News of the Week

DIGITAL

1. Muslim Advocacy Group Files Suit Against YouTube, Facebook For Hosting Christchurch Shooting Videos
2. Microsoft calls for ‘industrywide’ moderation plan after New Zealand shooting: The company’s president calls for more coordination
3. New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators
4. Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads: It’s basically like “A Clockwork Orange.”
5. Social media platforms under increasing pressure to protect users from harm
6. Facebook and Instagram Finally Ban White Nationalism and White Separatism
7. Facebook’s new rules come down against white nationalism, separatism
8. Will Facebook’s New Ban On White Nationalist Content Work?
9. Facebook Settles Claims Alleging Discriminatory Ad Targeting 
10. Vice Media to Pay $1.9 Million to Settle Pay Discrimination Case
11. Music labels sue Charter, complain that high Internet speeds fuel piracy
12. RIAA Continues Its Legal War To Turn ISPs Into The Copyright Police: Sues Charter Communications
13. The Latest Pro-PewDiePie Hackers Locked Users’ Files Until They Subscribed
14. New Virus Steals Your Files Until PewDiePie Gets 100M Subscribers: Another ransomware variant encrypts your files unless you subscribe to PewDiePie – but even if you do, it deletes them anyway.
15. PewDiePie fans keep making junk ransomware: Please, YouTube! Just hide PewDiePie and T-Series’ followers count and put this competition to bed.
16. How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack
17. New Huawei phone has a 5x optical zoom, thanks to a periscope lens
18. US Is Forcing A Chinese Firm To Sell Gay Dating App Grindr
19. HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China
20. How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
21. HTML email reborn, as Google brings AMP to your inbox
22. Google regrets ‘minor glitch’ that sent Ghanaian currency plummeting
23. U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Search Google Settlement Agreement for Fairness  
24. SCOTUS Remands Google Case to the Ninth Circuit for Spokeo Standing Analysis 
25. Tenth Lawsuit Against Social Media Providers for “Materially Supporting Terrorists” Fails–Sinclair v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
26. The echo of American Fair Use and of its boundaries, in the EU and Italian System. A comparative analysis in the wake of the Fox News victory over TVEyes
27. Nevada Judge Says Online News Publications Aren’t Protected By The State’s Journalist Shield Law 
28. Talking Cat App Should Keep Quiet on Advertising, CARU Recommends
29. A ‘Dark Day’: Copyright Law That Threatens the Internet as We Know It Passes Final EU Vote
30. EU parliament passes controversial copyright overhaul [Updated]
31. EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes
32. The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13: Critics argued that Article 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech
33. Article 13 – MEME Law is coming…
34. “Memes banned” – the European Parliament votes in the EU Copyright Directive including controversial Articles 11 and 13 
35. EU Parliament Passes Controversial “Meme Ban”: It’s a “dark day for internet freedom.”
36. Swedish MEPs Announce Support For Article 13, Demonstrate Near Total Ignorance Of What It Actually Entails
37. New Report: Germany Caved To France On Copyright In A Deal For Russian Gas
38. Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles 11 & 13 That The Vote Should Have Flipped; EU Parliament Says Too Bad
39. Tell The EU Not To Wreck The Internet
40. A Century Ago We Killed The Radio Commons; Don’t Let The EU Do That To The Internet
41. EU Commission Refuses To Explain Why It Published Medium Article Mocking The Public’s Concerns Over Article 13
42. EU Internet Companies Warn EU Parliament Not To Vote For Articles 11 & 13; Say They’ll Hand The Internet To Google 
43. MEPs Realizing How Bad Article 13 Could Be, Begin To Back Away From EU Copyright Directive
44. Independent Musician Dan Bull’s New Song, Robocopyright, Warns Of The Dangers Of Article 13
45. Sites Warn EU Users Of Just How Bad Article 13 Will Be
46. Huge Protests Across Europe Protest Article 13; Politician Lies And Claims They Were Paid To Be There
47. Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It’s About Filters, Now Say It’s About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don’t Work
48. After EU Copyright Reform Passes, Susan Wojcicki Says “This Is The Beginning” Of YouTube’s Fight
49. Most Advertisers Have Returned To YouTube After Comments Scandal, Google Exec Says 
50. YouTube Usage Comprises 37% Of All Mobile Web Traffic, Study Finds
51. YouTube Facing Lawsuit That Alleges Toy Unboxing Videos Are “Abusive Advertising Practices” Aimed At Children 
52. YouTube Disabled Comments On Thousands Of Creators’ Channels To Prevent Child Predation. Tech Startup Respondology Thinks It Has A Solution. 
53. YouTube Shutters ‘Fantastic Adventures’ Channel After Proprietor’s Arrest For Child Abuse
54. YouTube Millionaires: AR12Gaming Started Sharing His Love For Racecar Games On YouTube In 2012. Now, His Company Sponsors Real-Life Racers.
55. How YouTube is changing toys
56. YouTube cancels two original series but denies moving away from original content
57. YouTube Content Head Susanne Daniels Denies Eyeing Exit Amid High-End Series Cancellations
58. Kim Kardashian’s Daughter North West Entering YouTube Fray In Collab With JoJo Siwa
59. Influencers Allegedly Run Roughshod Over FTC Warnings
60. Influencer Law 101: influencer exclusivity
61. Law School Exam Part 5: Am I An Influencer?
62. #InfluencerMarketing: What advertisers need to know about disclosure
63. Lil Miquela, Shudu, Bermuda and Sophia The Robot: CGI and Robot IT Girls Who Will Become the Influencers of the Future 
64. Studio71 Launches Weekly Reaction Series With Tal Fishman, Caylus Cunningham On ‘Caffeine’
65. Ryan ToysReview’s Nickelodeon Series To Premiere On April 19
66. YouTube’s FaZe Clan Inks Sponsorship, Content Pact With Automaker Nissan
67. Liza Koshy Will Return To Her YouTube Channel After Yearlong Absence
68. Liza Koshy Returns To YouTube With A Glitzy Musical For Her Dollar Store Shenanigans
69. Creators Going Pro: Elle Mills’ YouTube Channel Is Becoming A Diary About The Raw, Vulnerable Parts Of Her Life
70. Priyanka Chopra Launches YouTube-Funded Inspirational Special ‘If I Could Tell You Just One Thing’
71. Admitted Meme Thief F-Jerry Sued for Allegedly Stealing a Meme 
72. Popular Meme Account Sued For Copyright Infringement and Other Claims
73. Expansion of the Madrid System 
74. Ruling in Emoji Beach Ball IP Case Left Me Confused: Kangaroo v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
75. March Madness! Court Dismisses Lawsuit Over Massive Cyberattack After Basketball Game Loss–Higgins v. Kentucky Sports Radio (Eric Goldman)
76. Amazon Will Soon Launch Mobile Ads In Search Results
77. To rival Amazon, UPS enters healthcare—with doorstep nurse delivery
78. StyleHaul Notifies Employees Of Layoffs, Shutdown Of U.S. Operations (Exclusive) 
79. Here’s Why Netflix Launched ‘Love, Death & Robots’ With A Different Episode Order For Certain Users
80. Netflix Reaches Tipping Point As Originals Now Outpace Acquired Titles – Study
81. Netflix Asks Court To Dismiss Chooseco’s Lawsuit For All The Obvious Reasons
82. Here’s How Apple’s Spending Its Massive $1 Billion Original Content Budget Ahead Of Streaming Service Launch
83. Here’s the Full Rundown on Apple TV and the New Apple TV+
84. Apple finally enters TV streaming space with new Apple TV+ service
85. Here’s all the TV+ shows Apple flew out celebrities for
86. Apple’s New Genre Shows Are Still Mysterious, But Here’s What We Learned Today
87. Apple’s Streaming Service Apple TV+ To Launch This Fall, Will Have Zero Third-Party Content — But Plenty Of Add-Ons
88. Liveblog: Apple unveils its TV service and more at the March 25 “It’s show time” event
89. Apple promises its new credit card is a privacy-protecting beast
90. Apple debuts its own credit card with a physical version to complement the app
91. The Apple Card Is Great at Privacy but Mediocre Overall
92. Everything that’s happening with Apple’s News+ subscription service
93. Apple News+: A newsstand of 300 glossy magazines for $9.99/month
94. Apple Used Its Oprah Moment to Pull One Over on Us
95. Apple Designates Amazon As an Authorized Reseller of Apple – Highlighting the Importance of Online Sales Control for Even the World’s Most Powerful Brand
96. Clippy briefly resurrected as Teams add-on, brutally taken down by brand police
97. Microsoft ships antivirus for macOS as Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender
98. Microsoft exec bans company from pulling any dumb April Fools’ pranks 
99. Streaming Powers U.S. Latin Music Market to 18% Growth
100. eMarketer claims Spotify US will overtake Pandora by 2021
101. AI-music startup Endel to release albums through Warner Music
102. A Survey Of The EU’s AI Ecosystem
103. Expert views on the frontiers of AI and conflict  
104. How to develop a successful IP strategy for AI
105. Can AI Be A Fair Judge In Court? Estonia Thinks So
106. How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
107. Artificial Intelligence: A Potential Cybersecurity Safeguard or Viable Threat to the Healthcare Industry? 
108. Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer
109. Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program
110. Study shows complexity and uncertainty of IoT regulation in Europe 
111. New York City Apartment Residents Sue Landlord Over New Smart Locks [Updated]
112. US computer science grads outperforming those in other key nations
113. Rethinking the rights of children for the internet age
114. Disruptive Developments @20EssexStreet: What is the difference between a cryptocurrency trading platform and a kitchen blender? 
115. What’s in a (User)Name? 
116. Freetown Man Arrested for Keeping Flat-Screen TV Delivered to Him by Accident With Amazon Order 
117. This Truck Spilled 40,000 Pounds of Printer Ink In a Crash That Probably Cost a Gazillion Dollars
118. Man Steals $122 Million From Google And Facebook By Just Asking Them For Money
119. Digital Business in Canada
120. Internet Platform Governance, Part 1: What’s the Problem?
121. Cloud computing in the United States
122. Federal Prosecutors Recommend Paul Hansmeier Spend The Next 12 Years In Prison

CREATIVITY

1. Photographer loses lawsuit over use of her photo in political mailer
2. $35 billion in research funding “now at stake” after Trump executive order
3. New waves in the battle against piracy of sports rights
4. Copyright Ownership DJ Claim Must Plead Disputed Ownership 
5. What do Bruce Springsteen and Venus and Serena Williams all have in common?
6. Counterfeiting and the importance of brand protection in beauty
7. Fashion and cultural expressions
8. Dutch Golden Age painting returned to heirs of Nazi Spoliation victims
9. Intellectual Property Law Year in Review – March 2019

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Cable Industry Embarrassed By The Word ‘Cable,’ Stops Using It
2. FCC has to pay journalist $43,000 after hiding net neutrality records
3. FCC (Read: Taxpayers) Forced To Pay Journalist’s Legal Bills After Tap Dancing Around FOIA Requests
4. T-Mobile’s $50 home Internet service has no data cap, but plenty of limits
5. AT&T’s “5G E” is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
6. Another Study Finds Verizon’s 5G Is Barely Available, Not Scaleable
7. Current Telecom Developments
8. Bill To Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward, And The Public Is Still Angry
9. The regulators are coming: New EU online Platforms Regulation
10. Five Minutes On… The EU Electronic Communications Code
11. Comcast’s New Rented Streaming Box Is A Flimsy Attempt To Remain Relevant

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Facebook apps logged users’ passwords in plaintext, because why not
2. Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text
3. Facebook Screws Up Again
4. Vigilant And Its Customers Are Lying About ICE’s Access To Plate Records
5. Thomas Goolnik Again Convinces Google To Forget Our Story About Thomas Goolnik Getting Google To Forget Our Story About Thomas Goolnik
6. Illinois Appeals Court Says Fifth Amendment Protections Apply To Cellphone Passwords
7. California and European Privacy FAQs: Does the GDPR require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on its browser?
8. The privacy risks of unchecked facial-recognition technology
9. The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software
10. Having Privacy in Public: Limits to Unwanted Surveillance in Public Spaces
11. Hijacked ASUS software updates installed backdoor on at least 0.5 million PCs
12. Asus Goes Mute As Hackers Covertly Install Backdoors Using Company Software Update
13. Reckless VII: Wife of Journalist Slain in Cartel-Linked Killing Targeted with NSO Group’s Spyware
14. Critical flaw lets hackers control lifesaving devices implanted inside patients
15. A rogue’s gallery of bad actors is exploiting that critical WinRAR flaw
16. Telegram Goes Nuclear With New Message Deletion Feature
17. Preparing for Compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act 
18. Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry

GAMES

1. Blog: How games software and hardware could top $200 billion by 2023
2. Opinion: After Christchurch – What we owe our game communities
3. “If we make room for them, then there is no room for anyone else”: IGF Award host Meg Jayanth calls for devs to reject fascists, demand better treatment for themselves and their colleagues
4. #1ReasonToBe: “Inclusivity is a battle we can win”: Rami Ismail’s final stint hosting the panel shares the stories of a refugee turns games developer, an Egyptian woman who refused to let a visa rejection silence her, and more
5. Overwatch saw 40% less disruptive behavior with the endorsement system
6. PUBG Corp and NetEase settle Battlegrounds lawsuit
7. PUBG Corp, NetEase settle copyright lawsuit: After suit alleging Knives Out, Rules of Survival copied PUBG and countersuit against “shameless attempt” at genre monopoly, companies now dismissing cases
8. Madden Litigation Sputters Out With Settlement
9. EA Lays Off 350 People In Marketing, Publishing, And More
10. EA lays off 350 staff in marketing, publishing, and operations 
11. EA closes Japan and Russia offices amid mass layoffs
12. EA lays off 350 amid major organizational changes: Company reorganizing marketing, publishing, operations teams, decreases presence in Japan and Russia
13. Electronic Arts closes Japan office as part of mass layoffs: Russian division also appears to be shuttering with operations moving to larger, regional office
14. EA signs publishing deal with Vicarious Visions founders
15. Sega removing actor from Western version of Judgmentafter drug scandal
16. Judgment has sold through 97% of stock following controversy
17. “Hard Rock” Hamilton Says Microsoft Can’t Leave Gears of War Lawsuit
18. Judgement sales surge following voice actor drug charge controversy: There was “no correct way to deal with the situation,” says Sega chief creative officer
19. Labor organizers share insight and tips on unionizing the game industry
20. Roblox on creating kinder communities
21. Game source code is a teaching tool, not a trade secret, argues VGHF founder
22. Apple Finally Jumps Into Games with Subscription Service Featuring 100+ Exclusives
23. Apple announces its own game subscription service, Apple Arcade
24. Apple unveils Apple Arcade subscription service for iOS, Mac, Apple TV games
25. Apple Arcade Games Subscription Service Announced
26. Apple reveals game subscription service Apple Arcade: Program to launch this fall with focus on new, premium titles
27. KO_OP, ustwo games announce Apple Arcade exclusives
28. Opinion: A closer look at the strategy behind Apple Arcade
29. Google Stadia Streaming Platform Launch, Game, And Feature Details Revealed
30. Google Exec On Stadia’s Internet Speed Requirements
31. Hands-On With Google Stadia
32. Google Claims Stadia Is More Powerful Than PS4 And Xbox One Combined – GDC 2019
33. Google’s Stadia Could Take Video Games Out of Your Hands: The new streaming service could make owning a video game a thing of the past
34. In Wake Of Google Stadia, Reports Suggest Walmart Is Exploring A Game Streaming Service
35. Report: Walmart is looking to enter the game streaming business
36. Walmart exploring its own game streaming service – Report: Retail giant began talking to developers and publishers about its plans earlier this year
37. Phil Spencer Reportedly Says Stadia Announcement Had ‘No Big Surprises’, Says Xbox Will ‘Go Big’ At E3
38. Xbox will reportedly “go big” on streaming at E3 2019: Internal email from Phil Spencer says Google Stadia is a “validation” and notes “no big surprises” in Google reveal
39. Report: Microsoft’s disc-less Xbox One S gets name and launch date
40. Microsoft unveils new indie game showcase calledID@Xbox Game Pass
41. Another World designer Eric Chahi sets up indie studio Pixel Reef
42. Blog: My full time indie developer life – Year 2
43. Blog: The colonial, non-colonial, and decolonial in video games
44. All the Game Streaming Services Google Stadia Is Up Against
45. Would a Google Stadia subscription service be bad news for the industry?: Analysts discuss Stadia’s potential to drive “a major downward trend” on prices, and what subscriptions mean for developers and diversity of games
46. Google Stadia will support the Xbox Adaptive Controller: Microsoft’s accessible device included among third-party controllers Google’s platform will support
47. Google tries to reassure gamers about Stadia speed and latency concerns
48. How id Software went from skeptical to excited about Google Stadia streaming
49. Slow Broadband, Usage Caps Could Mar Google Stadia’s Game Streaming Ambitions
50. Google Stadia can succeed if it follows Fortnite’s footsteps | Opinion
51. Nav promoted his new album in Fortnite stream with Ninja
52. In-venue streaming and broadcasting of live sporting events – key legal issues for sports clubs and leagues
53. Valve stays the course despite intensifying competition
54. Valve Software dreams of analyzing your brainwaves to tailor in-game rewards: “We can figure out what kinds of rewards you like, and the kinds you don’t.”
55. Valve is pushing new social features for Steam later this year 
56. Standalone Vive Focus Plus will cost $799 when it arrives in April
57. Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets
58. PlayStation VR headset sales have topped 4.2 million
59. ‘No Man’s Sky’ is Getting Full VR Support for PSVR, Rift, and Vive
60. Sony Announces 4.2 Million PlayStation VR Units Sold
61. Putting Sony’s 4.2 million PSVR sales in context
62. Sony is pulling digital PS4 games from sale at GameStop, other retailers
63. Sony stops selling digital game codes at physical retailers
64. Sony pulls full game download codes from all stores: PlayStation confirms to GamesIndustry.biz new strategy starts April 1, cards for DLC and virtual currency will still be available
65. Devil May Cry 5 shipped 2m units in two weeks
66. Devil May Cry 5 has sold 2 million copies in first two weeks
67. 6 years in, Warframe nears 50 million lifetime players
68. Fallout 76 and a handful of upcoming Bethesda titles now headed for Steam
69. Metro Exodus on Epic Store outsells its predecessor on Steam — but what does that tell us?: “It’s about the game, and not the store you sell on,” suggests Epic
70. Observation will be an Epic Games Store exclusive, Steam page pulled
71. Epic offers support for third-party key sales — but not for exclusives
72. Sweeney commits to human moderators & quality filters for Epic’s Games Store
73. Epic Games Store is making the industry better but “gamers don’t see that”: CEO Tim Sweeney addresses backlash against exclusivity deals, promises human curation to block “shock controversy games” like Rape Day
74. Report: Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Switch Models
75. Report: Nintendo planning two new Switch models
76. Nintendo Allegedly Set To Release Two New Switch Models
77. Report: Nintendo to release two new Switch models in 2019
78. Stardew Valley is the best-selling indie game on Nintendo Switch
79. Dead Cells has passed 1 million sales, and Switch leads the way on consoles
80. Nintendo’s Labo VR Kit Is Its Wildest Cardboard Adventure Yet
81. This Might Be the Least Fun Switch Accessory
82. Oculus Founder: Rift S Suitable for Only About 70% of Population Due to IPD
83. eSports and Copyright between choreographies and UGC 
84. GameStop moving into esports with new events venue 
85. GameStop partners with three esports organisations: Games retailer signs deals with Houston Outlaws, Envy Gaming, and OpTic Gaming
86. Comcast plans to build a $50 million esports arena in Philadelphia
87. SuperData: Apex Legends’ $92m launch month the best ever for a free-to-play game
88. Mobile strength pushed Tencent past $19bn games revenue in 2018
89. WarDucks raises $3.8 million to expand studio and create location-based AR game
90. WarDucks raises €3.3 million for location-based AR mobile game
91. I played 11 Assassin’s Creed games in 11 years, and Odyssey made them all worth it
92. UK Charts: Sekiro Shadows Die Twice is the seventh new No.1 of the year – Activision and From Software title narrowly beats The Division 2
93. Kabam acquires Montreal-based mobile studio Riposte Games & Co
94. GAME revenue dips but profits jump on ‘relentless’ cost savings
95. Indies clean up at GDC Awards 2019: God of War takes home yet another Game of the Year gong, and Return of the Obra Dinn wins $33,000 in IGF prizes
96. GDC 2019 attendance sets new record at 29,000
97. GDC celebrates record-breaking attendance and locks in 2020 dates!
98. Blog: The best slides I saw at GDC 2019
99. GDC 2019, as told through livetweets 
100. Video Game Deep Cuts: The Game Developers Conference Aftermath
101. A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K
102. Intel and Spirit AI are working on machine learning-powered voice chat moderation
103. Video: Systemic AI design in Just Cause 3
104. Get a job: DeepMind is hiring a Games Designer
105. Deep Dive: Flexiscope, the play-time aware dungeon generator in Book of Demons
106. Don’t Miss: Devs weigh in on the best ways to write and design characters
107. Relinquishing Control: Remedy’s paradigm shift – Game director on leaving behind the tightly controlled experiences of Alan Wake and Quantum Break for, “a world that can support many stories, not just one story”
108. Daedalic: “If we do this right, no one else will be able to make a Gollum game” – CEO discusses plans for the iconic character, who will star in the first of many Lord of the Rings games
109. Critical Consensus: Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 –  Critics lament the lack of political heft in its story, but The Division 2 gets much right that BioWare’s Anthem got wrong
110. ‘Buddy pass’ will let Wolfenstein: Youngblood players share with friends
111. Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt spent heavily on R&D in 2018
112. Boyfriend Dungeon dev examines why game fashion sucks, and what to do about it
113. First-person digger: Stanley Black & Decker’s game controller for excavators
114. The next generation starts with you | Opinion: Game Dragons’ Philip Oliver offers advice on how to better work with academia to improve the quality of graduates
115. Twitch Launches ‘Squad Stream’ Feature, Enabling Four-Person Multiplay
116. Ninja Is Getting His Face On A Red Bull Can
117. Building a ‘homebrew’ video game console
118. Niantic announces second Pokémon GO Earth Day event
119. Obituary: Take-Two founder Ryan Brant has passed away
120. Take-Two founder Ryan Brant dies: Publisher expresses condolences, gratitude to Brant for his vision and contributions

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Supreme Court rules key part of law against child-luring via internet is unconstitutional
2. Canada Supreme Court Rules That Privacy is Not An “All-or-Nothing Concept” 
3. R. v. Morrison (2019 SCC 15)
4. 49 Dead and Dozens Wounded in New Zealand Terror Attacks That Were Livestreamed on Facebook
5. Facebook: No one reported NZ shooting video during 17-minute livestream 
6. The New Zealand Massacre Was Made to Go Viral: The attack marks a grim new age of social media-fueled terrorism.
7. Social media sites struggle to contain video of New Zealand shooting
8. One Video Of The Christchurch Massacre Was Uploaded To YouTube Every Second
9. New Zealand ISPs Say They’re Blocking Sites That Fail to Remove Christchurch Shooting Video
10. NZ declares massacre video “objectionable,” arrests people who shared it
11. 4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video
12. If You Think Big Internet Companies Are Somehow To Blame For The New Zealand Massacre, You’re Wrong
13. Americans Built Tech for China’s Sinister “Re-Education Camps”: MIT and Yale – and possibly Microsoft – are helping build China’s surveillance state.
14. Vladimir Putin signs sweeping Internet-censorship bills: Publishing “unreliable socially significant information” can lead to big fines.
15. Terrified Of The Internet, Putin Signs Laws Making It Illegal To Criticize Government Leaders Online
16. Court Dismissed Lawsuit Brought Against Social Media Companies Alleging An Anti-Conservative Conspiracy
17. People Call On YouTube, Facebook, Twitter To More Stringently Monitor Hate Content Following Christchurch Shooting
18. Using Networks To Govern Network Problems
19. FTC Takes Hard Line On Fake Paid Reviews
20. YouTube Creators Are Trying To Move On From ‘Subscribe To Pewdiepie’
21. Arizona Woman Who Ran Popular Kids’ YouTube Channel Arrested On 7 Counts Of Child Abuse
22. YouTuber Adam22 Held At Gunpoint While Livestreaming, Suspect In Custody
23. YouTube Tattooist Romeo Lacoste On Inappropriate Messages To Young Fans: “Some Are Real, And Some Are Fabricated”
24. After YouTube Disables Comments On ‘Special Books By Special Kids’ Organization’s Channel, Founders Say It’s Discrimination
25. YouTube Will Require Content Owners To Give Timestamps When They Copyright Claim A Video
26. Blackpink are first K-Pop artist with 20m YouTube subscribers
27. YouTube creators are using a hilarious tactic to combat copyright policies
28. Axel Voss Says Maybe YouTube Shouldn’t Exist
29. Sephora Severs Product Partnership With YouTuber Olivia Jade In Wake Of College Bribery Scandal
30. Lilly Singh Lands Late-Night TV Slot On NBC, Will Host ‘A Little Late With Lilly Singh’
31. Disney now owns 21st Century Fox, X-Men, and most of Hulu
32. LSO bencher candidates leverage Twitter to promote platform, engage readers
33. Devin Nunes’ ludicrous $250 million lawsuit against Twitter, explained
34. “He’s literally suing an imaginary cow”: Late-night hosts mock Nunes
35. Rep. Devin Nunes Sues Internet Cow For Saying Mean Things About Him Online
36. @DevinCow Now Has More Twitter Followers Than Devin Nunes
37. US Huawei Blackballing Efforts Stall Due To Lack Of ‘Actual Facts’
38. Court Tosses Antitrust Claims That Internet Giants Are Biased Against Conservatives–Freedom Watch v. Google (Eric Goldman)
39. Thai Government Uses Fake News Law To Lock Up Opposing Party Leaders
40. Political agreement reached on Online Platform Regulation
41. Google Hit With $1.7 Billion Fine in Europe for Abusing Advertising Dominance
42. The EU fines Google $1.69 billion for bundling search and advertising: Showing Google Ads above Custom Search results lands the company in hot water.
43. How Google influences the conversation in Washington
44. Social Video App ‘Firework’ Emerges From Beta, Enabling Creators To Film Horizontal And Vertical Clips Simultaneously
45. Spotify vs. Apple: the latest updates
46. Spotify’s EU antitrust complaint could be a serious threat to Apple
47. Ahead of Streaming Launch, Apple’s Iron-Clad Secrecy Is Reportedly Stressing Out Hollywood
48. Apple Objects To Norway Political Party’s Logo Claiming Potential Customer Confusion Over Trademark
49. Apple Watch accurately spotted heart condition 34% of the time in study
50. How Canadian Copyright Reform Could Support the Government’s Supercluster Investment (Michael Geist)
51. News Organization Like Reuters Supporting The EU Copyright Directive Is A Shameful Support For Censorship
52. The 2012 Web Blackout Helped Stop SOPA/PIPA And Then ACTA; Here Comes The 2019 Version To Stop Article 13
53. Proposed EU Copyright Directive shifts balance of responsibilities between rights holders and platforms
54. As Recording Industry Announces Massive Growth, Why Do We Need Article 13 Again?
55. Internet Blackout Coming To Show The EU Parliament It’s Not Just ‘Bots’ Concerned About Article 13
56. Silicon Valley’s Fingerprints Are All Over the College Bribery Scandal
57. Ethics before algorithms: Technology needs to be used ethically and sometimes not at all
58. Europe’s silver bullet in global AI battle: Ethics – EU experts hope ‘trust’ will prove to be the bloc’s competitive edge.
59. Bill Gates Compares Artificial Intelligence to Nuclear Weapons
60. There’s a Power Struggle Inside Google to Control Superhuman AI: If DeepMind builds a superhuman AI, who will control it?
61. A Quarter of Europeans Trust AI More Than Politicians: They’d rather ditch human politicians and put robots in charge, according to new research.
62. Washington Prison Management Software Setting People Free Too Early, Keeping Other People Locked Up Too Long
63. New Google App Describes Objects To Blind People
64. When Google Fiber Abandons Your City as a Failed Experiment
65. Supreme Court Reverses Google Settlement But Ducks Ruling on Its Fairness 
66. Facebook Had A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 
67. Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy
68. Facebook Blames Protracted Outage on a ‘Server Configuration Change’
69. Insights: Has All Of “Social Media,” Not Just Facebook, Reached A Pivot Point?
70. Online ‘Reputation Management’ Company Brags About Abusing Copyright Law To Take Down Bad Reviews
71. Bogus DMCA Takedown Targeting Indian Copyright Blog Demonstrates The Problems Of Notice And Takedown
72. Japanese Government Puts Restrictive Copyright Amendments On Hold Over ‘Internet Atrophy’ Worries
73. $900 Robot Commits Adorable Seppuku, Showing Again How In The Modern Era You Don’t Own What You Buy
74. Ninth Circuit Tells Online Services: Section 230 Isn’t For You
75. It’s time to start caring about “VR cinema,” and SXSW’s stunners are proof
76. Oculus grabs Beat Saber as an Oculus Quest launch title
77. Oculus “phasing out” Rift, launching $399 Rift S this spring
78. Oculus: “It’s no longer a burden to get into virtual reality”
79. Do Adjacent Organic Search Results Constitute Trademark Infringement? Of Course Not…But…–America CAN! v. CDF (Eric Goldman)
80. Viacom’s Awesomeness Inks Deals To Distribute 18 Flagship Series, Films Internationally
81. Netflix Won’t Be Integrated Into Apple’s Forthcoming Video Service, CEO Says
82. ‘Subscription Fatigue’: Nearly Half of U.S. Consumers Frustrated by Streaming Explosion, Study Finds
83. Two Examples of How Courts Interpret Emojis (Eric Gold
84. More Kardashian Drama: A Legal Fight Over Ownership of the Kimoji Emoji Set–Liebensohn v. Kardashian
85. Insider is finding new revenue on Snapchat from old Facebook news-feed videos
86. Facebook’s ‘Red Table Talk’ Garners Daytime Emmy Nomination
87. Myspace apparently lost 12 years’ worth of music, and almost no one noticed
88. Snapchat ramps up UK pitch, but ad buyers remain unconvinced
89. Instagram just took advantage of Amazon’s biggest weakness: Amazon’s failure in “discovery shopping” is Instagram’s opportunity, as its users can now shop inside the app.
90. Art Law & More Instagram 
91. Republican Devin Nunes sues Twitter, users over attacks 
92. No, Twitter Is Not Completely Removing Likes And Retweets — But Here’s Why It’s Hiding Them
93. Twitter wants workforce to be at least 5% black, 5% Latinx by the end of this year
94. When online harassment doesn’t follow the rules
95. Security Researcher Discovers Flaws In Yelp-For-MAGAs App, Developer Threatens To Report Him To The Deep State
96. Patreon Launches Tiered Pricing for Creators, Introduces Rates for Micropayments 
97. Patreon Launches 3 New Creator Plans — ‘Lite’, ‘Pro’, And ‘Premium’ — That Vary By Features And Fees
98. Kickstarter employees launch unionization effort
99. Building an inclusive studio culture begins with retention 
100. Tech support: law firms lining up to take advantage of tech boom
101. Plenty of likes for defamation reform in a digital world
102. Can I Use This Song In My Podcast? It Depends. 
103. D-Wave 2000Q hands-on: Steep learning curve for quantum computing: Reconceptualizing a problem is the hard part, but the end is rewarding.
104. California Becomes 20th State To Push ‘Right to Repair’ Legislation

