone giant ZTE to fire its CEO and leadership team
24. Comcast’s Wireless Service Will Charge You More To Stream HD Video 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Court Compares Car Crash Data To CSLI, Cellphone Contents; Tells Cops Best Bet Is To Always Get A Warrant
2. “Stylish” extension with 2M downloads banned for tracking every site visit
3. Stolen certificates from D-Link used to sign password-stealing malware
4. German Court Issues First GDPR Ruling 
5. CARU Protects Privacy for Child Karaoke Stars
6. California Passes Consumer Privacy Act With “GDPR-Like” Provisions
7. European Parliament Votes to Suspend EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
8. Don’t Misrepresent Your U.S. – E.U. Privacy Shield Status: FTC Brings An Enforcement Action 
9. California Corporation Settles FTC Complaint Regarding U.S.-EU Privacy Shield Compliance Claim
10. Police Chief Tries To Blame Newspaper Shooting On The Loss Of Social Media Monitoring Tool, But It Doesn’t Add Up
11. For $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price Losses from Data Breaches 
12. What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education – sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy
13. DOD seeks classification “Clippy” to help classify data, control access
14. Year-old router bug exploited to steal sensitive DOD drone, tank documents
15. Tech-support scammers know EVERYTHING about my computer, Dell customer says

GAMES

1. Nintendo, Valve, Sony, and EA reported in Norway for breaching European consumer law – UPDATE: NCC reports Nintendo to German authorities after dropping other complaints
2. We need parents on board if we want to protect their children: Following news of a sexual assault in Roblox and ‘addiction’ to Fortnite, parents want to cut kids off from these games – but that will only make the problem worse
3. Video Game Deep Cuts: Livestreaming Your Fortnite Addiction
4. The Truth About ‘Video Game Addiction’
5. French gambling regulator concerned by loot boxes, but won’t take legal action
6. How Journey eliminated online toxicity with a simple ping
7. Fighting a toxic Steam community – and winning: Creative Assembly’s Grace Carroll said the “visible presence of moderation” was enough to turn around a toxic Steam forum in just a week
8. Valve quickly shuts down developer method for estimating Steam sales: Steam API suddenly altered after The End Is Nigh co-dev uses achievements data as SteamSpy alternative
9. Valve swiftly removes new method for estimating Steam sales
10. Valve highlights the best selling and most played Steam games of 2018
11. Valve leaks Steam game player counts; we have the numbers
12. Team Fortress 2 leads as biggest player counts on Steam revealed
13. Steam Spy and the need for numbers: For indie developers in need of metrics Steam Spy is imperfect, “but the other option is absolutely nothing”
14. Launching a successful indie game in 2018: TheMoonlighter story
15. Guild Wars 2 writers dismissed after Twitter spat with streamer
16. ArenaNet cuts ties with Guild Wars 2 writers after Twitter spat: “Their attacks on the community were unacceptable,” says ArenaNet president
17. ArenaNet sends all the wrong messages: Guild Wars 2 studio terminating employees after backlash discourages fan interaction, encourages player outrage
18. ArenaNet “promised me that I wouldn’t have to check my identity at the door”: Fired writer says Guild Wars studio has damaged its reputation, but ArenaNet maintains that Jessica Price “attacked” community over a “perceived slight”
19. ArenaNet firings inspire IGDA to remind devs: Ask about harassment protection
20. IGDA asks studios to “clarify the guidelines and expectations around social media use”: ArenaNet firings show how “interacting with people as a game developer can jeopardize someone’s job and career”
21. ArenaNet president: Fired devs ‘could have chosen not to engage’ on social media
22. Women in Games launches strategy on improving gender diversity in esports: Encouraging women to participate in the industry is critical for the commercial success of the industry, says advocacy group
23. Blizzard’s Pink Mercy event raised over $12 million for a breast cancer charity
24. ESPN, Disney XD, and Blizzard pen deal to bring Overwatchmatches to primetime TV
25. Blizzard and Disney partner to bring Overwatch League to ESPN, other networks: ESPN, Disney XD, ABC, related networks will broadcast the competition’s inaugural season
26. Todd Howard: Games as a service ‘doesn’t mark the future’
27. ESA president: Crunch “hasn’t been a significant issue” for ten years: Industry body’s leader Mike Gallagher also believes call for unions is “in its infancy”
28. ESA: Strong wages and opportunities keep unionization from being a ‘significant issue’
29. Disney’s ‘Moana’ production assets now available for the public
30. RuneScape generates $800M in lifetime revenue during its 17 years online
31. RuneScape has brought in over $800 million in lifetime revenue: After 17 years and three iterations, Jagex’s MMO has over 250 million player accounts and continues to grow
32. Xbox: Accessible games can “mean the difference between existing and living” for disabled people – But platform holder’s Tara Voelker urges developers to add more accessibility options to their titles
33. Monster Hunter World concerns trigger 13% drop for Capcom shares: US analyst predicts “significant risk of sales decline” as console version slows ahead of PC launch
34. Supercell becomes first publisher to operate two multi-billion-dollar mobile games: Clash Royale breaks $2 billion lifetime revenue
35. Durham College embraces eSports with construction of gaming arena
36. ‘The Unspoken’ VR League eSports Final is Cancelled & Not Coming to Oculus Connect 5 After All
37. Valve: Monthly Active VR Users on Steam Are Up 160% Year-over-year
38. “There is no magic formula” for getting noticed on Steam
39. Jurassic World already one of Steam’s 2018 top sellers: Frontier’s dino park management sim rubbing elbows with Grand Theft Auto 5, Far Cry 5 after less than a month on sale
40. The Sims Mobile has amassed $15M in revenue in four months
41. The Sims Mobile brings in over $15 million in four months: Popular life sim game was only EA’s eighth highest earning mobile game in June
42. The Sims Mobile brings in over $15 million in four months: Popular life sim game was only EA’s eighth highest earning mobile game in June
43. EA acquires Industrial Toys: Midnight Star development studio brings mobile expertise to EA Worldwide Studios
44. id Software: Avoiding cannibalization in the post-apocalypse – Tim Willits on the role of Fallout 76 in Rage 2’s pre-E3 reveal, and why id no longer uses its tech to sell its games
45. Nexon and EA cancel Asia-exclusive Titanfall Online
46. Asia-focused Titanfall Online canceled: Nexon, EA, Respawn collaboration abandoned after over three years of development
47. Electronic Arts snaps up Alex Seropian’s studio Industrial Toys
48. THQ Nordic acquires German developer and publisher HandyGames
49. Coming out from under Grand Theft Auto’s shadow: For years, Take-Two’s other games have lingered in the shadow of Rockstar’s series, but GTA V’s monumental status means it’s pointless to compare it to the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2
50. Todd Howard: Service-based Fallout 76 doesn’t mark the future direction of Bethesda – “Anyone who has ever said ‘this is the future and this part of gaming is dead’ has been proven wrong every single time”
51. “Millions of people” are still playing Skyrim every month – Todd Howard on the many Skyrim ports: “If you want us to stop releasing it, stop buying it.”
52. How do companies like Nintendo and CD Projekt Red approach crunch?
53. ‘Gatcha’ is a good fit for Fire Emblem, but it isn’t Nintendo’s standard for mobile
54. Many more indie games will be coming to Switch if Nintendo has its way
55. Nintendo aiming for 20 to 30 Switch indie releases per week
56. NPD: Nintendo Switch on track to be the best-selling console of Q4, and all of 2018 – Industry analyst predicts all three current generation consoles will sell at least 4m units total this year in the US
57. Nintendo reportedly rolls out hardware patch following Switch exploit
58. Nintendo reportedly rolling out new, more hack-resistant Switch hardware
59. Ideally, Nintendo wants 20 to 30 new indies to hit the Switch per week
60. GameStop says Nintendo Switch sales doubled following E3 
61. Pokemon Quest nabs 7.5M downloads across Switch and mobile
62. Analyst: Two years in, Pokemon Go crosses $1.8B lifetime revenue
63. Pokemon GO has brought in $1.8 billion since launch: Pokemon’s foray into augmented reality sees players spending $2 million per day
64. Pokémon Quest downloads pass 7.5 million: Free-to-play mobile and Switch game gets off to a strong start
65. Niantic’s Ingress to get Netflix animated series later this year: Series based on Pokémon Go forebear will be used to introduce upcoming sequel Ingress Prime
66. The Binding of Isaac card game raises $1 million in a week on Kickstarter
67. Games account for 94% of Google Play revenue in South Korea: Messaging and communication apps only bring in 2.2%, even less from social media and dating apps
68. Newzoo: Taiwanese gamers expected to spend $1.3 billion in 2018 – With 14.5 million players, Taiwan is the world’s 15th largest gaming market
69. Warner Bros. acquires mobile platform Plexchat to improve social features in its games
70. Tencent to publish Game of Thrones mobile game in China: Yoozoo is developing Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming through a partnership with Warner Bros
71. Tencent going global with WeGame digital marketplace as Steam targets China
72. The negativity of Keita Takahashi: The developer behind Wattam and Katamari Damacy has spent his career trying to show the potential of games, but doesn’t think he’s been successful
73. The European TV channel making documentaries with video games: Arte project manager Adrien Larouzée tells us why games are the perfect storytelling media to spread culture from the continent
74. The video games of Ecuadorean fishing village Santa Marianita: We take another look at how people find ways to play games everywhere
75. Shuhei Yoshida reflects on the PS2 launch: “We were awfully unprepared”: President of SIE Worldwide Studios discusses what went wrong and what went right for PlayStation over the years
76. Levine on BioShock: ‘I don’t think I was conscious of how Jewish it was until afterwards’
77. Meet the dev making his first DOS game — in 2018
78. Time bandits: Check out the ’80s and ’90s titles still going strong
79. The 80s and 90s PC games still unbelievably being updated today
80. Blog: Retro games as a revivalist movement

