Month: September 2016

  • This Week in Web #39

    This Week in Web #39

    Software and Terms of Service Control Ownership You don’t own the things that you pay for if those things are based around software. Nowadays, that is describing more and more things. HP has caused a minor uproar with a new update for their Office Jet line of printers, which included a DRM lock which is…

  • This Week in Web #38

    This Week in Web #38

    Allo, allo. What’s all this chatter about then? Look, if I can use a chat app and immediately start sending gif stickers of a twerking bull to someone, I will. If that isn’t entertaining enough, I can send beans wearing condoms, entreating you to “Rubber Up!”, or some kind of… pig monster maybe? asking you…

  • This Week in Web #37

    Ed Snowden’s Chance for Clemency is Closing Edward Snowden has taken refuge in Russia for over three years, ever since leaking millions of documents worth of proof of illegal activity on part of the US Government. He has stated his wish to return to the United States if he The Oliver Stone biopic, ‘Snowden’, hits…

  • This Week in Web #36

    This Week in Web #36

    Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits Andy Greenberg, Wired Google is finding another way to use it’s powerful and omnipresent search system for good. Chat services have been outright banning people who post in support of ISIS, even if they are the most popular YouTuber. Now Jigsaw, a team formerly known as Google…

  • This Week in Web #35

    Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news Annalee Newitz, ArsTechnica Facebook took heed of the critics who said that their human editors brought bias to the trending newsfeed. Last week they replaced all of their human editors with an algorithm that sorts based on the most discussed stories on the platform. Big surprise,…