CREATIVITY

1. NMPA Publishers File $150M Lawsuit Against Peloton Over Unlicensed Music by Drake, Ariana Grande & More
2. Peloton is being sued for using music without permission in its video fitness classes
3. Competition Bureau Releases Updated Enforcement Guidelines on Abuse of Dominance and Intellectual Property
4. So you think you can dance? Copyright protection of dance moves
5. Protected or Unprotected: The Supreme Court Hears Iancu v. Brunetti 
6. Supreme Court Clarifies the Rules for Enforcing Copyrights
7. NYC’s New Tourist Trap Claims the Rights to Every Photo You Take Inside of It
8. Miss Vanjie! Miss Vanjie!: What RuPaul’s Drag Race Can Teach Us About Fair Use Under Copyright
9. Florida College Asked Local Sheriff To Declare Faculty Member’s Artwork Obscene
10. Monster Energy Loses Trademark Opposition As UK IPO Mentions That The Letter ‘M’ Isn’t Distinctive
11. Captain Marvel Presents Complicated Political Messages Worth Examining
12. Report: James Gunn has been un-fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
13. Holy Rocket Raccoon! James Gunn Is Back onGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 [Updated]
14. James Gunn Is Doing Both Guardians 3 and Suicide Squad 2
15. Adnan Virk Agrees Not To Sue ESPN After He Gets New Job
16. Report: In Bollywood, Movie Piracy Is Largely Carried Out By Rival Publishing Houses

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Cable lobby seeks better reputation by dropping “cable” from its name: American Cable Association is now “America’s Communications Association.”
2. Verizon Confirms That Yes, 5G Will Cost You Extra
3. NBA commissioner ‘surprised’ by changes after AT&T, Time Warner merger: “They are going to have to retool their packages so they are able to connect directly with that younger fan base,” said the head of the NBA.
4. ISPs strike deal with Vermont to suspend state net neutrality law
5. Hearing On New Net Neutrality Law Once Again Conjures Up A Greatest Hits Of Nonsense
6. Ajit Pai’s plan for phone location data never mentions the word “privacy”
7. AT&T and Comcast claim “anti-robocalling milestone” with new Caller ID tech
8. Why, Exactly, Do We Still Trust Telecom Megamerger ‘Synergy’ Promises?
9. It Ends Today: FCC’s Disastrous Solicited Fax TCPA Rules Now Officially Withdrawn 
10. Smartphone Stops Arrow When Absurdly Lucky Man Tries to Photograph Attacker

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Appeals Court: Stored Communications Act Privacy Protections Cover Opened And Read Emails
2. Federal Court Blocks Washington State’s Unconstitutional Cyberstalking Law
3. Sharing Computers and Sharing Space: Privacy interests persist
4. United States Federal Trade Commission strikes one for children’s privacy
5. Burn After Reading? – DOJ Loosens Previous Ban on Secretive Messaging Apps
6. How hackers pulled off a $20 million bank heist
7. “Severe” ransomware attack cripples big aluminum producer
8. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on GDPR and CCPA
9. A new rash of highly covert card-skimming malware infects ecommerce sites
10. Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
11. Travelers Beware – Compelled to Open Your Phone?
12. Urgent Message: Privacy Shield Notices Need Updating Before No-Deal Brexit Withdrawal Date

GAMES

1. Community management post-Christchurch massacre | Opinion: Veteran product manager James Kozanecki says the industry can no longer dismiss toxic behavior as harmless trolling 
2. The Culling: Origins’ servers are being switched off in May
3. ‘No console required’: Google unveils streaming game platform, ‘Stadia’
4. Google jumps into gaming with Google Stadia streaming service, coming “in 2019”
5. Google Reveals Stadia Streaming Console
6. Google unveils first details of Stadia streaming service
7. Google’s new Stadia streaming service will let you play video games without downloading them
8. Hands on with Google Stadia: It works, but is that enough?: Playing Assassin’s Creed on a Chromebook is neat but only part of the story.
9. Google Stadia supports the Xbox Adaptive Controller
10. Google Is Better Positioned For Cloud Streaming Than Anyone, But Don’t Expect The World Just Yet: Google isn’t afraid to shut down projects when they don’t work.
11. ‘Care more about your streamers’ advises Magic: The Gathering Arena dev
12. Google Made Chromecast Cool Again
13. Google’s New Cloud Gaming Platform ‘Stadia’ Comes With Major Features Built Specifically For YouTubers
14. Google Stadia has promise, but GDC failed to address its biggest obstacles | Opinion: The GI team weighs in on bandwidth, business models, and the potential link between accessibility and diversity
15. Stadia’s biz dev director talks challenges, opportunities in new age of cloud games
16. Phil Harrison: Stadia starts an “inevitable and one-way shift” away from consoles: Google VP also addresses concerns about bandwidth caps and those cryptic game teases shown before the keynote
17. Opinion: Chez Stadia – Google’s new cloud platform
18. Snapchat Said to Launch Gaming Inside Its App 
19. Snapchat Will Reportedly Launch An In-App Gaming Platform Next Month
20. Snapchat to unveil gaming platform next month – Report
21. Report: Snapchat’s rumored game platform to be announced in April
22. Axiom Verge getting its physical Wii U release after ongoing legal battle
23. The high cost of a Wii U retail release: Limited Run Games and BadLand Publishing give their sides of the falling out over a Wii U physical version of Axiom Verge, and why it’s finally launching
24. Axiom Verge producer files suit against BadLand Publishing for $200k: Dan Adelman alleges publisher hasn’t paid share of European distribution earnings, flaked on promise of healthcare fund for developer’s ill son
25. Four Indian cities ban PUBG Mobile: Battle royale game suspected of triggering violent behaviour, police have already arrested players
26. Mukti: Acknowledging the grim reality of human trafficking in India – UnderDogs founder and CEO Vaibhav Chavan discusses his hope to raise awareness of a growing problem
27. Loot boxes aren’t the problem but how we use them is, says legal expert: “The key is how we use these mechanics, not whether we use them,” says Will Bucher
28. Epic says its Game Store is not spying on you
29. Epic’s Tim Sweeney addressees privacy concerns for the Epic Games Store
30. Julian Gollop defends Epic Games Store exclusivity for Phoenix Point: Developer assures that refunds will be offered to those who don’t want to use Epic, or Steam keys if they wait a year
31. Epic Games Store roadmap outlines cloud saves, achievements, user reviews
32. Epic responds to accusations of Steam data mining: Sweeney says issue stems from “our rush to implement social features in the early days of Fortnite”
33. Epic offers support for third-party key sales — but not for exclusives: Tim Sweeney reveals Epic Game Store roadmap, but concedes it will have to compete on games to compensate for lack of features
34. Devs can now sell Epic Game Store keys on the Humble Store
35. Epic Games announces $100m MegaGrants program, launches free Online Services tools
36. Epic expands its dev grants program with $100M in Epic MegaGrants
37. Quantic Dream, Ubisoft lead next wave of Epic Games Store exclusives
38. Remedy, Quantic Dream, and other devs sign on for Epic Games Store exclusives
39. Google unveils first-party game studio led by Jade Raymond
40. Epic CEO: “You’re going to see lower prices” on Epic Games Store
41. “Energizing Times”: Microsoft to “go big” at E3 in response to Google Stadia
42. Games for Change debuts new accelerator program for ‘social impact’ games
43. Carlos Santana Smashed A TV With A Bat Because The Phillies Were Playing Fortnite During Games
44. Kicking off the streaming wars | Opinion: GDC 2019: Industry giants have decided that the medium’s future lies in streaming – but success is far from assured even for enormous players like Google and Amazon
45. Steam Link Anywhere beta drops Steam Link’s local-wifi-only restriction
46. Any Steam game can now use Valve’s low-latency, DoS-proofed networking
47. Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
48. Steam devs can now use the networking APIs created forCS:GO and Dota 2
49. Steam removes “off-topic review bombs” from overall game review scores
50. Steam user reviews will no longer count ‘off-topic review bombs’
51. Microsoft is bringing Xbox Live to iOS and Android
52. Xbox Live is coming to iOS and Android, but not Switch (yet) – GDC 2019: Microsoft reveals new cloud services and packages for games studios
53. Cuphead is heading to the Nintendo Switch with Xbox Live support
54. Cuphead will bring Xbox Live to Switch: Microsoft plans to add features from its online service to Nintendo’s platform with a post-launch update to StudioMDHR game
55. Minecraft is joining Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass lineup
56. Pokemon Go’s PvP was designed to appeal to players new and old–and it worked
57. Facebook launching new Gaming Tab: Update will make all gaming content accessible from main navigation, serve as new hub for streaming
58. Nvidia moves toward global rollout for GeForce Now cloud platform
59. Unity unveils new ties to Nvidia RTX pipeline, takes shots at Unreal
60. Epic lays plans for Unreal Engine ray tracing and physics revamps
61. Unity and Nvidia partner to launch real-time raytracing tech 
62. Unity partners with Havok to roll out new physics systems
63. Unity partners with Tencent for China, cloud gaming services
64. Unity partnering with Tencent to help its devs make waves in China
65. Tencent shares reach six month high after difficult 2018
66. Tencent Music financials reveal revenues grew by 72.9% in 2018
67. Devs share an inside look at Armello’s games-as-a-service success
68. How indie devs can form their own worker cooperative
69. 3 indie leaders share tips on keeping your small studio afloat without a hit
70. Call of Duty Mobile announced for iOS, Android, made by China’s Tencent
71. Call of Duty: Mobile will launch outside of China: Activision and Tencent unveil free-to-play title, confirm launch in North America, South America and Europe
72. The next Zelda game on Switch is an indie mash-up with Crypt of the Necrodancer
73. Suda51: Grasshopper team “stronger” for Travis Strikes Again experience – Grasshopper’s CEO may use the experience for a full sequel to the divisive Switch spin-off
74. Unknown Nintendo Game Gets Digitized With Museum’s Help, Showing The Importance Of Copyright Exceptions
75. UK Charts: Slow start for The Division 2: However, Ubisoft’s new action game makes No.1
76. Atari VCS console delayed following spec boost: Console will now be cooler and quieter, the manufacturer states
77. Discord evolves verified servers with new community tools
78. When and what to culturalize?: Netmarble US president Simon Sim lays out the Marvel Future Fight company’s approach to adapting games and monetization for new markets
79. Update: Lucasfilm Games job postings apparently not linked to studio revival
80. Chet Faliszek and Kimberly Voll form co-op game studio Stray Bombay
81. Chet Faliszek and Kimberly Voll form Stray Bombay Company: Former Valve writer and Riot Games designer launch their own co-op focused development studio
82. Former Valve designer, writer dishes on his new “co-op” game studio – Joined by ex-Riot dev: “Chet said one sentence. I said, ‘Oh my god. That’s the game.'”
83. Left 4 Dead’s developers are Back 4 Blood with new spiritual successor
84. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery grosses $110m in first year: Mobile RPG becomes most successful game from Jam City
85. Netflix Getting Its First Capcom Anime Series
86. Wargaming announces new IP in built with Amazon game tech: World of Tanks developers partners with Frag Lab on “next generation” free-to-play shooter
87. Mega Crit’s Slay the Spire has sold 1.5m copies
88. A Letter To The Apex Legends Player I Probably Disappointed
89. EA opens ‘multi-million dollar’ esports broadcast studio
90. EA builds its own esports broadcast studio: New facility “signals EA’s commitment to competitive gaming for years to come,” will host tournaments, esports-focused shows
91. NPD: Anthem was the best-selling game in February
92. EA: People want inclusive games with friendlier communities
93. Team spaces in Call of Duty esports league reportedly cost $25m each: Preparations begin for franchised, city-based competition around Activision’s flagship shooter
94. The Simpsons Producers Worked With Riot Games On An Upcoming Esports Episode
95. 5th Planet closes Nottingham studio: CEO says “now is the time to take the consequences” for underperforming games as it lays off 14 people
96. Doodle Jump Space Chase dev’s closure was third wave of layoffs since November: 5th Planet Games repeatedly slashed headcount at its Nottingham studio before shutting it down outright
97. “We need to move away from short-form VR experiences”: NDreams’ VP of development Tom Gillo discusses the company’s plans to become a AAA VR developer
98. ‘Beat Saber’ Sells Over One Million Copies
99. Beat Saber has crossed 1 million sales in under a year
100. Beat Saber sells over 1m copies: Milestone was reached in February across PSVR, Steam, and Oculus Home
101. Oculus Quest’s powerful, portable VR, as proven by the fun of Beat Saber
102. The Oculus Rift S is a new PC VR headset with built-in tracking
103. Hands-on with the new $399 Oculus Rift S: More pixels, zero webcams, better fit
104. Rohrer: Make fewer consumable games, more ‘unique situation generators’
105. The U.S. Army is building a giant VR battlefield to train soldiers virtually
106. Corporations, not consumers, drive demand for HP’s new VR headset
107. God of War leads BAFTA Games Award nominations
108. God of War leads BAFTA nominations: Sony’s epic in the running for 10 prizes, while Red Dead Redemption 2, Florence and Return of the Obra Dinn are up for six
109. Blind Squirrel lands $5M in funding to self-publish its first game, Drifters
110. Shadow Warrior developer Flying Wild Hog acquired by Supernova 
111. Bomber Crew dev Runner Deck acquired by Catalis
112. Double Eleven acquires VooFoo Studios: UK developer and publisher adds Mantis Burn Racing studio for undisclosed fee
113. Turtle Beach acquires PC peripherals company Roccat
114. Asteri acquires Prima Games: Strategy guide brand leaves behind physical releases, looks to help developers gather player feedback on unfinished titles
115. UK games retail: Prices continue to rise as supermarket power wanes
116. Blog: Engaging players through ritual
117. Wargroove dev demystifies game development by involving its community
118. Video: Unpopular opinion: All narrative is linear
119. How Neopets has influenced a generation of game developers
120. Games for Change Accelerator to offer funding and support for social impact games
121. Blockchain Games and Collectibles – Patents and Other Legal Issues 
122. U.S. Patent No. 7,628,688: Game apparatus, game control method, recording medium and program 
123. Former EA and THQ exec Danny Bilson to helm USC Games program
124. Return of the Obra Dinn takes Grand Prize at the 21st IGF Awards!
125. God of War wins Game of the Year at the 2019 Game Developers Choice Awards

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Plan to Break Up Big Tech
2. Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
3. Here’s how we can break up Big Tech
4. How To Actually Break Up Big Tech
5. SXSWarren: A day later, Elizabeth Warren defends her Big Tech breakup proposal
6. Elizabeth Warren Wants To Break Up Amazon, Google And Facebook; But Does Her Plan Make Any Sense?
7. Everyone’s Overreacting To The Wrong Thing About Facebook (Briefly) Blocking Elizabeth Warren’s Ads 
8. It Sure Sounds Like Elizabeth Warren Wants To Bring The EU Copyright Directive Stateside 
9. House of Lords calls for new Digital Authority to regulate tech giants: New authority would oversee regulation to “facilitate the urgent change that is needed” 
10. Seeking the “right regulation” of digital services: Lords’ Communications Committee articulates its vision 
11. UK lords call for central ‘Digital Authority’ to help regulate internet: They want government to take a more aggressive approach.
12. Regulating in a digital world (House of Lords) 
13. FTC Launches a New Task Force Dedicated to Monitoring the Tech Industry for Anti-Competitive Practices 
14. Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the world wide web: ‘We can get the web we want’
15. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says democracy ‘has a Facebook problem’: The comments came after the platform took down ads criticizing its power
16. Facebook and Google to be fined for harmful content, Margot James says
17. As anti-vax movement gets weirder—and dumber—Facebook announces crackdown
18. Anti-vaxx ‘mobs’: doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook
19. Zuckerberg: Facebook will shift focus to private networks instead of open ones
20. Why Facebook’s pivot to privacy could backfire: If all this is a PR stunt, it would be a very bad bargain
21. Facebook Watch Sets New 24-Hour Viewing Record With Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Red Table Talk’
22. Facebook Watch’s New Video Incubator To Act As Matchmaker For Publishers, Influencers
23. Zuckerberg: Facebook is Building a Machine to Read Your Thoughts
24. Facebook’s Privacy Cake
25. A Trip Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprawling, Embattled Compound in Hawaii
26. Yes, Actually, There Is A Lot Of Good News In Zuckerberg’s New Plans For Facebook
27. Facebook is testing ‘Watch Party’ features on Instagram, too
28. Facebook Watch’s New Video Incubator To Act As Matchmaker For Publishers, Influencers
29. When Facebook Goes Down, Don’t Blame Hackers
30. Instagram founders on Snapchat and breaking up Facebook
31. Do People Want A Better Facebook, Or A Dead Facebook?
32. How Two Years Of Instagram Stories Has Altered The Way We Love, Act And Play
33. Dangerous Speech and Misinformation Fans India – Pakistan War
34. GOP funds messaging sites that look remarkably like trusted local news
35. The Company That Owns MrBeast And Jake Paul’s YouTube MCN Just Lost Its Network Status For “Egregious and Repeated” Policy Violations
36. YouTube Terminated Yeah1’s MCN Status, So It’s Selling ScaleLab Back To Original Owners For $12 Million
37. YouTube Terminates All ‘SevenAwesomeKids’ Channels After Owner Ian Rylett Pleads Guilty To Child Abuse
38. YouTube Star Olivia Jade Emerges As Beneficiary In College Bribery Scandal
39. YouTube Continues Conspiracy Crackdown With Fact-Checking Cards On Search Results
40. Here’s How YouTube Fought ‘Captain Marvel’ Trolls 
41. YouTube fought Brie Larson trolls by changing its search algorithm 
42. Father Of Alison Parker Accuses YouTube Of Promoting Conspiracy Theories About His Daughter’s Murder
43. Youtube’s Family Vloggers Worry About Their Future Amid Comment Section Crackdown: Without comments, YouTube is just ‘short films’ 
44. YouTube, Louis Vuitton Host Emma Chamberlain At Paris Fashion Week
45. Disaster In The Making: Article 13 Puts User Rights At A Disadvantage To Corporate Greed
46. Major Labels Split On Support For Article 13; As Music Publishers Whine That They Can’t Make Money From Parodies
47. UN Human Rights Expert Warns EU Not To Pass Article 13
48. German Government Confirms That Article 13 Does Mean Upload Filters, Destroying Claims To The Contrary Once And For All
49. 170 Years Of German Publishers Demanding Special Copyrights For The Press Because Of New Technology
50. YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Roll Out To Critical Indian Market
51. Logan Paul Investigates One Of YouTube’s Top Conspiracies In ‘Flat Earth: To The Edge And Back’
52. Man Arrested After Driving Across U.S. To Confront Google Employees He Suspected Shut Down His YouTube Channel
53. Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
54. Identifying and acting on fake advertorial content
55. Court Ruling Provides Help to Brands Struggling with Grey Market Sales on Online Marketplaces
56. Elon Musk’s late-night announcement to raise prices and reopen some stores
57. Musk lawyers accuse SEC of “unconstitutional power grab”
58. EU Parliament Paid News Publisher AFP To Create Bogus Propaganda Video In Favor Of EU Copyright Directive
59. Beyond Hybrid War: How China Exploits Social Media to Sway American Opinion
60. Netflix “Doubling Down” On Interactive Content After Success Of ‘Bandersnatch’
61. Bandersnatch was a hit, so Netflix plans to make more interactive shows like it 
62. Netflix wants to make more interactive shows after the success of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch: Wacky comedies or romantic Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories are possibilities 
63. Netflix And ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Producer Team On Scripted Thai Cave Rescue Series
64. Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive finds pressure at the core of F1
65. Disney to close “vault” for good as it moves film library to streaming service
66. With Fox, Disney will have an even bigger footprint in Hollywood
67. Amazon to close all its pop-up shops: Company said Wednesday it will focus on opening more bookstores instead
68. Sorry Amazon: Philadelphia bans cashless stores
69. Hearst Opens L.A. Production Studio Ahead Of Clevver Relaunch In Coming Weeks 
70. BuzzFeed CEO Says Company Is Generating Over $200: Million Annually From Businesses That Didn’t Exist Two Years Ago
71. Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
72. Nvidia to acquire high performance computing company Mellanox for $6.9 billion
73. Allo Could Have Been Great. Google Blew It.
74. Do You Really Need Disclosures in Google Ads?
75. Google to Ban Political Ads in Canadian Election
76. Boeing Promises Software Update For Plane That Crashed
77. eCommerce Executive Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing on Online Marketplace
78. N.Y. Court of Appeals: No Difference Between “Private” and “Public” Posts in Discovery 
79. Windows 10 passes 800 million devices
80. Why I Regret Upgrading to an iPhone XS
81. A “serious” Windows 0-day is being actively exploited in the wild
82. Competition Bureau chief expected to continue focus on Big Data
83. Artificial Intelligence: Canadian and International Trends 
84. AI & Global Governance: The Advantages of Applying the International Human Rights Framework to Artificial Intelligence (Centre for Policy Research at United Nations University)
85. Laws should monitor bias in AI, experts say
86. U.S. Army Assures Public That Robot Tank System Adheres to AI Murder Policy
87. Could On-Demand Artificial Intelligence-based Authentication End The Fake News Menace?
88. Why Inclusion Matters for the Future of Artificial Intelligence
89. “What can artificial intelligence teach us about fairness?”
90. Patch is using AI to write 3,000 articles a week
91. Degenerate Feedback Loops in Recommender Systems (Ray Jiang, Silvia Chiappa, Tor Lattimore, Andras Agyorgy, Pushmeet Kohli)
92. This Site Detects Whether Text Was Written by a Bot
93. Tech That Can “Detect Emotion” Could Keep You From Getting A Job 
94. See The Robot Head That Might Interview You For Your Next Job
95. You’re Hired! This Site Generates Random Neural Network Résumés: These gibberish résumés show that HR might still require a human touch.
96. Facial recognition’s ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent – People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say. 
97. Using Creative Commons images to train artificial intelligence (Andres Guadamuz)
98. Why IBM Thinks Quantum Computers Will Boost Machine Learning
99. Data mining, AI and Media: A brave new world? 
100. Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
101. Failure to Launch – OSC Director Determines That Bitcoin Fund is Not Ready for the Retail Spotlight
102. The ability to say NO on the Internet
103. Reclaiming the Data Commons
104. Twitter Defeats Yet Another Lawsuit from a Suspended User–Cox v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
105. Section 230 Preempts Unfair Competition Law Claim–Taylor v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
106. Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal Of Defamation Lawsuit Against Actor James Woods
107. Tweet Containing Question Mark Isn’t Defamatory–Boulger v. Woods 
108. “We’re killing our capacity for creativity”: Twitter VP Bruce Daisley explains why checking emails outside of work and the misuse of open plan offices is creating so much stress
109. Twitter Debuts An In-App Camera Function
110. Twitter Launches Improved In-App Camera With 280-Second Video Limit
111. Filtering Software Defeats Another Lawsuit–PC Drivers v. Malwarebytes (Eric Goldman)
112. Vice May Be Looking to Raise Another $200 Million (Report)
113. After Laying Off 250 Staffers, Vice Is Now Looking To Raise $200 Million (Report)
114. Copyright in the Digital Single Market – Link Tax
115. Empowering the Marginalized: Tales of the Digital Good Life
116. You are seeing this because you are…:  Targeted advertisements are getting so specific they’ll choose the color of your next panties before you even knew you wanted them.
117. Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination
118. Calling Doctor Google? Technology Adoption and Health Information Seeking among Low-income African-American Older Adults (Hyunjin Seo, Joseph Erba, Mugur Geana, Crystal Lumpkins)
119. Cookie Policy
120. Website Law Alert – A Website’s Non-Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Copyright Act Can be Expensive
121. Is It Actually Okay To Touch Your Computer Screen? 
122. Who are the next billion users and what do they want?
123. A Book Review Of Code And Other Laws Of Cyberspace
124. Thoughtful design as the gateway to ethical data processing
125. ­­­
126. The Web’s Dad Isn’t Angry, Just Disappointed  
127. German Football League To Try Novel Antipiracy Strategy Of Actually Having Legal Alternatives For Its Content
128. The Trouble With Emojis
129. ‘Sealioning’ Is A Common Trolling Tactic On Social Media–What Is It?
130. Even the Queen Needs a Social Media Policy
131. Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files

CREATIVITY

1. Supreme Court Says Of Course You Need To Register Your Copyright Before You Can Sue; Copyright Trolls & Hollywood Freak Out
2. SCOTUS issues ruling in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC 
3. Supreme Court Requires Completed Copyright Registration Before Filing Suit–Fourth Estate Public Benefit v. Wall-Street
4. Application Rejected: Supreme Court Requires Registration to Commence Copyright Infringement Suit 
5. More Copyright Policy Should Be As Boring As This Supreme Court Decision
6. Banksy wins pivotal case against museum for trademark infringement
7. Court Rules “Transformed” Photo of Candidate is Fair Use, Not Infringement
8. Big Fair Use Win For Mashups: ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go!’ Deemed To Be Fair Use
9. NYTimes Reporter Gets Bogus Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed As Judge Philosophizes About SLAPP Suits
10. Adverts must avoid harmful gender stereotypes 
11. Race and Resistance Amid Feminism, Priming, and Capitalism: The (surprisingly-globalized) Visual of an Asian American Woman Activist
12. Captain Marvel review: The hero we, and Marvel Studios, need right now
13. Captain Marvel is kicking the box office’s ass
14. Captain Marvel’s Box Office Success Defies Trolls: In spite of the haters and the controversy, Captain Marvel prevailed at the box office this weekend.
15. Why It’s Actually Great That ‘Captain Marvel’ Is Just Fine 
16. Captain Marvel’s Directors Discuss the Importance of the Women in Carol Danvers’ Life
17. calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
18. 5 Reasons You Really Need To Go See ‘Captain Marvel’
19. Stan Lee’s Captain Marvel cameo raises a lot of questions
20. Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn’t him
21. Supreme Court Issues Two Important Decisions Tackling Copyright Registration and Litigation Costs
22. DuBay v. King
23. Denver Club “Stripped” Carmen Electra and Others of Compensation, Suit Says 
24. How generational attitudes towards IP are impacting the law
25. Was La Toya Jackson Right About Her Family All Along? 
26. Music Writer From 1999 Predicts What Bands Will Still Be Around in 2019

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1. I feel cheated’: Big telcos hike prices for $60 plans with 10 GB, sparking complaints
2. The Federal Government Signals a New Policy Approach for the CRTC in the Telecom Sector (Stephen Zolf)
3. Net Neutrality Update: House Hearing and Proposed Legislation
4. New Bill Would Enshrine The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Into Standalone Federal Law
5. John Oliver Robocalls Ajit Pai For Not Doing More To Thwart Robocalls
6. John Oliver fights robocalls… by robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC
7. Combatting Illegal Robocalls: FCC’s “Top Consumer Protection Priority” 
8. T-Mobile Still Pretending That Staying At Trump’s DC Hotel Isn’t An Obvious Ploy To Gain Merger Approval
9. Report Claims Trump Pushed For AT&T Time Warner DOJ Lawsuit To Hurt CNN, Help Rupert Murdoch 
10. AT&T CFO Says Growing WarnerMedia, Reducing Debt Are Key Priorities
11. AT&T raises DirecTV Now price—again—after promising lower post-merger bills
12. Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G” with full-page Sunday NYT ad
13. Yes, 5G will cost you more—Verizon plans $10 add-on charge for 5G access
14. Russian Telecom Giant Agrees to Pay $850 Million in Penalties to Resolve Alleged Involvement in FCPA Bribery Scheme 
15. Tucker Carlson’s war on the ruling class is a master class of misdirection
16. DramaFever’s Former Finance VP Sues Warner Bros., Alleging Anti-Asian Bias
17. Do TV Program Ratings Do a Good Job Telling Families Which Programs are Appropriate for Kids to Watch? Congress Wants to Know, So the FCC is Asking 
18. Cable and satellite TV sinks again as online streaming soars
19. Ajit Pai’s rosy broadband deployment claim may be based on gigantic error
20. Much Of The Broadband Growth Ajit Pai Credits To Killing Net Neutrality Was Actually Due To A Clerical Error
21. New York hasn’t followed through on order to kick Charter out of state
22. Portland Lawmakers Want to Block 5G Rollout, Citing Shaky Health Risks
23. A Call to Regulate E-Cig Advertising – What is the FCC’s Role in Regulating Advertising For the Vices? 
24. Researchers Tune In To Smallest Radio Frequency In Quantum Mechanics 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Redefining our privacy expectations: The SCC’s recent Jarvis ruling will have broad effects, particularly in the grey areas, on the use of surveillance technology.
2. Be Careful What You Wish For: ‘Privacy Protection’ Now Used As An Excuse To Cut Off Investigative Journalists From Key Database
3. New Florida Bill Seeks To Bury Recordings Of Mass Shootings
4. A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue >1 million certificates
5. Appeals Court Doesn’t Buy Government’s National Security Assertions; Says Lawsuit Against FBI Can Continue
6. OSFI Provides New Guidance on Technology and Cybersecurity
7. United States Federal Trade Commission strikes one for children’s privacy
8. FTC Not Kidding Around with TikTok’s Record-Setting COPPA Fine – Five Steps to Reduce Your Risk Now
9. Data Privacy Alert: TikTok to Pay $5.7 Million for Violating COPPA
10. FTC Enters Consent Decree with TikTok and Issues Largest-Ever Fine Under COPPA 
11. JavaScript infinite alert prank lands 13-year-old Japanese girl in hot water
12. Citrix says its network was breached by international criminals
13. Three men cop to $21 million vishing and smishing scheme: Phone-based scam may be low-tech, but it netted big bucks, prosecutors say.
14. An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
15. A brief history of Wi-Fi security protocols from “oh my, that’s bad” to WPA3
16. CBP Put A Bunch Of Journalists, Immigration Lawyers, And Activists On A Secret Watchlist
17. Clapper Continues To Pretend He Didn’t Lie To Congress About Domestic Surveillance Programs
18. Owner of MAGA-Friendly Yelp Knockoff Threatens to Call FBI After Researcher Exposes Security Holes
19. “Yelp, but for MAGA” turns red over security disclosure, threatens researcher
20. Major Data Privacy Changes at Tech Companies Are a Sign of the Times 
21. The Galaxy S10’s face unlock fooled by pictures, siblings
22. Why people think their phones are listening to them
23. It’s Apparently Easy To Pretend To Be A Cop, Grab Location Data From Cellular Carriers
24. FOIA Documents Detail DHS/CBP’s Rules-Free Rollout Of Biometric Scanning Program
25. Thailand Decides To Make Its Terrible Cybersecurity Law Even Worse