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Get ready for more sales taxes on online purchases
2. The Supreme Court Makes A Federal Case Out Of South Dakota’s Inability To Collect Taxes From Its Residents And Thus A Big Mess
3. Internet Retailers Subject to State, Local Sales/Use Taxes in Historic Supreme Court Decision
4. Supreme Court’s Online Tax Decision Will Impact Cloud Computing and Software Industries 
5. Supreme Court Overturns Quill: Remote Sellers Will have to Collect More Taxes
6. Supreme Court Overturns Quill, Holds States Can Tax Online Retailers Without Physical Presence
7. Microsoft’s facial recognition service now less bad for nonwhites
8. Judge deals blow to women suing Microsoft over gender discrimination
9. People Set To Spend More Time Online Than Watching TV In 2019
10. Internet Freedom Without Imperialism
11. American media keeps falling for Russian trolls
12. TrumpHotels.org Purchased by Pranksters to Promote America’s Concentration Camps
13. Report: Trump officials planning escalation of US-China tech trade war
14. China Censors John Oliver Because President Xi Looks A Bit Like Winnie The Pooh
15. Watch the John Oliver segment that got Oliver’s name banned in China
16. Apple just launched a ‘fact-based’ election feature in Apple News with coverage from Fox News and The Washington Post
17. Apple launches service program to address MacBook keyboard woes
18. Apple’s AirPower charging mat delayed until fall due to “technical hurdles”
19. Samsung and Apple have had enough of the court battles, finally settle
20. Amazon Needs to Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tech for the Government: The benefits do not outweigh its privacy risks and dangers
21. Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement
22. Amazon staff to Bezos: Stop selling tech to law enforcement, Palantir
23. Amazon Unveils Plans to Provide Blockchain-as-a-Service 
24. Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, ‘book stuffing,’ and the darker side of being a digital content consumer
25. I’m Starting to Have Serious Doubts About Amazon Prime
26. Tech Employees Revolting Over Government Contracts Reminds Us That Government Needs Tech More than Tech Needs Government 
27. Artificial Consciousness: How To Give A Robot A Soul
28. Morality in the Machines: Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society are collaborating with MIT scholars to study driverless cars, social media feeds, and criminal justice algorithms
29. Silos, Centralization And Censorship: Losing The Promise Of The Internet
30. Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
31. Domestic Abusers Are Increasingly Weaponizing Smart Home Tech
32. Why the Future will Require Mesh Governance
33. Why gesture-based interfaces haven’t lived up to the hype
34. Google Gives Its Human-Like Phone Chatbot A Demo Redo
35. Talking to Google Duplex: Google’s human-like phone AI feels revolutionary
36. Yes, Google’s Phone-Calling AI Is Cool. But Why Does It Exist?
37. Google Killing Off DoubleClick, AdWords Names in Rebranding of Ad Products
38. YouTube Debuts Premieres To Let Creators Launch New Videos Within Live Streams
39. YouTube launches paid subscription membership, merch shelves: More ways to get paid.
40. YouTube introduces new monetization methods for its creators
41. Top Influencers Post The Most, Get Watched Less Often On YouTube
42. YouTube challenges Twitch by expanding $5 channel memberships: Platform rolls out service to wider group, adds built-in merchandising tools 
43. IFPI Nuking Twitch Streamers Accounts For Playing Background Music
44. YouTube now lets you pay $4.99 per month to support your favorite creators
45. ASMR Creators Rustle Up Some Revenue On YouTube And Beyond 
46. India Beyond Bollywood: How YouTube & Other Streaming Services Are Rewiring the Local Music Industry
47. The UK’s Singles Chart Will Incorporate YouTube Streams For The First Time
48. YouTube’s VidCon Keynote Is All About How It Can Help Creators Make (A Lot) More Money
49. YouTube Orders George Clooney-Produced Dark Comedy Series Starring Kirsten Dunst 
50. VidCon Will Distribute $2,000 Grants To Emerging Creators Every Week For The Next Year 
51. After Thousands Of Unticketed Guests Show Up, Tana Mongeau’s TanaCon Is Cancelled
52. Rapper Juice WRLD Apologizes to Twitch Streamers Banned for Playing His Music on Stream 
53. Mobcrush’s Mobcam Tool Lets Users Stream To Multiple Live Video Platforms At Once
54. Activism & Doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE And How Internet Platforms Have No Good Options
55. Twitter punishes users for doxing White House advisor Stephen Miller
56. Australian Parliament Sends Ethics Committee After A Citizen For Mocking Gov’t Official On Twitter
57. Twitter’s Creator Ads Are Working, Study Finds Users’ Purchase Intent Rises By 88%
58. How Twitter Made The Tech World’s Most Unlikely Comeback
59. Court Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Kanye’s Tweet 
60. Instagram Exec Says Monetization Will Arrive On Just-Launched IGTV Platform By Year’s End
61. Instagram Rolls Out Video Chat, New Camera Effects And Topic Channels
62. L.A. Mural Requires At Least 20,000 Followers To Take An Instagram Photo
63. Instagram Users Spent 53 Minutes Per Day In The Android App This Month (Study) 
64. Instagram Is 100 Times More Valuable Than It Was When Facebook Bought It
65. Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers
66. Facebook Updates Policy on Marketing Weapon Accessories
67. Facebook Expanding Fact-Checking Project to Combat Fake News
68. The Great Facebook Crash: The social giant is retreating from the news business. It’s been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it—including Slate.
69. Facebook’s quest for fleet of solar-powered Internet drones grounded forever
70. Wikipedia Makes The Case For Google & Facebook To Give Back To The Commons, Rather Than Just Take 
71. Snapchat To Place Renewed Emphasis On Creator Community, Unveils Second Series With Patrick Starrr
72. Sony Shuts Down Crackle in Canada
73. Sony’s Crackle Will Cease Service In Canada On June 28
74. Insights: The Big Schmear – Soon Every Social Media Platform Will Look Like Every Other One
75. Digital Media Company Whistle Sports Announces $28 Million Funding Round
76. Here’s The Conspiracy Tearing Bitcoin Crypto Communities Apart
77. Bit by Bitcoin mining
78. Are Digital Asset Transactions Always Securities Offerings?
79. A Summary of the SEC’s Speech on Cryptocurrencies 
80. How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job
81. Disney Partners With Cisco for Its StudioLAB
82. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Quits After Investigation Into Total Boner Move
83. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over workplace relationship
84. Intel CEO resigns over breach of “non-fraternisation” policy: Brian Krzanich steps down after five years with tech giant
85. Uber wins back its right to operate in London
86. Police: Uber driver was streaming Hulu just before fatal self-driving car crash
87. Hulu CEO Says Streaming Service Likely To Make “20 Or 25” Original Shows Next Year
88. Is the “Netflix of podcasts” moment finally here?
89. Academics Gathered To Share Emoji Research, And It Was…
90. FTC Publishes Guidance on Online Giving Portals
91. Slack Is Down and I’ve Never Felt Less Alive 
92. How Can We Make Technology Healthier for Humans?

CREATIVITY

1. Judge won’t dismiss defamation case on anti-SLAPP grounds, citing hate speech: Hate speech ‘raises no subject matter that is related to the public interest,’ judge says
2. Supposed ‘Free Speech’ Warrior Jordan Peterson Sues University Because Silly Professor Said Some Mean Things About Him
3. Education Fair Dealing Update: All Eyes on York as Copibec and Université Laval Reach Tentative Settlement
4. How One Man Is Using Hip-Hop to Diversify Architecture: Armed with a master’s degree in architecture, decades of hip-hop fandom and rapper teachers, Mike Ford is quickly getting kids into building
5. Site Blocking, The Sequel: After Telling Courts They Can Issue De-Indexing or Blocking Orders, Movie Industry Calls for More in Copyright Act (Michael Geist)
6. One step closer to approval of new controversial EU copyright law
7. Copyright in the United States
8. The marvellous world of superhero licensing 
9. Distilling the Essence of the Fair Use Defense 
10. Why a 40-year-old SCOTUS ruling against software patents still matters today
11. 2018 World Cup: FIFA’s determined to keep ambush marketing on the bench
12. Inclusion riders: Can they work in the Canadian music industry?
13. The Fred Rogers We Know: With his unconventional take on children’s television, Mr. Rogers helped redefine the male role model.
14. Lawsuit Argues Honking Your Car Horn Is Protected By The First Amendment

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Net Neutrality and NAFTA: Canadian Government Says It Will Address U.S. Policy Should Harms Arise (Michael Geist)
2. AT&T Successfully Derails California’s Tough New Net Neutrality Law
3. California net neutrality bill gutted as lawmakers cave to AT&T lobbyists
4. California’s Quest For Tough Net Neutrality Not Dead Yet
5. Bill to save net neutrality is 46 votes short in US House
6. AT&T buying company that delivers targeted ads based on your Web browsing
7. New Report Details AT&T’s Role in NSA Spying Initiatives
8. Meet the 8 spooky AT&T buildings that almost certainly also serve the NSA
9. Investigation Shows AT&T Really Likes Being In The Surveillance Business
10. AT&T Will Launch Skinny OTT TV Bundle, WatchTV, Next Week
11. AT&T Employees Reportedly Encouraged to Use Unethical Sales Tactics to Drive Up DirecTV Now Subscriptions
12. Judge In AT&T Merger Ruling Had Zero Understanding Of The Markets AT&T Now Dominates
13. Charter’s gigabit cable with no data caps is ready for 27 million homes
14. Considerations for media and telco vertical mergers in the rise of the digital media age 
15. Disney gets DOJ approval to buy Fox but must divest sports networks
16. 21st Century Fox Accepts Amended Disney Offer
17. Fox desperately trying to avoid selling to Comcast
18. Two Titans’ Rocky Relationship Stands Between Comcast and Fox: Tensions between Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and 21st Century Fox’s Rupert Murdoch have complicated Comcast’s pursuit of the biggest media deal in years
19. Ajit Pai Rushes To Weaken Media Ownership Cap To Aid Sinclair… While Under Investigation For Being Too Cozy With Sinclair
20. Why Network Effects Matter Less Than They Used To
21. Broadcasters Hope To Counter Ad Skipping By Replacing Ads With Short ‘Inspirational Videos’

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Canada’s Access to Information Open Data Fail: Departments Months Behind Posting Summaries of Completed Requests (Michael Geist)
2. Revealed: Canada uses massive US anti-terrorist database at borders
3. The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
4. Supreme Court Says Warrants Are Needed For Cell Site Location Info
5. Supreme Court rules: Yes, gov’t needs warrant to get cellphone location data
6. U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Historical Cell Site Location Data Is Subject to a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
7. Supreme Court surveillance opinion nudges us to think nationally, act locally
8. Senator to FCC: How much do police stingrays drain a cell phone battery?
9. Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement May Have Huge Consequences For Privacy
10. Court Dismisses Privacy Claims Against Email Subscription Management Tool–Cooper v. UnrollMe
11. Illinois Prosecutor Brings Felony Eavesdropping Charges Against 13-Year-Old Who Recorded His Conversation With School Administrators
12. A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and the Global Internet (Eric Goldman)
13. In A Surprising Decision, European Court Of Human Rights Says Sweden’s Mass Surveillance Is Fine
14. Social sharing and the US Video Privacy Protection Act: Perilous for online video content providers
15. After subpoenaing Apple in trade secrets case, Tesla goes after Facebook
16. Voluntary Compliance: The Business Case for Adopting the GDPR in the US
17. Why personal agency matters more than personal data

