Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries
Sections Opposition from the legal, technical and VC community Fundamental cybersecurity concerns about PROTECT IP More lawmakers come out against SOPA A Congressional hearing stacked against the...
View ArticleAn open response to Sen. Blumenthal on Protect IP and SOPA
A few months ago, I signed an electronic petition to send comments to my senator, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, about the PROTECT IP Act and its partner, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). There...
View ArticleFTC calls on Congress to enact baseline privacy legislation and more...
Over a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Brandeis “could not have imagined phones that keep track of where we are going, search engines that predict what we’re thinking, advertisers that monitor...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 June 2012
When Code Can Kill or Cure (The Economist) — I’ve linked to the dangers of closed source devices before, but this caught my eye: “In the 1990s we developed an excellent radiation-therapy...
View ArticleMr. Issa logs on from Washington
Sections Open Government Partnership The DATA Act Smart disclosure and FOIA Freedom of expression Regulatory reform A ‘Digital Bill of Rights’ Open Gov Foundation To update an old proverb for the...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 January 2014
$200k of Spaceships Destroyed (The Verge) — More than 2,200 of the game’s players, members of EVE’s largest alliances, came together to shoot each other out of the sky. The resultant damage was valued...
View ArticleFour short links: 7 November 2014
Twitter Open Sources Their Emoji Library — Emoji are the sparklines of sentiment. Interactive 360-degree Films. From Google (Medium) — you move the camera through a movie shot in 360 degrees, and can...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 November 2014
Infrastructure for Data Streams — describing the high-volume log data use case for Apache Kafka, and how it plays out in storage and infrastructure. Obama: Treat Broadband and Mobile as Utility (Ars...
View ArticleRegulation and decentralization: Defending the blockchain
Editor’s note: our O’Reilly Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain will take place on January 17, 2015, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Andreas Antonopoulos, Vitalik Buterin, Naval Ravikant, and...
View ArticleNew opportunities in the maturing marketplace of big data components
Editor’s note: this is an excerpt from our new report Data: Emerging Trends and Technologies, by Alistair Croll. Download the free report here. Here’s a look at some options in the evolving, maturing...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 January 2015
FAA to Regulate UAVs? (Forbes) — and the Executive Order will segment the privacy issues related to drones into two categories — public and private. For public drones (that is, drones purchased with...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 February 2015
The Home and the Mobile Supply Chain (Benedict Evans) — the small hardware start-up, and the cool new gizmos from drones to wearables, are possible because of the low price of components built at the...
View ArticleMore than a currency, bitcoin is an enabling technology
The promise of bitcoin and blockchain extends well beyond its potential disruption as a currency. In this Radar Podcast episode, Balaji Srinivasan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, explains...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 February 2015
Wiki New Zealand — open data site, and check out the chart builder behind the scenes for importing the data. It’s magic. stenographer (Google) — open source packet dumper for capturing data during...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 September 2015
$1 Unistroke Recognizer — a 2-D single-stroke recognizer designed for rapid prototyping of gesture-based user interfaces. In machine learning terms, $1 is an instance-based nearest-neighbor classifier...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 March 2016
The 2016 Car Hacker’s Handbook (Amazon) — will give you a deeper understanding of the computer systems and embedded software in modern vehicles. It begins by examining vulnerabilities and providing...
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