GAMES

1. Take-Two settles copyright case with another GTA V cheat creator: Defendant Erik Cameron acknowledges violations, pays undisclosed settlement
2. Take-Two Interactive shares jump after Sony acquisition rumors
3. About those rumors Sony is buying Take-Two…: How “purely unconfirmed market speculation” turns into headlines around the industry
4. Sega pulls Judgment from sale in Japan following drug arrest
5. Sega pulls Judgment from sale in Japan after actor arrested for alleged cocaine use: Publisher is considering next move after Pierre Taki admits to violating nation’s drug laws
6. Anita Sarkeesian talks about exposing gaming’s most toxic trends with sheer data
7. Inclusion in games a pressing concern for players, according to survey
8. Spyro Reignited Trilogy now features subtitles in cutscenes
9. Activision adds classic Spyro subtitles months after fan outcry [Updated]
10. War Child UK’s Armistice fundraiser raised $380k in 2018
11. The ‘equal pay and equal say’ structure of the game dev studio KO_OP
12. Don’t Miss: Dealing with the scourge of burnout in game dev
13. EA says it failed in response to Sims influencer’s alleged sexual harassment
14. EA apologises for delay in dealing with Sims community sexual predator: “We are disappointed in how events have unfolded and we own our responsibility to that,” says The Sims general manager
15. Respawn has banned 355,000 in ‘ongoing war’ againstApex Legends cheaters  
16. Respawn has banned over 355,000 Apex Legends cheaters since launch: “We take cheating very seriously and care deeply about the health of Apex Legends for all players,” says developer
17. MrBeast Drops Video Of Real Life, EA-Sponsored ‘Apex Legends’ Battle Starring 39 YouTubers Competing For $200,000
18. App Annie: Tencent retains spot as top revenue-earning publisher for third year – NetEase takes second once more, Activision Blizzard rises to No. 3
19. NetEase and Tencent included in latest round of China game approvals
20. Ninja reportedly earned $1m for promotion of Apex Legends: Top streamer Tyler Blevins one of the few paid for promotion of EA and Respawn’s surprise release battle royale
21. Celebrities drop Fortnite dance lawsuits, but only temporarily
22. Fortnite adjusts cross-platform play to separate out Switch and mobile users: Xbox One and PS4 players will be together by default with Switch and mobile in their own pool
23. ‘The Carlton’ Dances Its Way Out of Copyright Protection
24. 2 Milly, Alfonso Ribeiro, others drop lawsuits against Epic Games over dances: Supreme Court ruling on copyright law forces plaintiffs to wait for dances to be granted copyright registration 
25. Valve removes rape fantasy game from Steam: “We think ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam”
26. With Rape Day ban, Steam shows it’s not as “hands off” as it claims
27. UK politician calls for review of Steam, sexually violent content  
28. Rape Day prompts call for UK government review: British MP questions how Valve is “able to get away with this kind of stupidity” 
29. When good monetization meets bad ethics: Riot Games’ Leanne Loombe says the industry needs to be driven by more than revenue to avoid regulation
30. Building a better world through games: Riot’s Soha El-Sabaawi, Microsoft’s Gabi Michel, Tru Luv’s Brie Code, and Ubisoft’s Kaitlin Tremblay discuss challenges and strategies for making the industry and the world beyond it a better place
31. New Microsoft app lets users stream PC games to an Xbox One 
32. PS4 Remote Play is now possible on iPhones and iPads
33. Newest PS4 Update Lets You Stream Your PS4 Screen To iOS Devices
34. You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone
35. Sony launches PS4 Remote Play for iOS: App allows users to play PS4 games on mobile device, but sans DualShock 4 controllers
36. PlayStation Now launches in 7 more countries
37. Google patent application describes notification system for multi-device controller: Filing unearthed ahead of big GDC reveal next week
38. Jade Raymond appointed new VP at Google: EA Motive founder joins company just ahead of teased GDC reveal
39. Game industry vet Jade Raymond signs on as a Google VP
40. Jade Raymond Named Vice President of Google
41. All signs point to a Google game console announcement at GDC
42. Google Play apps with 150 million installs contain aggressive adware
43. Hennig: “Things are clearly not working the way they used to” – Uncharted creative director says mass layoffs a red flag that AAA development must change, shift to outsourcing “feels inevitable”
44. 209 were laid off from Blizzard as part of earlier Activision Blizzard cuts
45. Blizzard cuts more than 200 US jobs as part of Activision restructure: IT and marketing sees most layoffs, Overwatch firm’s cuts account for more than a quarter of planned 800 redundancies 
46. Blizzard brings original Diablo to GOG: Game is available now DRM-free, Warcraft and Warcraft II planned as well
47. Devil May Cry 5 is Capcom’s second UK No.1 of 2019
48. Anthem tumbles to No.4
49. Brawl Stars made $150m in its first three months: Supercell’s newest game has also passed 75 million installs, biggest audience is US
50. Marvel Strike Force first-year revenue topped $150 million
51. Octopath Traveler shipped 1.5 million copies, has a mobile prequel on the way
52. The Division 2 won’t be sold on digital third-party stores following its launch 
53. EA isn’t hosting a press conference at E3 2019  
54. EA foregoes EA Play press conference for E3: EA Play will begin the Friday before E3 and focus on hands-on demos, livestreams
55. Anthem’s launch and the power of the sunk-cost fallacy | Opinion: Bioware’s latest is one of the most egregiously unfinished and broken launches in many years, but these games often get free pass – for now
56. Halo: Master Chief Collection is finally confirmed for PC, will include Reach
57. Game studio funding: The right investor at the right stage
58. “Our whole world fell apart”: The fall of Splendy Games – Simon Sparks offers a cautionary tale of how an ambitious indie collapsed, and the toll it took on his mental health
59. Don’t let your first game be your last | Opinion: Game Dragons’ Philip Oliver advises indies on how to select a project that will set up the future of their studio
60. Evolving the way we think about community | Opinion: Abusive influencers show companies need to reconsider who they lend their legitimacy to, and how 
61. SpatialOS dev Improbable is setting up its own game development studios
62. Improbable opens first development studios in London and Edmonton: Former BioWare GM Aaryn Flyn to lead Canadian team, while UK will be headed by former DICE producer John Wasilczyk 
63. Tim Sweeney: Storefront battle will be won with developer support – Epic Games CEO says PC digital storefronts are “nearly perfect” for consumers already
64. Epic plans to add an undo button to Fortnite’s in-game store
65. Phoenix Point will be an Epic Games Store exclusive for a year  
66. Konami building esports centre to help Japan catch up with Western ‘pioneers’
67. Konami building esports centre in downtown Tokyo: 12-storey building will open doors this November, will offers classes to help grow Japan’s esports scene
68. How do you spell e-Stadium? 
69. Gaming Luminaries Ninja, DrLupo, And CouRage Sign With Talent Management Firm ‘Loaded’
70. Valve laid off 13 staff and terminated ‘a portion’ of contracted devs last month
71. Valve lays off 13, some involved with VR: Company says layoffs “do not represent any major changes”
72. Valve Laid Off Contractors and 13 Employees, Some Working on VR
73. Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield is no longer working on Valve’s Artifact
74. Valve terminates contract with Artifact designer: “We weren’t surprised by the layoff considering how rocky the launch was,” says Richard Garfield
75. GameByte: Parents’ increase game spending for their kids by 34% in 2018 – Nintendo Switch is the console children request to spend money on the most
76. Nintendo reportedly asks mobile partners to stop players from spending so much: Company concerned with being perceived as greedy, requests third party developers adjust microtransactions
77. Nintendo introduces Nintendo Labo VR Kit: Fourth Labo series kit includes six creations, including VR goggles for “shareable, simple VR gaming experiences”
78. Brand new Nintendo Labo kits will turn your Switch into a VR headset
79. Nintendo veterans reflect on the risks and rewards of hardware development
80. Nintendo Jumps into VR (Again) With Switch VR ‘Labo’ Kit Coming in April
81. How VR brought me inside a scary-real radioactive Fukushima reactor: Here’s what it’s like inside the melted down reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
82. CAA Continues Foray Into Gaming Creator Space With ‘Criken’, Elspeth Eastman (Exclusive)
83. Cloud games tech firm Hadean raises £7m
84. Black jackets, sunglasses, and radical accountability as a worker co-op: Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry explain why and how The Glory Society follows a “no bosses needed” model
85. U.S. Patent No. 6,231,444: Operating device for game machine 
86. Don’t Miss: A water interaction model for great video game boat physics
87. Video: Creating the unique visuals of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
88. Video: Recreating a classic era in automotive history inMafia III
89. Netflix is turning Dragon’s Dogma into an anime series
90. Dwarf Fortress is headed to Steam and itch.io, 17 years into its development
91. Unknown NES wrestling game discovered, beaten 30 years later
92. The death of Flash is exaggerated, argues one Flash developer
93. The eyes have it: Creating believable digital humans
94. Blog: The psychology of matchmaking
95. Blog: The two philosophies of gameplay
96. Blog: How music enhances virtual presence

Jon

DIGITAL

1.  To Fight Pedophiles, YouTube Disables Comments On Videos Featuring Kids
2. YouTube will disable comments on most videos of kids because of pedophiles
3. YouTube Disables Comments On Tens Of Millions Of Videos Featuring Kids In Effort To Prevent Adpocalypse 2.0
4. YouTube Bans Comments on Videos With Minors
5. YouTube is demonetizing all videos about Momo
6. Susan Wojcicki Says YouTube’s Mass Disabling Of Comments On Videos Of Kids Is “A Trade-Off” For Young Creators
7. YouTube CEO Defends Its Efforts To Reduce Violent Content
8. YouTube Is Demonetizing Every Video About The ‘Momo Challenge,’ Which Isn’t Actually A Thing
9. That Creepy Momo Sculpture Has Been Destroyed
10. YouTube TV Crosses 1 Million Subscriber Mark, Hulu With Live TV Nears 2 Million 
11. Michael Jackson Estate Turns To YouTube To Shift Focus From HBO’s ‘Leaving Neverland’
12. Marzia Bisgonin Says She “Feels Good” About Quitting YouTube, After Adjustment Period
13. YouTube May Never Be 100% Safe For Advertisers, Says Company’s U.K. Marketing Director
14. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Agrees To “Tea Session” With Shane Dawson Over ‘Trending’ Tab Concerns
15. Comedy Central Launches YouTube Channel To Host Slate Of Original Digital Programming
16. EU Set to Make Sweeping Copyright Changes
17. The politics behind the proposed copyright directive (Andres Guadamuz)
18. Supporters Of Article 13 Briefly Tried To Move Parliament Vote Up Before Scheduled Protests; Now Deny Plan That They Clearly Had
19. Why Does MEP Axel Voss Keep Lying About Article 13?
20. Article 13 Supporters Find Smoking Gun That Isn’t: Majority Of Tweets Criticizing Copyright Directive Are Not Coming From DC
21. Clash Of EU’s Poorly Thought Out Laws: German Data Protection Commissioner Warns That Article 13 Might Violate GDPR
22. EU officials say Facebook, Twitter, Google failing in “fake news” battle
23. The Equustek Effect: How One Case Has Sparked Canada’s Aggressive Approach Over Internet Jurisdiction (Michael Geist)
24. Twitter’s Shift Away From GPS-Tagged Tweets Suggests It Will Be Harder To Fight ‘Deep Fakes’
25. Twitter Unveils ‘Timing Is Everything’ Tool To Help Creators Maximize Video Viewership
26. BlackBerry Continues Its Shameful Descent Into Patent Trolling By Suing Twitter
27. Data Exploiting as an Abuse of Dominance: The German Facebook Decision
28. Facebook faces complaints from more former content moderators in lawsuit: The contract workers say repeated exposure to violent images caused significant psychological harm.
29. Facebook Finally Shuts Down Its Snooping, B.S. ‘VPN’ After A Full Year Of Complaints
30. In Wake Of Data Scandals, Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out Plan To Transform Facebook Into A “Privacy-Focused Communications Platform”
31. Mark Zuckerberg On Facebook’s Future And What Scares Him Most
32. Mark Zuckerberg pivots to privacy
33. Facebook’s Pivot To Privacy Is Missing Something Crucial
34. Instagram Fashionista’s Suit Survives Clever Challenges
35. Instagram is Working on a New Ad Unit for Sponsored Posts
36. Model Misbehavior? Gigi Hadid Faces Copyright Suit Over Instagram Post 
37. Willie’s Creative Commons lesson: The essential attribution requirement 
38. Supreme Court Holds Copyright Owners Must Wait to Commence an Infringement Suit Until After the Copyright Office Acts
39. Swiss Supreme Court Refuses To Order ISPs To Block ‘Pirate’ Sites
40. Oracle Shoots for “Full Moon” and Loses: Supreme Court Says Copyright Award of “Full Costs” Limited to Statutorily Enumerated Costs
41. A Big Copyright Mess: Miel Bredouw, Barstool Sports, Slob On My Carol Of The Bells And The DMCA
42. The rise of tech-worker activism
43. Closing the gender gap in the tech industry: Despite efforts from companies and universities, the number of women majoring in computer science is declining. A non-profit is trying to change that by offering coding lessons to girls as early as kindergarten
44. Get ready for a Facebook-sponsored cryptocurrency
45. After buying firm run by HackingTeam vets, Coinbase CEO has some regrets
46. ‘The Washington Post’ Streamed Michael Cohen’s Testimony On Twitch — With Emojis And Memes Aplenty
47. Twitch To Launch ‘Stream Star’ Singing Competition Series With $20,000 Prize
48. Legendary Shutters ‘Alpha’ Streaming Service From Nerdist And Geek & Sundry, Moves Programming To Twitch
49. The TikTok Takeover: How Gen Z’s New Favorite App Is Turning Memes Into Hits
50. TikTok, the Party has Stopped: FTC Levies Record COPPA Fine
51. FTC Issues Largest Fine Ever Under COPPA 
52. FTC Slams TikTok With Record Fine For Spying on Pre-Teens: “This record penalty should be a reminder to all online services and websites that target children.”
53. FTC Issues Record $5.7 Million COPPA Penalty Against Music.ly 
54. Musical.ly’s COPPA Failure Falls Flat at the FTC; Will Pay Note-Worthy Fine 
55. The FTC Probably Doesn’t Need A New ‘Big Tech’ Task Force. It Just Needs To Do Its Job
56. Can a Hashtag Make a False Claim? #Yes
57. The Deep Vault of Millennial Fintech Apps: Savings, investment, and credit card debt services are increasingly marketing to younger users. But they might be useless—or even predatory.
58. The Impossibility Of Content Moderation Extends To The People Tasked With Doing Content Moderation
59. Google pay equity analysis leads to raises for thousands of men
60. What Did Google Actually Find Out About How It Pays Women and Men?
61. Google to ban political ads ahead of federal election, citing new transparency rules
62. Google decision to ban political ads could leave election war rooms struggling to get message to voters
63. The Volvo Polestar 2 is the first Google Android car
64. Amazon to give power to brands to remove fakes from website: Retailer also introduces serial numbers and automatic detection to curb frauds sales
65. Amazon’s latest program to curb emissions? One delivery day per house, per week
66. Amazon to open all-new grocery stores separate from Whole Foods
67. Amazon Becomes Latest Video Platform To Pull Anti-Vaccination Content
68. NZ Study Yet Again Concludes That Piracy Is A Function Of Price And Ease Of Access
69. Insights: Sports Programming Is Digital Media Investors’ Hot New Game
70. Can the media business be saved? A “Spotify for news” is not the answer: Chavern’s organization advocates on behalf of 2,000 print and online media outlets.
71. Insights: Here’s Why Netflix’s ‘Roma’ Near Miss Still Means It Won Oscar Season
72. Steven Spielberg is gunning to make sure Netflix never has another Oscars contender like Roma
73. After Roma swept the Oscars, Steven Spielberg seeks to block streaming films
74. Steven Spielberg Wants To Bar Netflix From The Academy Awards
75. Roma wasn’t built in a day; how Netflix conquered the Oscars 
76. Netflix is testing even more expensive subscription prices 
77. Inside the secretly effective–and underrated–way Netflix keeps its shows and movies at the forefront of pop culture 
78. Netflix Heads to Court: How Fox’s Poaching Trial Could Reshape Hollywood
79. With Big Stars and Paid Subscriptions, Luminary Aims to Be the Netflix of Podcasts
80. Until the Disney-Fox Deal Closes, Networks Find Themselves in Limbo: Upfronts are looming, but post-acquisition plans can’t be put into action yet 
81. How Fox Employees Are Bracing for Life Under Disney
82. Disney Is Reportedly In Active Discussions To Purchase AT&T’s 10% Stake In Hulu
83. Why Is Disney Releasing ‘Avengers,’ ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Frozen’ And ‘Maleficent’ Sequels In The Same Year?
84. AT&T Plans to Revamp CNN’s Digital Arm: Telecom giant sees opportunity to reach larger audience; intends to focus on product development and analytics
85. Medium lowers its paywall for Twitter users
86. Once Again, Sharing Streaming Passwords Is Not ‘Piracy’ Or ‘Freeloading’
87. Elon Musk said he doesn’t respect the SEC—he might come to regret it
88. Thunderbolt 3 becomes USB4, as Intel’s interconnect goes royalty-free
89. Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome
90. Microsoft’s latest security service uses human intelligence, not artificial
91. Microsoft is first major cloud provider to open African data centers
92. Behind the Hype of Apple’s Plan to End Mining
93. ‘The risk paid off’: How Apple prevailed in the U.S.-China trade war – But Apple could face future threats if the latest trade talks fail.
94. Yes, Apple. Siri Is Extremely Terrible
95. Apple no longer refuses to fix iPhones with third-party batteries
96. After the Galaxy Fold, Samsung has two more foldable smartphones coming
97. Y Combinator CEO: AI Will Replace Jobs, But Life Will Be Awesome
98. Are robots competing for your job? Probably, but don’t count yourself out.
99. Your March Horoscope Is Here, And Our AI Astrologer Is Getting Smarter
100. Making artificial intelligence socially just: why the current focus on ethics is not enough
101. Robo ART! – Copyright originality
102. Why vinyl records survive in the digital age
103. Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception
104. Toughest Work in Technology Transactions: Due Diligence Turnaround
105. Emerging Digital Technology and the “Law of the Horse” (Alicia Solow-Niederman)
106. Blockchain-based Digital Assets and the Case for Revisiting Copyright’s First Sale Doctrine (Phillip Shaverdian)
107. Blockchain Technology and the Government: Dealing With the Threat of Data Manipulation and Increasing Records Longevity (Alexander Fung)
108. Injustice Ex Machina: Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Sentencing (Andrew Lee Park)
109. Destination Unknown: The Perilous Future of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Technologies Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Chris Ott)
110. Weirdly interconnected qubits give D-Wave a big jump in performance

CREATIVITY

1. Australia Threatening Over 100 Journalists For Accurately Reporting On Cardinal Pell’s Sex Abuse Trial
2. How to protect journalism in the digital age? The Cairncross Review reports 
3. The Making of the Fox News White House: Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
4. How David Pecker Built His Tabloid Empire AMI on Fear
5. Source: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database – The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people
6. Meet J2’s Vivek Shah, the CEO quietly presiding over a $4 billion media business: J2 Global owns a portfolio of media and internet service companies that includes PCMag, Mashable, and Speedtest by Ookla.
7. The Tyranny Of Copyright: How A Once-Humble Legal Issue Has Tormented A Generation Of Speech
8. Big Win For Open Access, As University Of California Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions, Worth $11 Million A Year
9. Access Copyright v. York U – the Federal Court of Appeal Hearing is March 5 and 6, 2019
10. Big Win For Open Access, As University Of California Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions, Worth $11 Million A Year
11. Milan court partly sides with Banksy in interim proceedings for trade mark and copyright infringement
12. Judge Refuses To Hand The Government Biker Gang’s Trademark
13. Hollywood Accounting Rears Its Ugly Head Again: Fox’s ‘False Testimony’ And ‘Aversion For The Truth’ Leads To $179M Fine
14. Don’t Celebrate Copyright Being Used For Political Censorship Just Because You Don’t Like The President
15. Producer Scott Rudin Going Around Killing Off Licensed Community Theater Shows Of To Kill A Mockingbird
16. U.S. Supreme Court Decides Two Copyright Cases and Impacts Registration Strategy for Copyright Owners
17. Registrations, not Applications: Supreme Court Says Copyright Owners Must Wait to Sue 
18. Supreme Court’s Strict Construction of Copyright Act Pre-Suit Requirements Likely to Up the Ante on “Preregistration”
19. Supreme Court Defines “Full Costs” with Respect to the Copyright Act
20. Copyright Lawsuits: Harder to Bring, Harder to Collect
21. E.D. Pa. Court Dismisses Case, Finding That Fax Was Not An Advertisement 
22. Captain Marvel Review: Carol Danvers’ debut puts a fresh spin on Marvel’s Phase One origin story formula.
23. It’s Been 20 Years Since “Cruel Intentions,” And There’s Never Been Another Movie Quite Like It
24. There’s Only One Surviving Blockbuster Left on Planet Earth

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Democrats’ net neutrality bill would fully restore Obama-era FCC rules
2. AT&T Begins Trying To Screw Up HBO In Earnest
3. HBO CEO Richard Plepler, Who Forever Shifted TV Landscape, Abruptly Steps Down
4. HBO boss quits as owner AT&T seeks more shows and more profit
5. “The AT&T Guys, At The End Of The Day, Are Bean Counters”: With Plepler Out Of HBO, Wall Street Scrutinizes The Logic Of AT&T’s Monster Reorg
6. As HBO and Turner bosses quit, AT&T announces big Time Warner reorganization
7. TV’s brand illusion: It’s no longer about the network. And it probably never was.
8. Trump to staff on AT&T/Time Warner merger: “I want that deal blocked!”
9. T-Mobile has spent $195,000 at Trump hotel while lobbying for Sprint merger
10. US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy As Comcast’s Broadband Monopoly Grows
11. Comcast set mobile pins to “0000,” helping attackers steal phone numbers
12. Class Damages Models After Comcast: Rigorous Proof or Expert’s Promise?
13. Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Force Ajit Pai to Actually Do His Job
14. The future of cable may be no TV at all, as one small company from Arizona shows
15. Broadcasting and Brexit: 10 Things You Need to Know Today

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. China’s “democracy” includes mandatory apps, mass chat surveillance: Researcher discovers servers in China collecting data on 364 million social media profiles daily.
2. The Democratization of Surveillance
3. Report: The NSA’s Domestic Metadata Collection System Is Not Being Used and May Be Discontinued
4. Telephony Metadata: Is the Contact-Chaining Program Unsalvageable?
5. The NSA Appears To Have Shut Down Its Bulk Collection Of Phone Records
6. House aide: NSA has shut down phone call record surveillance
7. Google temporarily shuts down Android TV photo sharing after privacy bug
8. Post-Charlottesville Doxxing and Misidentification Creates Legal Risks–Vangheluwe v. GotNews
9. Seventh Circuit Ignores Two Supreme Court Decisions To Hand Out Bad Precedent On Cell Site Location Info
10. Two Months Later, News Orgs Are Finally ‘Allowed’ To Report On Top Vatican Official’s Child Molestation Conviction
11. Mozilla Says Australia’s Compelled Access Law Could Turn Staff There Into ‘Insider Threats’
12. Do professionals have the “right to be forgotten”? 
13. Deception & Trust: A Deep Look At Deep Fakes
14. Stupid Patent Of The Month: Veripath Patents Following Privacy Laws
15. Why ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is a Remarkably Common Password
16. The Digital Revolution Takes on New Meaning: Among Calls for Heightened U.S. Data Privacy Measures, California is King
17. California and European Privacy FAQs: Do all companies have to post their privacy notices online?
18. Congress Holds Hearings on Privacy and Data Protection 
19. Chicago Tried To Justify Not Informing ACLU Of Social Media Monitoring Partner By Saying ACLU Is Really Mean
20. The Importance of Privacy by Design in Mobile Apps (Debunking the Aphorism that any Publicity is Good Publicity) 
21. Company’s Facebook Snooping Didn’t Prevent Critical Trade Secrets Injunction 

