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PRISM, NSA, and Privacy: The Fundamental Need for Whistleblowers and the Danger of Institutional Secrecy
Whistleblowers and leaks mean more than ever in this era of information overload and information security. The intelligence community is fundamentally about two things: knowing true things and spreading untrue things so that rivals know less true things. The Internet has changed fundamentally not just how information is gathered—but how personal information is produced and ...
Watch Dogs #E3 2013: Ubisoft is Still Teasing and We’re Still Loving It
Last year, we were teased with this surveillance techno-thriller from Ubisoft to great effect and if we include the recent revelations about the NSA spy programs, it certainly is beginning to strike home. This year’s Ubisoft press conference brought up a new trailer…short, sweet, to the point–and powerful. Yet still, it’s just a tease. Little ...
Microsoft Xbox One Gaming Cuddles Up to the Cloud: FORZA Motorsport 5 and Titanfall
As I say, it’s obvious that with the exclusive launches for the Xbox One, Microsoft really wants to show off how the compute cloud will improve gaming. For an understanding of this, see the notion of three cloud machines for every Xbox console and how that would affect MMO gaming on Microsoft’s console. Listening to ...
Microsoft E3 2013 Bring on the Games—Ryse: Son of Rome, Sunset Overdrive, Halo
A new console will make-or-break its debut based on what games will launch with it and especially which games will be exclusive to that console. Looking at the market of the Microsoft press event it’s not too shabby. Between the expected Halo and Battlefield 4, we can add Romans on the beach, big-stompy robots, and ...
Microsoft Brings It Back to Gaming at E3: Xbox 360 Revamp, Xbox One Game Reveals
The Xbox One really needed something for gamers after what felt like a huge flop for the gaming community when Microsoft showed that the company intended to make the new console into an entertainment center. During the controversial Xbox reveal, Microsoft frustrated the gaming community with the potential of always-on DRM (now expected as call-home ...
Amazon Shows Love for Indie Game Developers with the Indie Game Store
Amazon announced today that they would be entering the indie video game scene with a new store on their website focused entirely on this particular niche of video game development. Indie developers for a long time have become the art-filled mayhem of the gaming market versus the glitz-and-glam of the triple-A game makers, and while ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 5: The Federal Reserve ‘Studies’ Bitcoin’s Impact, EFF Thanks the Bitcoin Community, Humble Indie Bundle 8
While this week hasn’t been overly dramatic for the Bitcoin market, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot of questions still rolling around about regulation and government activity. Last month, we saw MtGox’s Dwolla account sized by the US government, Liberty Reserve get shut down for criminal activity, and further money exchange domains have ...
O’Reilly Fluent Startup Showcase: Modulus.io for Developers, Scoot for Scooters, and kWIQly for Energy #fluentconf
Yesterday, the O’Reilly Fluent Startup Showcase had 11 different startups demonstrate their products in front of 4 judges– Chris Wilson (Google), Simon St. Laurent (O’Reilly Media), Peter Cooper (Cooper Press), and Brady Forrest (PCH)—the judges chose two startups and the community voted on a third. Those selected presented, quite briefly, for the crowd to show ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 29: OKPay Turns Back on Bitcoin, BitAngels Announces $6.7 Million in Funding, Coinbase Paper Wallets
Mt. Gox hasn’t been having the best month with payment sources with the freeze of its Dwolla account and now OKPay apparently withdrawing entirely from bitcoin processing and funding of exchanges. In what seemed like a surprise to everyone, the payment processor posted a one-sentence notice that it was no longer working with bitcoin and ...
OKPay To Suspend Money Services for Bitcoin Exchanges, Says Mt. Gox
Mt. Gox is informing customers that OKPay, a long-time money-transfer partner with the Bitcoin exchange, will be suspending operations with Bitcoin-related exchanges. The Tokoyo-based exchange has published this news in a PDF online as a press release that makes it clear this change is immediate, but that customers who usually use OKPay for transfers will ...