GAMES

1. PUBG Corp. drops lawsuit against Fortnite creator Epic Games
2. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dev drops lawsuit against Fortnite: No word on whether a settlement has been reached, but PUBG Crop has withdrawn from the legal battle
3. Epic is suing former employee for leaking Fortnite spoilers 
4. Epic Games sues former QA contractor over Fortnite leak: Thomas Hannah admits breaching NDA but files defence against lawsuit as he claims leak was out of his control
5. 69% of Fortnite players have bought in-game purchases, average spend is $85: But one in five spenders unaware that paying for items does not given them an advantage
6. Players paying up to $450 for disc-based copies of Fortnite
7. ‘Free’ Game Making $300 Million Per Month? But I Thought You Can’t Make Money On Free…
8. Westworld bug outs stolen Fallout Shelter code, alleges Bethesda lawsuit
9. Bethesda sues over Westworld mobile game: Publisher alleges that Fallout Shelter developer Behaviour Interactive re-used copyrighted code when it created “blatant rip-off” for Warner Bros.
10. Star Control creators raising $2M to defend against Stardock lawsuit
11. Star Control II developers crowdfund legal fight for IP control: Paul Reiche III, Fredrick Ford estimate $2m in legal costs in escalating disagreement with Stardock
12. Donut County dev speaks out about F2P clone on App Store
13. PayPal blocks school shooting simulator dev from making sales online: “We work to ensure that our services are not used to accept payments for activities that promote violence,” says payment platform
14. Omega Labyrinth Z will no longer release in the West
15. Australian classification board to reconsider We Happy Few ban: Appeal made for Compulsion Games’ upcoming title after incentivised drug use denied it a rating
16. Which game companies could be using slave labor?: Conflict mineral disclosures show Sony is lax about where/how it gets its materials, while Apple sets the standard for maintaining an ethical supply chain
17. Studios Remove ‘Spyware’ From Several Games As Gaming Public Revolts
18. For EA and loot boxes, “Fair is the number one thing”: Chief design officer Patrick Söderlund discusses EA’s current thinking around monetization and its future ambitions for streaming
19. “People make the mistake of saying, ‘This is what you really want'”: EA chief design officer Patrick Söderlund talks about bringing back Command & Conquer as a mobile game and what the publisher really gets out of EA Originals
20. EA Sports creates 24 jobs with new division in Madrid
21. WHO expert defends gaming disorder listing: “This moral panic lives its own life” – GamesIndustry.biz speaks with the World Health Organisation and its critics on the subject of gaming disorder
22. Prickly denial is the wrong response to WHO’s “gaming disorder”: The proposed definition is careful and cautious; more research is needed and the industry should be cooperating, not stonewalling
23. It’s time to stop running from gaming addiction: Talk to the hand.
24. Overwatch hacker facing possible jail time for selling illegal programs
25. Overwatch hacker jailed by South Korean court: 28-year-old man made $180,000 from illegal programme
26. Blizzard applied for a patent on Overwatch’s Play of the Game highlight system
27. Blizzard adds a positivity-driven ‘endorsements’ system to Overwatch
28. Blizzard adds “endorsements” to encourage positive behavior in Overwatch: Reception of the new system so far is mixed; meanwhile, another Overwatch system may be patented
29. Donut County developer speaks out on frustration of app store clones: Ben Esposito says learning of a F2P clone just before his game’s release “stings”
30. Valve’s updated Knuckles VR controller brings pinpoint finger-tracking
31. Microsoft scraps plans for VR support on Xbox 
32. Microsoft Affirms No Plans for VR on Xbox Consoles
33. Microsoft And Nintendo Team Up To Troll Playstation In Ads For Not Giving Gamers What They Want
34. Sony now looking at cross-platform play possibilities
35. Xbox and Nintendo gang up on PlayStation in cross-platform row: Could console momentum switch because of an issue most gamers don’t really care about?
36. Microsoft teases the first-ever “stream-to-win” option built into Xbox
37. Microsoft switches to blockchain tech for publisher royalty calculation: Xbox publishers will now receive royalty statements faster and with less process effort from Microsoft
38. Nintendo and Microsoft partner to bring cross-play of Minecraft on Switch
39. Nintendo and Microsoft unite against Sony with Minecraft cross-platform play: “Better together” say newfound allies in the face on Sony’s cross-platform reluctance
40. Sony exec “confident” PS4 cross-console play “solution” is coming
41. Sony changes tone on PS4 cross-play with Xbox One, Switch: Shawn Layden says company is hearing the backlash, looking at possibilities and “confident we’ll get to a solution” to make everyone happy
42. Game of Thrones: Conquest players find bot exploiting user data
43. Report: Snap looking to launch a game platform for Snapchat
44. Blog: Weird and not-so-weird concepts that could take the fighting genre forward
45. ‘Emergent gameplay’: RPG devs mull what the future holds for big RPGs
46. Streaming-only RPG looks to build on Twitch Plays Pokemon model
47. Nintendo’s Fils-Aime commits to improving Switch storefront curation
48. New security measure from Nintendo ‘perfectly prevents’ digital piracy on the Switch: Platform holder permanently bans consoles with pirated games following reveal of unpatchable hardware exploit
49. Switch-hacking trolls reportedly loading pornographic profile pictures
50. Pokémon Go hits largest playerbase since launch
51. Pokemon Quest hits 2.5M Switch downloads ahead of mobile launch
52. The Legend of Nintendo: With the Switch, the 130-year-old gaming giant has once again turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania.
53. Nintendo stole the show during E3, at least as far as Twitter is concerned
54. Nintendo attracts most attention on Twitter during E3: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was the most discussed game on the platform that week
55. Mario Tennis Aces claims top spot in the UK retail chart: Switch exclusive is one of eight games in the top 40 on Nintendo’s platform
56. Mario Tennis Aces review: Turning tennis into a fighting game
57. Nintendo brings Labo support to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with more games to come
58. You can now play Mario Kart 8 with Labo’s cardboard motorbike controller
59. Nintendo adds Mario Kart functionality to boost Labo sales: Platform holder also seeks ‘greatest Labo creations’ as part of summer campaign
60. Lumines Remastered turns the Nintendo Switch into a full-body vibration party
61. FIFA 18 remains No. 1 in Europe for third week running: World Cup fever keeps FIFA 18 on top both digitally and at retail
62. Ubisoft CEO: Our goal is to provoke thought, not to make political statements
63. Guillemot explains Ubisoft’s apolitical political games: CEO of publisher behind Far Cry 5 and The Division 2 says the games are impartial “to make people think”
64. Metal Gear Rising no longer playable on Mac due to DRM 
65. How Hitman Sniper prepared Square Enix Montreal for the switch to freemium: Why one of the biggest success stories in premium mobile is dropping its entry fee – and “making the long-term commitment to not be evil”
66. Newzoo: Mobile most popular platform, least popular to spend money on – 95% of surveyed gamers play on mobile, but the platform has a lower player-to-payer ratio than console or PC
67. Madmind Studio cancels Agony Unrated: Developer “struggling with financial problems” reneges on promise of unrated re-release
68. Trion Worlds acquires assets of defunct Marvel Heroes dev Gazillion
69. Trion Worlds acquires Gazillion Entertainment assets: Rift developer hopes to expand MMO portfolio through acquisition, third-party relationships
70. Google launches Indie Games Accelerator in Asia
71. Four-month program builds on Launchpad: Accelerator, dozens of expert mentors already on board
72. Sony stops launch of explicit anime dungeon crawler: Omega Labyrinth Z won’t launch on PS4 or Vita in the West
73. Blog: An E3 2018 media coverage analysis 
74. Fortnite, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077 lead E3 media coverage: Sony narrowly retakes leadership from Microsoft, EA dominates publishers
75. Fortnite growth slows in May as Pokemon Go makes comeback: Superdata’s monthly digital games market report finds worldwide spending up 25% year-over-year to $9.1 billion thanks largely to mobile growth
76. Fancensus: Fallout 76 most viewed game on YouTube of E3 2018 – Elder Scrolls VI enjoys Twitter attention; Kingdom Hearts III most often mentioned across media coverage
77. NPD: Software sales slump in May offset by hardware and accessory spending – Accessory and game card spending at record high, growing 30 per cent year-on-year
78. What Apptopia learned from four years of top grossing mobile games: Only six games have maintained an unbroken streak in the US App Store top 50 since 2014
79. Avalanche Studios finds the line between AAA and independence: Following its acquisition by Nordisk Film and a fine showing at E3, the 15 year-old Swedish studio has an even brighter future ahead
80. Dungeon Fighter Online gross lifetime revenue exceeds $10bn
81. Friday the 13th developer scraps all future content plans 
82. Bluehole to acquire mobile dev Delusion Studio 
83. Bluehole to acquire Delusion Studio: PUBG owner picks up Korean developer behind Guardian Stone, Castle Burn
84. Immortals acquire previously defunct Brazilian esports brand MIBR: Signs non-endemic sponsors Tinder and Betway as part of the deal
85. UTA Launches Esports Division With 90 Creators Following Acquisitions Of Press X, Everyday Influencers
86. Tencent: Chinese esports market expected to grow to $1.5 billion in 2020 – Country’s esports userbase projected to grow to 350 million, accounting for 59% of global esports users
87. Worldwide esports to hit $2.17 billion by 2023 – Report: Research and Markets projects competitive gaming revenues to grow at 18% CAGR over next five years
88. Twitch Beat Its All-Time Concurrent Viewer Record At E3 This Year
89. E3 2018 audience breaks Twitch all-time concurrent viewer record: 2.9 million concurrent viewers watched Twitch on June 10, the day of Microsoft and Bethesda’s press events
90. Inside Atari’s rise and fall
91. Sensible Object: “Voice control will bring people closer together” – CEO Alex Fleetwood discusses how smart speakers will create entirely new types of games ahead of his “Develop Brighton” talk