GAMES

1.  Epic Games is now being sued over loot boxes in Fortnite: Save the World
2. Epic Games sued over ‘predatory’ Llama loot boxes: Even though randomized llama loot boxes aren’t a thing anymore
3. California man sues Epic Games over “predatory” loot boxes: Complaint alleges Save the World’s loot llamas were “like playing a slot machine”
4. Shakedown: Hawaii coming first to the Epic Games Store
5. Kartridge is the latest PC storefront using exclusive games to entice players
6. Unpacking Recent Loot Box Updates  
7. Anthem: Bioware Addresses Fan Concerns With Loot Update, Here’s What It Changes
8. Anthem is crashing entire PlayStation 4 systems, say players
9. EA soliciting help from Anthem players to figure out PS4 crashing issues
10. Sony begins refunding Anthem purchases in light of “full power down” reports
11. How games whitewash Nazism, and the responsibility developers have to history: Through the Darkest of Times devs explore the industry’s dangerous failure when it comes to depicting fascism
12. One week later, THQ Nordic disavows 8chan AMA
13. THQ Nordic group CEO apologizes for perturbing 8chan AMA
14. THQ Nordic parent company apologizes for 8chan AMA: Co-founder and CEO Lars Wingefors “condemns all unethical content this website stands for”, regrets implicit endorsement
15. Valve bans sexual violence game from Steam, but stops short of condemning it
16. Steam is in the rape fantasy business | Opinion – Upcoming visual novel highlights the problems with Valve’s refusal to apply content standards to its storefront
17. Developers are manipulating Steam’s Popular Upcoming list
18. Academics call for industry co-operation on gaming disorder: “We are scrabbling around in the dark here, lighting little matches and seeing tiny bits of the pictures around us,” says Dr David Zendle.
19. Nintendo to smartphone game makers: You can only gouge our players so much
20. Report: Nintendo is telling mobile development partners to stop players overspending
21. Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000, works less than 8 hours per day: Platform holder’s recruitment page also reveals average worker spends 13.5 years at the company
22. Nintendo’s first VR product in 24 years is coming to Nintendo Switch
23. Newzoo: Games are the third most-popular mobile app category – Half of mobile app users at least check into gaming apps, social media and shopping remain more popular 
24. Fortnite teams with Weezer in attempt to become the next Second Life: Follows record-breaking stream of DJ Marshmello concert inside its battlegrounds.
25. Vivendi has sold off its final Ubisoft shares
26. Vivendi sells remaining Ubisoft shares: Media conglomerate ultimately gained €1.2 billion from failed attempt to acquire publisher
27. There’s confusion around an unofficial adaptation of One Hour One Life, says dev  
28. One Hour One Life dev struggles with unofficial port: Jason Rohrer stands by decision to release game into the public domain despite problems with customer confusion around mobile adaptation
29. Multiplayer Skyrim mod criticized for lifting code from another mod
30. Devil May Cry 5 deluxe edition will let players experience the game like a low-budget movie
31. How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize The Way Video Games Are Developed And Played: The advances of modern AI research could bring unprecedented benefits to game development_­­­
32. Duplication or innovation? How games become genres: Earthbound Games’ Colin Anderson reflects on the rise of the FPS, the sandbox RPG and more 
33. A new triple-A Star Wars game will be announced at Celebration Chicago in April 
34. What Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is and how it could change EA
35. Apex Legends attracts 50 million players in first month 
36. Apex Legends hits 50 million players: Respawn’s free-to-play battle royale game passes milestone in its first month of release
37. Is Red Dead Redemption Online tanking Take-Two’s share price? | Opinion: Despite fantastic sales, Take-Two can’t catch a break – perhaps because investors expected RDR2 to be something it simply isn’t 
38. Activision Blizzard: 800 job cuts could “negatively impact” our business: Call of Duty publisher has set aside $150 million to compensate affected staff
39. Activision recognises $164m revenues from giving up Destiny rights: Publisher reiterates it “no longer has any material rights or obligations” to Bungie’s franchise
40. New ToeJam & Earl game, 8Bitdo controller get Genesis nostalgia right: Sega wasn’t involved with game or controller, but its Sega Ages line gets a shout, too. 
41. One of Pokémon’s New Starters, in the Style ofDetective Pikachu
42. Why arcade Pac-Man players literally grabbed onto the game
43. Don’t Miss: Between a rock and a ‘Harada’ place: The massive Tekken interview
44. Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links hits 90 million downloads 
45. Cloud gaming will determine the new lord of digital distribution 
46. Tencent set to unveil new cloud gaming service: Tencent Instant Play to bring cloud gaming to PC and Android, overview with Intel planned for GDC 
47. Nexon shortlists five bidders including Kakao and Tencent
48. Tencent among shortlisted bidders for Nexon: Netmarble not invited but forms consortium with MBK partners, main bidding to begin in early April
49. Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Comcast make bids to buy Nexon
50. Horizon Zero Dawn sold over 10 million copies in 2 years
51. PlayStation’s upcoming Chinese conference aims to boost locally-made games
52. Sony PlayLink developer Wish Studios has shut down
53. PlayStation Japan signals imminent end to PS Vita shipments
54. Sony ends PlayStation Vita production in Japan
55. Blog: Move or Die and its four year journey to the PS4
56. Here are the most popular PlayStation games, based on public trophy data
57. Wish Studios closing down: Brighton-based indie developer shutters, leading to 13 redundancies
58. Dev shares real talk about the personal costs of living in fear of layoffs
59. Discless Xbox “Maverick” could arrive as soon as May
60. Disc-less Xbox arriving in May, report suggests: Latest information appears to confirm several rumours from last year
61. Phil Spencer claims Xbox’s multi-device future will benefit everyone  
62. From “schokly” licensed games to a critically acclaimed indie: Oxenfree co-director Sean Krankel on the collapse of shovelware and how it helped shape Night School Studio
63. Dear Villagers: “We’re trying to find the best indie games that could be AA” – Head of publishing Guillaume Jamet talks us through the ambition behind Playdius’ rebrand 
64. Playdius rebrands as Dear Villagers, plans to focus on PC and console titles
65. Dying Light dev TechLand to close Polish publishing department
66. Techland planning to shut down Polish publishing division by the end of the year: 13 employees expected to be laid off by end of 2019, global publishing business to remain intact
67. Merch maker Numskull Designs is getting into game publishing
68. Merchandise firm Numskull forms games publishing division with Rising Star vets
69. Dropbox’s Angela Roseboro is Riot Games’ first chief diversity officer: “I was so taken by the heart and soul of this company and – in spite of setbacks or hurdles – I’m excited to be part of this journey”
70. POC in Play formed to promote racial diversity, equity in UK gaming industry: Founders include multiple industry veterans, with UsTwo Games offering support
71. BrightLocker dissolved as devs claim unpaid debts: Holding company takes over community-building platform as developers say they haven’t been paid money owed
72. Roblox boasts over 1 billion hours of engagement per month
73. In Less Than A Day, ‘Critical Role’ Fans Pledge $3.3+ Million To Bring Animated ‘Vox Machina’ Special To Life
74. Update: Critical Role Animated Special Kickstarter Hits $4 Million
75. eSports – Advergaming and the new frontier of advertising law and image rights 
76. Nintendo announces Tetris 99 Maximus Cup tournament
77. ESL & Oculus Announce Esport’s VR League Season 3, Biggest Prize Pool Yet
78. Warriors Gaming Squad drafts NBA 2K League’s first woman player – Chiquita Evans: “Barriers are made to be broken… I’m just the beginning”
79. VR and cloud gaming frenzy seizes MWC as 5G hype builds
80. Hipfire Games raises additional $205k for VR gameFailspace
81. VR and mobile developer Hipfire Games raises over $200,000: Financial investment to boost debut game Fail Space
82. Crowdfunding platform BrightLocker shuts down  
83. Why HTC targeted Vive Pro at gamers, and why Pro Eye won’t replace it 
84. Magic Leap Announces First Round of Independent Creator Program Grant Recipients 
85. Oculus planning a stricter, ‘quality-first’ approach for Quest app submissions
86. Oculus Quest targets “quality-first” approach with more stringent store curation: Developers must have concept document approved before submitting games to Quest store
87. Blog: Designing a planet-scale real-world AR platform
88. Blog: Remembering Advance Wars
89. Road to the IGF: Seemingly Pointless’ eCheese Zone
90. YouTube Premium’s Woman-Led Video Game Dramedy ‘It’s A Man’s World’ Sets Core Cast
91. The Influencer is dead. Long live the influencer: Latest analysis shows Top 10 influencers account for 84% of yearly view growth – but a spot in that list is not secure year-on-year
92. U.S. Patent No. 4,445,187: Video games with voice dialog 
93. Blog: Historians discuss Far Cry 2

Jon

DIGITAL

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

CREATIVITY

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

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

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

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

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

GAMES

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

Jon

DIGITAL

1.  The U.S. is About to Hit Facebook With a Multi-Billion Dollar Fine: It could be the largest tech fine in history.
2. Facebook may face multi-billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal
3. Facebook is a law-breaking “digital gangster,” UK government report says
4. It’s time for a “radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people,” the British parliament says: Facebook acts like “digital gangsters,” “Mark Zuckerberg has shown contempt” toward governments
5. Facebook, Google, CDC under pressure to stop anti-vax garbage from spreading
6. Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users 
7. Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’ 
8. The Hatebook: Inside Facebook’s thriving subculture of racism
9. Facebook Blames Users for Its Latest Privacy Scandal as Lawmakers Ask to Chat
10. Roger McNamee: ‘It’s bigger than Facebook. This is a problem with the entire industry’
11. Zuckerberg defends big tech, says Facebook should remain free 
12. Mark Zuckerberg is ‘potentially interested’ in putting Facebook login on the blockchain: ‘There’s a lot of things I think would be quite attractive about that’
13. Zuckerberg, forgetting about Facebook’s Portal: ‘We definitely don’t want a society where there’s a camera in everyone’s living room’ 
14. ‘They have no clue about network security’: China data leak exposes mass surveillance across Muslim Xinjiang
15. When surveillance meets incompetence: Evil, and poorly done at that
16. A Court Just Sent a Man to Prison For 3D Printing a Gun
17. Someone Impersonated New Jersey’s Attorney General To Demand Cloudflare Takedown 3d Printed Gun Instructions
18. Florida inmate says prison sold him $569 of music, then took it away
19. Hollywood tries to cripple several alleged pirate TV services in one lawsuit
20. Study Reinforces How Much The Internet Has Enabled Content Creators To Make Money
21. Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda
22. HuffPost Fires Social Media Editor For Being Incredibly Racist On Social Media
23. Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
24. This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings: The future of the internet is lots and lots of fake stuff.
25. Twitter CEO Says Users Could Get a Feature to ‘Clarify’ Their Bad Tweets
26. Another Politician Probably Violated the First Amendment By Blocking a Constituent on Twitter–Campbell v. Reisch (Eric Goldman) 
27. Indian Lawmakers Considering TikTok Ban, Calling App “Inimical To Law And Order”
28. European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
29. The EU’s Digital Copyright Directive – where are we now? 
30. EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
31. The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: text agreed in trialogue discussions
32. EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths 
33. As EU Politicians Insist That It’s All Just ‘Bots’ And ‘Astroturf’ Tons Of People Showing Up In Real Life To Protest
34. Beijing’s denial of Huawei control bucks expert analysis
35. Can Russia Actually ‘Unplug’ From The Internet? 
36. Nestle and others have suspended YouTube ads over news of a pedophile network on the site
37. Disney Reportedly Pulls YouTube Ads Over Child-Exploitation Controversy
38. Disney reportedly pulls ads from YouTube following child exploitation controversy: Following Nestlé and Epic Games
39. The YouTube Pedophile Commenting Scandal, Explained: The predator problem has been public knowledge since at least 2017. But the online video giant has been done nothing meaningfully to fix it.
40. How YouTube reactionaries are breaking the news media 
41. Texas Study Finds Majority Of ‘Flat Earthers’ Are Indoctrinated On YouTube
42. Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers: Conspiracy theories shown on video-sharing site persuade people to doubt Earth is round 
43. YouTube revamps community guidelines strike system: In an effort to make policies clearer and consistent
44. YouTube Is Changing Its Community Guidelines Strike System For The First Time In A Decade
45. How Kids YouTube Star Blippi Used Copyright Law to Hide His Harlem Shake Poop Video: Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
46. German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google
47. Jimmy Fallon Becomes First Late-Night Host To Hit 20 Million YouTube Subscribers
48. Vox lawyers briefly censored YouTubers who mocked The Verge’s bad PC build advice
49. Users alarmed by undisclosed microphone in Nest Security System
50. Google Says Unlisted, Built-In Microphone on Nest Devices Wasn’t Supposed to Be ‘Secret’
51. Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
52. Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers
53. Google Play apps with >10 million installs drain batteries, jack up data charges
54. YouTuber Matt Watson Uncovers “Wormhole” Of Fetishizing Comments On Videos Of Young Children
55. Fitness Influencer ‘Scammer’ Brittany Dawn Is “Getting This Business In Order,” Though Some Fans Are Unconvinced
56. 7-Year-Old YouTube Megastar Ryan ToysReview Is Getting His Own Nickelodeon Series
57. Victoria Beckham Launching YouTube Fashion Channel
58. Matthew Patrick Slams Defy Media’s Bank For Comparing Itself To YouTubers Who Lost Money 
59. The latest Instagram influencer frontier? Medical promotions.: Big pharma is partnering with influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices.
60. The Latest In Trademark Abuse Is Registering Marks To Obtain Ownership Of Instagram Accounts 
61. Meet The Beauty Influencer Who Isn’t Afraid To Say What She Thinks: Jackie Aina has been unapologetic about holding the makeup industry accountable to the black women who buy its products.
62. Elon Musk Says He Filmed PewDiePie Collab As T-Series Subscriber Race Heats Up
63. Rooster Teeth Resurrects Select Machinima Series, Including ‘Inside Gaming’, In Wake Of Shutdown
64. Hulu Acquires Award-Winning Documentary About 16-Year-Old Influencer 
65. Hulu Ad Campaign Spells Out That Its Influencers Get Paid
66. Hulu’s New ‘Sellouts’ Ad Campaign Tells Viewers It Pays Influencers To Endorse It
67. Snapchat Expands NHL Pact to Add Hockey Highlights, Curated Stories
68. The New York Times quietly paused its Snapchat channel
69. New Algorithm Detects Fake Online Dating Profiles 
70. Netflix Unveils Canadian Production Hub To Accommodate Projects From Guillermo Del Toro, John Green
71. Claiming for Unlawful Prophets – $50 Million Satanic Netflix Suit Settled
72. Netflix’s The Punisher and Jessica Jones Are Officially Cancelled
73. Netflix makes it official, canceling Punisher and Jessica Jones 
74. How Dark Horse is building its own movie and TV empire out of comic books, from Netflix to a ‘Hellboy’ reboot 
75. Netflix isn’t talking about itself like a tech company anymore
76. “Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller
77. Feeling unwelcome, Amazon ditches plans for New York hub
78. Facing opposition, Amazon scraps New York HQ2 plans
79. Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York
80. Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well
81. Amazon’s grave HQ2 mistake: The political landscape changed but the company’s playbook didn’t 
82. Amazon Launches Social Media Strategy For Massive ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prequel
83. Amazon Alexa And The Search For The One Perfect Answer
84. Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books—again
85. India is turning its back on Silicon Valley
86. The Big Data Revolution Will Be Sampled: How ‘Big Data’ Has Come To Mean ‘Small Sampled Data’
87. Are the algorithms that power dating apps racially biased?: If the algorithms powering these match-making systems contain pre-existing biases, is the onus on dating apps to counteract them?
88. Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans: Capitalism is just another game that the AI intends to win.
89. AI Executive Order – What’s Next? 
90. Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous to Release
91. The AI Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous To Make Public
92. OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release
93. Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI
94. Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too: A new documentary lets robots interview and film humans.
95. India’s first RoboCop: Kerala Police inducts robot, gives it SI rank: Chief Minister Vijayan welcomed the Sub Inspector (SI) ranked robot into the service with an honorary salute and the ‘RoboCop’ responded with a perfect salute. It has been named KP-Bot.
96. Gambling Commission announces new rules for online gambling 
97. New WIPO study on A.I. inventions and EDPB opinion on clinical trials 
98. This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
99. We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs
100. Ocasio-Cortez is right, algorithms are biased – but we can make them fairer
101. On WhatsApp, Rumours, and Lynchings
102. Did an employer breach its duty of care to an employee when it changed the passwords on his personal internet accounts on his company-provided mobile?
103. What happens when you create a fake music record label and upload bad music to Spotify: A scholarly experiment to figure out how Spotify works (and how to trick it) 
104. Spotify Paid Nearly $340 Million to Buy Podcast Startups Gimlet and Anchor
105. SoundCloud Launches Tool to Distribute Music to Other Streaming Services
106. DJ Deadmau5 Quits Twitch After Platform Suspends Him For Homophobic Remarks 
107. The Record Label of The Future is No Label At All: Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry.
108. It Sounds Like It Could Be a While Until We Actually Get Apple’s Streaming Service
109. Apple Taps Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams, More For Video Service Launch Event On March 25
110. Gambling, porn, and piracy on iOS: Apple’s enterprise certificate woes continue
111. Apple reportedly planning to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps by 2021
112. Samsung’s foldable phone is finally official—meet the Galaxy Fold
113. Microsoft culls secret Flash whitelist after Google points out its insecurity
114. Florida Court Finds Virtual Currency Subject to Money Service Businesses Law 
115. Trouble in Paradise: Florida Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin is Money Transmission
116. JPMorgan is creating a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar
117. Inside the London tech scene’s frantic plan to stop Brexit: Britain’s techies still want to bring Brexit crashing down – and they’re scrambling to build the tools to do so
118. The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?: A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
119. GoFundMe: Hope, but no solution, for the needy 
120. Judges Are Struggling To Interpret Emoji In Court Cases
121. How Would You Feel Having Your Emoji Messages Read Out in Court?
122. Queensland drivers set to get emoji number plates: Apparently there’s no stopping the spread of emoji – and road users are about to start seeing more of the little characters.
123. Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
124. Welcome to the cyber world: The real-world tech behind Alita: Battle Angel

CREATIVITY

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

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

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

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

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

GAMES

1. Oxford study finds no link between violent video games and teen aggression
2. No link between violent video games and increased aggression in teens, study finds: Oxford University describes study as “one of the most definitive to date”
3. Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents’ aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report (Andrew Przybylski & Netta Weinstein)
4. Niantic poised to settle Pokémon Go trespassing complaints
5. Pokémon GO Lawsuit Settlement Might Lead To Some Pokéstops And Gyms Being Removed
6. The mythos and meaning behind Pokémon’s most famous glitch 
7. Epic Games pulls Fortnite YouTube ads over child predator concerns  
8. Organizers of unsanctioned Fortnite festival facing lawsuit from Epic Games
9. Epic Games files legal claim against Fortnite Live event organizers: Organizer Exciting Events forced to stop trading to limit losses
10. Fortnite dance off: Fresh Prince star refused copyright on ‘Carlton Dance’ 
11. One Of The People Suing Fortnite Over ‘Stolen’ Dance Steps Gets His Dance Rejected By The US Copyright Office
12. Alfonso Ribeiro denied copyright to Carlton dance, damaging Fortnite lawsuit: US Copyright Office says routine is too simple to be protected by law
13. ‘Fortnite’ Publisher Pauses YouTube Ads After They Ran On Videos Where Commenters Fetishized Children
14. Respawn has already banned over 16,000 cheaters fromApex Legends
15. Ninja Wins Twitch’s First ‘Apex Legends’ Tournament By One Point 
16. Apex Legends already beat Fortnite’s single-day viewership record on Twitch
17. Apex Legends beats Fortnite record for single-day Twitch viewing: Respawn’s Twitch Rivals event racked up 8.4 million hours viewed, streaming platform’s fourth highest in five years
18. ‘Fortnite’s’ Massively Attended Virtual Concert is a Potent Glimpse of VR’s Future
19. Wrestler Booker T Sues Activision For Copyright Infringement Over Fairly Generic Character Depiction
20. US labor organization AFL-CIO urges game developers to unionize in open letter
21. How did Yoshi’s Island music end up in an official US gov’t Web game?
22. Revenue and profit up as Paradox experiences best year to date
23. Paradox Interactive breaks new ground for modding on consoles: Independent Paradox Mods platform will provide a direct channel to console audiences “without pre-moderation”
24. Paradox and Microsoft have created an open modding platform for Paradox titles
25. Microsoft, Paradox allow open game modding on Xbox One for the first time
26. Devs accuse Sony of “playing favorites” with PS4’s cross-platform support 
27. Stubbornness over cross-play reminds us of bad old Sony | Opinion
28. Sony: We Are Totally Open For Crossplay, Game Developers: No, You Totally Are Not
29. Sony is readying to shut down PlayStation Vita production in Japan
30. PS4-exclusive Dreams is launching into early access this spring  
31. Employees at Blizzard’s France location unsure if their jobs are safe
32. 134 jobs in danger at Blizzard’s French office
33. Rewarding profit and nothing else | Opinion : Activision Blizzard’s mass layoffs amid record profits fits the company’s disregard for optics, but it may be self-defeating in the long run
34. Nitro Games begins layoff talks, could cut workforce in half
35. Mobile dev Next Games lays off 26 staff  
36. Q&A: Non-profit Take This addresses mental health challenges among gaming community and creators 
37. Ubisoft holds steady in Q3 despite competitive holiday 
38. Ubisoft isn’t worried about an influx of new games stealingRainbow Six Siege’s thunder
39. Why Ubisoft moved The Division 2 to the Epic Games store: CEO Yves Guillemot praises Epic’s terms, but says move was to “increase player exposure to our own store”
40. Shadow of the Tomb Raider ships 4.12 million: Lara Croft’s latest adventure “got off to a weak start” for Square Enix alongside Just Cause 4 
41. Square Enix consolidating its business divisions: Company plans to reorganize from 11 to four units, won’t involve workforce reduction
42. Overkill’s The Walking Dead earned $3.7m from sales in Q4: Starbreeze full-year financial report underlines commercial performance of key title
43. Report: China freezes new game approvals as regulators tackle backlog  
44. Chinese government halts new game approvals to work through backlog: State Administration of Press and Publications to clear backlog before approving new submissions
45. Tencent introduces streaming rules to stay on the up-and-up with Chinese law
46. Report: Tencent wants to distribute Apex Legends in China 
47. Tencent in talks to bring Apex Legends to China – Report 
48. Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in Nexon bid
49. Report: Netmarble and Tencent could buy Nexon as part of consortium  
50. Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2 can’t stop January US sales dip: NPD Group finds gaming revenues down 19% year-over-year to $893 million; growth of Switch sales offset by declines in all other platforms 
51. Revenue down by 5.4% at Rovio, but games segment holds firm
52. Com2uS acquires majority stake in visual novel developer Day 7  
53. That’s a wrap: Valve is axing Steam’s video section
54. Valve retires non-gaming content from video on-demand service: Blockbuster movies fail to find traction on Steam
55. Razer Game Store shutting down after 10 months
56. Live support for Heroes of Newerth scaled back to essentials only: Former League of Legends rival to receive one last major update after ten years of live service 
57. eSports: a new frontier for the advertising law and image rights? 
58. EA opts Origin users out of “real-name sharing” after complaints
59. Don’t Miss: Common problems when translating games into Japanese
60. Anthem review: BioWare’s sky-high gaming ambition crashes back to Earth
61. ‘Human Eye Resolution’ VR Is a Treat If You Know Where to Look
62. Retina resolution headset puts the “reality” into “virtual reality”
63. After Machinima Shutdown, Rooster Teeth Revives ‘Inside Gaming’ and Rescues Other Machinima Shows 
64. Nintendo’s greatest strength this generation is self-acceptance | Opinion: The platform holder has returned to its roots, and it is stronger and more well-rounded as a result
65. Dealmaster: As Switch sales slow, Nintendo launches a new bundle
66. Porn Star Comes To The Nintendo Switch 
67. Report: Early adopters of the Nintendo Switch weren’t in target demographic
68. Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic—it’s a gameplay revolution
69. Breaking down categories of action in strategy games
70. Insights: How Marshmello, MassMutual and Microsoft Are Remaking Content Marketing
71. BOY, God of War won big at the DICE Awards
72. God of War sweeps 2019 DICE Awards: Meanwhile, Halo boss Bonnie Ross welcomed into Hall of Fame and Celeste wins two categories
73. Getting to the heart of art in the delightfully strange Art Sqool
74. Enjoy a ’93 video tour of id Software while Doom was being made
75. Blog: What is a meta-game?  
76. Blog: Examining the issues with battle royale game design

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Just when an end seemed near, two 3D-printed gun-file legal battles get new life
2. Change how Facebook uses our data: Scandals underscore the need to regulate use of customers’ information
3. Our Thoughts on Facebook’s Oversight Board for Content Decisions
4. How Facebook Screwed Us All: It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere – it’s killing real news.
5. I Was A Facebook Fact-Checker. It Was Like Playing A Doomed Game Of Whack-A-Mole.
6. Facebook Wants You To Know Jay Shetty Made $1 Million In Ad Revenue As It Tries To Appeal To More Creators
7. Facebook Orders Stephen Curry Docu-Series, Sets BuzzFeed News’ Live Trivia Game Launch
8. Court upholds conviction of girl who urged suicide with texts and calls
9. Lessons from Estonia on digital government: What Canada can learn from a tiny country that devised a coordinated, efficient system to serve its citizens using what’s called platform government
10. ESPN+ Debuts ‘The Boardroom’ Talk Show From NBA Star Kevin Durant
11. I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
12. Canada needs to commercialize AI, not just do research, industry leaders say – Fewer than half of 100 machine-learning patents developed in Canada remain here: CIGI study
13. A Bill of Rights for the Age of Artificial Intelligence: We should be concerned about the rights of all sentients as an unprecedented diversity of minds emerges 
14. When Are Advertisers Responsible For Unsupported Claims Made By Consumers on Third Party Sites? NAD Weighs In. 
15. Reddit Raises $300 Million at $3 Billion Valuation 
16. Lack Of Internet Access Threatens 2020 Census Success And The Future Latino Voting Power
17. As Trump Prepares Ban On Huawei, Few Notice The Major Holes In The Underlying Logic 
18. Tech Genius Donald Trump to Sign Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence Today
19. White House Touts Artificial Intelligence (as FTC’s Chopra Flags AI Concerns) 
20. Microsoft Is Worried Its AI Will Go Rogue And Hurt Its Reputation
21. Windows 7 Extended Security Updates will double in price each year
22. Microsoft: Yeah, we make Office 2019 and Internet Explorer, but don’t use ‘em
23. Hackers keep trying to get malicious Windows file onto MacOS
24. Messy office owners, rejoice: Skype now blurs the background to your video
25. A Human Debater Just Roasted IBM’s “Intelligent Debate” AI Onstage: Project Debater can formulate arguments, but can’t quite refute opponents.
26. Artificial Intelligence: The New Driving Force Behind Sports Performance and Entertainment
27. Mysterious Site Uses AI to Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces
28. R.I.P., Opportunity Rover: The Hardest-Working Robot In The Solar System
29. Tesla Driver Claims Autopilot Wouldn’t Let Him Prevent Crash
30. Driverless delivery startup Nuro raises almost $1 billion
31. Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the ethical and privacy issues they raise
32. Will Tech Workers Rise Up Around Automation, Too? 
33. Bots and Sockpuppets and Scammers, Oh My!
34. Bot or Not: California Mandates Disclosure of Online Accounts Used by Bots
35. Fake news threatens our businesses, not just our politics
36. Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice (Kate Crawford, Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz)
37. Insights: In The Battle Of Data Versus Privacy, Whose Team Are You On?
38. Copyright Holders Still Don’t Support EU’s Already Awful Upload Filter Proposal; Demand It Be Made Worse
39. EU countries agree on copyright reforms, deal in sight next week
40. The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
41. Article 13 Was Purposefully Designed To Be Awful For The Internet; EU Moves Forward With It Anyway
42. EU’s New ‘Open By Default’ Rules For Data Generated By Public Funding Subverted At The Last Minute 
43. Bandersnatch, the case for Trade Mark Infringement: Whose right was it to let you choose your own adventure?
44. Netflix records all of your Bandersnatch choices, GDPR request reveals: Frosties or Sugar Puffs? Netflix knows your preference 
45. AR Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform – Call It Mirrorworld
46. Expert: AR Will Let Hackers Steal “Deep Psychological Data”
47. Most Online ‘Terms of Service’ Are Incomprehensible to Adults, Study Finds: Reading the terms and conditions of online consumer contracts requires, on average, more than 14 years of education.
48. Augmented Reality, Advertising, and Practical Legal Considerations
49. Apple to developers: disclose screen recording or get booted from App Store
50. Apple worked on biometric unlock for cars: One day you could unlock your car just by looking at it.
51. Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
52. The logic behind Apple’s give-us-half-your-revenue pitch to news publishers
53. The Cost of Apple News
54. Apple in talks to create “Netflix for news” subscription service
55. Apple pushes fix for “FacePalm,” possibly its creepiest vulnerability ever
56. Apple Is Compensating the Kid Who Figured Out Its Sketchy Eavesdropping FaceTime Bug
57. Apple, Google Both Hosting Saudi Government App That Lets Men Track Women, Restrict Their Travel
58. Google, Apple Called Out For Hosting Saudi Government App That Allows Men To Track Their Spouses’ Movements
59. Apple’s insider-trading policy enforcer accused of insider trading
60. Google Caves On Russian Censorship
61. NYPD Demands That Google Stop Flagging DWI Checkpoints on Waze
62. Google Chrome Extension That Optimized YouTube Videos Pulled After Spamming Millions Of Users
63. Google wants a VP of Wearables, might finally take smartwatches seriously
64. Augmented Reality Google Maps is coming, starts testing in private
65. Former Algorithm Engineer Guillaume Chaslot Calls YouTube’s Decision To Stop Recommending Conspiracy Videos “A Historic Victory”
66. Here’s How A Scammer Abused YouTube’s Copyright Infringement System In An Attempt To Extort Money From Users
67. NFL Star Quarterback Cam Newton Launches YouTube Channel
68. The Taxonomy Of YouTube Videos (And How You Can Develop Original Content That Works)
69. Ariana Grande Becomes Most-Subscribed Female Artist On All Of YouTube
70. The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars: Right now, children are filming themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. The Chinese government banned them, and PayPal blocked their payments, yet some
71. YouTube Reverses Course, Deletes Austin Jones’ YouTube Channel
72. Kids’ Content Upstart Moonbug Acquires 2 More YouTube Heavyweights
73. Influencers under fyre: celebrities commit to be more transparent regarding product endorsements
74. Influencers Tagged in Fyre Festival Subpoena
75. ‘Roblox’ Bans PewDiePie For “Continued Inappropriate Behavior”
76. Chuck E. Cheese’s Refutes Shane Dawson Conspiracy That It Recycles Uneaten Pizza
77. Jake Paul To Discontinue ‘Uncut’ Docuseries Because It “Became Too Real” 
78. Gigi Hadid Photo Provokes Copyright Lawsuit
79. Movie Torrents Shown To Actually Boost Box Office Sales For Post-Release Movies 
80. Philip DeFranco Launches Hair Care Line ‘Beautiful Bastard,’ Is On Track To Sell Out Today
81. How TikTok Gets Rich While Paying Artists Pennies: The company behind lip-sync app TikTok is reportedly worth three times as much as Spotify, but the artists whose music powers the platform are seeing very little of that money.
82. Does The Spotify Gimlet Purchase Signal The End Of The Open World Of Podcasting?
83. Jeff Bezos goes public with alleged AMI blackmail over nudes
84. Report: Bezos-hired sleuth suspects sexts stolen by “government entity”
85. Woody Allen Sues Amazon for Cancelling Multi-Film Contract 
86. Woody Allen Files $68 Million Lawsuit Against Amazon Studios For Backing Out Of Four Film Deals
87. Why an Amazon Router Freaks Me Out
88. Amazon Calls for Regulation of Its Own Facial Recognition Tech: The company may be hoping to pen some of the government’s ethical standards.
89. Amazon is Right: Thresholds and Legislation Matter, So Does Truth
90. Amazon and Hulu’s algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think
91. Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers
92. ChooseCo Inks Lucrative Deal With Amazon, Possibly Thanks To Netflix’s ‘Bandersnatch’
93. Instagram Integrates IGTV Previews Into Main Feed To Bolster Fledgling Video Hub
94. Instagram Tries to Boost IGTV Views With Previews in Users’ Feeds
95. Instagram Looking Into Issue That Caused Users’ Follower Counts To Drop
96. Instagram Bug Causes Katy Perry And Kylie Jenner To Lose Millions Of Followers Temporarily
97. 4-Year-Old Instagram Phenoms Mila And Emma Stauffer To Launch Clothing Line At Target
98. Bhad Bhabie’s Original Snapchat Series Banks 10 Million Viewers In 24 Hours
99. Snapchat Posts Better-Than-Expected Revenues, As Q4 User Growth Remains Flat
100. Twitter keeps losing monthly users, so it’s going to stop sharing how many
101. UK Cop Calls Up 74-Year-Old Woman To Ask Her To Stop Tweeting Mean Things
102. Disney+ will be a true Netflix competitor, with non-Disney shows streaming, too 
103. After Netflix Breakup, Disney Courts Hulu With 4-Show Marvel Deal, Potential For Hulu To Revive Cancelled Netflix Series
104. ‘Howard the Duck’ Among Four Marvel Animated Shows Ordered at Hulu
105. BuzzFeed Employees Vote to Unionize After Major Layoffs
106. The business of Patreon: Building a new economy for creators requires a focused business strategy
107. The Internet Civil War
108. Tech’s Long Hours Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive
109. Revolt of the gig workers: How delivery rage reached a tipping point
110. Can Big Tech be fixed? Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Nuala O’Connor is “long-term optimistic.”
111. The Secret History of Women in Coding: Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
112. Tech debate hits bencher election
113. Password to $200m digital currency account lost on death
114. Google Play caught hosting an app that steals users’ cryptocurrency
115. Cryptocurrencies – A quandary for Quadriga 
116. Virtual Currency Regulation in Canada: A Changing Landscape Comes Into Focus
117. IRS Makes Cryptocurrency a Compliance Priority 
118. Emoji 12.0 brings us waffles, more diversity, suggestive “finger pinch” glyph
119. What’s New With Emoji Law? An Interview (Eric Goldman)
120. Captain Marvel’s Official Website Is Basically a Geocities Fansite

