GAMES
1. Activision Prevails in ‘Angry Monkey’ Military Patch Lawsuit
3. Kmart Australia Joins Target Australia in Pulling ‘GTA V’ From Stores Shelves
+ Take-Two: Don’t like GTA? Don’t buy it
4. Why does gender balance matter in the games industry?
5. AbleGamers’ Weird Weekend of Porn, Charity, DDoS Attacks, and GamerGate
6. Rovio lays off 110 people as Angry Birds hype fades: Still on track for the 2016 Angry Birds movie.
7. Microsoft Apologizes For Late Payments to Xbox Live Indie Game Developers
8. Microsoft: Will “work on making amends” for Street Fighter exclusivity
9. Half-Life 2 Is Now A Strategy Game. Thanks, Modders
12. Mobile gaming overtakes PC in Southeast Asia – Report
13. “It will be hard to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s virtual”
15. Twitch acquiring eSports agency GoodGame
17. The 20 Years When Games Grew Up
19. Secret Habitat Explores The Phenomena Of Procedural Art
20. British Tory MP Caught Playing ‘Candy Crush Saga’ During Important Hearing
21. Playing With My Son: An experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting
22. ‘Elegy for a Dead World’ Now Available On Steam
23. Obituary: Ralph Baer – Electronics pioneer who fathered the console passes away
DIGITAL
24. Apple on trial: Company execs say DRM was forced on them by record labels
26. Negotiating Away Innovation: Dish Agrees To Kill Autohop To End TV Blackouts
29. Internet Provider Sonic’s CEO: Title II Is Only A Regulatory Burden If You’re Doing Something Bad
31. SCC holds disclosure of private communications engages constitutional rights
33. The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers
34. All cameras are police cameras
35. NSA spies on carriers to break call encryption, report suggests
+ Idaho mom’s suit over NSA database gets a cool reception from appeals court
36. The System Isn’t Going to Fix Itself—It’s Time for Us to Police the Police
38. BitTorrent is building a decentralized web browser
39. The World Cracks Down on the Internet
+ China cracks down on unofficial fan groups who subtitle hit American TV shows
40. Report: Iran Developing System To ID Any Internet User
41. Personal data protection is a ‘fundamental right’ in Europe
42. ‘Right to be forgotten’ on the Internet gains traction in Japan
43. Class Action Law Suits for Privacy Breaches in Canada: A Useful Tool in a Half-Full Toolbox? (Teresa Scassa)
45. Wanted: a tinkerer’s charter – Users should be allowed to fiddle with the way consumer products work without suffering penalties from governments or sanctions from manufacturers (The Economist)
46. Copyright Implications of a “Right to be Forgotten”? Or How to Take-Down the Internet Archive.
47. Chasing Clicks: Metrics should support a strategy, not be a strategy
48. Implanted Future: How Bodyhacking Could Become Commonplace
49. Uber Banned In New Delhi In Latest Twist Following Alleged Passenger Rape
+ Uber Faces Legal Action In India Following Arrest Of Rape Suspect (Note terms of service discussion)
+ More Woe For Uber As Ride Sharing Service UberPop Ban Upheld In The Netherlands
50. We Can’t Trust Uber (Zeynep Tufekci & Brayden King)
51. Why Uber’s ‘god view’ is creepy (Bruce Schneier)
52. With bullying app Secret on life support, investors learn the risk of investing in (jerks)
53. Readings in Big Data Ethics – Updated List (Santa Clara University)
CONSTRAINTS
54. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times?
56. Authors Guild Argues That Google Books Should Be Infringing Because Aaron Swartz
57. Staffers Resign En Masse At ‘The New Republic’ Amid Planned Changes
+ Facebook Prince Purges The New Republic: Inside the Destruction of a 100-Year-Old Magazine
58. Twitter has made the 24-hour news cycle into a 2-hour news cycle
60. The newsonomics of the newly quantified, gamified news reader
62. Radio-Free Syria
63. This is Your Brain on Jazz Improvisation: The Neuroscience of Creativity
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