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Mobile Viewing to Overtake TV Viewing by Next Year
2. That Merkel Photo Is More Like a Meme Than a Renaissance Painting
3. OFAC sanctions Russian entities and individuals for cyber activities connected to FSB
4. Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’: Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channeled payments and donations to WikiLeaks
5. Apple bans developers from creating, selling user Contacts databases
6. Facebook privacy goof makes posts by 14 million users readable to anyone
7. Facebook let select companies have “special access” to user data, per report
8. Facebook Answered Congress’s Questions About Data Privacy. Here Are 5 Surprising Ways They Track You
9. Facebook Announces New Feature That Aggregates Old Memories
10. Latest Privacy Fracas Drops Facebook In The Middle Of Anti-Huawei Hysteria
11. Facebook may now ban bad businesses from advertising
12. Insights: It’s Game On As Facebook Takes On Twitch And YouTube For Live-Streaming Primacy
13. Mueller checks witnesses’ phones for secure messaging apps, per report
14. How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters On Social Media
15. UKSC judgment in Cartier – who pays for website blocking orders? 
16. Confirmed: ZTE to reopen after $1 billion fine, new leadership
17. Republican senators move to block Trump’s deal to revive ZTE
18. Top German Publisher Says: ‘You Wouldn’t Steal A Pound Of Butter… So We Need A Snippet Tax’
19. Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
20. Hey Google: Stop Trying To Patent A Compression Technique An Inventor Released To The Public Domain
21. Encyclopædia Britannica Wants To Fix False Google Results
22. Google: JK, We’re Going To Keep Working With The Military After All
23. New law forces Google to suspend political ads in Washington state
24. YouTube Takes Down Anti-LGBTQ Ad After Multiple Creator Complaints
25. YouTube Complicit In Copyright Infringement Of News Station’s Content
26. Austrian court ruling could hold YouTube liable for copyright infringing content
27. YouTube’s World Cup coverage includes near-live highlights in Spanish
28. Reggaeton Singer Ozuna Is Most Viewed Artist On YouTube This Year
29. During The Upcoming World Cup, YouTube Will Be Stocked With Highlights And Athlete Vlogs
30. YouTube Stars Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee Form IMG-Backed Digital Talent Management Agency
31. Ad Standards Introduces New Influencer Disclosure Guidelines
32. Walking the Line with Influencers: How to Satisfy the FTC without Your Influencers Becoming Employees in California
33. Appeals Court Curbs FTC’s Enforcement of Security Standards–LabMD v. FTC
34. IoT Device Companies: The FTC is Monitoring Your COPPA Data Deletion Duties and More
35. Yet Another Study Shows The Internet Of Things Is A Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire
36. Circuit Court of Cook County Upholds City of Chicago’s Imposition of Amusement Tax on Internet-Based Streaming Services 
37. Unpublished Censorship Guidelines Lay Bare The Deepest Fears Of The Chinese Government
38. Snapchat Wants To Help Popular Music Artists Make AR Lenses
39. Instagram Rolls Out Ecommerce In Stories, As Snapchat Tests Shoppable Ads
40. Snapchat’s Speed Filter Not Protected by Section 230–Maynard v. Snapchat (Eric Goldman)
41. Reddit Announces Native Auto-Play Video Ads For Select Brands
42. Amazon Prime Video Secures Premier League Streaming Rights
43. Twitter is putting more live news events in your timeline and notifications
44. Twitter Isn’t a Shopping Mall for First Amendment Purposes (Duh)–Johnson v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
45. Musical.ly To Fold Live Streaming Service Live.ly Into Its Primary App
46. Canadian Music Industry Wants Government to Pay Copying Fee for Every Smartphone Sold in Canada (Michael Geist)
47. Microsoft’s plan for GitHub: “Make GitHub better at being GitHub”
48. Three Takes On Microsoft Acquiring Github
49. IAB Says U.S. Podcast Ads Generated $314 Million Last Year, Pegs 2020 Tally At $659 Million
50. The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia
51. EU Publishers Freak Out Now That People Are Realizing Just How Messed Up Their Link Tax Really Is
52. EU Commission Violates GDPR; Claims That It’s Exempt From The Law For ‘Legal Reasons’
53. EU Explores Making GDPR Apply To EU Government Bodies… But With Much Lower Fines
54. UK Security Minister Says Only A Drivers Licence For The Internet Can Bring Back Online Civility
55. America should borrow from Europe’s data-privacy law: The GDPR’s premise, that consumers should be in charge of their own personal data, is the right one
56. GDPR’s Impact on the Use of Blockchain to Facilitate International Trade
57. Blockchain: Game changer or game over?
58. The rise of the “Crypto Czar,” the fall of a “blockchain evangelist,” and other crypto developments
59. Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since last year’s all-time high
60. Bitcoin Price Plunges After Hack of South Korean Exchange, Down 53 Percent Since December
61. Bitcoin prices continue to fall as yet another exchange reports a breach
62. Bitcoin’s 2017 Surge Was the Result of Manipulation, Experts Say
63. Another SEC Enforcement Action against Allegedly Fraudulent ICO 
64. Recent Virtual Currency Actions by the CFTC and State Regulators 
65. Brain-Based Circuitry Just Made Artificial Intelligence A Whole Lot Faster
66. AI is a very surprising tech, which makes its future hard to predict: Bruce Schneier
67. This wild, AI-generated film is the next step in “whole-movie puppetry”: Results are admittedly limited due to a 48-hour crunch—but hint at a wild future.
68. Artificial intelligence and human development
69. People Are Paying Insane Amounts of Real Money for “Virtual Real Estate”
70. Tech Addiction And The Paradox Of Apple’s ‘Screen Time’ Tools
71. Apple No Longer Allows Crypto Mining On Its Devices. That’s Good For Users.
72. Apple just banned cryptocurrency mining on iOS devices
73. Apple clamps down on developers sharing data on users’ friends: “When someone shares your info as part of their address book, you have no say in it, and you have no knowledge of it,” says privacy expert
74. For almost 11 years, hackers could easily bypass 3rd-party macOS signature checks
75. Popular Spanish Soccer Mobile App Has Been Turning Users Into Piracy-Spotters Via Mobile Devices
76. Ordering Food via Touchscreen Is so Fun You Spend More Money When You Do It
77. White nationalists, Nazis find new space for racism
78. Dark Web vendor “OxyMonster” turns out to be a Frenchman with luscious beard
79. In a blow to e-voting critics, Brazil suspends use of all paper ballots
80. How emoji can kill: As gangs move online, social media fuel violence
81. Options for Reacting to Negative Online Comments, Reviews, and Defamation 
82. SCC Stays Internet Defamation Case, Urges Fairness and Efficiency
83. Canada’s Supreme Court Is Preserving Every Website Mentioned In Its Rulings: The country’s top court is publicly archiving every single hyperlink in its decisions, so they aren’t lost.

CREATIVITY

1. Trump Admits He Calls All Negative News ‘Fake’
2. French President Pushing ‘Fake News’ Bill That Would Demand Decisions From Judges In 48 Hours
3. Unsettling Comments from the Ontario Courts re the Settled Law of Trademarks and Parallel Importation (Howard Knopf)
4. Off the Rails: How the Canadian Heritage Copyright Hearings Have Veered Badly Off-Track (Michael Geist)
5. Ending The Memes: EU Copyright Directive Is No Laughing Matter
6. Illegal memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the proposed EU copyright overhaul 
7. CJEU rules that Louboutin red sole mark does NOT fall within absolute ground for refusal (Eleonora Rosati)
8. Viacom Possesses Trademark Rights in ‘Krusty Krab’ Based on Its Central Role in the SpongeBob Universe – Viacom v. IJR
9. Stephen Colbert Cut a Star Wars Trailer to Dunk on Kelly Marie Tran’s Harassers
10. FBI Hoovered Up Two Years Of A Journalist’s Phone And Email Records To Hunt Down A Leaker
11. Fahmy v. Jay-Z

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government of Canada launches review of Telecommunications and Broadcasting Acts
2. Broadcasting And Telecommunications Legislative Review: Terms of Reference
3. The CRTC’s fundamental mistake: It thinks it can regulate the internet (Michael Geist)
4. The CRTC’s Fundamental Flaw: Broadcasting May Be the Internet, but the Internet is Not Broadcasting (Michael Geist)
5. Canadian Government Responds to Parliamentary Committee’s Recommended Changes and Clarifications to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)
6. Ajit Pai’s FCC lied about “DDoS” attack, ex-chair’s statement indicates
7. Senators Wyden and Schatz Wants To Know Why The FCC Made Up A DDOS Attack 
8. Oddly The Trump FCC Doesn’t Much Want To Talk About Why It Made Up A DDOS Attack
9. ‘Transparent’ FCC Doesn’t Want To Reveal Any Details About Ajit Pai’s Stupid Reese’s Mug
10. Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutrality
11. What Ajit Pai Should Have Said About Killing Net Neutrality… And Why It Still Would Have Been Wrong
12. Net neutrality will be repealed Monday unless Congress takes action
13. Net Neutrality Rules Die Today, But The Backlash Is Just Getting Started
14. First state net neutrality law took effect today, countering FCC repeal
15. AT&T Defeats DOJ In Merger Fight, Opening The Door To Some Major Competitive Headaches
16. Trump administration fails to block AT&T/Time Warner merger
17. AT&T Cleared to Buy Time Warner in Blow to Trump Administration
18. AT&T wins: Judge clears $85 billion bid for Time Warner with no conditions
19. AT&T imposes another $5 price hike on grandfathered unlimited data plans
20. AT&T/Time Warner Merger Could Create Giant Player for Sports Rights
21. Comcast, AT&T, Verizon say they have no paid prioritization plans
22. Comcast offers $65 billion for Fox, says government won’t stop merger
23. Comcast disabled throttling system, proving data cap is just a money grab
24. FTC Files Lawsuit for Widespread Telemarketing Law Violations

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY 

1. NY Times reporter’s email records seized by Justice Dept. in leak case
2. China Hacked a Navy Contractor and Stole 600GB of Data
3. A Chip in the Windshield: China’s Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars
4. Global Russian-Linked Router Malware Even Worse Than Originally Stated
5. Backdoored images downloaded 5 million times finally removed from Docker Hub
6. Court Says German Intelligence Agency Can Continued To Deploy Its Dragnet On World’s Largest Internet Hub
7. New Data Breach Notification Laws Spring 2018: What You Need to Know
8. Stymied by browsers, attackers embed Flash 0-day inside MS Office document
9. Security Companies Want To Use Facial Recognition To Stop School Shootings
10. It’s Now Scary to Be A White Hat Hacker Thanks to the US Government
11. How did hacker Adrian Lamo die? Medical examiner couldn’t figure it out
12. Vermont Takes Aim at Data Brokers