CREATIVITY

1. Infowars’ Alex Jones ordered to undergo sworn deposition in case involving Sandy Hook parents
2. Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential: Films like What Men Want and 2016’s Ghostbusters could be doing so much more with their rebooted premises
3. How Hollywood Lets Real Fascists Off The Hook: Far from helping us fight fascism, Nazis on film may do the opposite.
4. Obsolete Hot News Doctrine Back In The News As Bloomberg Is Sued For Reporting Too Quickly
5. Japanese brand Loft pulls down Valentines Day ad after sexism controversy
6. How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan
7. Reporter Maria Ressa Arrested Over Bogus Charges For Her Critical Reporting
8. Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror
9. U.S. Music Modernization Act: Copyright law changes its tune 
10. A Storm Is Coming to the Global Music Industry – and More than $100 Billion Is at Stake: Up to half of Universal Music Group is for sale – and all indications are it’s going to bank an astronomical sum of money. This could spell amazing news for the other
11. Journalism Isn’t Dying. It’s Returning To Its Roots
12. Inside an indie: Making a film from scratch without a Hollywood budget
13. More on Models’ Lanham Act claims
14. Can you sell an Oscar?
15. Monster Energy Loses Appeal On Monsta Pizza Trademark Ruling
16. Owner Of Harry Caray’s Restaurants Finds You Can’t Just Trademark A Widely Used Hashtag

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Flawed Arguments and Inappropriate Analogies: Why Netflix Taxes and Cancon Requirements Should be Rejected (Michael Geist)
2. Blacklock’s, Spam, CRTC, and ATIP
3. CRTC on OpenMedia’s Site Blocking Campaign: “Contributed to a Better Understanding of the Issues” (Michael Geist)
4. Selling 911 location data is illegal – US carriers reportedly did it anyway: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint sale of GPS data called “unquestionably illegal.”
5. Wireless Carriers Busted Sharing User 911 Location Data
6. Texas lawmaker wants to ban mobile throttling in disaster areas
7. Study Details How Phone Companies Prey on Families of Inmates in Local Jails
8. Cable lobby asks for net neutrality law allowing paid prioritization
9. Zero Rating Actually Costs Broadband Customers More, EU Study Finds
10. SpaceX seeks FCC OK for 1 million satellite broadband Earth stations 
11. FEC Seeks Comment on Proposal for Change in TV Political Disclosures 
12. AT&T sued by Sprint, must defend decision to tell users that 4G is “5G E”
13. Sprint Sues AT&T Over Its Fake 5G, Says AT&T’s Tricking Consumers
14. A Deeper Look At Verizon’s Early 5G ‘Launch’ Finds It’s Barely Available
15. Charter raises sneaky “broadcast TV” fee for second time in four months
16. Lawsuit: Verizon tempted customers with free Amazon Echos, failed to deliver
17. Google Fiber’s biggest failure: ISP will turn service off in Louisville
18. Google Fiber Leaves Louisville As Alphabet Retreats From Telecom
19. SS7 Cellular Network Flaw Nobody Wants To Fix Now Being Exploited To Drain Bank Accounts

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. SB-327: Why Your Next Refrigerator Might Have a Password Longer than Your Email’s
2. Why Humanitarians Are Worried About Palantir’s New Partnership With the U.N.: The infamous data-analytics firm is now working with one of the planet’s largest aid organizations. What could go wrong?
3. “Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data
4. Indecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to Web (Updated)
5. Cisco, like Apple and other tech giants, now wants new federal privacy law
6. Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a phone scammer – and wins: Scammer took hundreds of thousands of dollars from more than 30 victims.
7. MalwareTech loses bid to suppress damning statements made after days of partying
8. Australian Government Agencies Already Flexing Their New Encryption-Breaking Powers
9. NYPD Sends Letter To Google Demanding It Remove Cop Checkpoint Notifications From Google Maps
10. Minnesota Judges Spent Only Minutes Approving Warrants Sweeping Up Thousands Of Cellphone Users
11. German Data Protection Authority Says GDPR Requires Email To Use At Least Transport Layer Encryption

GAMES

1. Judge orders $150,000 in damages in GTA Online cheating case
2. Federal court orders Grand Theft Auto V cheat creator to pay $150,000 
3. Gaming disorder diagnosis puts industry at risk – ESA: Acting president Stanley Pierre-Louis discusses World Health Organization’s gaming addiction concern, loot boxes, unions, and more
4. Konami ends sale of in-game currency for PES 2019 in Belgium
5. Konami halts sales of PES 2019 currency in Belgium over loot box ruling: “We fully respect the BGC’s interpretation of relevant laws,” says publisher 
6. Activision offers to refund some Guitar Hero Live players following GHTV shutdown
7. Following lawsuit, Activision starts refund program for Guitar Hero Live
8. Report: Activision Blizzard to make significant layoffs this week 8
9. Activision Blizzard share price slumps to two-year low: Reports of layoffs and expected earnings decline lead to further pessimism over publisher’s fortunes 
10. Activision-Blizzard Employees Brace For Massive Layoffs
11. Activision Blizzard sees “record year,” plans to lay off hundreds: Company prepares for “transition year” as it refocuses on development of core franchises, cuts back on admin and under-performing initiatives
12. Activision Blizzard reports historic financial gains amid major layoffs
13. Significant layoffs hit Activision Blizzard
14. Amid layoffs, Blizzard won’t release a “major” new game in 2019
15. Activision Blizzard reportedly shutters King’s Seattle studio: King communication manager confirms that Seattle and San Francisco studios have closed
16. Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy has sold over 10m units: Remake of classics reaches milestone less than two years after launch
17. Activision-Blizzard lays off 775 people after “record results in 2018”
18. Activision Blizzard Lays Off 800 Employees, Expects Revenue Drop And Few New Games In 2019
19. Activision Blizzard staff cuts largely hurt support teams, IT, QA, and publishing: Blizzard especially affected as company restructures gearing toward more new game releases over less time
20. The Fallout Of Activision Blizzard’s Massive Layoffs
21. Game Workers Unite sparks campaign to fire Activision Blizzard CEO following mass layoffs: “We, the workers of Activision and their friends, have had enough. Join us in saying that it’s time to #FireBobbyKotick,” says advocacy group
22. Activision split with Bungie because Destiny “was not meeting financial expectations”: COO Coddy Johnson reiterates that decision to part was mutual, is “right for both parties” 
23. For Activision, giving up Destiny 2 was the result of ‘missed financial expectations’
24. Following Activision Blizzard layoffs, King shuts down mobile studio Z2Live
25. King’s San Francisco studio closed in wake of Activision Blizzard layoffs
26. Swedish Tax Agency targets King with $389m fine: Skatteverket claims Candy Crush firm has disposed immaterial rights out of its home nation 
27. King signs Tech Talent Charter to drive diversity: Candy Crush Saga developer is first UK games company to pledge to the initiative
28. Blog: Being gay in the games industry – Research from the field
29. American Sign Language emotes added to Star Citizen
30. Don’t Miss: How devs design the Lego games to appeal to all ages
31. Video: How Overwatch’s gameplay architecture creates variety
32. Mobile games continue to drive App Store spending in the U.S.
33. Hardsuit shutting down Blacklight: Retribution to focus on new projects 
34. Putting Red Dead Redemption 2’s 23 million shipments in context
35. Shares slump for big four publishers after latest financials: Take-Two and Electronic Arts suffer the most but analyst maintains games industry still “in rude health” 
36. Fortnite alone can’t explain tumbling game stocks: The industry’s biggest firms have lost around 13% of their value in the past week, and many are down a third in recent months
37. Fortnite iOS revenue estimated at $500 million: Sensor Tower’s data shows Epic’s game reaching that milestone faster than Clash Royale and Honor of Kings
38. Fortnite Sparks a Battle Royale Over the Right to Use Dance Moves 
39. Epic claims it’s not really copying rapper 2 Milly’s dance in Fortnite
40. Epic critical of Fortnite dance lawsuit, urges court to dismiss case
41. Epic Games files for dismissal of 2 Milly’s Fortnite dance lawsuit: Developer insists dance routines are an “unprotectable idea” and claims rapper’s complain is “at odds with free speech” 
42. PUBG takes home Steam Awards 2018 Game of the Year
43. Zynga’s mobile games generated a record $228 million revenue last quarter  
44. Zynga CEO: It’s “too early to tell” if more will follow Epic’s anti-App Store stance – Frank Gibeau says casual games firm has a “great partnership” with both Apple and Google 
45. Zynga “turnaround now complete” as dev posts record mobile performance for 2018: Company reports second profitable year in a row after a lengthy period of recovery 
46. Zynga’s turnaround: How once-beleaguered game company plans for 2019 growth 
47. WWE Hall of Famer sues Activision for character copyright infringement: Booker T Huffman claims Black Ops 4 character too similar to his own comic book hero
48. EEDAR: Nintendo Switch attracting more women, wider age ranges over time – System on track to follow certain demographic trends of Nintendo predecessors rather than those of console competition
49. Switch missed hardware target because Nintendo didn’t ‘convey appeal’ of the system
50. Mario Maker 2 and a Link’s Awakening remake drive today’s Nintendo Direct
51. Nintendo plans to “boost” Switch Online after surge in short subscription plans: Proportion of single month subs is rising, Nintendo president expresses “critical” need to increase value of the service
52. Quality over quantity is Nintendo’s first-party focus as the Switch nears year 3
53. Nintendo: 3DS sales falling “faster than anticipated”
54. 3DS sales have slowed, but Nintendo still sees a market for its long-running handheld
55. Gaming business bolsters Bandai Namco’s Q3 profits: Soulcalibur publisher increases full-year guidance following solid holiday sales in network entertainment segment 
56. THQ Nordic net sales rose 713% to $447.6m in 2018: Publisher now has 77 games in development, including 48 unannounced projects 
57. THQ Nordic to acquire Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev for $37.5 million  
58. Australian publishing partner 18Point2 acquired by THQ Nordic
59. THQ Nordic acquires Warhorse Studios in a €33.2m cash deal: Kingdom Come Deliverance has sold 2m units one year on from its release
60. Apex Legends Review
61. Apex Legends: Critical Consensus – Respawn’s surprise release praised for its polish and innovative mechanics, hailed as the future of battle royale
62. Apex Legends crossed 1 million concurrent players in under 72 hours
63. Apex Legends reaches 25m players, 2m concurrent: Respawn’s battle royale reaches milestone in first week, after reaching 1m concurrent in first 72 hours
64. Respawn played with muted mics to get Apex Legends’ smart comms system just right
65. Video Game Deep Cuts: The Apex Of Legends, Observing The Sunless Skies
66. After glitch grants access, Bethesda says locked Fallout 76vault will open
67. EA pays respects to Emiliano Sala, removes him from FIFA: FC Nantes player also pulled from Ultimate Team packs, card prices fixed
68. EA CEO claims poor marketing, delays, and battle royale woes hurt Battlefield V
69. Bigben acquires publishing rights for two Cyanide titles: Following last year’s acquisition, publisher adds Tour de France and Pro Cycling Manager to portfolio 
70. Behind The AI of Horizon Zero Dawn (Part 1)
71. Behind The AI of Horizon Zero Dawn (Part 2)
72. Global esports revenues to top $1 billion in 2019: report
73. Newzoo: Global esports market will exceed $1 billion in 2019 – North America, China to continue to represent majority of esports revenue, though global awareness remains on the rise
74. Esports now officially a profession in China: ‘Esports operator’ and ‘esports professional’ formally recognized by Chinese government
75. Riot, Sega, four more join ESA: League of Legends studio, Intellivision, and Wizards of the Coast sign up as Sonic publisher, Natsume, and THQ Nordic return to the US trade group’s ranks
76. Russ Pitts steps down from Take This, on leave from Escapist: Charity co-founder, site editor-in-chief takes hiatus after “diminishing” experience of Gamergate abuse survivor in Twitter fight
77. Riot Games: “Before we take on football, we have to be humble”: League of Legends European Championship makes less revenue than a German second division football team, Riot’s Alban Dechelotte said at Esports BAR Cannes yesterday 
78. AppLovin: Mobile users play games 3-4 times per week on average, but are reluctant to identify as gamers – US, UK mobile users most commonly play games to pass the time, relax, and relieve stress
79. Bill imposing new excise tax on video games with “mature” or “adults-only” ratings introduced in Pennsylvania Legislature
80. Nexon celebrates record year for revenue and income: 2018 full-year financials show highest full-year PC and mobile results so far
81. New releases can’t stop sales and profits falling at Square Enix  
82. Supercell revenue down second year in a row as titles reach revenue milestones: CEO Ilkka Paananen remains optimistic, outlines plan for studio to become carbon-neutral in 2019
83. Starbreeze sells back publishing rights to System Shock 3
84. Starbreeze sells System Shock 3 publishing rights: Troubled publisher and OtherSide Entertainment “mutally agreed” rights should return to the latter
85. Report: Unity is looking to go public in 2020
86. Unity reportedly considering IPO for 2020: But engine provider will only float if market conditions are favourable, sources claim
87. Sony ‘open for business’ on cross-play, but Wargroove dev claims otherwise
88. Devs refute Sony claims that it’s “open for business” with cross-platform play: “We were told in no uncertain terms that it was not going to happen,” says Chucklefish CEO
89. Layden recalls PS3 ‘Icarus moment,’ looks ahead to expanding PlayStation’s audience
90. PS3 was “a stark moment of hubris” – Layden: Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios chairman reflects on last generation’s missteps and how the company changed course for PS4
91. Sony’s Shawn Layden on making fewer PlayStation games: ‘We’re spending more energy on them’  
92. E3 has lost its impact in a changing industry, says Sony’s Shawn Layden
93. Monster Hunter: World nears 12 million sales – Sales stood at 11.9m at the end of December, 60% more than any game in Capcom’s history
94. 20th Century Fox announces indie games fund: Etherborn becomes first title to take advantage of fund aimed at developers “taking creative risks”
95. Marvel Strike Force dev FoxNext Games opens up indie dev fund  
96. League of Geeks: “We are a response to what was before” – Blake Mizzi and Trent Kusters on using the mistakes of Australia’s past to build a better studio, and moving on from its hit digital board game Armello
97. Tearing down the lone developer myth: Iconoclasts creator Joakim Sandberg says developers should learn from his mistakes rather than follow his example
98. New conference hopes to improve UK games skills crisis: The Games Education Summit 2019 will unite educators and developers under one roof this April 
99. Ubisoft aims to help machine learning find a place in every stage of game dev 
100. Ubisoft partners with Mozilla on AI coding assistant Clever-Commit
101. Ubisoft partners with Mozilla on AI coding assistant: Clever-Commit promises to quickly identify and fix bugs from code changes
102. Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs before they ship
103. Learn how machine learning can help you make better games at GDC 2019
104. “They’re more attractive than real boyfriends.” Inside the weird world of Chinese romance video games: In China, love and romance designed by women for women could be the next video game trend
105. Steam Responds To Epic’s Competition By Weaponizing The Steam Community
106. Turning painting into a game mechanic in the gorgeousEastshade 2
107. Valve has some new thoughts on what’s “humanly possible” in SteamVR
108. Microsoft teases next-gen HoloLens ahead of February 24 reveal
109. Video: Designing games to better support player expression
110. Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe
111. Video: How to invite player creativity through game mechanics
112. Amy Hennig sees a social future for storytelling games
113. Video: Injecting originality into the music of Fallout
114. Blog: Getting your big break as a game composer
115. Blog: How does the future of the streamer-developer relationship look?
116. Obituary: Renowned Atari ST programmer Steve Bak has passed away

Jon

DIGITAL

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

CREATIVITY

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

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

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

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

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

GAMES

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

Jon

DIGITAL

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

CREATIVITY

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

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

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

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

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

GAMES

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

Jon

DIGITAL

1. China creates app to tell you if you are near someone in debt and encourages you to report them: The app will allow the public shaming of “deadbeat debtors”
2. Russia tries to force Facebook and Twitter to relocate servers to Russia
3. Pay for Trump’s border wall with $20 online porn fee, Ariz. lawmaker says
4. Herrick V. Grindr – The Section 230 Case That’s Not What You’ve Heard
5. Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Case That Threatened CDA 230 
6. There Was Heavy Tech Lobbying On Article 13… From The Company Hoping To Sell Everyone The Filters
7. Disney is already losing over $1 billion in streaming, and its Netflix competitor has yet to launch
8. Lucasfilm Steps In After FanFilm That Tried To Follow The Rules Was Claimed By Disney Over Star Wars Music
9. Facebook may be hit with “record-setting fine” by FTC, report says
10. Facebook Just Removed Hundreds of Pages Linked to Russia
11. President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner
12. Viral Is Still Copyrighted, Even to Learn Where Trump Is 
13. Parody Washington Post Leads To Bogus Legal Threat, And A Reminder Of An Old Internet Lawsuit 
14. Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents following our legal action
15. Google, Facebook, and Amazon Spent Record Cash Lobbying Washington in 2018
16. Google’s lobbying spending set new records in 2018
17. Blocking Constituents from Facebook Page Violates First Amendment–Davison v. Randall
18. Why Silicon Valley’s “growth at any cost” is the new “unsafe at any speed”: For years, Ashkan Soltani has warned of Facebook’s privacy-eroding tendencies.
19. Fourth Amendment Limits NYC’s Demands for Airbnb Customer Records
20. Pie Company Has A Rogue Twitter Impostor, But Decides To Be Totally Cool With It
21. Lawmakers seek harsh penalties against ZTE and Huawei
22. US asks Canada to turn over Huawei’s CFO on alleged sanctions violations 
23. Will Social Media Websites Become State Actors?
24. Researchers discover state actor’s mobile malware efforts because of YOLO OPSEC
25. BuzzFeed Set to Lay Off 15% of Its Employees
26. Why Do People Fall for Fake News?
27. Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War: The Coming Age of Post-Truth Geopolitics
28. Social media can predict what you’ll say, even if you don’t participate
29. “The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
30. Not all Opinions are Fit for Sharing
31. Risky Business Just Got Riskier – DOJ Changes Stance on Internet Gambling 
32. DOJ Opinion Leaves Industry Hanging: If UIGEA Exclusions Don’t Modify the Wire Act What Does That Mean for Intrastate Gambling Transactions? 
33. Hulu Drops Price Of Ad-Supported Subscription Plan, Increases Price For Hulu With Live TV
34. Hulu will make its basic plan cheaper as Netflix gets pricier
35. US Media Companies Engaging In Proactive Censorship Of Content Ahead Of India’s New Hate Speech Laws
36. Netflix Signs Indian Content Code Banning Offensive Material, Agrees To Self-Regulate
37. Netflix Spent $12 Billion on Content in 2018. Analysts Expect That to Grow to $15 Billion This Year 
38. Netflix Joins the Motion Picture Association of America 
39. Why Does Everyone Else Want To Stop Netflix Password Sharing, When Netflix Is Fine With It?
40. Netflix on streaming rivals: ‘We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO’
41. The whirlwind success of Netflix’s ‘You’ and ‘Bird Box’ shows it’s become a well-oiled FOMO machine
42. The Great Google Hangouts Shutdown begins October 2019
43. YouTube TV Expanding to Cover Entire U.S., No International Launch Plans Right Now
44. YouTube TV Rolls Out To Remaining U.S. Markets Ahead Of Super Bowl 
45. Netflix Says Viewership, Subscriptions Spiked During Brief YouTube Outage In October 
46. 2 Years After ‘Adpocalypse’, AT&T — The World’s Second Largest Advertiser — Returns To YouTube
47. AT&T returns as a YouTube advertiser marking the end of the “adpocalypse”: January might be a slow month, but big ad spending is on the horizon
48. YouTube Demonetizes Channel Belonging To Anti-Islam Political Advisor Tommy Robinson
49. YouTube Cover Singer Lands Starring Role In Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Remake
50. YouTube Trick Shot Stars ‘Dude Perfect’ Announce First Live Tour And Memberships, Ask Fans To Help Them Tie PewDiePie’s Subscriber Count 
51. After Stunning Australian Open Win, Stefanos Tsitsipas Urges Stadium to Subscribe To His YouTube Channel 
52. Vice Media, Hulu Japan Ink Original Content and Licensing Deal 
53. Vice Media sets up experience division: Ten-strong team will create experiences for youth media company’s own brands as well as for partners.
54. Viacom Purchases Free Streaming Platform Pluto TV For $340 Million
55. Font expert exposes phony trust documents
56. Online Publishers Beware: An iPhone Snap May Go Viral, but Unauthorized Commercial Use is Still Not Fair Use 
57. NSA Puts Phone Charging Station at Hacker Conference in Plot to Go Viral
58. Instagram Influencers Are Seeking The Services Of Ethical Hackers To Reclaim Their Stolen Accounts 
59. “A never-ending war”: top influencer on what brands should know about fakes in China
60. Analysts Project Instagram Will Rake In $14 Billion In Revenues In 2019
61. Patreon Gained 1 Million New Patrons In 2018, Will Pay Out Its Billionth Dollar This Year
62. Blockchain justice: Crypto-currency and blockchain will increasingly be the subjects of litigation in Canada 
63. I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.
64. Amazon begins testing deliveries with sidewalk drones
65. The Prime Challenges For Amazon’s New Delivery Robot
66. Microsoft: Switch to iOS or Android because Windows 10 Mobile is ending
67. Google buys $40 million worth of smartwatch tech from Fossil Group
68. Even with the Google/Fossil deal, Wear OS is doomed
69. Google Play malware used phones’ motion sensors to conceal itself
70. Google planning changes to Chrome that could break ad blockers 
71. Jake Paul Dropped By Legal Firm In Case Involving Prank That Damaged Man’s Hearing
72. The 8 Signs That Machine Learning Will Automate Some or All of Your Job
73. Globally, Most Workers Think Robots Couldn’t Handle Their Jobs 
74. Robots on the rise
75. Sony Invests in Geolocation Startup Used to Shoot ‘Ready Player One’
76. For teens, digital technology is good. Or bad. Or maybe neutral?
77. Instagram Helped Me Bond With My Dentist Dad by Recommending I Watch Gross Teeth Videos
78. How running websites has changed in the last two decades (for an Ars IT guru)
79. Now That’s What I Call Ars Technica, Volume 1: Favorite stories from Ars’ 20 years
80. Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them
81. Technology with limits: How can we tame technology to do what we need and then let it go so that we can be more connected to each other in real life?
82. Deregulation is the New Buzz Word in Washington –  Except in the Tech Industry
83. Can a Server Be a Regular and Established Place of Business? Examining the SEVEN Networks Decision

CREATIVITY

1. It’s Finally Happening – Major New Trademark Law Takes Effect in Canada on June 17, 2019
2. Toronto DJ wins trademark registration despite association with Drake: Application was challenged by October’s Very Own
3. McDonald’s loses Big Mac trademark after legal battle with Irish chain: Supermac strips US food giant of trademark across Europe after landmark EU ruling
4. UK fashion label says it owns trademark on “collusion,” EFF says no way: Last year, a man bought Collusion.so, pointed it to Lawfare. ASOS didn’t like that.
5. UK clothing company: Oops, our trademark doesn’t cover collusion.so
6. Oh Na Na What’s My Name?: Rihanna Sues Father for Trademark Misuse of “Fenty” Surname
7. Proposed Update To Singapore’s Copyright Laws Surprisingly Sensible
8. The Updated Canada Food Guide: New Advice, Old Restrictive Copyright Rules
9. Port Talbot Banksy sells for six-figure sum 
10. The King of Wakanda Holds the Oscars’ First Best Picture Nod for a Superhero Film
11. Viceland Will Relaunch Primetime With Nightly Live Two-Hour Variety Show 
12. Leslie Jones Is No Fan of the New GhostbustersMovie 
13. Key IP Takeaways from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
14. Copyright Act amendments to unveil our hidden history
15. An Analysis of Title I and Title III of The Music Modernization Act, Part 1 of 2 (Tyler Ochoa)
16. An Analysis of Title I and Title III of The Music Modernization Act, Part 1 of 2 (Tyler Ochoa)
17. Duty of loyalty: A limit to freedom of expression

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  The Canadian Wireless Story: Comparative Data Shows World’s Highest Carrier Revenues Per SIM
2. Sunlight on the Submissions: Why the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel Should Reverse Its Secretive Approach (Michael Geist)
3. Woman sues T-Mobile after employees allegedly snoop on racy private video
4. Verizon blames school text provider in dispute over “spam” fee
5. Verizon offers free robocall blocking, two years after AT&T and T-Mobile
6. Trump Hotel Fracas Highlights How T-Mobile’s Consumer-Friendly Brand Schtick Is Wearing A Little Thin
7. Sorry, Ajit: Comcast lowered cable investment despite net neutrality repeal
8. Remember When Ajit Pai Said Killing Net Neutrality Would Boost Network Investment? About That…
9. Terabyte-using cable customers double, increasing risk of data cap fees
10. Government Shutdown May Cause FCC to Cancel January 30 Public Meeting 
11. FCC Wants Delay In Net Neutrality Trial Due To Government Shutdown, But Isn’t Likely To Get It
12. Statements by third parties – What are the liabilities of publishers and broadcasters?
13. Brexit and broadcasting: Luxembourg as the ideal gateway to provide audiovisual media services throughout the EU (without a major impact on operations in the UK!)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Max Schrems Files New Privacy Complaints That Seem To Show The Impossibility Of Complying With The GDPR
2. How The GDPR Is Still Ruining Christmas
3. GDPR Enforcement Actions, Fines Pile Up
4. Google must pay €50 million for GDPR violations, France says
5. Attorney General Nominee Seems Willing To Let The DOJ Jail Journalists Over Published Leaks
6. YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Spotify, And More Accused Of Violating E.U. Data Privacy Legislation Per Article 15
7. Yahoo! Derivative Data Breach Suit Yields Unprecedented $29 Million Settlement
8. Mother of All Breaches Exposes 773 Million Emails, 21 Million Passwords
9. Monster 773 million-record breach list contains plaintext passwords
10. How to Stop Worrying About Every ‘Mega’ Password Breach That Comes Along
11. GoDaddy weakness let bomb threat scammers hijack thousands of big-name domains
12. Hackers Hijacked A Family’s Smart Home, Spammed Nuclear Missile Alerts
13. Exploring the EU’s new rules for the free flow of non-personal data
14. Seattle Newspaper Wins Federal Court Case, Opens Up Reporting On Secret Law Enforcement Surveillance
15. NY Court Tells NYPD It Can’t Hide Surveillance Of Protesters Behind A Glomar Response
16. The creepy rule
17. 41 California Privacy Experts Urge Major Changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (Eric Goldman)
18. Fourth Amendment Limits NYC’s Demands for Airbnb Customer Records (Eric Goldman)
19. Privacy and Data Security 2018 Year in Review
20. 2018 Privacy Year in Review
21. ‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
22. 41 California Privacy Experts Urge Major Changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act
23. Is Privacy a Right? (Doc Searls)

