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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...

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An 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...

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FTC 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...

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Four 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...

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Mr. 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...

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Four 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...

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Four 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...

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Four 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...

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Regulation 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...

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New 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...

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Four 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...

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Four 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...

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More 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...

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Four 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...

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Four 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...

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Four 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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