GAMES

1. Valve removes AIDS Simulator, other controversial games from Steam Store: Games taken down offer slight clarification on what company means by “straight up trolling”
2. AIDS Simulator kicked off Steam as Valve grapples with “trolling” definition
3. Valve clarifies what games count as ‘straight up trolling,’ sort of
4. Op-ed: Valve takes a side by not “taking sides” in curation controversy
5. Valve Decides To Get Out Of The Curation Business When It Comes To ‘Offensive’ Games
6. Itch.io founder brands Valve’s open-door Steam policy ‘ridiculous’
7. Valve’s new policy on Steam games splits opinions among devs
8. By 2019, Steam will no longer run on Windows XP or Vista
9. Valve launching Steam China with Perfect World: Partnership likely means leading PC marketplace will be free from the threat of long-rumoured government block
10. Valve partners with Perfect World to bring Steam to China 
11. Battletech developer let go after sexual harassment allegations
12. Cyberpunk dev: QA can absolutely help your team prevent offensive moments
13. Harebrained Schemes parts ways with designer accused of sexual harassment: Battletech developer conducted internal investigation after multiple women came forward
14. ‘This is not okay’: EA minces no words on backlash against women in Battlefield
15. EA CEO’s damage control speech: “We want to be better”: Andrew Wilson stresses that publisher does not want to give paying players unfair advantages following last year’s loot box fiasco
16. EA touts “profound impact” of streaming and subscription, announces Origin Access Premier: New PC service gives players instant access to Battlefield and FIFA 19 at launch, with publisher promising streaming option in future
17. EA adds new releases to Origin Access via $100 Premier membership tier
18. EA’s Impressive New PC Subscription Service Won’t Degrade Its Old One
19. EA’s Patrick Soderlund talks Anthem, loot boxes, and women in Battlefield
20. Anthem deep dive, Jedi: Fallen Order and EA Originals lead publisher’s E3 2018 showcase – Surprise launch of Unravel Two and tease for Respawn’s long-awaited Star Wars project break up usual round of sports titles
21. FIFA 18 tops European charts with combined digital and retail sales: Results are in for Europe’s first sales charts to include digital data
22. EA at E3: BioWare confirms Anthem in Feb 2019, Madden returns to PC
23. We Are initiative hopes to connect and inspire women in games
24. Game Advocacy introduces ’50 Over 50′ list to combat industry ageism
25. ESA Foundation launches “We Are” diversity initiative: Red Bull Media House is partner on an initiative that will launch at E3 and continue into 2019
26. Cool Event Alert: Loot Boxes: Video Game Gambling, Paying to Win, and the Question of Game Design, Talk by Drs. Mark R. Johnson and Tom Brock
27. E3 Roundtable: Microsoft’s first-party intent, EA’s loot box lament – Microsoft’s flurry of studio acquisitions lit up E3’s opening weekend, Bethesda showed every ace in its hand, and EA promised to do better
28. E3 Roundtable: PlayStation disappoints on a day short on surprises – Known quantities were front and centre at Sony and Ubisoft’s briefings, but Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Ghost of Tsushima still managed to delight
29. E3 Roundtable: E3 2018 showed an industry on the brink of change – Games-as-a-service drained life out of the show floor, while the major publishers all gestured toward streaming and the next generation
30. Ubisoft CEO: Cloud gaming will replace consoles after the next generation
31. This app in Google Play wants to use phone mics to enforce copyrights
32. Nintendo Direct shows off packed release schedule for 2018: Super Smash Bros. takes focus, but publisher offers up host of exclusive, third-party, and downloadable content
33. Fortnite comes to Switch, though with slightly limited cross-platform play
34. One day in, Fortnite attracts 2 million downloads on Switch
35. Fortnite to launch for Nintendo Switch today: Epic’s battle royale shooter will be free to everyone, and is now on every major gaming platform
36. PlayStation 4 owners can’t access Fortnite accounts on Switch
37. Playing Fortnite on PS4 blocks players from logging in on Switch
38. Fortnite uses the Switch hardware for voice chat, not the Switch mobile app
39. Super Mario Party introduces a mode that links two Switch displays together
40. Epic Games announces 2019 Fortnite World Cup as game reaches 125m players
41. Ninja And Marshmello Win $1 Million For Charity At Fortnite’s First Celeb Pro-Am Tournament
42. Fortnite has attracted 125M players in under a year
43. Analyst report: Xbox One install base at 39M as of March 2018
44. Xbox has everything to prove at E3: The E3 playing field has rarely been so uneven; Sony’s strong position means it needs to do very little, while Microsoft arrives in LA with a heavy weight of expectation
45. Microsoft’s next-gen gaming plan: A new Xbox, and streaming for everyone else
46. Microsoft “Andromeda” this year, new HoloLens in 2019, and the next Xbox in 2020
47. Report: Microsoft to launch next Xbox console in 2020
48. Microsoft teases Halo Infinite at E3 2018
49. Halo Infinite, Gears trio and Cyberpunk 2077 lead Xbox’s E3 2018 line-up
50. Microsoft pushes exclusives, premieres at pre-E3 press conference
51. Microsoft adds five game studios to first-party stable
52. Microsoft super-sizes first-party studio system: Xbox One maker acquires Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Compulsion Games, and Undead Labs, establishes new studio The Initiative
53. Xbox’s evolving first-party strategy: Chief marketing officer Mike Nichols explains Microsoft’s “forward-leaning pivot” in how it has viewed its game studios this generation, and why it just added five more to the operation
54. Ninja Theory bosses explain decision to join Microsoft Studios: “We want to take bigger creative risks, and create genre-defining games without constant threat of annihilation,” says creative lead Tameem Antoniades
55. Ninja Theory joined Microsoft to ‘fly without the threat of falling down’
56. Playground Games: “Our best is yet to come” thanks to Microsoft acquisition – Creative director Ralph Fulton believes transition from third-party to first-party studio can empower his team to do more
57. Phil Spencer on Microsoft’s commitment to the traditional console experience: It’s important to support players of old games on new hardware, says Xbox head
58. Xbox using machine learning to load Game Pass titles ‘twice as fast’
59. Microsoft boosts Xbox Game Pass with better third-party support – Phoenix Point and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 will hit the service day-and-date, all games to launch “twice as fast” through machine learning
60. Xbox Boasts Investment in Future Tech, But Still Silent on VR After Backpedaling
61. PlayStation E3 Keynote Puts Blockbusters Center Stage, Relegating VR to the Sidelines
62. Ethics Emerging: the Story of Privacy and Security Perceptions in Virtual Reality
63. Even Assassin’s Creed is a live service now
64. The Elder Scrolls VI, Starfield close out Bethesda E3 briefing: Doom and Wolfenstein sequels, Elder Scrolls: Blades for mobile, new VR efforts added to evening anchored by Fallout 76
65. Bethesda at E3: Elder Scrolls VI, Starfield confirmed for “next generation”
66. With Tencent’s help, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot opens new game studio
67. Bad Robot, Tencent team up to open new dev studio: Bad Robot Games will create ‘large and indie-scale original games’ for PC, consoles, mobile; WBIE on board as minority investor
68. Two weeks in, Detroit: Become Human surpasses 1M sold
69. Detroit: Become Human hits one million sales faster than any Quantic Dream game – Co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière confirms Detroit reached the milestone after two weeks
70. Quantic Dream patches over one of Detroit’s most emotional moments
71. Devs say no Friday the 13th DLC due to copyright dispute
72. Facebook Is Launching A Video Destination Dedicated To Its Gaming Content
73. Facebook launches new program for gaming streamers just starting out
74. No Fuchs Given: Christian Fuchs Starts First EPL Player-Backed Esports Team
75. New Jersey bans esports betting with new, unclear legislation 
76. E-Sports: A football World Cup with 20 million participants
77. EON Foundation raises $5 million for blockchain game publishing: Cherubic Ventures among the investors for startup with goal to be “the number one blockchain game publisher in the world”
78. Trendy Entertainment eyeing blockchain-based rewards for Dungeon Defenders II
79. Supercell invests $5M in Redemption Games, marking its first US investment  
80. Blog: Making video game worlds in Yellowknife  
81. Sunset for LawBreakers as shooter prepares to go offline after only a year
82. LawBreakers shutting down in September following Boss Key closure
83. VidCon Organizers Insist Event Won’t Differ For Attendees After Viacom Acquisition
84. VidCon 2018 vs. VidCon 2010: How The Convention Has Evolved Over The Years
85. Telltale is bringing Minecraft: Story Mode to Netflix

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Google Fails To Amend Canadian De-Indexing Injunction Despite California Court Order: Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack, 2018 BCSC 610
2. Court Says It’s Unconstitutional For Trump To Block People On Twitter, But Doesn’t Actually Order Him To Stop
3. U.S. District Court Rules President Trump Can’t Block Critical Followers
4. President Trump Violated the First Amendment by Blocking Users @realdonaldtrump
5. Six or Seven Things Social Media Can Do For Democracy 
6. Nurse Disciplined for Unprofessional Posts on Social Media Loses Appeal
7. Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins
8. Should Bots Have a Right to Free Speech? This Non-Profit Thinks So.
9. Personalized, Brainwave-Guided Movies Are Cool, As Long As You’re The One Steering
10. DHS Fusion Center Gets Request For Documents On Extremists, Decides To Hand Over Mind Control Docs Instead
11. NHL Aims to Debut ‘Smart Puck’ Tech in 2019
12. Alibaba’s Youku to Stream World Cup Soccer in China
13. YouTube Confirms Test Of Subscriptions Feed Driven By Algorithm And Not Chronology, Angering Creators
14. YouTube Premium To Launch Travel Soccer Series With Trickster Duo F2 Freestylers
15. YouTube’s Live Stream Of The Recent Royal Wedding Drew 11.2 Million Total Viewers
16. Spanish YouTube Star El Rubius Says He Has “Hit A Wall,” Announces Break From YouTube
17. YouTube Has Deleted 30 ‘Drill’ Music Videos For Fueling Gang Violence In The U.K.
18. Egyptian Government Set To Ban YouTube For One Month Six Years After Release Of Anti-Muslim Video
19. YouTube Music will replace Google Play Music but won’t kill user uploads
20. Two 18-Year-Olds Arrested In Paris For VEVO Hacks Of Top YouTube Videos Like “Despacito” 
21. Vevo Is Killing Off Its Mobile Apps, Website to Refocus on YouTube
22. Vevo To Shut Down Website, Apps In Order To “Remain Focused On Engaging The Biggest Audiences”
23. Vevo Flop Shows, Once Again, How Badly The Record Labels Underestimate Technology
24. Insights: Between ‘Solo’ Misfire And Comcast Pitch, Is Disney’s Streaming Strategy Still A Winner?
25. Barack Obama Reveals General Content Plans For New Netflix Deal
26. Netflix stocks hit record high making it more valuable than Disney – but only for a few hours: The streaming giant also surpassed estimations on subscriber growth, with a total of 125 million worldwide 
27. Hulu Orders BuzzFeed-Produced Documentary About R. Kelly’s Alleged History Of Sexual Abuse
28. Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
29. Facebook Will Label Political Ads, Reveal Who Paid For Them, And Show Who They Targeted
30. Wherein Facebook Messes Up Elections By Trying Not To Mess Up Elections
31. ‘FacePause’ Desktop Extension Automatically Halts YouTube Videos Upon An Averted Gaze 
32. Facebook Funds Comedy Series From Sarah Silverman and Group Nine’s JASH
33. Your Worst Alexa Nightmares Are Coming True
34. Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio
35. Amazon Alexa Instantaneously Justifies Years Of Surveillance Paranoia
36. Don’t Freak Out About That Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Situation
37. Google Just Turned a Huge Corner in the Smart Speaker Game
38. Google zooms by Amazon in smart speaker shipments, report says
39. Yelp’s Newest Campaign: Asking Google To Do The Right Thing
40. Court docs show Apple knew about the bendiness of the iPhone 6, 6 Plus
41. 187 Things The Blockchain Is Supposed To Fix
42. A Scottish Clinic Will Now Treat “Cryptocurrency Addiction”
43. The DoJ is reportedly probing the murky world of bitcoin trading
44. Sanctions: Iran, Russia, OFAC and cryptocurrencies
45. Russian unit, GRU officer linked to 2014 shoot-down of airliner over Ukraine
46. Uber’s Self-Driving Car Saw The Woman It Killed, Report Says
47. NTSB: Uber’s sensors worked; its software utterly failed in fatal crash
48. Tesla Agrees to Settle Class Action Suit Over ‘Essentially Unusable’ Autopilot Feature
49. Snapchat Launches ‘Yellow’, A $1.5 Million Accelerator Program For Mobile Content Creators
50. Forget The GDPR, The EU’s New Copyright Proposal Will Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For The Internet
51. The Demise Of Copyright Toleration
52. Why Is This Happening? The internet is terrible now, and Tim Wu knows why: Chris Hayes asks professor Tim Wu what created the conditions for the current angst surrounding our online experience.
53. The Collapse of UN Talks on the Application of International Law in Cyberspace: Why It Matters to U.S. Businesses