GAMES

1. Westworld Mobile shuts down following Bethesda lawsuit
2. Bethesda bans Fallout 76 players who accessed secret developer room
3. Bethesda confirms bans for visiting hidden Fallout 76“developer room”
4. Star Control: Origins restored to Steam amid legal battle with series’ creators 
5. Eximius developer uses DMCA to reclaim Steam page from publisher: Ammobox claims publisher TheGameWall Studios “disappeared completely,” after launch, and lost revenue worth six months of operating expenses
6. Emulator project aims to resurrect classic Mac apps and games without the OS
7. How machine learning is helping fans remaster retro classics
8. Ubisoft issues apology for controversial Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC  
9. Ubisoft Apologizes To Players For Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC Controversy 
10. Ubisoft apologises for forcing heterosexual romance in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC: Publisher explains story-based decision behind relationship but admits it was “poorly executed”
11. Challenging the inevitability of online harassment | Opinion: Tackling harassment will be a long and bitter march, but understanding it is the first step
12. Tencent still absent from third round of Chinese game approvals 
13. Tencent and NetEase absent from third wave of Chinese game approvals: No games from China’s two key publishers have been included in the 257 cleared so far 
14. My Time at Portia devs compensate voice actors for unpaid wages
15. Atlas Player Gets Into Admin’s Account, Summons Swarm Of Whales And Other Mayhem 
16. Former Heroes of the Storm team files suit against ex-owner for unpaid wages
17. Square Enix has trademarked the name of Octopath Traveler’s art style
18. Square Enix trademarks terms for Octopath Traveler’s visual style: The publisher now has trademarks for “HD2D” and “HD-2D” in Europe 
19. Unity CEO clarifies Improbable violations, future plans in AMA: John Riccitiello emphasizes platform’s “developer-first” focus as driving TOS changes
20. NBA extends partnership with NBA 2K publisher 2K
21. Don’t Miss: How working on gross, violent games can affect developers
22. Netflix: “We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO” – TV and film streaming service points to Epic’s battle royale title as a major competitor 
23. Netflix thinks ‘Fortnite’ is a bigger threat than HBO
24. Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO 
25. Insights: The Real Competition for Netflix Is…A Single Videogame? Yup.
26. Cybersecurity firm exposes Fortnite vulnerability: If exploited, hackers could have viewed personal information, purchased items, and overheard chat through affected accounts
27. Fortnite Dances Its Way Into More Lawsuits
28. Blog: Why the Epic Games Store could be huge for influencers
29. Epic Games acquires digital character specialist 3Lateral
30. Analyst: PUBG out-earned every other premium PC and console game in 2018  
31. Digital Extremes and PUBG company Krafton looking for developers at PAX East
32. UK Charts: Ace Combat 7 breaks franchise records, but Mario holds No.1: Bandai Namco’s flight game debuts at No.2
33. Microsoft says its game streaming service has an advantage thanks to Xbox
34. Microsoft CEO states “Netflix for games” ambitions: Satya Nadella points to game catalogue and PC business as key advantages over competitors
35. As Twitch Subscriber Race Heats Up, Ninja Is Annoyed That “Everyone’s Just Out To Look For The Next Guy” 
36. U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Helps Twitch Streamer ‘Hbomberguy’ Raise $340,000+ For Transgender Nonprofit
37. Streamer raises $340,000 for trans charity by playingDonkey Kong 64
38. Games industry names help YouTuber raise $340,000 for trans charity in Donkey Kong 64 marathon: Grant Kirkhope, Jon Romero and Jim Sterling join the challenge
39. Machinima has been wiped clean: The end of an era
40. Otter Media blocks all Machinima content on YouTube: Parent company says new Machinima content will be “distributed on new channels” to be announced later this year
41. Changing industry economics let Bungie forge a new destiny | Opinion – The idea of a developer operating an expensive online game would once have seemed ludicrous – Bungie’s new independence shows how much has changed
42. Capcom Really Loves Remaking Resident Evil 2
43. Resident Evil 2 Review
44. Resident Evil 2 remake review: Beautiful, terrifying, and annoying
45. Resident Evil 2’s time-restricted demo has been downloaded over 3 million times
46. Blog: Overcoming genre in Ni No Kuni 2
47. Starbreeze delays console release of Overkill’s The Walking Dead
48. Starbreeze delays Overkill’s The Walking Dead on console: Troubled publisher pushes game beyond its planned February release, more information “at a later date” 
49. How to build a Bandersnatch: Developers shares advice on how to create interactive movie games that can stand toe-to-toe with Black Mirror’s latest
50. The Bandersnatch effect: Netflix’s Black Mirror outing has everyone talking about interactive fiction — but what does this mean for the game developers who got there first?
51. Blog: How to make the marriage between cinema and games last
52. Get a job: Crystal Dynamics is hiring a Camera Designer
53. Hothead Games opens new publishing division
54. Metro Exodus publisher confident over showdown with Crackdown and Far Cry: Deep Silver on how it has readied a marketing assault ahead of crowded February 15 launch
55. Switch dominates a great year for game consoles in 2018
56. NPD: The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console of 2018 in the U.S.
57. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold 5 million globally in first week: Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says Nintendo Switch seeing fastest software sales in Nintendo history
58. Media Create: New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe sells through over half of first-week shipment 
59. Don’t Miss: The secret history of Donkey Kong 9
60. Former PlayStation, Take-Two, Nintendo execs launch blockchain publisher: Planet Digital Partners will use $38m blockchain token sale to secure investment for up to ten new games
61. Blog: Games and crowdfunding in 2018  
62. Nexon reportedly up for sale: Tencent, EA, Activision, and Disney listed as interested parties in Korean publisher of MapleStory
63. Layoffs hit NCSoft’s Iron Tiger Studios: Publisher confirms an undisclosed number of layoffs at San Mateo developer 
64. Supergiant’s fourth outing Hades introduces a more mature, organized dev process
65. Splash Damage has released the full game design document for Dirty Bomb
66. Cloud Imperium Games spent $4M a month in 2017 developing Star Citizen
67. Blog: The mysteries of studying game design
68. Blog: Why nobody cares about your indie game
69. CI Games establishes United Label, a new publishing label dedicated to indies
70. IndieDB, ModDB founder launches mod-focused publishing arm: Modularity to use mod.io to offer a “fully cross-platform and store-agnostic modding solution”
71. With CryEngine’s SpatialOS GDK in the works, Crytek reaffirms open-platform goals
72. US, Canada mobile gaming brought in $9.37 billion in 2018: Candy Crush games topped revenue charts for the year as puzzle, strategy, and casino genres dominated
73. Chad Wild Clay, Vy Qwaint Launch Mobile Game Inspired By Their Kids’ YouTube Spy Series 
74. FIFA 19 trumped Red Dead and COD as Europe’s highest selling game in 2018: Gfk Entertainment data shows EA Sports’ football title as the most popular across 15 countries
75. Sony is rolling out PlayStation Now to new European territories
76. Fast Travel Games sold more on PSVR than Steam, Oculus and Viveport combined: PSVR accounts for 58% of Apex Construct sales, said CEO Oskar Burman, and Sony’s lead is getting wider 
77. ‘Apex Construct’ Studio: Big Boost in PSVR Installs Thanks to Recent Increase in Headset Sales
78. VR headsets, augmented windshields, and multiscreen infotainment at CES
79. VR Train Simulator ‘Derail Valley’ to Launch into Early Access This Week
80. The Digital Revolution: Fundamentals of virtual, mixed and augmented reality
81. Mortal Kombat 11 gameplay as seen by a ‘90s arcade rat
82. How European expansion bolstered Bulkhead against Brexit: Setting up a German subsidiary enabled recruitment of new talent amid political turmoil in the UK, says Bulkhead Interactive CEO Joe Brammer
83. New esports league crops up around Farming Simulator 19 
84. GAME’s shares improve following “solid” Christmas results: UK dips offset by Spanish growth over festive period
85. Kingdom Hearts III Is An Unreviewable Video Game
86. 9 Video Game Secrets That Took Years to Find: In the olden days, programmers could hide something in the code of a video game and be confident that it would never be revealed.
87. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, video games, and the new online town square
88. Video: How I got my mom to play through Plants vs. Zombies

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court: First Amendment Violation To Ban Members Of The Public From Gov’t Officials’ Facebook Pages
2. Facebook page is a government forum
3. Blocking Constituents from Facebook Page Violates First Amendment–Davison v. Randall 
4. Pakistan Demands Google Take Down Petition For Academic Freedom… Saying It Represents Hate Speech
5. Apple loses patent case appeal, owes VirnetX $440M in FaceTime dispute 
6. The Duty to Read the Unreadable (Uri Benoliel & Shmuel Becher)
7. Twitter’s TOS Upheld Despite Unilateral Amendment Clause – Brittain v. Twitter
8. Court To Revenge Porn Bro Suing Twitter: You Agreed To Twitter Picking The Courtroom Every Time You Created A New Alt Account
9. “This isn’t like shipping wine”—Defense Distributed v. Grewalhas its day in court
10. Amazon Dash Buttons Ruled Illegal In Germany For… Making It Too Easy To Buy Stuff 
11. Here’s How Much Money Creators Can Make Via Amazon’s Influencer Program (Report)
12. President Trump Mocks Amazon’s ‘Jeff Bozo’ During Unhinged Twitter Rant
13. Microsoft signs a huge deal with Walgreens, as Amazon’s growing interest in health care looms large
14. Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster—this time in Canada
15. How Tracking And Selling Our Data Became A Business Model
16. Night Club Accused of TCPA Text Messaging Violations
17. 3rd Circuit: Enrollment packet e-signature requires student to arbitrate claims 
18. EU Parliament Puts Out Utter Nonsense Defending Copyright Directive
19. Hollywood Asks EU To Drop Article 13 Entirely, Because It Might Possibly Have A Tiny Compromise For The Internet
20. Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive
21. EU Court Adviser Says Google Shouldn’t Have To Enforce A French RTBF Request Anywhere But In Europe
22. Google kills the Chromecast Audio
23. Alphabet board sued over massive payout to Android creator, among others
24. Music Groups Waste No Time Using Australia’s New Copyright Law To Shut Down Stream Ripping Sites
25. Federal Appellate Courts Ring In the New Year by Taking Up Website and Mobile Application Accessibility  
26. Carriers Swore They’d Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?
27. LinkedIn Is Helping The Chinese Government Silence Critics
28. Internet Censorship and the Intraregional Geopolitical Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (Helmi Noman)
29. Kylie Jenner Dethroned By An Egg For Most-Liked Instagram Post Of All Time
30. Instagram’s Most-Liked Egg Now Trying To Be Twitter’s Most-Retweeted Egg
31. Report: DOJ pursuing criminal charges against Huawei for theft of tech
32. Huawei employee arrested, accused of “high-level espionage” for China: Polish authorities arrest a Huawei employee and former government security expert.
33. Chinese Police Now Performing Door-To-Door Twitter Censorship
34. Roku Reverses Course, Bans Alex Jones Channel After Outcry 
35. Suppressing Customer Reviews Leads to $25 Million Judgment
36. Few people shared fake news in 2016 election, but seniors shared the most
37. And Now Professional Sports Teams Are Cutting The Cable Cord, Too
38. Netflix sued for trademark infringement by ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ publishers  
39. Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Leads to “Choose Your Own Adventure” Trademark Lawsuit 
40. Netflix Is About to Cost You More Money
41. Netflix Announces Biggest Subscription Price Hike To Date
42. Millions of customers will now pay more for Netflix—here’s how much
43. Netflix reveals Space Force comedy series before Trump gets real thing approved
44. Hulu Stealth Drops Fyre Fest Documentary Featuring Interview With Founder Billy McFarland 
45. Gillette’s New Ad Addressing Toxic Masculinity Met With 400,000 Dislikes, Vitriol From YouTube Users
46. Massively-Viewed K-Pop Videos Temporarily Pulled From YouTube After False Copyright Claims
47. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 1/13/2019
48. YouTube will “ramp up” enforcement of its policies against dangerous challenges and pranks
49. YouTube updates policies to explicitly ban dangerous pranks, challenges
50. YouTube Bans Stunts Like Particularly Risky ‘Bird Box,’ Tide Pod Challenges In Updated Guidelines
51. Jake Paul’s ‘Bird Box Challenge’ Video Yanked From YouTube Following Backlash
52. Logan Paul Half-Apologizes For Saying He Wanted To Try Being Gay For 1 Month
53. The First Dumb Meme Accident of 2019 Is Here
54. “Ghost guns,” underage sex, and the First Amendment: Defense Distributed’s legal saga: Legal turmoil for company rolls on as Cody Wilson faces felony charges for sex with a minor. 
55. Family-Friendly YouTube Stars ‘ACE Family’ Under Fire After Father Shown Buying Child A Phallic Lollipop
56. YouTube Clarifies Policies On How Profanity Impacts Monetization
57. YouTube Allows Disney Nerds to Relive Extinct Theme Park Attractions
58. YouTube Boomers Show #Vanlife Isn’t Just For Millennials 
59. “Baby Shark” Enters Billboard Hot 100 Largely Thanks To Viral YouTube Views
60. YouTube Axes Ability To Automatically Share Video Uploads, ‘Likes’ On Twitter
61. YouTube Piloting Blue Tags Under Videos That Help Filter Recommendations
62. YouTube Officially Rolls Out Swipe-To-Advance Navigation On iOS App
63. NBCUniversal set to launch standalone streaming service in 2020
64. NBCUniversal Announces Streaming Service To Launch 2020, Puts Exec Bonnie Hammer In Charge Of Development
65. NBCU Crafts Bluprint For A New Kind Of Influencer
66. Social Influencers are not immune from advertising codes and laws – Ads must be identified as Ads
67. Twitch Suspends Smash Bros. Streamer For Drunkenly Passing Out On Camera
68. Nike To Unveil Latest Shoe Launch On Twitch
69. CAA Signs Twitch Streamer Dr DisRespect As It Builds Out Gaming Roster
70. Studio71 launches talent management company
71. Machinima Creators Just Got A Letter Telling Them That They’re Now Part Of Fullscreen
72. ‘DaddyOFive’ Parents’ Sentences Reduced Despite Allegations They Broke Court Order, Continued To Vlog Children
73. Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that’s so stupid, it’s a whole new kind of wrong
74. Bird tries to forcibly remove Boing Boing’s story detailing how to hack and keep its scooters
75. Bird Issues ‘Chilling’ Legal Threat After Boing Boing Publishes Blog on E-Scooter Hack
76. Scooter Company Bird Sends Absolutely B.S. Copyright Threat Letter To Cory Doctorow For Reporting On Modifying Scooters 
77. EFF flips Bird the bird, says Boing Boing post doesn’t violate copyright law – EFF: Bird’s legal demand to take down recent Cory Doctorow post is “meritless.” 
78. Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well.
79. Bird to Boing Boing: We’re sorry about sending you a legal-demand letter 
80. The Internet is Facing a Catastrophe For Free Expression and Competition
81. Hulu Is Rolling Out Performance-Based Measurement for Brands: The streaming service is working with ‘several’ partners on the offering
82. UX rant: The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote
83. Vietnamese Government Whines Facebook Isn’t Helping It Censor Critics Quickly Enough
84. Facebook-executive swatting sends significant police response to his home
85. Facebook brings stricter ads rules to countries with big 2019 votes 
86. Barstool Sports Shuts Down Comment Section, Silencing Its Most Loyal Racists
87. The best PCs, gadgets, and future tech of CES 2019
88. Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his $1,998 camera
89. Remember when Bill Gates challenged Slash to Guitar Hero? 13 years of Ars at CES
90. This Sad Booth Is a Metaphor for CES This Year
91. The Totally Unofficial CES 2019 Meta Awards
92. IBM’s New AI System Can Compose Logical Arguments: Next thing we know, it’ll be arguing in the comment section. 
93. AI can diagnose some genetic disorders using photos of faces 
94. Artificial Intelligence, collaboration with online platforms and tackling the ‘Wild West’: How the ASA plans to make its impact online over the next 5 years  
95. Litigating intellectual property issues: The impact of AI and machine learning
96. New Robot Dogs Can Deliver Your Lunch Right to Your Desk
97. Blythe Masters and the End of a Blockchain Era
98. Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Real Implications of Blockchain in the Legal Industry (Justin Evans)
99. Okay, This Argument for 8K TVs Is Kinda Convincing 
100. Etch a Sketch lives on in browser-based Chrome Labs project
101. 2H 2018 Quick Links, Part 6 (IP, E-Commerce, Censorship, & More) (Eric Goldman)

CREATIVITY

1. Jury Orders Mongols Biker Club to Forfeit Its Logo, the ‘Holy of Holies’
2. The Rock says that “generation snowflake” interview was “100 percent fabricated,” totally fake
3. UQAM co-op excludes white comedian from shows because of his dreadlocks: Zach Poitras was barred from performing at the Snowflake Comedy Club and the Soirée d’humour engagée.
4. Must Universities Shut Down Constitutionally Protected Speech Forums That Also Enable Student Harassment? (Eric Goldman)
5. Federal Court Says Iowa’s Ag Gag Law Is Unconstitutional
6. Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician’s Offshore Tax Shelter
7. Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks: If They Can Be Registered, What Does It Mean For Other Prohibitions on Registration?
8. Software patents poised to make a comeback under new patent office rules
9. ASA ruling on Coral national press ad
10. ASA announces that from June harmful gender stereotyping in adverts will be banned
11. Aloha, Copyright Infringement
12. The Crown Jewels: How to Protect Your Jewelry Designs

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  Why So Secret?: Government’s Communications Law Panel Plans to Keep Public Submissions Under Wraps for Months (Michael Geist)
2. All About the Internet: My Submission to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel on the Future of Canadian Communications Law (Michael Geist)
3. Ajit Pai gives carriers free pass on privacy violations during FCC shutdown
4. Ajit Pai Refuses To Brief Congress On What He Plans To Do About Wireless Location Data Scandals
5. T-Mobile CEO, execs stay at Trump hotel while lobbying Trump administration
6. AT&T’s Planning Yet More Layoffs Despite Tens Of Billions In Tax Breaks And Government Favors
7. AT&T defends misleading “5G” network icons on 4G phones
8. AT&T Execs Think It’s Really Funny They Misled Consumers About 5G Availability
9. Verizon Promises Not To Over-Hype 5G, Immediately Proceeds To Over-Hype 5G
10. Verizon charges new “spam” fee for texts sent from teachers to students
11. Frontier Hammered By Minnesota AG For Its Refusal To Repair Its Broadband Network
12. FCC asks court for delay in case that could restore net neutrality rules

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Vizio Admits Modern TV Sets Are Cheaper Because They’re Spying On You
2. Employee Falls for Fake Job Interview Over Skype, Gives North Korean Hackers Access to Chile’s ATM Network: Report
3. Feds forcing mass fingerprint unlocks is an “abuse of power,” judge rules
4. Federal Judge Says Compelling People To Unlock Phones With Their Fingerprints/Faces Violates The 5th Amendment
5. Five Companies Settle Privacy Case With NY AG Over Apps 
6. Nine defendants charged in SEC hacking scheme that netted $4.1 million
7. California Regulates Internet of Things
8. An Ounce of Prevention: Responding to California’s New Privacy Law
9. Government Shutdown Means Government Website Security Certs Aren’t Being Renewed
10. FBI Officially Has A Leak Investigation Unit
11. DOJ Indictment Alleges Theft of Hundreds of Gigabytes of Corporate and Government Data in Attacks Targeting Managed Service Providers
12. Directors and Officers Settle Over Yahoo Hack: A New Chapter in Derivative Litigation? 
13. Hack Brief: An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed In Monster Breach
14. Google Play starts manually whitelisting SMS and phone apps
15. Artificial Intelligence vs. the Hackers: Machine-learning algorithms watch hackers’ behavior and adapt to their evolving tactics.
16. The U.S. Government Has Amassed Terabytes of Internal WikiLeaks Data
17. New ransomware rakes in $4 million by adopting a “big game hunting” strategy
18. A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale
19. 2019: The Push For Bad Faith, Loophole-Filled Privacy Legislation Begins
20. 2H 2018 Quick Links, Part 5 (Privacy, Advertising, Consumer Reviews) (Eric Goldman)

GAMES

1. Red Dead Redemption 2’s Pinkerton agents are at the center of a lawsuit
2. The Pinkertons Are Still Around, Suing Over Red Dead Redemption 2
3. Rockstar threatened with legal action over Red Dead 2’s Pinkerton agents: Take-Two and Rockstar say use of Pinkerton and trademarks is protected under the First Amendment
4. Infamous Pinkerton Detectives Claim Red Dead Redemption’s Use Of Historically Accurate Pinkertons Is Trademark Infringement
5. Red Dead 2 sparks legal tussle between Take-Two and the real-world Pinkertons
6. Gearbox CEO accused by former studio lawyer of taking $12M bonus
7. Former Gearbox lawyer reportedly filed discrimination claim ahead of November lawsuit: 10 days before Gearbox sued Wade Callender, he filed a discrimination claim against CEO Randy Pitchford alleging religious harassment
8. Randy Pitchford and ex-Gearbox lawyer engaged in ugly legal fight over alleged $12 million ‘secret bonus,’ unpaid loans, camgirl porn: Pitchford and former Gearbox general counsel Wade Callendar have filed lawsuits accusing each other
9. Amidst legal battle, Gearbox CEO says he left USB stick of porn at Medieval Times: Alleges Pitchford received $12M bonus, hid from Gearbox staffers, siphoned elsewhere.
10. Gearbox CEO allegedly mocked ex-lawyer’s Christianity with slurs, “ridiculing” gifts
11. Forza Horizon 4 patches out Floss and Carlton dance emotes
12. Forza Horizon 4 removes dance moves following Fortnite lawsuits: The Carlton and the Floss removed from game as creators pursue Epic Games for damages
13. Microsoft removes Forza dances amid Fortnite lawsuits
14. ‘Fresh Prince’ actor, rapper and dancer sue makers of video game over popular dance moves
15. Fortnite dance lawsuits continue with “Orange Justice”: Mother of Orange Shirt Kid sues Epic Games for copyright infringement following campaign that saw dance included in-game
16. Epic fixes Fortnite security flaw which left all 200M+ players vulnerable
17. Settlement reached in long-running 38 Studios lawsuit 
18. Riot Games updates company values following “bro culture” toxicity claims: Developer says new values are a “guide for who we want to be”
19. Law firm investigating Activision-Blizzard on behalf of investors: Pomerantz LLP looking into claims that company leadership engaged in securities fraud, other unlawful practice
20. Bungie takes Destiny 2 publishing rights back from Activision
21. Bungie Splits With Activision, Maintains Destiny Rights
22. Bungie breaks from Activision to publish Destiny on its own: Activision to “increase focus on own IP projects” as Bungie transitions to self-publishing
23. Bungie splits with Activision, keeps control of Destiny
24. Activision will cut ties with Bungie, give up publishing control of Destiny
25. The Game Industry Reacts To The Bungie-Activision Breakup: General consensus: people are happy for Bungie. 
26. Destiny: We React to the Activision Bungie Split
27. Destiny 2’s Impossible Puzzle Might Have Been Broken All Along
28. Take-Two and NBA extend partnership in $1.1bn deal: Multi-year licensing agreement enables 2K to continue making its best-selling basketball game
29. Rocket League finally gets cross-platform play on PS4: The popular Psyonix title is the latest to benefit from Sony’s cross-platform u-turn
30. Rocket League now allows cross-play for all platforms, including PS4
31. Pioneer, Ubisoft’s sci-fi game teased in Watch Dogs 2, reportedly cancelled 
32. Call of Duty has made more money than the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars: Activision release about presidential appointments reveals best-selling shooter franchise trumps box office takings of Hollywood hits
33. EA Cancels Open-World Star Wars Game [UPDATE] 
34. EA has reportedly canceled Vancouver studio’s Star Wars title: Unseen project was supposedly an open-world reset of closed Visceral Games’ Star Wars title
35. Report: EA’s beleaguered open-world Star Wars game is no more [Updated]
36. Update: EA Responds To Reports Of Alleged Star Wars Game Cancellation
37. EA Vancouver’s open-world Star Wars game has been canceled  
38. Chinese government approves another 84 games for release: Total since end of the approval freeze is now 164 games, but Tencent and NetEase are still absent
39. Tencent picks up 36% ownership of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 dev Fatshark  
40. Blizzard and NetEase extend China publishing deal until 2023
41. Blizzard states importance of ‘inclusive’ workplace after discrimination allegations
42. Meet MASHBot, the touchscreen-tapping, Nintendo DS-playing robot
43. Nintendo of Europe issues formal warning to Russia boss after investigation: But platform holder says accusations of harassment by general manager Yasha Haddaji remain unsubstantiated
44. Hackers find Super NES games mentioned in Switch’s emulated NES files
45. Travis Strikes Again review: Switch may already have its weirdest game of 2019
46. ESA and World Health Organization discuss ‘gaming disorder’ classification  
47. World Health Organization and ESA meet to discuss gaming disorder diagnosis: UKIE and ISFE also urged WHO to “reconsider the mounting evidence” during formal dialogue last month
48. PEGI announces new content descriptor for in-game purchases on physical products: An “important first step” to helping making parents make informed purchasing decisions, says PEGI managing director
49. Roblox launches Digital Civility Initiative: Online safety and education will be the focus of the program, led by new hire Laura Higgins
50. Unity changes terms of service to block SpatialOS projects
51. Improbable calls for Unity to clarify TOS in wake of SpatialOS dev concerns
52. GDC 2019 will host a Classic Game Postmortem ofPaperboy!
53. Unity updates terms of service (again) in response to Improbable dispute
54. SpatialOS games under threat as Unity revokes Improbable’s license – Update: Spilt Milk Studios brings Lazarus back at least temporarily, while Bossa’s Worlds Adrift is “operating as normal”
55. Changes to Unity terms of service are “insanity” says Improbable CEO: Devs share concerns with GamesIndustry.biz about how changes could spell the end for their in-development projects
56. Cloud gaming firm: Unity must clarify its terms, reinstate our license 
57. Unity explains Improbable license revocation, says SpatialOS creator’s claims “incorrect”: SpatialOS devs are safe, Improbable calls for “code of conduct” in development ecosystem
58. Unity clarifies ToS changes, welcomes back “unsupported” SpatialOS
59. Video: How Life is Strange brought a new era for narrative games
60. Epic, Improbable start fund to lure devs away from Unity amid engine kerfuffle
61. Epic, Improbable team up for $25 million fund to bring SpatialOS developers to “more open engines”: Saga of Unity, Improbable, and SpatialOS continues as Epic opens door to developers “left in limbo” by terms of service changes
62. Unity changes course following dispute with Improbable: John Riccitiello and Joachim Ante to host Reddit AMA today 
63. Epic Games store planned for launch on Android this year: Company looks toward iOS launch also, despite “apparent conflict” with Apple policy
64. Epic Games Store alters refund policy to match Steam
65. Epic Games Store now offers a refund policy similar to Steam’s: Within a Fortnite of purchase.
66. Sergey Galyonkin clarifies how the Epic Games Store targets influencers
67. Sergey Galyonkin: Epic Games store courting a younger, Steam-less audience – Epic Games’ director of publishing strategy offers glimpse of what the storefront plans to offer both consumers and influencers in the coming months and year
68. Sergey Galyonkin clarifies how the Epic Games Store targets influencers
69. Verizon is testing its own cloud-based game streaming service
70. Valve wants to overhaul discoverability on Steam with machine learning this year
71. Valve working on new algorithmic recommendation tools for Steam, curating features: Other 2019 plans include PC Cafe Program, Trusted Matchmaking across all games, and Steam China
72. Video: How reward systems can guide player experience inWorld of Warcraft
73. ‘We have a big hit because we have a healthy work/life balance’, says Slime Rancher director
74. Dusk sells 69,420 copies a month after launch
75. Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Coaster have crossed 2 million sales
76. There are now over 30,000 games on Steam
77. NPD: US, Canada saw more mobile gamers in 2018 – Number of mobile gamers increased 5% year-over-year; Android remains most popular smartphone option
78. Tabletop games continue to succeed on Kickstarter as video games fall behind
79. Analyst: 2018 was an unimpressive (but stable) year for video game crowdfunding
80. Ico Partners: Video games see fewer crowdfunded projects, steady amount funded in 2018 – Trends indicates Kickstarter is stabilizing, with a higher percentage of quality projects as platform matures 
81. Report: Amazon is developing its own game streaming service
82. Amazon reportedly developing its own game streaming service: Company already in talks with publishers, but service wouldn’t be ready until 2020 at the earliest
83. Amazon may be going after cloud gaming, but Microsoft has a big head start
84. Gamestop Buyout Expected To Be Finalized Next Month
85. From forum post to feature update: Supercell’s community connection: How the Brawl Stars studio hopes to continue its “two-way street” partnership with content creators and game communities 
86. IGDC: Solving the monetisation problem in India – The Indian market is brimming with potential, but it’s far from straightforward
87. Fallout 76 players find human NPC and unreleased items in secret ‘dev room’: Like Fallout 4, Fallout 76 has a room containing every item in the game – and some players have apparently found a way inside.
88. Fortnite tops SuperData’s 2018 chart with $2.4 billion digital revenue: Epic’s game toppled Honor of Kings in the free-to-play chart, PUBG was the highest earning premium title
89. Streamlabs: Twitch growth slows as streamers turn to YouTube and Facebook – Meanwhile, Fortnite sees first decline in hours streamed since launching battle royale mode 
90. Niantic closes funding round with $245 million raised  
91. Niantic raises $245 million in Series C funding: Funding round led by IVP brings company valuation to nearly $4 billion
92. Hitman developer IO Interactive has opened a new studio in Malmo
93. IO Interactive opens new studio in Malmö: Second studio will support Hitman series and enables IOI to develop “new universes, new franchises”
94. Examining the relationship between a studio’s survival and success
95. Weavr Consortium receives £4m grant to develop esports viewing tech: UK government’s Industry Strategy Challenge Fund selects esports group for two-year Sports and Entertainment grant
96. ESForce sells majority stake in SK Gaming: Esports holdings company to sell 67% share to Daimler AG, FC Koeln 
97. THQ Nordic has acquired the rights to Outcast
98. Founded by CERN Engineers, CREAL3D’s Light-field Display is the Real Deal 
99. MetaAR Shuts Down Amidst Patent Infringement Lawsuit & Asset Liquidation
100. Sony Shows More ‘Ace Combat 7’ VR Gameplay Ahead of Jan. 18 Launch
101. Jam City secures $145 million to support global growth and acquisition plans  
102. Jam City announces $145m in strategic finance just weeks after layoffs: Investment comes on the heels of a “large numbers” of redundancies and a multi-year development deal with Disney
103. What’s the one game you think people pretend to like the most?
104. The UK Games Industry in 2018: Winners and Losers – Nintendo and Sony shine as EA falters
105. UK industry braces for no-deal Brexit: How developers, publishers and more are preparing for the worst following next week’s vote
106. Games4EU outlines the good and (mostly) bad of potential Brexit deal
107. From Uncharted to Obra Dinn: Lucas Pope dishes on his illustrious game-dev career
108. Success and sustainability at Supercell DLC: The Finnish studio’s developers discuss how they keep games thriving for years, and CEO Ilkka Paananen shares his philosophy on crunch
109. Was classic JRPG grind that bad?: An in-depth analysis
110. God of War nominated for 12 awards at 2019 DICE Awards
111. God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man lead nominations for 22nd annual DICE Awards: Red Dead Redemption 2, Return of the Obra Dinn also see numerous mentions
112. These were the most downloaded games on the PlayStation Store in 2018
113. Writers Guild crowns Reigns: Her Majesty for best writing in a video game
114. Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 raises $2.39M for Prevent Cancer Foundation

