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Do visas for skilled foreigners shut out U.S. tech workers?

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - By Kyung M. Song, Janet I. Tu - May. 05 (Special Report) - Though he was then in his late 50s, Erickson figured the drumbeat of complaints from Microsoft and other tech companies about a dearth of good applicants promised an easy career switch. Nine months past his graduation, however, Erickson has yet to find full-time work. “When I saw my (philosophy) career was going to be over, I retrained myself,” Erickson, now 60, said. “What good is that if I’m not actually going to get a job?”

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Cloud's Real Ecological Timebomb: Wireless, Not Data Centers

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

cacm.acm.org - By Rohan Pearce - Apr. 15 (News Analysis) - Although environmentalists have criticized cloud service providers for a lack of transparency concerning their data centers' energy efficiency, a University of Melbourne report warns that the growing use of cellular and Wi-Fi networks to access cloud services is the real ecological threat.

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Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman,Juan Gonzalez - Apr. 05 (Interview) - Longtime media-reform advocate Robert McChesney looks at how the future of American politics could be largely determined by who controls the Internet in his newest book. "'Digital Disconnect' talks about the difference between the mythology of the Internet -- the hope would it empower people and make democracy triumphant -- versus the reality of large corporate monopolies and the government working together are taking away the promise of the Internet to suit their interests,” says McChesney, the co-founder of Free Press and the National Conference for Media Reform. His book begins with a simple claim: "The ways capitalism works and does not work determine the role the Internet might play in society." [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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At National Conference for Media Reform, Activists Hope to Stop Murdoch, Koch-Backed Consolidation

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman,Juan Gonzalez - Apr. 05 (Special Report) - We broadcast from the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, where some 2,000 people are expected to gather to look at how media, technology and democracy intersect. One of the major topics this year is media consolidation. As newspapers struggle to survive, billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have expressed interest in buying Tribune Company, which includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is also weighing a bid for the Los Angeles Times in a market where he already owns two television stations. We're joined by Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, the main organizer of the National Conference for Media Reform. [includes rush transcript]

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Georgia Shoots Down Awful Anti-Consumer Broadband Law - Though 19 Cities Now Have Laws Banning or Hindering Community Broadband | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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Reporter’s Notebook: Bogus Internet story just won’t go away

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

mtstandard.com - By John Grant Emeigh - Feb. 19 (Fact Check) - There’s a bogus story about Butte that’s been circulating on the Internet for the past five or six years which, like an annoying attack of the hiccups, just won’t seem to go away. It’s some crazy yarn — wrapped up to look like a newspaper article — about an 11-year-old girl who shoots two “illegal aliens” who broke into her Butte residence while she was home alone. Pretty gripping stuff. But it’s complete cow manure.

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Industry Outlook Panel Yields Words to Thrive By

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

siia.net - By Ronn Levine - Feb. 06 (Review) - “How far can companies go before they annoy their users?” asked Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, at last week’s Breakthrough: IIS 2013 Conference in New York. With Facebook’s new Search Graph, Google’s deeper searches and other initiatives based on user data, will the time come where people say the loss of privacy is not worth the enhanced information they can get?

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Aaron Swartz Public Memorial Service at Cooper Union

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - Jan. 21 (News) - family and friends of Aaron Swartz gather at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City to celebrate his life and remember their beloved friend, sibling, child, and partner. Speakers included Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, David Segal, Ben Wikler, Roy Singham, Doc Searls, Edward Tufte, David Isenberg, Holden Karnofsky and Tom Chiarella and other friends. OK Go’s Damian Kush performed at the service

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US general warns on Iran cyber-soldiers

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 18 (News) - Cyber-attacks on Iran are turning it into a "force to be reckoned with," America's top cyber-soldier has warned.

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Aaron's Law

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Lawrence Lessig - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - A week ago, Aaron Swartz -- social activist, geek genius -- took his own life. Facing the choice between a federal prosecutor who insisted that he either accept the label "felon" and go to jail or fight a million-dollar lawsuit against 13 felony indictments, Aaron took the third option, and hanged himself. And with that we all lost an incredible soul, one who had literally spent half of his 26-year-old life doing nothing except working for (at least his conception of) the public good. Aaron's alleged "crime" was that he used MIT's network to access a database of academic journal articles (JSTOR) and download millions of those articles to his laptop computer. He didn't "hack" the network to secure those downloads: MIT is a famously open network. He didn't crack any special password system to get behind JSTOR's digital walls. He simply figured out how JSTOR was filing the articles that he wanted, and wrote a simple script to quickly gather those articles and then copy them to his machine.