CREATIVITY

1. Harmonizing Tariff Regimes and Statutory Minimum Damages: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? (Howard Knopf)
2. Batiste v. Lewis
3. Cabell v. Zorro Productions, Inc.
4. Monkey-Selfie Case Returns – To Court & (Maybe) a Theater Near You 
5. The Monkey Selfie Lawsuit Will Never, Ever Die: Appeals Court Judge Wants A Do Over
6. Use of “sound-alike” music in advertising ‒ key legal issues
7. Who owns an idea?: It’s a question the law can struggle to answer, particularly when it comes to fiction
8. Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Three: Exploring the Impact of Site Licensing at Canadian Universities (Michael Geist)
9. Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Four: Fixing Fair Dealing for the Digital Age (Michael Geist)
10. Woof: The Prosecco People Successfully Oppose A Pet-Treat Company’s ‘Pawsecco’ Trademark Application
11. On Graffiti, Public Art and Snoopy
12. Copyright Term: When Does a Work Enter the Public Domain? 
13. Amanda Palmer: Hands Up! I Have a Picture of a Toddler, and I’m not Afraid to Use it
14. The right of communication to the public … in a chart (Eleonora Rosati) 

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. A Matter of Trust: What Is Happening at the CRTC? (Michael Geist)
2. Who Needs an iPhone Tax: Canadian Music Industry Instead Calls for $40 Million Annual Handout (Michael Geist)
3. Wireless Carrier Abuse Of Location Data Makes The Facebook, Cambridge Scandal Look Like Amateur Hour
4. ESPN Analysts Routinely Told Execs Not To Worry About Cord Cutting
5. No, Counting The Number Of Patent Infringement Lawsuits Is Not A Good Way To Quantify A Company’s IP Ethics
6. No, The FTC Is Not Going To Do A Good Job Policing Net Neutrality
7. Trump hits campaign trail to endorse key foe of net neutrality rules
8. Shockingly, Streaming Providers Are Dominating Cable At Customer Satisfaction
9. Comcast may soon control what you pay to watch your favorite sports teams
10. Comcast Exposes Customer WiFi SSIDs and Passwords For Customers Paying To Rent A Comcast Router
11. California Senate defies AT&T, votes for strict net neutrality rules
12. FCC Republican asks Amazon and eBay to boost crackdown on pirate TV boxes
13. Charter Claims NY Lawsuit Over Crappy Broadband Speeds Just An Evil, Netflix ‘Cabal’
14. Submission of Civil Society Coalition at WIPO SCCR 36 on Broadcasters’ Rights Treaty

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Guidance on Consent and Inappropriate Data Practices issued by Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
2. Open Letter To Francisco Partners: Request For Follow Up On Apparent Misuse Of Sandvine Technology And Sale Of NSO Group To Verint Systems (Citizen Lab)
3. U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. v. Microsoft as Moot After CLOUD Act Signed Into Law: Court Declares That There is No Longer a Live Controversy Over a Warrant Requiring Microsoft to Disclose Customer Data Stored Overseas
4. DOJ, FBI Issuing Corrections To Statements, Testimony Containing Bogus Uncracked Device Numbers
5. Apple’s Latest Transparency Report Shows Gov’t Still Not All That Interested In Seeking Warrants
6. A trip to the ER with your phone may mean injury lawyer ads for weeks
7. Yahoo hacker whose work compromised 500M accounts sentenced to 5 years
8. SS7 routing-protocol breach of US cellular carrier exposed customer data
9. Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio
10. FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
11. Report On Milwaukee PD Body Cams Show Fewer Complaints, Fewer Stops, But No Reduction In Use Of Force
12. ICE Trying To Deport Journalist For Reporting On Abusive ICE Behavior
13. Europe’s New Data Protections Will Affect You Too. Here’s How.
14. Dozens of American News Sites Blocked in Europe as GDPR Goes Into Effect Today
15. The GDPR: Ghastly, Dumb, Paralyzing Regulation It’s Hard To Celebrate
16. EU Parliament’s Own Website Violates The GDPR
17. GDPR jokes to help ease the pain 
18. Two States Are Trying To Give People Control Over Their Online Data

GAMES

1. PUBG Corp files copyright lawsuit against Epic Games: Korean developer began proceedings in January, alleging Fortnite plagiarises PUBG
2. PUBG Corp. files copyright infringement lawsuit against Fortnite dev Epic Games
3. Fortnite sold 5 million battle passes on the first day of Season 3: Analyst Michael Pachter relates success, predicts more games moving to cosmetics as a result
4. Fortnite, God of War break monthly revenue records –  Superdata: Epic’s battle royale makes $296 million in April; God of War becomes fastest-selling PS4-exclusive
5. Interactive Gaming Ventures and Epic Games team up to fund UE4 indies
6. Gamers involved in December’s “swatting” death just got indicted
7. Charity calls on Valve to remove ‘school shooting simulator’ from Steam store: Game described as “horrendous” by Infer Trust
8. Valve removes mass shooting game and its ‘troll’ dev from Steam
9. School Shooting Game Angers Steam Users, Developer ‘Likely’ Changing It
10. Valve removes school shooting game, along with developer’s entire catalogue: Creator of Active Shooter identified as previously banned ‘troll’ developer Ata Berdiyev
11. Opinion: So, you want to talk about porn on Steam
12. Valve’s Steam Link app blocked by Apple due to ‘business conflicts’
13. Apple has rejected iOS version of Steam Link app, Valve says
14. Steam Link app rejected by Apple: Valve’s appeal has been denied; Android version already in beta
15. Syrian refugee games developer denied UK visa ahead of awards ceremony: Path Out co-creator Abdullah Karam feels “sad and mistreated” as his misses out on Indie Prize ceremony
16. Honesty contributed to Subsurface Circular’s 2 percent refund rate
17. US has the largest gender pay gap for video game streamers: Half of US women streamers go unpaid despite country’s higher-than-average spending on influencer support
18. DICE GM pushes back against Battlefield V anger: “Player choice and female playable characters are here to stay,” says Oskar Gabrielson after complaints over game’s inclusion of women
19. Battlefield V ditches season pass and loot boxes, takes on Red Dead Redemption 2: Electronic Arts plans to monetise upcoming blockbuster shooter with live service and cosmetics after its arrives on October 19th
20. Battlefield V Shows How The Video Game Industry Is Turning On Loot Boxes
21. Trade group prez: Loot box regulation “challenges our freedom to innovate”
22. ESA: We can’t go to the “lowest common denominator of government” on loot boxes – Mike Gallagher warns against “over-reactions” to loot boxes influencing the industry
23. Op-ed: Game companies need to cut the crap – loot boxes are obviously gambling – Much as game companies try to deny it, the truth is plain to see.
24. Sony’s PlayStation 5 hints confirm an eight-year PS4 lifespan: Rejecting hardware updates in favour of a full generational refresh, Sony implies a PS4 successor will come in 2021 – but how big a leap can that offer?
25. Hacker gets Super NES games running on unmodified NES
26. Nintendo offers dockless Switch in Japan: The reduced-price ‘2nd Unit Set’ is being marketed to households that already own a Switch
27. Nintendo starts selling cheaper, dock-free Switch, but only in Japan
28. The first Pokemon RPG on the Switch takes cues from Niantic’s Pokemon Go
29. Pokémon’s first Switch game launches in November, connects to Pokémon Go
30. Game Freak & Nintendo debut a phone-friendly Pokemongame on the Switch
31. Pokémon’s new evolution was inevitable: With two generations of fans, The Pokémon Company has made some big changes
32. Pokémon profits down nearly 50% in company’s second most profitable year: Pokémon Go, Sun, and Moon accounted for the 2016 spike and subsequent fall-off
33. Pokemon Company annual profits drop to a mere $80.8 million
34. Zynga acquires mobile game dev Gram Games for $250 million
35. Zynga splashes $250 million on Gram Games acquisition: But Frank Gibeau tells GamesIndustry.biz recovering firm is “not on a buying spree”, pips Merge Dragons as new “forever franchise”
36. Hacker gets Super NES games running on unmodified NES
37. The NES Classic Is Back – Here’s How To Make Sure You Get One
38. Detroit Become Human: Critical Consensus –
39. Quantic Dream has sued journalists for negative coverage, but judging from the reviews for the studio’s Detroit Become Human, the media isn’t holding it against the studio.
40. Detroit: Become Human review: Robotic in all of the wrong ways
41. ‘Detroit: Become Human’ dehumanizes everything it touches
42. Wolfenstein 2 accounted for speedrunners in its design
43. H1Z1 gains early F2P traction on PlayStation 4
44. Caffeine rolls out stream monetization program, complete with payouts for devs
45. Mixer rolls out MixPlay, a tool for creating interactive stream overlays
46. US has the largest gender pay gap for video game streamers: Half of US women streamers go unpaid despite country’s higher-than-average spending on influencer support
47. Battle royale players are among the most engaged gamers, report finds – Newzoo: 88 per cent of battle royale players spend money in-game, compared to 75 per cent of traditional competitive game players
48. Kids On YouTube Keep Making Videos About Scamming Fortnite V-Bucks From Their Parents
49. ESPN+ to Live-Stream ‘League of Legends’ Esports Events Under New, Non-Exclusive Pact
50. Minecraft reaches 100 million downloads in China: Approaching 250 million downloads worldwide
51. How premium PC games continue to rise, surprise in China
52. Media Molecule: Avoiding the “soul tax” of making games – At the Nordic Game Conference, Siobhan Reddy offered advice on protecting people and culture against the pressures of development
53. Echo and Little Nightmares clean up at 2018 Nordic Game Awards: Ultra Ultra’s sci-fi adventure wins three categories, including Game of the Year, while Tarsier Studios’ dark title takes two
54. Former Dragon Age director reflects on the ups and downs of development
55. Mobile dev Voodoo secures an estimated $200M investment from Goldman Sachs
56. YoYo Games opens publishing division to elevate GameMaker Studio 2 projects
57. Wargaming reportedly closes Seattle studio: Formerly Gas Powered Games, the studio employed around 150 people
58. Just Cause dev Avalanche Studios acquired by Nordisk Film 
59. UK indie chain Games Centre enters liquidation: Another games retailer disappears from the High Street
60. After 3+ decades as a private firm, UK dev Codemasters is going public
61. Codemasters valued at £280m as it prepares to go public: Developer expected to raise £15 million for expansion into mobile
62. Voodoo secures $200m Goldman Sachs investment: French mobile developer looks to double its staff by year’s end
63. Andrew Maximov: “Technology is actually going to make us better artists” – Industry veterans say artificial intelligence will enable artists, not replace them
64. Video: How inequality (both real and virtual) shapes player behavior
65. Carmack: New 5K × 5K Mobile VR Playback Tech Will ‘set the bar for VR video quality’
66. Qualcomm launches a new chip specifically for standalone AR and VR devices
67. Revenue expected to double this year for augmented and mixed reality: Virtual reality revenue will fall behind AR/MR by 2021, says SuperData
68. HTC Announces Strategic Partnerships With MLB & McLaren Formula One Team
69. How the BattleTech devs built an engrossing tactics game on a budget
70. Video: What game designers really want out of AI
71. Researchers teach AI to play ‘hard’ games by showing it YouTube videos
72. Video: Unproven game AI techniques that might just work
73. Nintendo, Microsoft and EA Veterans Join to Create the Future of Blockchain Gaming
74. Players get credit for evolution–and stagnation–of gaming narrative: What Remains of Edith Finch developer Ian Dallas says the market is pushing the medium forward in some ways, tying its hands in others
75. Insights: We Have Influencers And Games, But Why Not More Games From Influencers?
76. What does GDPR mean for PR?: Leading UK games agencies tell us how new privacy regulations are refining their processes and better relationships with press
77. GDPR changes prompt Torn Banner Studios to shut downMirage: Arcane Warfare
78. A Critical Analysis of Kinect Star Wars’ “I’m Han Solo” Song, the Definitive Text on the Character