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Court: Politicians who block citizens on social media violate 1st Amendment
2. Please don’t repeat these things WikiLeaks says you can’t say about Assange [Updated]
3. Irony Alert: Wikileaks Sends Reporters A List Of 140 Things Not To Say About Julian Assange; Tells Them Not To Publish
4. Copyright, Culture, Sharing, Remix… And A Congresswoman Dancing As A College Student 
5. Lawsuit Accuses Weather Channel App of Misleading Users and Profiting From Their Location Data
6. Lawsuit: Weather Channel illegally shared user location data with advertisers
7. T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T still selling your location data, report says
8. City Attorney of Los Angeles Sues Popular Weather App Claiming Deceptive Collection and Sharing of Geolocation Data 
9. Another Day, Another Massive Cellular Location Data Privacy Scandal We’ll Probably Do Nothing About
10. Fifth Circuit Says Apple Can’t Be Held Liable For A Car Crash Caused By Someone Reading Text Messages
11. Court of Appeal invalidates Uber’s arbitration clause
12. New App Allows Users to Create “Binding Video Contracts”
13. IP and social media — a guide for content creators and meme sharers 
14. Apple Stock Price Plunges After Earnings Warning
15. Apple stock plummets 8% on news of grim Q1 2019 outlook
16. The $450 billion wipeout: Apple’s value has fallen by more than Facebook’s entire worth in 3 short months
17. What Happened the Last Time Apple Had a Panic This Bad
18. Tim Cook points at new services and health-tech propelling Apple’s future
19. Apple Admits The Obvious: User Repairs Harm The Bottom Line
20. Apple’s Snuck Its Way Into LG’s 2019 Televisions
21. Qualcomm forces Apple to stop selling iPhone 7 and 8 in Germany
22. Report: Huawei punishes employees behind embarrassing iPhone tweet
23. Controversial Mystery Box Website Responds To Criticism From The YouTube Community
24. Brands warned over legal issues on alleged “scam” gambling platform MysteryBrand 
25. Despite Losing Its Copyright Case, The State Of Georgia Still Trying To Stop Carl Malamud From Posting Its Laws 
26. Amazon is the most valuable public company in the world after passing Microsoft
27. Microsoft is helping America’s largest grocery chain fight off Amazon: Microsoft and Kroger unite to ‘redefine grocery retail’
28. Microsoft, Kroger team up to fight Amazon with high-tech grocery stores 
29. NFL launches voice-powered football guide for Amazon Alexa
30. Amazon’s latest advertising play involves free samples delivered right to your door
31. Google boasts 1 billion Assistant devices—10x Amazon Alexa’s install base
32. Amazon attempts less-creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
33. Instagram now lets you post to multiple accounts at the same time
34. TCL to Launch First Roku 8K TVs This Year
35. I Was Over 8K TVs Before They Even Happened
36. UK Court: Guy Who Didn’t Write Defamatory Tweet Needs To Pay $50,000 In Damages Because The Guy Who Did Doesn’t Have Any Money
37. Texas indicts Cody Wilson on multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor: Advocate of 3D printed guns faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
38. Almost $500,000 in Ethereum Classic coin stolen by forking its blockchain
39. EU’s First Attempt At Building A List Of Evil Pirate Sites… Lists Non-Infringing Sites
40. Netflix Stock Rises After Five Golden Globes Wins, Upbeat Analyst Subscriber Estimates
41. Netflix Cautions Viewers Against Participating In Blindfolded ‘Bird Box’ Challenge
42. Netflix And Amazon Have Another Good Golden Globes Year, Winning With Roma, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
43. Bandersnatch: The spoiler-filled, choose-your-own-opinion review
44. Blog: What Bandersnatch teaches about the illusion of choice
45. Hulu Tops 25 Million Subscribers, Claims Nearly $1.5 Billion in 2018 Ad Revenue
46. Hulu Hits 25 Million Total Subscribers, $1.5 Billion In Ad Revenues In 2018
47. FouseyTube Updates Fans After Manic Episode Triggered Months-Long Social Media Absence 
48. RTL Group to acquire Yospace in €29m deal
49. Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities: From the French Revolution to the history of the novel, Big Data makes its mark. 
50. Insights: Six Marketing Trends Facing Influencers In 2019 
51. KSI And Logan Paul Want To Cut Down On Pirated Views Ahead Of Their Boxing Rematch
52. YouTube Age-Restricts, Demonetizes Jake Paul’s ‘Bird Box’ Challenge Video That Sees Him Driving Blindfolded
53. YouTube Expands Coachella Partnership, Will Exclusively Live-Stream Both Weekends of Music Fest 
54. Publishers are mostly recycling YouTube videos for IGTV
55. YouTube Has Repaired Bug Causing Algorithm To Recommend Unrelated Videos 
56. Fla. App. Court (3rd DCA) Holds Monthly Text Messages with Link to Terms of Service Sufficient to Compel Arbitration 
57. HQ Trivia Has Clocked $10 Million In Ad Revenues To Date
58. Twitter Renews BuzzFeed’s ‘AM To DM’ Morning News Stream Through 2019 
59. Twitter to Live-Stream NBA Games — Featuring a Camera Feed of a Single, Fan-Voted Player
60. Twitter Inks Deal To Offer Single-Camera, Single-Player Livestreaming Of NBA Matches 
61. The Laws of AI and Machine Learning
62. Coding, algorithms, and common law
63. Artificial Intelligence, Affordances and Fundamental Rights (Christoph Graber)
64. Our obsession with taking photos is changing how we remember the past
65. Can America Really Have High Speed Internet for All? 
66. Early Predictions of the Internet Date Back to 19th Century Sci-Fi
67. An Overview of the United States’ Section 230 Internet Immunity (Eric Goldman)
68. Three Painful Truths About Social Media (Ronald Deibert) 
69. 404 Page Not Found: The internet feeds on its own dying dreams 

CREATIVITY

1. New York Times Moves To Dismiss Joe Arpaio’s Defamation Lawsuit By Pointing Out It’s Impossible To Defame Him
2. Beach bodies, adverts and gender stereotypes: CAP to ban harmful gender stereotyping in advertising
3. January 1, 2019: If you have not thought about the copyright public domain for a while, maybe this is a good time to do so
4. The Enrichment of the Public Domain
5. Public Domain Day Grants A *Very* Happy New Year for Bookworms
6. Copyrighted Works Added to the Public Domain for the First Time This Millennium 
7. Top 3 Predictions for Copyright in 2019 
8. Counterpoint: Maybe Athletes Should Rush To The Trademark Office… If They Play For Teams Like The Dallas Mavericks
9. Pooey Puitton Proactively Sues The S— Out Of Louis Vuitton
10. Deal or no deal – what happens to my intellectual property rights after Brexit?
11. The Refreshing Earnestness of Last December’s Blockbuster Genre Movies
12. Everybody Loses After Metal Band And Photographer Get Pissy Over Photographer’s Copyright Threat
13. Photographer Licenses Photo To Shutterstock, Is Shocked When It Plays Out Exactly How Everyone Would Imagine
14. 2019 Is the Year of the Pop Culture Finale
15. They’re dead to us: The Ars Technica 2019 Deathwatch
16. Patently False: The Delaware Chancery Court Dissolves Limited Liability Company Founded on False Claims of Patent Ownership
17. E-signatures: is the law catching up with technology? 
18. 2H 2018 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright) (Eric Goldman)
19. 2H 2018 Quick Links, Part 2 (Trademarks) (Eric Goldman)
20. 2H 2018 Quick Links, Part 3 (Keyword Advertising) (Eric Goldman)
21. Jamie Lee Curtis Agrees: The Golden Globes Viral Fiji Water Girl Was ‘Blatant Promotion’
22. We Need to Keep Laughing: There has never been a more darkly comic person to occupy the White House.

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. More Steps Needed: Government Commissioned Report Shows Canadian Wireless Pricing Remains Among Highest in the Developed World (Michael Geist) 
2. Celebrating High Wireless Prices: Telus-Backed Report Claims Comparing Consumer Costs for Wireless Services is “Meaningless” (Michael Geist)
3. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation – 2018 Year in Review
4. The lies Comcast allegedly told customers to hide full cost of service
5. Towns And Cities Keep Ditching Comcast To Build Their Own Broadband Networks
6. Report: AT&T plans layoffs despite claiming tax cut would create 7,000 jobs
7. AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates
8. Verizon’s 5G promise: It won’t falsely claim 4G phones are really 5G
9. Envious of 5G hype, cable cos. unveil potentially confusing “10G” trademark
10. Cable Industry Hypes Phony ’10G’ When 5G Isn’t Even Available Yet 
11. Cable’s Response To Surging Streaming Competition? More Price Hikes
12. Frontier letting its phone network fall apart, state investigation finds 
13. The Ajit Pai FCC Often Battles FOIA Requests For No Reason, Showcasing Its Hostility To Transparency
14. Ajit Pai Gloats As House Fails To Restore Net Neutrality
15. FCC Shuttered, Ajit Pai Forced To Cancel CES Trip Because The US Government Is a Hot Mess 
16. 2019 Brings Another Wave Of Cable Programming Blackout Feuds Nobody Wants To Address
17. No, BitTorrent’s Plan for Cryptocurrency-Fueled Speed Boosts Doesn’t Violate ‘Net Neutrality’ 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone: T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track
2. Student Confesses to Dumping the Data of Hundreds of German Politicians 
3. Kaspersky blew whistle on NSA hacking tool hoarder
4. China Starts Using Facial Recognition-Enabled ‘Smart’ Locks In Its Public Housing
5. The EU sheds light on the impact of the GDPR on Non-EU entities
6. The Internet Giant’s Dilemma: Preventing Suicide Is Good; Invading People’s Private Lives… Not So Much
7. Multistate Settles with Neiman Marcus Over 2013 Data Breach 
8. Americans Support Facial Recognition Tech – When It Works: The problem is it quite often doesn’t.
9. This Facial Recognition App Remembers Names so You Don’t Have To: But experts are concerned about the privacy implications.
10. Hot new trading site leaked oodles of user data, including login tokens
11. Two More Cyber Attacks Reported – Ransomware Suspected at Several Major News Organizations and Hackers Threaten to Release 9/11 Insurance and Litigation Files 
12. A Closer Look at California’s New Privacy Regime: Two Critical Definitions 
13. Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-507/17 Google v CNIL: Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court should limit the scope of the dereferencing that search engine operators are required to carry out to the EU (Court of Justice of the European Union)
14. Privacy rights and ‘citizen journalists’
15. If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any (Doc Searls)
16. 2018 the year in privacy
17. Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues to Watch in 2019 

GAMES

1. Bethesda resolves copyright lawsuit against Westworlddevs
2. Bethesda, Behaviour Interactive resolve copyright infringement dispute: Lawsuit over similarities between Fallout Shelter and Westworld game settled “amicably”
3. Challenges in Filing Successful IPR Petitions for Video Game Patents 
4. Supercell Oy v. Gree, Inc. (December 17, 2018 Patent Trial and Appeal Board, USPTO)
5. A Patent on Games? No Dice.
6. In Re: Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V. (December 28, 2018,  United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)
7. Japan has made reselling digital game keys illegal without creator’s permission  
8. Reselling game keys now illegal in Japan: Updated law also forbids save modding, punishment ranges from ¥5 million fine to five years in jail 
9. “Not enough evidence” that screen time is harmful to children: UK’s first screen time guidance report recommends parents manage gaming and TV sessions based on kids’ individual needs
10. Splash Damage is cutting monetization from its free-to-play game Dirty Bomb  
11. Gris trailer rejected from Facebook for being ‘sexually suggestive’
12. Facebook rejects Gris ad for “sexually suggestive” content: “First of all, she’s a statue and second, absolutely no nudity is shown in that photo,” says Devolver Digital
13. Facebook Rejects GRIS Launch Trailer For Being Sexually Suggestive When It Clearly Is Not 
14. Star Control makers defend DMCA takedown against Star Control: Origins  
15. Star Control creators defend DMCA takedown notice against Stardock: Creators claim Star Control: Origins is “substantially similar to and/or derivative of” their copyrighted work
16. Who Owns That Dance Move? 
17. Eugen Systems says devs were fired for ‘misuse of tools,’ not strike participation
18. Eugen responds to accusation of retaliatory firings: Steel Division developer says dismissals unrelated to last year’s strike, were due to use of “a professional tool for an inappropriate purpose” 
19. Twitch Re-Bans Creator Who Briefly Returned To Platform After Alleged Mid-Stream Assault
20. Games now account for over half of entire UK entertainment market
21. Bonnie Ross: “Diversity attracts diversity” – 343 Industries boss on the need to present technology as a creative field to more young women and minorities
22. CVAA accessibility rules come into effect for games as FCC waiver expires
23. New games must comply to accessibility guidelines after FCC waivers expire: Requirements affect in-game communications and related UI 
24. Tattoos, avatars and copyrights – a whole new world
25. Sony just acquired the gaming industry’s biggest audio toolset
26. Sony Interactive Entertainment to acquire Wwise owner Audiokinetic  
27. A New Game Console Is On The Way To Compete With PlayStation And Xbox: Exact specs haven’t been confirmed yet.
28. Slightly Mad developing standalone, VR-supportive console: Project Cars 2 studio says The Mad Box will ship in about three years, won’t court exclusives
29. Slightly Mad CEO shows off Mad Box concept designs: Ian Bell asserts studio isn’t making a “stinking black slider” as he touts colorful designs, handles, and light weight 
30. What happens when you turn a studio upside down?: How everyone at Supercell, from new developers to CEO Ilkka Paananen, ensures the “creative people are running the show” at the studio behind Brawl Stars 
31. Enduring and recovering from the long development of At the Gates
32. Don’t Miss: Bury Me, My Love and the emotional rollercoaster of making a video game  
33. Rooster Teeth Announces First Original IP Video Game, ‘Vicious Circle’
34. “TV doesn’t trust games enough”: Go 8 Bit creator Steve McNeil discusses why broadcasters still struggle to embrace the power of video games 
35. Ubisoft goes Steam-less, embraces Epic Games Store for The Division 2
36. The Division 2 is skipping Steam in favor of the Epic Games Store
37. Moving platforms forward in an Epic Games world: Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch explains the NBA Playgrounds studio’s decision to go in early on Epic’s new store
38. Steam data shows VR ownership doubled in 2018 — to 0.8% of users
39. Valve data shows PC VR ownership rose steadily in 2018
40. Number of Steam users with VR headsets almost doubled in 2018: But still only represents 0.8% of leading marketplace’s total audience
41. Steam now supports social media links on Store pages
42. Valve dished out a record 600k VAC bans after CS:GO went free-to-play
43. Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw returns to Valve: Wolpaw is back at the developer after departing less than two years ago 
44. Blog: Side hustling advice from full time game devs
45. NVIDIA Claims 4 Million PC VR Headsets Sold
46. The Vive Pro Eye Is the Next Big Step for VR
47. HTC unveils two new standalone VR headsets  
48. One of the Biggest Names in Home Fitness is Making a VR Exercise Bike 
49. UK video games market is now 80% digital: However, 75% of AAA game sales are physical 
50. Let people know what they’re buying – A New Year’s resolution for gaming: For 2019, companies should commit to giving customers what they need to make an informed purchasing decision
51. All 14 Days of Fortnite challenges return following end date mix-up: Partial progress has been reset, though.
52. Fortnite sees best month on iOS yet in December: Final month of 2019 saw 83% month-over-month revenue increase to nearly $69 million 
53. The British Army needs “binge gamers”, “snow flakes” and “me me me millennials” 
54. Nintendo Officially Shoots Down Bowsette
55. Nintendo open to moving away from home consoles, says company president  
56. Super Smash Bros and PlayStation gift cards dominate Amazon 2018 chart: Switch and PS4 come out top at US retailer 
57. PlayStation 4 sales have exceeded 91.6 million units worldwide  
58. PS4 sales reach 91.6 million worldwide: Spider-Man sales pass nine million
59. Marvel’s Spider-Man has sold over 9 million copies worldwide  
60. God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man among Writers Guild award nominees
61. Cory Barlog on rebooting God of War: ‘We don’t just want to erase the past’
62. Hobbyists resurrect Kojima’s “lost” game P.T. as a free PC download
63. Report: Nexon founder looking to sell controlling stake for $8.9 billion
64. Nexon founder reportedly preparing to sell controlling share in company: Kim Jung-ju’s 98.64% stake, worth an estimated $9 billion, may soon be on the table for companies such as Tencent or Netmarble
65. Square Enix president promises year of “aggressive expansion” overseas: Publisher will relaunch dormant Indian subsidiary and look to work with Chinese developers and publishers
66. Robot Entertainment closing servers for Orcs Must Die! Unchained and Hero Academy games  
67. Robot Entertainment to shut down Orcs Must Die! Unchained, Hero Academy games: Studio says it was running games “at a financial loss” for months, will focus on future titles
68. Update: Fired Activision Blizzard CFO Joins Netflix
69. Activision Blizzard appoints company veterans as new divisional presidents
70. Pokemon Go dev Niantic secures $190 million investment
71. Niantic closes out $190m investment round: Follows on from year which saw Pokémon Go grow 35% and generate nearly $800 million revenue 
72. Second Dinner grabs Marvel partnership and $30M investment for inaugural game
73. Second Dinner raises $30 million for upcoming Marvel game: NetEase partnership helps fund licensed IP as team moves into Irvine office space
74. Conan Exiles dev Funcom acquires majority stake in Zona Paradoxal
75. Paradox acquires Prison Architect franchise from Introversion  
76. Old School Runescape mobile downloads hit 5m: Long-standing MMO makes strong start on iOS and Android 
77. Video: Making games better with psychology, theUncharted way  
78. Video: How to encourage cooperative behavior during co-op play
79. Unity opens $25k contest for in-dev games with meaningful impact
80. Super League Gaming proposes IPO: Amateur esports platform prepares to raise up to $25 million to fund its aspirations 
81. Overwatch Team Says Player Questioned About Identity Was Impostor After All 
82. Overwatch Fan’s Letter To Jeff Kaplan About Black Women Gets Heartfelt Response 
83. Tales of an aging gamer: Why don’t I pick up a controller as often as I used to?: We keep getting older, the games stay the same (and science backs that up).
84. Blog: Four ways my video game habits changed in 2018
85. Opinion: Here’s what 2019 will be like for the game biz
86. 10 Big Video Game Rumors Going Into 2019 
87. The Sims is integrating with Amazon Alexa devices  
88. Red Dead Redemption 2 leads list of GDC 2019 Choice Awards nominees!
89. Black Mirror’s ‘Bandersnatch’ was loosely inspired by a cancelled game
90. Video: A classic postmortem of Bejeweled   
91. Berlin museum opens exhibition exploring the queer history of games  

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Ninth Lawsuit Against Social Media Providers for “Materially Supporting Terrorists” Fails–Clayborn v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
2. Jake Paul, RiceGum Called Out For Promoting Mystery Box ‘Gambling’ Site To Kids
3. Antipiracy Outfits Routinely Claim Copyright Infringement Against Sites That Simply Report When Torrents Are Released 
4. Jack Black’s YouTube Channel Nabs 2.5 Million Subscribers In Less Than Two Weeks
5. Jack Black Launches YouTube Channel, Nabbing 600,000 Subscribers In 5 Days
6. Pentatonix, Mariah Carey, ‘Frozen’ Top YouTube’s Top 10 Christmas Songs Of 2018 
7. Famebit, YouTube’s Influencer Marketing Platform, Says It Can Measure Organic Views Like They’re Ads 
8. MrBeast Has Given Away $1 Million On His Ascent To Digital Stardom: “YouTube Pays Better Than You Think”
9. YouTube Science Star Mark Rober Apologizes After Unwittingly Including Fake Footage In Viral Glitter Bomb Video
10. YouTube Apologizes For Repurposing Creator’s Video Without Credit In Corporate Tweet
11. Facebook’s worst year ever is now over. Here’s how its scandals affected the stock: After a year of scandals, Facebook’s stock ended the year lower than the previous one for the first time since its debut on the public market in 2012 – The stock tanked 25
12. Trump may ban U.S. companies from buying Huawei tech: report
13. UK defense minister admits ‘grave concerns’ over Huawei 5G equipment
14. China releases Canadian teacher but others still held in Huawei row 
15. An App That Does Your Homework For You Is Now Worth $3 Billion
16. Disney World Fans Demand Justice for Animatronic Robot Robbed of His Hands and Clothes 
17. LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for the Mess He’s Made
18. Big Tech’s net loss: How governments can turn anger into action (Taylor Owen)
19. UK Cops Have Decided Impolite Online Speech Is Worth A Visit From An Officer
20. It Is Both Ridiculous And Dangerous To Make Domain Registrars Liable For Content On Domains
21. Iranian Government To Ban Instagram, Citing National Security Concerns
22. Oh God What Did They Just Do to Instagram [Updated]
23. Instagram Swipes Back On Horizontal Test After It Deploys To More Users Than Expected
24. Instagram Network Doing Things Acquires Three New Accounts, Boosting Follower Base To 33 Million 
25. FTC Warns of Sketchy Netflix Phishing Scam Asking for Payment Details 
26. Netflix Pulls American TV Episode in Saudi Arabia That Criticizes Khashoggi Murder and Silicon Valley Investment
27. Saudi Arabia Discovers The Streisand Effect; Gets Netflix To Take Down Hasan Minhaj’s Show About MBS’s Atrocities 
28. Black Mirror creators broke Netflix’s script writing tool with Bandersnatch
29. Netflix’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Film ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Has More Than 1 Trillion Potential Story Arrangements
30. Netflix’s Bandersnatch Teases The Future Of Entertainment
31. The Hidden Beauty of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s Best Ending
32. That New Black Mirror Interactive Film From Netflix Doesn’t Work on Apple TV
33. Netflix is curbing a $256 million revenue stream for Apple by circumventing iTunes billing
34. Netflix delivers a blow to Apple’s services story by ending in-app subscriptions
35. Apple Reveals It Underestimated Challenges in China, Revises Guidance for Holiday Quarter
36. The Silver Lining In Apple’s Very Bad iPhone News 
37. Apple’s Stock Decline Is Bringing Out All of the Opinions 
38. Judge Approves $20.4 Million Attorneys’ Fee Award in Continuing Dish Network Saga  
39. Millions Upon Millions Of ‘Takedown’ Notices To Google… For Links That Aren’t Even In Google 
40. Google is Reportedly Rolling Out a Feature to Fight Spam in Your Texts
41. Microsoft closes out 2018 as the top public company
42. Why Copyright Will Be The Biggest Issue For Youtube In 2019
43. How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
44. There’s Something Sinister Afoot In Macaulay Culkin’s Yule Log Video 
45. The Unlikely Origins of the First Quantum Computer
46. The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018
47. How Chip Makers Are Circumventing Moore’s Law to Build Super-Fast CPUs of Tomorrow
48. The Ongoing Saga of the Florida Bar’s Angst About Competitive Keyword Advertising (Eric Goldman)
49. CanLII Top Ten Accessed Cases from 2018
50. Looking Back at 2018: My Top Ten Posts (Michael Geist)
51. 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote
52. Technology, Ranked 

CREATIVITY

1. Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon—here’s what that means
2. Announcing The Public Domain Game Jam: Gaming Like It’s 1923
3. ‘Fake News’ Results In Real Jail Time For Ohio Woman
4. Why does flat Earth belief still exist?: Our latest video looks at what can motivate people to believe the impossible.
5. People adopt made-up social rules to be part of a group: It happens when the rule is useless and nobody will ever meet anyone affected by it.
6. When a $1M+ Publicity Rights Damages Award Isn’t a Win–Olive v. GNC
7. Students Make A Video Depicting A School Shooting; Sheriff Decides Everyone Needs To Have Their Rights Violated
8. Thanks to higher resolution image, American Airlines has eventually managed to register its logo with the US Copyright Office
9. 100 Year Old Trademarks In 2019
10. Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism: In the era of Trump and apocalyptic change, Hopepunk is a storytelling template for #resistance – and hanging onto your humanity at all costs.

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1. CRTC Issues Guidance for Avoiding Indirect Liability for CASL Violations
2. Minnesota AG Just The Latest To Ding Comcast For Shady Fees 
3. Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules 
4. The FCC Is Closing, So Hold Your Cell Phone Service Gripes
5. CBS Eyes Ditching Nielsen As Streaming, Cord Cutting Change The Game
6. AT&T Attempts A Head Fake With ‘Fake 5G’
7. Who is leading the 5G patent race? 

 SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Google Photos Defeats Privacy Lawsuit Over Face Scans–Rivera v. Google (Eric Goldman)
2. Foreign Cyberattack Cripples Major U.S. Newspapers
3. EFF Wins FOIA Lawsuit Against DEA, Forces The Release Of More Info About Its Hemisphere Program
4. Personal Data of Nearly 1,000 North Korean Defectors Reportedly Stolen in Hack
5. Indian Government Wants Tech Companies To Give Law Enforcement 24-Hour Access To User Data And Broken Encryption
6. Once Again, GDPR Is A Potential Privacy Nightmare: Amazon Sends 1,700 Voice Recordings To The Wrong User In GDPR Request

GAMES

1. Star Control: Origins pulled from sale following DMCA takedown notice
2. Star Control creators block Origins release: Stardock denied injunction against Ford and Reiche’s DMCA notice, title removed from GOG and Steam
3. Original Star Control creators deploy nuclear option against Stardock [Updated]
4. China issues 80 new game licenses, Tencent not included
5. China lifts a freeze on new video games but excludes its biggest player: It allows 80 new titles to be released but none from Tencent
6. Tencent and Netease absent in first wave of China game approvals: 80 titles given the green light in December, but none from nation’s market leaders
7. Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can’t Possibly Have Happened
8. Moments of 2018: When Fortnite stopped everything for a butterfly
9. Fortnite Dance, Potato Roll Recipe Clip Are BuzzFeed’s Most Viral Videos Of 2018
10. BioWare co-founders inducted into the Order of Canada
11. Rebellion’s Chris Kingsley receives OBE
12. Rebellion co-founder Chris Kingsley to receive OBE
13. Game Workers Unite working with devs from a dozen studios towards unionization
14. Steel Division dev Eugen Systems fires six employees involved in pay dispute
15. CIS region game devs hit with 7.4% decline in median salary last year: Women lost 10% of their salary as gender pay gap increased to $6,000
16. Blizzard hopes linked Battle.net accounts will solve toxic Twitch chats
17. Fired Activision Blizzard CFO picked up by Netflix as chief financial officer
18. Activision Blizzard terminates CFO Spencer Neumann: Previous CFO Denis Durkin returns to position effective immediately
19. Killing in the name of: The US Army and video games
20. Video: Astronaut Scott Kelly teaches orbital mechanics with Kerbal Space Program
21. Caltech scientists use DNA tiles to play tic-tac-toe at the nanoscale
22. A bewildered, far-from-conclusive look at the state of public gaming in Tokyo
23. Twitch Star DrLupo Raised $1.3 Million For St. Jude Children’s Hospital This Year 
24. PlayStation Classic Gets Huge Price Cut, Which Says A Lot
25. Sony: Home of the Whopper – 10 Years Ago This Month –  Kaz Hirai discovers heretofore unexplored levels of spin in promoting the PS3 as the global economic meltdown ripples through the industry
26. Gumi Inc. acquires stake in blockchain game developer Double Jump.Tokyo: Investment follows launch of publisher’s $30 million blockchain fund in May last year
27. Rami Ismail launches game-a-day collection Meditations: Free downloadable launcher will offer a different five-minute experience every day
28. A game studio with zero hardware experience is building a VR-ready console
29. Project Cars dev Slightly Mad Studios is working on a VR-friendly game console  
30. Valve Reveals Top Selling VR Games on Steam in 2018
31. Valve shares data on Steam’s most popular game/controller pairings  
32. Steam rounds up 2018’s best sellers, top new releases, and more  
33. Ninja To Stream ‘Fortnite’ For 12 Hours On New Year’s Eve In Times Square
34. Twitch Viewers Watched 226.85 Million Hours’ Worth Of Ninja’s Content This Year
35. Pro-PewDiePie Printer Hacker Returns, Making 5,500+ Smart TVs, Google Devices Urge Users To Subscribe
36. UK boxed software sales slip in 2018, but hardware is up: PS4 dominates the market, as Switch rises sharply
37. Best of 2018: How Baldi’s Basics taps into the real horror of ’90s edutainment
38. Best of 2018: The Heartbeat Symposium – Exploring love, sex, and intimacy in games
39. Eurogamer’s game of the year 2018 is Tetris Effect
40. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: The top 10 game developers of the year
41. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: The top 10 games of the year
42. Best of 2018: Gamasutra’s top games, devs, events and trends
43. What is the industry looking forward to in 2019?: Most anticipated games, sporting victories, disruption, innovation and more on leaders’ wishlists
44. What lies ahead? Analysts make 2019 predictions: Industry watchers assess the likelihood of new console hardware, the growth potential of streaming, AR or esports breakthroughs, and more 

Jon

 DIGITAL

1. Canada Outlaws Settlement Threat Letters Sent Through ISPs 
2. The Relationship Between Huawei and the Chinese Regime’s Factional Politics
3. Washington Redskins reportedly backed out of Huawei Wi-Fi deal because of government concerns
4. Global Scrutiny Of Huawei Increases Amid Privacy And National Security Concerns: The company’s close ties to the Chinese government, accusations of intellectual property theft, and technological vulnerabilities has thrown its future into doubt.
5. ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are Different
6. Rep. Louie Gohmert Wants To Strip Section 230 Immunity From Social Media Platforms That Aren’t ‘Neutral’
7. In Response to Lawsuit, NRA Removes Image of “The Bean” Sculpture from Video
8. Appeals Court Hands ReDigi Another Loss; Says Reselling Mp3s Violates Copyright Law
9. Buzzfeed Wins Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against It Over Publication Of The Steele Dossier
10. Dangerous Court Ruling Says Colleges May Be Required To Block Access To Certain Websites
11. Apple v. Pepper: Tearing Down the Illinois Brick Wall? – Who Can and Cannot Sue Online Platforms Under the Federal Antitrust Laws
12. Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal 
13. Apple may soon enable gifting for in-app purchases: Updated guidelines allow developers to let users buy virtual items and currency for each other
14. iOS App Store Guidelines update hints at giftable in-app purchases
15. No Echo? No problem—Apple Music to work on other Alexa-enabled devices 
16. The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True 
17. Alexa Crapped Out on Christmas
18. Amazon Prime’s Promise of Two-Day Delivery Is Dying
19. Start your (machine learning) engines: Amazon’s DeepRacer is almost here 
20. The 21 (And Counting) Biggest Facebook Scandals Of 2018
21. Facebook is Reportedly Creating Its Own Cryptocurrency
22. Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study 
23. Both Things Are True: Press Freakouts Over Facebook’s Practices Have Been Misleading & Facebook Has A Privacy Problem
24. G2A’s payment service is charging users for inactivity 
25. “Change your future” tomorrow with choice-filled Black Mirror film on Netflix
26. Filters Suck Out Loud: Tumblr’s Porn Filters Flag Tumblr’s Examples Of Allowed Content
27. Civil unrest: How a blockchain-based journalism startup bumbled its launch 
28. 18 Viral Photos and Videos From 2018 That Were Totally Fake
29. YouTube Says It Repaired Glitch Resulting In Diminished Viewcounts Yesterday
30. Influencer Sued for Failure to Influence 
31. Slack cites US sanctions as it rolls out mass account deactivations  
32. Magistrate Judge Says Grande Shouldn’t Be Able To Use The DMCA Safe Harbors Because It Didn’t Really Terminate Infringers 
33. We Are Not A Dashboard: Contesting The Tyranny Of Metrics, Measurement, And Managerialism
34. This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began
35. AI’s Whip Christmas Leftovers Into Loathsome New Recipes
36. This Algorithm Can Create 3D Animations From A Single Still Image
37. Researchers Taught an AI About Ownership Rules and Social Norms
38. Douglas Adams was right: “Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets 
39. Congress Passes $1.2 Billion Quantum Computing Bill
40. eSignature and ePayment News and Trends
41. Viral Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake
42. Copyright Industry Lobbyists Can’t Even Get Their Story Straight On Article 13: Does It Expand Copyright Or Keep It The Same?
43. Is Brexit spurring a .EU domain exit?  
44. FBI removes top offending ‘DDoS for-hire’ sites 
45. Your Periodic Reminder That Keyword Ad Lawsuits Are Stupid–Passport Health v. Avance (Eric Goldman) 