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"An Incredible Soul": Lawrence Lessig Remembers Aaron Swartz After Leading Cyberactivist's Suicide

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Lawrence Lessig, Amy Goodman - Jan. 14 (Interview) - He was also a key architect of Creative Commons and an organizer of the grassroots movement to defeat the controversial House Internet censorship bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

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The U.N. Fought The Internet -- And The Internet Won; WCIT Summit In Dubai Ends

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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No More Media for Murdoch

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FreePress.net - Nov. 29 (Opinion) -

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Google report reveals sharp increase in government requests for users' data

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 13 (News) - Authorities made more than 20,000 requests in first half of 2012, with US government making most demands for online details • Get the data behind this report and charts Government surveillance of citizens' online lives is rising sharply around the world, according to Google's latest report on requests to remove content and hand over user data to official agencies. In the first six months of this year, authorities worldwide made 20,939 requests for access to personal data from Google users, including search results, access to Gmail accounts and removal of YouTube videos. Requests have risen steeply from a low of 12,539 in the last six months of 2009, when Google first published its Transparency Report. Authorities made 1,791 requests for Google to remove 17,746 pieces of content in the first half of 2012, almost twice as many as the 949 requests made in the same period last year, and up from 1,048 requests made in the last six months of 2011. "This is the sixth time we've released this ...

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Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Internet Voting in the U.S.

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Communications of the ACM - By Barbara Simons, Douglas W. Jones - Oct. 13 (Research) - The assertion that Internet voting is the wave of the future has become commonplace. We frequently are asked, "If I can bank online, why can't I vote online?" The question assumes that online banking is safe and secure. However, banks routinely and quietly replenish funds lost to online fraud in order to maintain public confidence.

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Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Lisa Miller - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - Marissa Mayer, as CEO of Yahoo! is living evidence, since her move from Google earlier this year, that fertility, intellect, and ambition can co-exist and be a strong point.

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Shell Blocks Employee Access to Activist Website

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

yeslab.org - By Mary - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - Early Monday morning, 71,010 Shell employees received an email from the company's "Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division" providing information on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a pivotal human rights case being argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. The email contained links to news stories, as well as a tool to help employees tweet their feelings about the case at key US news anchors (and Oprah Winfrey). The only thing is, Shell has no "Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division," and they don't want publicity for the case.

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Banks fail to repel cyber threat

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By E. Scott Reckard, Andrew Tangel, Jim Puzzanghera - Sep. 27 (News) - A shadowy but well organized hacker group in the Middle East has disrupted the electronic banking operations of America's largest financial institutions in recent days, underscoring U.S. vulnerability to online terrorism.

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Why Your Phone, Cable & Internet Bills Cost So Much

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

finance.yahoo.com - Sep. 24 (News) - Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control. To get started, firstLogin with Facebook The U.S. has fallen behind much of the Western world when it comes to pho

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Romney Says No to “Net Neutrality”

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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DOJ drops charges against websites seized for 17 months

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

computerworld.com.au - By Grant Gross - Aug. 30 (News) - The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its case against two Spanish websites that stream sports events nearly 17 months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized the sites and shut them down for alleged copyright violations

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Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Gordon Crovitz - Jul. 23 (Opinion) - Contrary to legend, it wasn't invented by the government, and it had nothing to do with maintaining communications during war.

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Survey OF Effects Of Cloud Outage Shows How Much Of The Web Runs On Amazon

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Anthony Wing Kosner - Jul. 01 (News Analysis) - All of the news reports about the Amazon Web Services Outage Friday night mentioned the same few big name companies, Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram. A few tech blogs mentioned Heroku, the well-known Ruby and JavaScript-based cloud application platform. Clearly Amazon and all of the companies affected are working on damage control, which means, for the most part, a tweet or three but no public acknowledgement on their websites.

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Google: Censorship Requests 'Alarming'

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jun. 18 (News Report) - BRUSSELS - Google has received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results or YouTube video in the last six months of 2011, the company said on Monday, denouncing what it said was an alarming trend. In its twice

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