Jon

DIGITAL

1.  It’s Over: The Podcast Patent Troll’s Patent is Officially And Completely Dead
2. Supreme Court declines to hear “podcasting patent” case, handing win to EFF
3. Here are the Russian-made Facebook ads that tried to shake American politics 
4. 7 Takeaways from the Latest Batch of Russian-Bought Facebook Ads: House Democrats released over 3,000 Facebook and Instagram ads purchased by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency. Here’s what we learned.
5. It’s Begun: Facebook Just Banned 200 Apps For Abusing User Data
6. Facebook suspends ~200 suspicious apps out of “thousands” reviewed so far
7. How Facebook Can Better Fight Fake News: Make Money Off the People Who Promote It
8. California Gov’t Thinks It Might Be Able To Regulate Fake News Sometime Before 2020
9. How Facebook Binds – And Shatters – Communities
10. Facebook Watch To Spend Up To $10 Million Per Series Amid News Programming Push (Report) 
11. New Commissioner Says FTC Should Get Tough on Companies Like Facebook and Google: Citing lax treatment of corporate malefactors, Rohit Chopra calls for the FTC to impose more significant penalties when companies violate its orders.
12. Could Cambridge Analytica happen again?
13. Iran’s President Comes Out Against His Country’s Ban On Telegram
14. Spotify’s Ban on Hateful Content and Conduct Is ‘Too Subjective’ and ‘Dangerous,’ Experts Say
15. Merlin Sells All of Its Spotify Shares for an Estimated $125 Million-Plus
16. Apple Music Passes 50 Million Subscribers, Including Free Trials
17. Online Ad Targeting Does Work – As Long As It’s Not Creepy
18. Minnesota Judges Refuse To Unmask Defendants For Copyright Troll Strike 3
19. Danish ISPs That Teamed Up To Beat Back Copyright Trolls Get Huge Legal Win
20. Japan’s Largest Cable Provider Pacts With Fullscreen To Launch Local Digital Network
21. The revamped Google News app is now available on iPhones and iPads
22. Area Man, Obscure Sidekick Asked to Leave Google Fiber’s Austin Office by the Police
23. Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
24. A dozen Google employees quit over military drone project
25. Could Google’s creepy new AI push us to a tipping point?
26. Brave new world: some legal considerations in using AI and IoT Systems 
27. Robots Behaving Badly: Legal Responsibility In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence (Andres Guadamuz)
28. Robot U: The First American A.I. Undergrad Program is Here, and Already Incredibly Elite
29. Can This AI-Powered Baby Translator Help Diagnose Autism?
30. Stop Using Discriminatory AI, Human Rights Groups Say
31. All the Rage in Sweden: Embedding Microchips Under Your Skin
32. The Next Blockchain Revolution? Crypto-Powered Beer Vending Machines
33. When The Blockchain Skeptic Walked Into The Lions’ Den 
34. Blockchain Reaction
35. Blockchain as a Content Distribution Technology: Copyright Issues Abound 
36. Could Blockchain Disrupt How We Protect Our Intellectual Property? 
37. FedEx Wants To Track Packages On The Blockchain, So You’ll Know Exactly Who Dropped Your Stuff
38. Can you trust blockchain?
39. AI trained to navigate develops brain-like location tracking
40. Tech Firms Move To Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI
41. What do AI and blockchain mean for the rule of law?
42. Bing Prohibits Cryptocurrency Advertising
43. Cryptocurrency has been great for GPU makers—that might change soon
44. Report: Bitcoin money laundering suspect spared from prison poison plot
45. Man who claims he created bitcoin committed perjury, lawsuit says
46. Goldman Sachs Just Launched A New Cryptocurrency
47. Crypto Is “Taking us Back to the 1830s?” Here’s What That Fed Branch President Means.
48. Apple Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Over Faulty MacBook Pro Keyboards
49. Amazon Prime members to get new discounts at Whole Foods
50. Twitter will hide more bad tweets in conversations and searches: Another move to reduce abuse
51. Klout is out—social media mojo-ranking service to shutter 
52. Who Pays The Most, And Least, In Silicon Valley?
53. YouTube Defeats Another Remove-and-Relocate Lawsuit–Song Fi v. Google
54. Cambodian YouTubers In Legal Jeopardy For Skinning, Eating Endangered Animals On Film
55. Cisco Announces YouTube Ad Boycott, Citing Fear Of A “Brand-Tarnishing Experience”
56. YouTube Adding Songwriter, Label, And Publisher Credits To All Official And User-Generated Music Videos
57. Incognito Mode May Soon Bring More Privacy To Users Of YouTube’s Mobile App
58. YouTube Launches Upgraded Charts
59. Ahead Of Royal Wedding, Meghan Markle Videos Have Received 94 Million Views On YouTube In 2018
60. Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $800 Million To Develop YouTube-Length Shows On Netflix-Sized Budgets
61. As Her Channel Turns 10, Alisha Marie Announces Brief Break Due To Creative Burnout 
62. YouTube’s new ‘take a break’ notifications are part of Google’s focus on your digital well-being: If YouTube eats up too much of your time, perhaps the notifications will be helpful
63. Robert Downey Jr. To Bring Series About Artificial Intelligence To YouTube Red
64. Can we stop technology from amplifying society’s inequalities? Perhaps, if we act now. 
65. ‘Cobra Kai’: YouTube Red’s ‘Karate Kid’ Sequel Outperforms Netflix, Hulu Shows
66. Netflix To Allocate 85% Of Upcoming Content Spend On Original Series And Films
67. Formula 1 finally launched its livestream—and it was a total mess
68. Materially and Substantively Modifying Online Articles Restarts the Clock in NJ Defamation Claims
69. What does GDPR mean for journalists?: From 25 May 2018, General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will be enforced by regulators across Europe. 
70. GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
71. Companies Respond To The GDPR By Blocking All EU Users
72. Bittersweet DMCA Safe Harbor Defense Win in Ninth Circuit–Ventura v. Motherless
73. Venture Beat Reporter Abuses DMCA To Silence A Critic
74. As Intermediary Liability Is Under Attack, Stanford Releases Updated Tool To Document The State Of Play Globally
75. A DMCA Section 512(f) Case Survives Dismissal–ISE v. Longarzo
76. Jails are replacing visits with video calls—inmates and families hate it
77. The True History Of ‘Yanny’ And ‘Laurel’
78. The Fundamental Nihilism Of Yanny vs. Laurel

CREATIVITY

1.  The Man with the Tiger Tattoo
2. The Ninth Circuit STILL Thinks Keyword Metatags Matter in 2018–Adidas v. Skechers 
3. When Plaid Goes Bad – Burberry Files Infringement Suit Against Target Over Burberry’s Iconic Plaid Design
4. What Artists Can Teach Us About Making Technology More Human
5. Gynecologist Dr. Drai can use name, even if Dr. Dre doesn’t like it, judge says
6. Rap or Pap? Dr. Dre Loses Trademark Battle With Dr. Drai, A Gynecologist 
7. For the Love of God, Stop Asking the Black PantherCast to Do the ‘Wakanda Forever’ Salute

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Fair Play for FairPlay?: Bell Presented Its Site Blocking Plan to the CRTC Months Before It Became Public (Michael Geist)
2. House of Commons Ethics Committee Recommends Rejecting Bell Coalition Website Blocking Plan (Michael Geist)
3. Not So Fast: Digging into MEI’s Report on the State of Canadian Wireless Services (Michael Geist)
4. AT&T Continues Fight To Gut FTC Authority Over Broadband Monopolies
5. AT&T says hiring Trump lawyer was “big mistake,” forces top lobbyist out
6. AT&T Chief Says It Made a ‘Big Mistake’ Hiring Michael Cohen
7. Democrats demand answers on AT&T’s $600,000 payment to Trump’s lawyer
8. AT&T Cans Exec Over Cohen Payment Kerfuffle, Pretends This Kind Of Influence Peddling Isn’t Perfectly Routine
9. Trump vows to reopen smartphone giant ZTE to save Chinese jobs
10. Trump eliminates national cyber-coordinator job, gives Bolton keys to the cybers
11. Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality, But Hurdles Remain
12. Senate Approves First Step In Uphill Effort To Restore Net Neutrality
13. Senate votes to overturn Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal
14. Net neutrality to die on June 11, as Ajit Pai blasts “special interests”
15. Senate Will Vote Wednesday To Try And Save Net Neutrality
16. Defying Republicans, Senate Democrats schedule vote to save net neutrality
17. This Is Ajit Pai, Nemesis Of Net Neutrality
18. US Senate forces vote to restore net neutrality: If it passes, the vote goes to the House of Representatives, followed by the President’s desk
19. Net neutrality officially ends June 11: Challenges to the change are unlikely to take forceful effect in time, though reversal remains possible
20. FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
21. Here’s the Name of Every Senator Who Voted Against Net Neutrality—and When to Vote Them Out
22. Comcast charges $90 install fee at homes that already have Comcast installed
23. Comcast Still Makes A Killing, Even When You Cut The Cord
24. T-Mobile Hires Ex-FCC Commissioner To Claim Its Competition-Killing Merger Will Be Really Great For…Farmers
25. Settlement of Alleged CASL Violations – Messages Sent without Compliant Unsubscribe Mechanism 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Shining A Light On The Encryption Debate: A Canadian Field Guide
2. Ad Software Dev Doesn’t Like Being Called Out For Privacy Violations ; Sends Threatening Letter To Researchers Who Exposed It
3. Email No Longer a Secure Method of Communication After Critical Flaw Discovered in PGP
4. Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted emails – uninstall now
5. It has been a bad week for encrypted messaging and it’s only Wednesday
6. Encrypted Email Has A Major, Divisive Flaw
7. Ex-CIA employee ID’d but not charged in Vault 7 leak of hacking tools
8. Georgia Governor Vetoes Terrible Cybersecurity Law That Would Have Criminalized Security Research
9. “Like stealing candy from a baby,” arrested teen says of his phishing efforts
10. The LAPD’s Terrifying Palantir-Powered Policing Algorithm Was Just Uncovered and Yes It’s Basically ‘Minority Report’
11. How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real time
12. Company used by police, prisons to find any mobile device breached (again)
13. Prison Phone Monopoly Securus Under Fire Again, This Time For Doling Out Everybody’s Private Phone Location Data
14. Forget scanning license plates; cops will soon ID you via your roof rack
15. Malicious Chrome extensions infect 100,000-plus users, again
16. Inside The Takedown Of A Notorious Malware Clearinghouse