CREATIVITY

1. Stop Using My Mark, Said Dr. Seuss. Not So Fast, Said the Court – it is a Fair Use
2. No Penalty: Fantasy Football Does Not Violate Players’ Right of Publicity
3. Black Artists Are Rejecting Offers to Perform for Super Bowl Halftime Show
4. New Hampshire Sued Over Criminal Defamation Law Abused To Arrest Law Enforcement Critic
5. Bryan Adams Warns Canadian Heritage Committee on Copyright Term Extension: Enriches Large Intermediaries, Not Creators (Michael Geist)
6. Copyright and Culture: My Submission to the Canadian Heritage Committee Study on Remuneration Models for Artists and Creative Industries (Michael Geist)
7. Study: modern masters like Jackson Pollock were “intuitive physicists”

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. The Consequence of Uncompetitiveness: Canadians Ration Wireless Data As Monthly Usage Ranks Among the Lowest in the OECD (Michael Geist)
2. Study Says Wireless Retail Workers Could Make Up To 7% Less In Wake Of Sprint, T-Mobile Merger
3. Sprint to Cough Up a Whopping $330 Million Following Investigation Over NY Taxes 
4. NY’s Record $176 Million Settlement With Charter For Crap Broadband Highlights Cable’s Growing Monopoly
5. AT&T 5G goes live this week with ridiculously overpowered hotspot
6. AT&T’s 5G ‘Arrives,’ Quickly Shows Why 5G Won’t Be A Panacea For Broadband Competition
7. AT&T Lets Users Avoid Broadband Caps…If They Use AT&T’s Own Streaming Service

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. ACLU to feds: Your “hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy”
2. US and allies: New hacks mean China broke 2015 economic espionage pact
3. London Metropolitan Police Deploy Facial Recognition Tech Sporting A 100% Failure Rate
4. Blind Says Security Lapse That Exposed User Data Was ‘Our Mistake’
5. How The GDPR Nearly Ruined Christmas

GAMES

1.  Rapper Hits Fortnite With Suit Over Dance Moves
2. How Fortnite Triggered an Unwinnable War Between Parents and Their Boys: The last-man-standing videogame has grabbed onto American boyhood, pushing aside other pastimes and hobbies and transforming family dynamics
3. Fortnite’s paid outfits, dances have made it a target for lucrative account theft 
4. Child advocates call for FTC investigation over inappropriate Google Play games
5. China is once again issuing game licenses after a months-long freeze
6. China ends freeze on game approvals: Government confirms new regulator is reviewing “big stockpile of games”, “will hurry up to issue licenses”
7. Video: How Valve uses biofeedback to make better games
8. Evidence continues to mount about how bad Denuvo is for PC gaming performance
9. Discord raises another $150M after opening its own games store
10. Marvel Avengers Academy shutting down at the end of 2018
11. The Walking Dead Game’s final season is releasing exclusively on the Epic Games Store
12. Telltale’s The Walking Dead to conclude final season on Epic Games Store: Those who purchased full season on other PC platforms will still receive remaining episodes on those platforms 
13. Games Workshop Likes A Guy’s Warhammer Fanfilms So Much It Hires Him To Do An Official One
14. Global spending on mobile expected to pass $76bn in 2018: Average smartphone user spends almost three hours per day using apps, says App Annie
15. 100 support staff take cash offer and voluntarily leave Blizzard
16. Blizzard’s Sudden Shuttering Of Heroes Of The Storm Demonstrates Why eSports Needs Its Next Evolutionary Step
17. Esports’ urgent need for visible gender diversity: 2018 in Review: Esports is booming, but over half of its enthusiasts face massive barriers to success within it
18. Industry movers and shakers share 2018 highlights: God of War, Spider-Man, Red Dead and Epic Store among the year’s biggest events for our expert panel 
19. “To be a good game designer, you have to be a good designer first”: Will Wright talks about learning the craft and the state of developer education as he partners with MasterClass for an online video course 
20. Gameloft acquires SongPop developer FreshPlanet  
21. Smash Bros. Ultimate worldwide sales topped 5M in first week  
22. How to Upgrade Your Nintendo Switch to Be Better at Super Smash Bros.
23. Moments of 2018: Labo makes magic from cardboard
24. Zynga to acquire Empires & Puzzles dev Small Giant for initial $560M  
25. Zynga acquiring Small Giant: CEO Frank Gibeau discusses acquisition approach as publisher picks up Empires & Puzzles studio for $560 million, raises guidance
26. Asus’ ROG Phone Is the Dumb Fun RGB Handset Gamers Deserve
27. Atari H1 financials show continued growth driven by RollerCoaster Tycoon IP: Company buoyed by sales to THQ Nordic, Atari VCS pre-orders 
28. Cloud Imperium raises $46M from private investment
29. Cloud Imperium secures $46m investment for Star Citizen: Funds raised will be spent on marketing both the main game and Squadron 42 single-player campaign
30. Feelreal Wants to Add Smell & Haptics to Your VR Headset, Kickstarter Coming Soon 
31. Niantic launches $1M AR game dev contest
32. Niantic launches $1m AR game contest: Pokémon Go developer encourages developers to “think outside the box”
33. Pokémon Go creators launch AR-game contest that (nearly) resembles American Idol
34. Microsoft is pausing its Xbox One financing program at the end of the year
35. Drawn together: The love affair between comics and games
36. You can now download the long-lost (and unfinished) SimCity NES port
37. War Stories: Lord British created an ecology for Ultima Online but no one saw it
38. People of the Year 2018: Recognising the exceptional work this year from teams and individuals alike
39. Games of the Year 2018: The GamesIndustry.biz team choose their personal faves, most surprising, and most disappointing titles of the year
40. Best of 2018: Translating the humor & tone of Yakuzagames for the West
41. Ars Technica’s best games of 2018
42. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: Emma Kidwell’s top 5 games
43. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: Kris Graft’s top 7 games
44. Video Game Deep Cuts: The Best Of The Best Of The Year
45. 11 bit studios has raised over $500k for War Child through charity DLC  
46. 11 bit studios raises over $500,000 for War Child: This War of Mine DLC initiative supports charity helping children affected by conflict globally
47. Looking Back On My Former Life InStar Wars: The Old Republic
48. Blog: What isn’t game design?
49. Video: How some early MUDs compare to today’s games

Jon

DIGITAL 

1.  No More Settlement Demands: New Rules for Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System Receive Royal Assent (Michael Geist)
2. Music to Copyright Owners’ Ears: Second Circuit Affirms Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc.
3. No Agreement Made On EU Copyright Directive, As Recording Industry Freaks Out About Safe Harbors Too
4. Top EU Court’s Advocate General Says German Link Tax Should Not Be Applied — But On A Technicality
5. Judge Sides With BuzzFeed Over Publication of Steele Dossier
6. Screenshotting a Newspaper Page May Infringe a Licensed Photo–Hirsch v. Complex (Eric Goldman)
7. Two Pro Se Section 230 Rulings–Scott v. Carlson & Watkins v. Carr (Eric Goldman) 
8. Arkansas Politician Introduces Bill To Make It Illegal For Social Media Companies To Block Content He Likes
9. Report: Facebook let major tech firms access private messages, friends lists
10. Facebook let Netflix, Spotify, and other companies read your private messages: Between 2010 and today, Facebook shared users’ private data, including private messages and contact info, with more than 150 companies. 
11. Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn’t Stop It From Tracking Your Location  (Kashmir Hill)
12. Facebook’s Latest Privacy Screwup Shows How Facebook’s Worst Enemy Is Still Facebook
13. Netflix Denies Exploiting Its Alleged Ability To Read, Write, And Delete Facebook Users’ Private Messages
14. Big Telecom Wants To Tax Netflix To Pay For Broadband Upgrades ISPs Refuse To Deploy Themselves
15. Study Shows That No, Netflix Isn’t Killing Movie Theaters
16. DC sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal
17. “We’re sorry,” Facebook says, again—new photo bug affects millions
18. Facebook says a bug affecting up to 6.8 million users exposed photos they hadn’t shared
19. Facebook Watch Clocks 400 Million Monthly Viewers, Rolls Out Ad Breaks To 40 Countries 
20. Instagram May Have Been Key Tool in Russia’s Manipulation of U.S. Voters
21. Massive scale of Russian election trolling revealed in draft Senate report 
22. Social Media’s Forever War 
23. As NAACP kicks off boycott, Facebook says content moderation, infrastructure changes are coming in 2019
24. Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much
25. Facebook “partner” arrangements: Are they as bad as they look?
26. NY Times Columnist Nick Kristof Led The Charge To Get Facebook To Censor Content, Now Whining That Facebook Censors His Content
27. Hundreds March on Amazon Fulfillment Center in Minnesota
28. Amazon Is Reportedly Sick of Hawking You Cheap ‘Crap’ That Doesn’t Make It Any Money 
29. Amazon Slapped With Trademark, Patent Lawsuit by Williams-Sonoma Over Chair Design, Storefront
30. Screenshotting a Newspaper Page May Infringe a Licensed Photo – Hirsch v. Complex
31. Clinic Releases Guide to Anti-Circumvention Exemption for Software Preservation
32. Social Media Is Ruining Our Minds—It Also Might Save Them 
33. Apple will spend $1 billion and hire up to 15,000 people for new Austin office
34. Apple to bring Charlie Brown and the Peanuts to its streaming service
35. Apple’s iOS 12.1.2 fixes eSIM and cellular bugs, but there might be more to it
36. Apple says iOS update will avoid Qualcomm patents, China iPhone ban
37. Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
38. Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
39. Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Artificial Intelligence Workforce
40. Why algorithms need auditing
41. Embracing AI for the Social Good
42. Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines 
43. Don’t Worry About Deepfakes. Worry About Why People Fall for Them.: The focus on the technology behind fake media obscures more pressing questions about the psychology and sociology of viral false narratives.
44. Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?: The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture—but its applications can easily be weaponized.
45. YouTube Announces Sitewide Spam Purge That Will See Reduced Sub Counts 
46. YouTube Deletes Hundreds Of Strange, Sexually Suggestive Mom And Kids Videos 
47. YouTube’s Own ‘Rewind 2018’ Becomes Most-Disliked Video Ever In Less Than A Week
48. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 12/16/2018
49. YouTube Integrating New Music Charts As Live Playlists In ‘YouTube Music’ App
50. Celebrated Author Alice Walker Recommends Conspiratorial, Anti-Semitic YouTube Videos 
51. Telemundo to Launch First English-Language Newscast on YouTube
52. Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas’ Tops YouTube’s Holiday Songs Chart
53. For the first time ever, Disney posts a Pixar “short” on YouTube for free
54. Internal Google Docs Warn Not to Gift Contractors Shirts in Case They Start Thinking They’re Employees: Report
55. The Pixel 3 Is Proof That Google Doesn’t Care About Hardware
56. Google Chrome wants to stop back-button hijacking
57. Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
58. Google announces major expansion in New York City
59. The Biggest Tech Lies of 2018
60. CenturyLink blocked its customers’ Internet access in order to show an ad
61. Broadband ISP CenturyLink Is Blocking Users’ Internet Access Just To Show An Ad
62. It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights
63. Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaha Launches Podcast Network, Seeks Women And Nonbinary Podcasters
64. Insights: When You Legally Can’t Give It Away–Is Marijuana The Toughest Job In Influencer Marketing? 
65. Instagram Influencer Charged $500 for Social Media Master Class Scam: ‘I Wanted the Price to Be Painful’ 
66. FBI Secretly Collected Data on Aaron Swartz Earlier Than We Thought—in a Case Involving Al Qaeda
67. FBI Swept Up Info About Aaron Swartz While Pursuing An Al-Qaeda Investigation 
68. Wall Street Journal Site Hacked With Pro-PewDiePie Message 
69. Hackers Replace Wall Street Journal Page With Pro-PewDiePie Message
70. Signal app to Australia: Good luck with that crypto ban – Country’s efforts to slow Signal and other apps is a “disappointing development.”
71. BBB Launches New Online Tool to Report Bad Ads 
72. Twitter Is Indeed Toxic For Women, Amnesty Report Says
73. Twitter is relaunching the reverse-chronological feed as an option for all users starting today
74. Verizon says Oath is dead. Meet Verizon Media Group.: The un-rebranding of Verizon’s AOL/Yahoo properties comes just a week after the company told federal regulators the brand was all but worthless.
75. Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure 
76. As A Final FU To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists
77. Insights: As Tumblr Implodes Amid NSFW Ban And Protests, What Platform Steps Up? 
78. Twitch sells Curse Media after two years  
79. Twitch is giving more creators money, but it couldn’t keep YouTube’s biggest names
80. YouTube’s $100 Million Upload Filter Failures Demonstrate What A Disaster Article 13 Will Be For The Internet
81. Netflix Joins Forces With Taylor Swift To Air ‘Reputation’ Tour Film On New Year’s Eve
82. Netflix Testing New Feature That Asks Users If They Want To Instant-Replay Popular Scenes
83. Netflix To Adapt John Green Holiday Novel ‘Let It Snow’ Into Feature Film 
84. ‘Little Baby Bum’ Owner Moonbug Raises $145 Million To Build Brand-Safe Kids’ Content Empire
85. 7-Year-Old Ryan ToysReview Unveils Sponsorship With Mandarin Orange Brand
86. Samsung Can’t Afford to Hold Back Anymore
87. The Deadly Recklessness of the Self-Driving Car Industry
88. How ’90s Cybersex Pioneers Looked for Action and Found Community
89. HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder dead at 34
90. HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder found dead: Colin Kroll believed to have died from drug overdose on Sunday morning
91. Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died this week—she should be remembered
92. U.S. Grocer Kroger Has Begun Making Autonomous Deliveries
93. A Child Was Immunized By the World’s First Drone-Delivered Vaccine
94. Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”
95. Mass email hoax causes closures across the US and Canada: Emails threaten explosions unless people pay $20,000 in Bitcoin.

CREATIVITY

1. Super Injunction Silences News About Vatican Official’s Child Molestation Conviction
2. Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Claims Three Publications Did $300 Million In Damage To His Pristine Reputation
3. Blurred legal lines (part two) – the copyright debate
4. Greene v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
5. The law of journalist-source privilege is still taking shape
6. Faith Goldy ordered to pay Bell Media more than $43,000 in legal fees: Faith Goldy had sued Bell over its refusal to air her campaign advertisements on a local television station, but the suit was tossed in October
7. UK Advertising Codes to Ban Gender Stereotypes
8. Iranian phishers bypass 2fa protections offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail
9. Thinking of Using Kim Jong-un in Your Marketing?
10. Court Awards Six Figures to Model Falsely “Diagnosed” with HIV in Ad Campaign
11. No Actual Malice In The Wolf Of Wall Street Lawsuit: Judge Tosses Defamation Claim Brought By Former Stratton Oakmont Executive 
12. Oxford University Gets Opposition To Its Attempt To Trademark ‘Oxford’ For All The Things
13. If Your Trademark Case Depends on Showing Initial Interest Confusion, Save Your Money–Select Comfort v. John Baxter (Eric Goldman)
14. Former NASA Engineer Builds Impressive Glitter Bomb to Make Life Hell for Package Thieves

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1. Telecom Train Wreck: Why It Is Time for the Government to Address the Mess That Is The CRTC (Michael Geist)
2. Stepping In It: Why Navdeep Bains’ Failing Wireless Strategy is Not a Step in the Right Direction (Michael Geist)
3. Big Telecom Claims Oversight & Accountability Violates Its First Amendment Rights 
4. FCC Does Wireless Carriers Another Favor By Reclassifying Text Messages
5. FCC forces California to drop plan for government fees on text messages
6. FCC’s O’Rielly Keeps Claiming, With Zero Evidence, That Community Broadband Is An ‘Ominous’ Threat To Free Speech
7. 2018 Year In FCC Review 
8. Report: T-Mobile’s Merger With Sprint Is the Latest Battleground Over Huawei
9. Growing security fears hobble global ambitions of Chinese tech giant Huawei
10. T-Mobile lied to the FCC about its 4G coverage, small carriers say
11. T-Mobile denies lying to FCC about size of its 4G network 
12. FCC Says It Will Finally Investigate Nation’s BS Broadband Availability Maps. Maybe.
13. FCC Eliminates Broadcast License Posting Requirement and Begins Quadrennial Media Ownership Rulemaking Proceeding
14. Charter users who didn’t get promised speeds will get $75 or $150 refunds
15. Bahnhof Now Facing Net Neutrality Investigation Over Its ‘Protest’ Blocking Of Elsevier

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Supreme Court of Canada Protects Digital Privacy in Shared Devices
2. Reasonable expectation of privacy exists in shared electronic devices: SCC
3. R v Reeves (2018 SCC 56)
4. Federal Court Says Massachusetts’ Wiretap Law Can’t Be Used To Arrest People For Recording Public Officials
5. Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport
6. German City Wants Names And Addresses Of Airbnb Hosts; Chinese Province Demands Full Details Of Every Guest Too
7. Central Londoners to be subjected to facial recognition test this week
8. How computers got shockingly good at recognizing images
9. Data privacy: how much consent is enough consent? 
10. He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake: Smart toys and regulating the IoT in Canada
11. Senators aim to give internet companies doctor-like duties to protect our data
12. Takeaways from the First GDPR Fines
13. Navigating the New Data Privacy Landscape: A Guide for OTT Providers
14. If Data is Exposed But No One is Around to Steal It, Can a Data-Breach Plaintiff Still Sue? 
15. OCIE Publishes Risk Alert Regarding Electronic Messaging
16. Locational Tracking on iOS and Android Devices: Check the Platform’s Rules!
17. Momentum Builds for a National Privacy Law in the United States
18. The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2018 Will Make You Feel Like a Security Genius
19. He’s Making a List. Will Regulators Check His Privacy Practices Twice? 

GAMES

1. US School Safety Commission largely gives games a pass: Group convened by Trump in wake of mass shooting earlier this year suggests schools monitor internet access, media ratings bodies review policies
2. 68% of games depict violence, says US school safety report
3. South Korea Continues To Criminalize Behavior Around Online Gaming At The Behest Of Video Game Industry
4. The first union for game industry workers has launched in the UK  
5. IWGB launches video game workers union branch: “The game workers’ decision to unionise with the IWGB should be a wake up call for the UK’s gaming industry,” says IWGB general secretary
6. Escape From Tarkov devs file DMCA takedown over false accusations 
7. Escape from Tarkov developer issues DMCA to stop story about user info leaks: Battlestate Games issues takedown on over 40 videos from YouTuber Eroktic due to “misinformation” and “negative hype”
8. Game Developer Admits It Filed Bogus Copyright Claims, But Says It Had No Other Way To Silence A Critic
9. Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward evacuated after bomb threat
10. Infinity Ward receives bomb threat – Report: Call of Duty development studio among dozens of businesses, schools, news outlets receiving threats today
11. Fresh Prince star Alfonso Ribeiro suing Epic over Fortnitedance
12. ‘Fresh Prince’ star Alfonso Ribeiro sues Fortnite over use of dance his character Carlton popularized
13. Fresh Prince actor sues Fortnite for use of ‘iconic’ Carlton dance: Alfonso Ribeiro wants to stop the makers of Fortnite and NBA 2K from using the dance he first performed on the 1990s sitcom
14. CAA Signs First Gamers, Facebook Star StoneMountain64 And ‘Fortnite’ Pro Nick Eh 30
15. People of the Year 2018: Epic Games: Despite a year peppered with controversy, the Fortnite developer’s influence on 2018 remains undeniable
16. Forget Fortnite—my son is still obsessed with Minecraft
17. Minecraft lays its last brick on Xbox 360, other last-gen consoles
18. Consumer advocates want FTC to investigate kids apps: Group files formal complaint alleging COPPA violations, spotlights on inappropriate titles
19. GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year In Numbers 2018: The global games market value, most watched YouTube videos, biggest mobile games and more
20. Global games market value rising to $134.9bn in 2018: Revenues grew by over 10%, mobile accounts for almost half at $63.2 billion
21. Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
22. Sony accidentally revealed playercounts for nearly every PS4 game
23. Sony accidentally reveals PS4 player counts: Grand Theft Auto V the highest number pulled at 51.7 million
24. Sony Released Its Playstation Classic Console In A Way That Makes It Eminently Hackable
25. Kingdom Hearts 3 Leaked on Facebook Marketplace Six Weeks Before Release Date
26. One of the most anticipated games of the decade has leaked over a month early, and outraged fans are trying to punish the person they think did it
27. PUBG now has over 200 million registered players on mobile alone
28. PUBG Mobile reaches 200 million downloads: Fortnite hit 200 million milestone across all platforms last month
29. Industry experts worry some esports orgs are overvalued and headed for trouble
30. The state of esports: Radical growth and inevitable failure – 2018 in Review – League of Legends soars, esports are subbed by the Olympics, and PUBG flounders
31. Blizzard pulls devs off Heroes of the Storm and cuts eSports support
32. Blizzard cancels Heroes of the Storm Global Championship: Devs to be reassigned elsewhere, but game will continue to receive live support
33. Blizzard Abruptly Kills Heroes of the Storm Esports, Leaving Players And Casters Fuming
34. Blizzard shifts developers away from Heroes of the Storm
35. Check out our 16-page Game Publisher’s Guide To Esports: Produced in partnership with Esports BAR
36. Intel and ESL announce $100m esports investment: Longest-running partnership in sector extended to 2021
37. Esports BAR’s mission to get non-gaming brands excited about pro-gaming: Orange, AirAsia and Dominos amongst attendees at Cannes event in February
38. Evil Geniuses founder unites esports agencies to form Popdog: Alex Garfield acquires Loaded, NoScope, and esports division of Catalyst; launches with $9m funding round
39. Riot reportedly suspends COO over misconduct at work: Riot offers statement, full internal email confirms suspension
40. Riot Games suspends COO Scott Gelb for workplace misconduct
41. Epic shuts down Fortnite data miner: Developer says the takedown was for promoting and advertising game mod tools, “not directly related” to leaking
42. Fortnite dev team removes Infinity Blade for being ‘overpowered’
43. Fortnite Season Five announcement most watched trailer on YouTube in 2018: Viewed 46.8 million times, the trailer beat both the Fallout 76 and Red Dead Redemption II reveals
44. Discord Store to offer developers 90 percent of game revenues
45. Discord aims to disrupt by opening storefront to devs, offering 90% revenue share
46. Why even avid Steam gamers should celebrate Epic’s new store: Bulkhead Interactive CEO Joe Brammer expects major gains from Epic’s new store — now it’s time for Valve to react and evolve
47. Steam’s ‘Top Wishlists’ filter ranks recent wishlist numbers for unreleased games
48. Epic’s Fortnite was the highest trending game on Google US in 2018: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Fallout 76 were second and third
49. Capcom responds to complaints over Street Fighter’s in-game ads: Publisher will “consider how we can improve this new feature” based on community feedback
50. Battlefield 5 is having trouble balancing for both new and experienced players
51. Atari acquires stake in Animoca Brands as part of blockchain game deal: Partnership will see Animoca Brands develop blockchain version of RollerCoaster Tycoon
52. Red Dead Redemption 2 reclaims No.1 in UK charts: Super Smash Bros tumbles to No.4
53. Epic to launch cross-platform services for developers: Tools built for Fortnite will be made free and open for all engines, platforms, and stores
54. EGX Rezzed 2019 sees return of Epic’s Powered by Unreal Engine zone: Unreal Engine devs exhibiting at the London show next March eligible to have their space doubled
55. Facebook & ZeniMax Settle Major Legal Dispute Over VR Intellectual Property
56. IMAX Officially Bails on VR Business
57. IMAX to Close Down All Remaining IMAX VR Centres Soon
58. Image courtesy Brilliant Sole: Brilliant Sole Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes 
59. HTC Thinks Virtual Reality’s Killer App Could Be Christianity: Christians adapted radio and rock music. Maybe VR will be next. 
60. DeltaDNA: In-game ads beginning to catch IAP as viable revenue stream – Study indicates that both casual and core mobile free-to-play games are making an increasing percentage of their revenue from ads
61. Formula 1, Hutch partner on mobile games: Hutch to create official, licensed racing titles for iOS, Android in the new year
62. What a Mobile App Lawyer Can Do for You
63. The UK industry stares down a Brexit disaster – 2018 in Review – There are no silver linings to Brexit for the UK industry, as uncertainty and the threat of No Deal create a difficult business climate
64. A German regulator is taking Nintendo to court over eShop preorder policies  
65. Nintendo: Red Dead 2 not being on Switch was down to timing – Reggie Fils-Aime says Switch emerged too late for Rockstar to consider the platform for its hit game
66. ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’ Fastest Selling Nintendo Switch Game
67. Super Smash Bros Ultimate shoots to the top of EMEAA charts: Nintendo’s first-party line-up continues to pay dividends, Just Cause 4 the only other new entry in the top ten
68. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate US sales reach 3 million: Switch is the fastest-selling US console this generation, and Smash Bros. is the fastest-selling Nintendo home console game ever in Europe
69. Smash Bros. Ultimate has sold over 3M copies in the U.S. 
70. Report: Pokemon Go creator Niantic close to $3.9 billion valuation 
71. NPD: Switch, PS4, Xbox One all sell over 1.3 million units in November – This is the first time in history that three console platforms have all sold over one million in a single month
72. Hands-on: Switch’s NES controllers offer unmatched old-school authenticity
73. Minecraft modders form Hypixel Studios: Riot Games and former Blizzard exec Rob Pardo among initial investors as new developer announces debut title
74. Twitch saw over 3 million streamers per month in 2018: Platform sees biggest year yet for streamers, viewership, Affiliates, and Partners
75. Twitch sells Curse Media: Video streaming site offloads gaming media network to Fandom two years after acquiring it alongside Curse client and chat services
76. Number Of Creators Monetizing On Twitch Grew By 86% This Year, Platform Confirms In Holiday Stream
77. Ninja Scores Commentator Role For Tonight’s NFL Game, Streamed On Twitch
78. Number Of Creators Monetizing On Twitch Grew By 86% This Year, Platform Confirms In Holiday Stream
79. F2P dev survey: In-game mobile ads becoming viable revenue source
80. Making Project Hospital: A realistic approach to medical simulation
81. Why go for a surprise launch?: Studio Wildcard and Grapeshot Games co-founders Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak discuss the pros and cons of debuting their new MMO Atlas on short notice 
82. “Apathy is how games die”: Nathan Vella tells us how Capy has done everything it can to ensure Below is worth the five-year wait 
83. Supermassive Games: “We used to think awards didn’t matter” – On its tenth birthday, we ask the UK studio about its history and what its Dark Pictures Anthology says about the future
84. Apptopia November report: Football Manager 2019 on Android outpaces all other new releases – Hyper casual continues to dominate the new release download charts
85. AppsFlyer: Ads now generate more revenue than IAP in casual mobile games – Midcore games also see decline in share of IAP revenue, but ads still only make up 30%
86. Razer launches cryptocurrency initiative: Peripheral maker asks users to install mining software in exchange for Razer Silver loyalty reward points
87. Jägermeister launches video game soundtrack competition for indie studios: Track and Build contest open to all indies releasing game in 2019 
88. Keeping The Outer Worlds rewarding, no matter someone’s play style
89. Blog: Putting a thought into play
90. Blog: How to turn your mod into an indie game
91. Blog: Why being an indie game dev is harder than ever
92. Video: Total War: Rome II devs built all of Europe—and the AI ignored most of it
93. How ‘user stories’ can help players grasp new content
94. Human values in game design: An approach for emergent storytelling
95. Old ways can still be the best ways – Why I Love: YoYo Games’ Mike Dailly explains how tech from the 1988 Commodore 64 shooter Armalyte is still used today
96. League of Legends will no longer support Windows XP and Vista in 2019  
97. Blog: What trends should you know about going into 2019?
98. People of the Year: Phil Spencer – PlayStation may have dominated the charts, but it was Xbox that got the games industry talking
99. People of the Year: Rami Ismail – Vlambeer’s co-founder received the GDC Ambassador award, in recognition of years spent reaching out and giving voice to the world’s emerging development communities
100. People of the Year 2018: Hello Games – After criticism, setbacks, investigations, and a PR nightmare, the creators of No Man’s Sky emerged this year to an optimistic future
101. Best of 2018: Reimagining failure in strategy game design in Into the Breach
102. Best of 2018: Dealing with the scourge of burnout in game dev
103. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: Alex Wawro’s top 8 games
104. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: Alissa McAloon’s top 10 games
105. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: Chris Kerr’s top 5 games
106. Gamasutra’s Best of 2018: Bryant Francis’ top 10 games
107. 5 trends that defined the game industry in 2018
108. The Best Video Game Surprises of 2018
109. The Biggest Video Game Disappointments of 2018
110. 5 events that rocked the game industry in 2018
111. 343 Industries is teaming up with Limbitless to provideHalo-themed prosthetics