- Conan O'Brien plays Injustice: Gods Among Us
- Drawing arbitrary 8-bit images by playing Tetris
- I, Battlestation
- "We get it": EA will re-think Origin, try to make it more about gamers
- The failure of BioShock Infinite: Writing games like movies—"Op-Ed: It's high time game developers respected the medium they work with."
- Ryse: Son of Rome Quick Time Events Complete Themselves If Players Miss Them—"...as developer Crytek doesn't want players to feel frustrated with the brutal experience." Is this video game or a movie?
- The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence—"Do brutal games lead to mass shootings? What do three decades of research really tell us?"
- Opinion: Video games don't create violence in society, they reflect it
- You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal
- Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- Reject DRM and you risk walling off parts of the web, says W3C chief—But as one Slashdot user notes, with accepting DRM, "you GUARANTEE that parts of the Web will become walled off."
- US Chamber Of Commerce: Bollywood Is So Successful Without Strong Copyrights That It Will Fail Unless India Strengthens Its Copyrights
- New ebook DRM will change the text of a story to prevent piracy
- Filmmakers' group tries to reshape treaty that would benefit the blind—"Group says accord could undermine protections important for filmmakers, publishers and other major industries." They failed.
- Sony: New Video Players Should Be Internet Connected to Beat Pirates
- Copies, Rights & Copyrights: Really Owning Your Digital Stuff
- You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer
- For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy
- Pandora and Royalties—Certain parties have been spreading misinformation on Pandora's business practices.
- Lynda Obst: Hollywood's completely broken—"When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. So did the movies." Salon
- Time Warner Cable Sued Over Lakers and Dodgers Channels—"A class-action lawsuit charges that subscribers are being required to pay higher fees without the ability to opt out of the channels."
- Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped?
- SunTimes/DarkTimes: Front pages, June 26, 2013
- The Onion: Please Click On Our Website's Banner Ads
- Sky Deutschland campaign will pipe ads straight into train passengers' skulls
- Turn off banner ads on your 2013 Panasonic TV—Rather annoying having to do this in the first place on your own TV.
- FTC to search engines: Make it clear which results are ads—"The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is repeating its warning from 2002 that it's not easy to distinguish paid search results from other results."
- AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play Salon
- It's official: SEO spam is out of control
- U.S. taps undersea cables' data with help from telecom companies—Powered by Team Telecom™!
- AT&T prepping sale of customers' anonymous location information and Web, app usage data
- Twitter to allow advertisers to target your browsing history, email addresses; here's how to opt out
- This Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting
- Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why
- Brazil Voices 'Deep Concern' Over Gathering of Data by U.S.—'Brazil's foreign minister said his government would press the United Nations to take action that 'preserves the sovereignty of all countries.'" NYT
- Snowden Reveals How GCHQ in Britain Soaks Up Mass Internet Data
- Documents: Sweden wiretapping Russia for the NSA—Connected to Sweden and UK's veto of the EU parliament spy investigation?
- Snowden Interview: NSA 'In Bed Together with the Germans'
- Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web
- Why "we only spy on foreigners" doesn't work any more for the NSA
- Dempsey: Snowden has hurt US ties with others
- Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.—As a reminder, Mr. Ellsberg is the man behind the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
- EFF to ask Supreme Court to stop NSA's phone spying program NYT
- Bolivia joins the party, also grants asylum for Edward Snowden
- Top Democrat Calls For Sanctions Against Countries Aiding NSA Leaker
- In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. NYT
- U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court—"The Obama administration on Friday urged a secret U.S. court that oversees surveillance programs to reject a request by a civil liberties group to see court opinions used to underpin a massive phone records database."
- NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S. Citizens
- NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong
- Blowback from the White House's vindictive war on whistleblowers—"Edward Snowden is explicit: seeing whistleblowers like me punitively treated only motivates citizens of conscience more."
- Privacy Is Lost, and We Are All To Blame—"Where will the next generation of Americans draw the line on surveillance?"