GAMES

1. Belgian Gaming Commission recommends criminal prosecution over illegal loot boxes: Commission lays groundwork for prosecution as Belgian justice minister meets with stakeholders to find an alternative
2. Twitch files counter-complaint against banned CS:GOstreamer
3. Twitch counter-sues streamer banned for gambling, inappropriate conduct: James Varga, aka “Phantoml0rd”, sued Twitch over the ban last month
4. ‘Saturday Night Live’ 48-Hour Marathon to Stream on Twitch
5. Twitch To Stream 48-Hour-Long ‘Saturday Night Live’ Marathon Ahead Of Sketch Show’s Season Finale
6. Supreme Court lifts ban on (e)sports gambling, allowing state-by-state legalization
7. Supreme Court lifts ban on sports gambling, including esports: DraftKings to implement sports, esports betting on its fantasy sports platform
8. Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door for Legalized Sports Betting
9. Take-Two CEO: Legal (e)sports gambling ‘meaningfully positive’ for games
10. Satirical game used to push back against German ban on Nazi symbols
11. Unprecedented move by German prosecutors over Nazi imagery in satirical game: Game serves “both the arts and civic enlightenment” says PPO
12. Kingsleys unleash ire of independent author community with Rebellion trademark: But CEO Jason Kingsley assures that ‘Rebellion’ will only be used for relevant services, is investigating ‘overreaching’ application
13. Video: A lawyer’s guide to practical IP law for indies
14. Hackers find PSP emulator in PS4 remaster of PaRappa the Rapper: PlayStation 4 version of cult classic rhythm game just an emulation of the 2007 PSP re-release
15. Pay-To-Flay: Examining microtransactions inMortal Kombat X 
16.  Making microtransactions work for players in Guild Wars 2
17. Gran Turismo franchise has sold 80M units in two decades
18. Gran Turismo franchise tops 80 million sold: Polyphony Digital racing sim series reaches mark a little over 20 years after initial debut
19. Sony and Nintendo update warranty policies in response to FTC warning: Both companies’ customers now have more freedom to use third party products and services
20. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft update warranty policies in response to FTC warning: Customers now have more freedom to use third party products and services
21. Nintendo shuts down debut mobile app Miitomo
22. Nintendo still won’t commit to online services: “Netflix for retro games” would be a huge selling point for the Switch – but Nintendo’s reticence to commit to online services will stop it happening
23. Nintendo’s $20 charging stand fixes one of the Switch’s biggest problems
24. Nintendo Labo tests, part one: Robot Kit’s cardboard stomps are fun but shallow
25. A year ago, the NES Classic flew off the shelves—now it’s coming back
26. LawBreakers dev Boss Key Productions shuts down
27. Pokemon Go dev Niantic wants to build AR maps with data from players
28. Clearing up misconceptions around motion sickness in VR
29. Microsoft enables digital game and DLC gifting on PC: This follows the addition of Xbox One digital game, DLC, and subscription gifting last year
30. Xbox One may be indies’ least popular platform, survey suggests: Indies love the Switch, but PC wins out for accessibility despite marketplace overcrowding
31. Leaked photo shows new, accessible Xbox One controller
32. In the lab with Xbox’s new Adaptive Controller, which may change gaming forever
33. How the DualShock 4’s share button came to be
34. Sony winding down production of physical PlayStation Vita titles
35. Sony announces end of Vita GameCard production: Production of physical Vita games will cease by end of March 2019
36. ModDB parent launches cross-platform API mod.io:v New tech makes it easier for developers to add modding tools to their games
37. Mobile games continue to drive rising online game revenue for Tencent
38. Konami breaks profit records thanks to domestic mobile market
39. Konami shows record operating profits: Fourth straight year of bottom line growth helps publisher surpass previous 2012 high point; no word on Metal Gear Survive performance
40. Packaged software driving profits in Sega’s games division
41. Sega’s game profits rose 30% last year: Japanese publisher delivered increased operating profit despite launching fewer games than expected
42. Japanese devs reflect on the recent renaissance of Japanese games
43. Take-Two’s fortunes on the rise ahead of Red Dead Redemption 2 debut 
44. Devs share the most memorable things they’ve had to cut from games
45. Bigben Interactive acquires Styx developer Cyanide for $24M
46. Bigben acquires Cyanide for €20 million: WRC publisher broadens development focus with Styx: Shards of Darkness creator
47. Campo Santo retains freedom, flexibility under Valve
48. Development on In the Valley of Gods will continue as before, but with more support
49. Valve debuts public bug bounty board in an effort to improve security
50. Steam services expand to mobile with new apps: Steam Link and Steam Video will launch in the coming months
51. Polish studio Acram Digital banned from Steam for review tampering
52. Steam Yanks Another Developer’s Games Over Fake Reviews Posted By Employee
53. Acram Digital games removed from Steam after rogue staffer manipulates reviews: “This is my individual, bad behaviour, not the team, so I would like to blame me, not the devs,” says Grzegorz Kubas
54. From zero to 15 million: The story of Outlast – Red Barrels’ Philippe Morin on turning a $1.4 million budget into a $64 million franchise with 15 million sales
55. Mod.io API aims to help developers create mod-friendly games
56. Balancing Hearthstone: Metrics help the team understand what’s happening, but designer Dean Ayala says most changes in the Blizzard card game are made due to player perception
57. Universal “committed to games”, disputes free labour concerns over IP contest: Hollywood firm determined to build final product from Unity-partnered competition, stresses unsuccessful entrants retain rights to ideas
58. Daybreak insists it has no connection to parent company: H1Z1 developer now says it was never owned by Columbus Nova after investment firm’s owner sees assets frozen by US government, claims it has no impact on its business
59. Eidos Montreal: “We have to try new models for single-player games” – Shadow of the Tomb Raider dev on making $135 million narrative projects work
60. Discord now boasts 130M users, 85M more than one year ago
61. Discord triples users to 130 million in one year: The gaming chat platform just closed a $50 million round, which valued the company at $1.65 billion
62. Nexon doubles revenue in US following Pixelberry acquisition 
63. Nexon more than doubled profits in Q1: Pixelberry acquisition boosted North American revenue, but Korea remains Nexon’s source of strength
64. BioShock Remastered studio lays off 10% of workforce after project cancellation: Blind Squirrel Games confirms 13 redundancies, affected staff seeking help via Twitter hashtag
65. Kongregate looking to court indie devs with new Canada office
66. Kongregate opens Montreal office: Digital publisher’s first Canadian branch looks to capitalize on the local indie development scene
67. “The era of ‘break-out indie success’ is long dead”: Indie developers share their thoughts on the greatest challenges facing the industry in 2018
68. Looking back on our first year as an indie studio
69. Runescape creator Jagex raises $300K for mental health charities
70. Little Orbit acquires GamersFirst online game portal andAPB Reloaded
71. Online retailer Gameseek goes into liquidation: UK company left many orders unfulfilled when it hit the wall
72. GameStop boosted by billionaire hedge fund: Bridgewater Associates ups stake in troubled games retailer, plus new investment from quant firm Renaissance
73. Niantic to build a 3D augmented reality world map with Pokémon Go data: “We want players to build out the game board they want to play on,” says CEO
74. Nvidia posts record Q1 revenues as profits soar by 145%: Meanwhile, GPU prices “beginning to normalise” following cyrptocurrency surge
75. THQ Nordic saw more sales in 3 months than all of 2017, thanks to Koch Media
76. THQ Nordic posts 673% revenue increase following acquisition of Koch Media: Excluding Koch Media revenue, THQ Nordic still up 64 per cent
77. NCSoft profits up by 585% to $110m in Q1 2018: Mobile revenue spikes by 1,028 per cent amid mixed overall games performance
78. German mobile game revenue growth surpasses whole market growth in 2017: Mobile sales rose 21% year over year, while the country’s overall market revenue rose 15%
79. Appealing to the West by focusing on the East: Spike Chunsoft CEO Mitsutoshi Sakurai says there’s a growing global audience for the “very Japanese” games his company publishes
80. Cliff Bleszinski’s Boss Key Productions shuts down after three years
81. Saying Goodbye To The Fan Game That Recreated A Decade-Old Classic
82. Researchers teach AI the art of ‘interesting’ level design
83. The Race To Stop The Best Mario Kart 64 Player From Securing Every World Record 
84. Sonic the Hedgehog devs explain how competing with Mario influenced development
85. How Fortnite, A ‘Gamer’s Game,’ Took Over The World
86. Fortnite mobile has earned $50M in under two months
87. How Epic’s Fortnite rose from the ashes of Paragon’s failure
88. An analysis of building in Fortnite
89. Silverman: Is Fortnite habit the cause of David Price’s injury?
90. Red Sox starter David Price denies carpal tunnel related to gaming, but plans to scale back
91. Blog: How does multiplayer impact replayability?
92. Madden NFL could go in “new direction” following departure of creative director: Former Overwatch producer Carlos Guerrero takes over series following Rex Dickson’s depature
93. How EA Sports games are designed for blind players
94. Nordisk Film continues investment spree with $18M Star Stable deal
95. Google Chrome no longer breaks Web games, but the fix won’t last
96. Chrome temporarily rolls back audio-muting update so devs can prep for the change
97. How we increased our review score from mid 60’s to 80
98. The risky business of creating an introspective blockbuster 
99. Blog: The myth of the hero’s journey
100. Opinion: Neo Cab and the effort to make an empathetic game about gamification
101. John Carmack recalls “frustrating” arguments with Apple’s Steve Jobs
102. 100,000 Video Game Players Helped Scientists Prove Einstein Wrong

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