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• Samsung launches first Tizen phone
• ISPs should quarantine infected computers, researchers say
• Deluge of net neutrality comments floods FCC website after Oliver rallies audience
• UK Gov’t Tries And Fails To Hide Details Of GHCQ/Telecoms Tapping Fiber Lines
• British Recording Industry Thinks ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Proves Google Can Stop Piracy
• Indie Labels Complain to European Commission About YouTube’s Pushy Tactics
• uTorrent Makes Advertisement Unremovable in Latest Release
• MPAA Strikes Anti-Piracy Deal With Torrent Client Creato
• Pentagon Gets Busy Trademarking After Seeing Disney Try To Cash In On SEAL Team 6
• Pirate Bay fugitive Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden

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• The Post-Snowden Surveillance World: Network Effects, Low Marginal Costs, And Technical Lock-in
• Apple’s history of smack-talk and corporate trolling

Tunes

1. I’ll Be There by Chasing Eidolon
2. I Never Knew by Mercury in Summer

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• Microsoft’s ‘Star Trek’ voice translator available before the end 2014
• Ubuntu Devs Work on Porting Android Apps to Ubuntu Linux
• Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone
• Apple Pulls Popular Weed-Growing Game From App Store, Ignores All The Unpopular Ones
• Schneier: Snowden’s Leaks Have Actually Made It Easier To Crack Terrorists’ Encrypted Messages
• Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?
• China’s Shanzhai Companies Moving On From Counterfeit Imitation To Collaborative Innovation
• Europe On The Verge Of Destroying Online Comments And Free Speech

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• Accepting Amazon’s DRM Makes It Impossible To Challenge Its Monopoly
• Where’s the value in open source?

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1. Kisses from Texas by Dom The Bear
2. Gather Up The Flowers by Young Fox

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• Goodbye Canonical, Hello XPRIZE
• Privacy-Focused Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets A New Look, Smarter Search With “Instant Answers”
• Germany Plans To Ban Computer Companies That Work With NSA From Sensitive Public Contracts
• China bans the installation of Windows 8 on government computers
• Student Wins Pirate Bay Domain To Protest Website Blockades
• LG Will Take The ‘Smart’ Out Of Your Smart TV If You Don’t Agree To Share Your Viewing And Search Data With Third Parties | Techdirt
• The future of Razor and LXDE-Qt

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• Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
• The End Of Maximalist Copyright?
• How Spammers Spoof Your Email Address (and How to Protect Yourself)

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1. Twenty Fifth // Third by Ben K Adams
2. Whole Snowflake by Kristian Vuljar

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• Police ask blogger to remove tweet about Ukip
• Ukip pressured me to take down a tweet – and now I’m really up for a fight
• Google Ordered to Amend Search Results as EU Supports Individuals’ ‘Right to be Forgotten’
• Megaupload Asks Court to Freeze MPAA and RIAA Cases
• US Expelled Saudi Students For Using Pirate Software, Official Says
• Another Improvement To The Star Wars ‘New’ Trilogy Torpedoed By Copyright
• Chinese Government Says on TV That Windows XP Users Should Choose Linux
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday gives attackers a roadmap to XP vulnerabilities
• Xbox One Caves Again: Console Will Now Be Offered Sans Kinect

Also Worth A Read

• What Heartbleed Teaches Us: Be An Open Source Contributor, Not Just A User
• US Copyright Law Doesn’t Apply Worldwide,”DVD Ripper” Tells Court

Tunes

1. The Best Summer by Crazy Evolution
2. Tomorrow by Thoola

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• Amazon launches shopping via Twitter
• Can’t I help you? Shoppers are shunning store assistants in favor of smartphones
• Medialink Threatens Customer With Lawsuit For Writing A Negative Amazon Review
• Android malware holds phones to ransom for ‘viewing illegal porn’
• Virus Blockers are “Dead” Says Norton Maker Symantec
• App.net lays off entire staff but remains afloat
• Dotcom Thanks RIAA and MPAA for Mega’s Massive Growth
• Accused of Movie Piracy, Senior Citizen Kicked Out of Theater
• Google is testing out hidden URLs in Chrome
• Anti-surveillance movement wants to ‘reset the net’

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• Eugene Kaspersky: major cyberterrorist attack is only matter of time
• How DRM Makes Us All Less Safe

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1. I wanna Be by Quentin Hannappe
2. Chez Tina by Fit and the Conniptions

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• Microsoft brings Minority Report hover keyboards to life
• Film download prices ‘to be determined by screen size’
• Brazil Passed On Boeing For $4.5 Billion Fighter Jet Deal Because Of Concerns Over NSA Surveillance
• Google no longer mining student Gmail accounts for targeted ads
• Top tip, power users – upgrading Ubuntu may knacker your Linux PC
• Ubuntu For Android Is No Longer Being Developed
• Chase Bank Slutshames Their Adult Performer Customers
• Police Raid “Miniature Pirate Bay” Run on Home Connection
• Someone’s Been Vandalising Wikipedia Pages From Government IP Addresses

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• Accused Movie Pirate Wins Extortion Case Against Copyright Trolls
• GNOME Books could be great for Linux ebook junkies

Tunes

1. Rock’n’roll band by Maze of the Globe
2. I Miss You by Olga Zhilkova

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• HBO Demands Takedown of Game of Thrones Screenshots
• Quentin Tarantino Loses Big In Trying To Paint Gawker As A Copyright Infringer
• Finally, Someone Acts Like An Adult: District Attorney Drops Charges Against Bullied Teen Who Recorded His Tormentors
• Meet Project Naptha, an amazing Chrome extension for modifying text in web images
• Prepare for ‘fake 4K’: new standard will silently compress PC, tablet video
• The Logical Conclusion Of Zero Tolerance: College Prof Suspended Because Daughter Wore A GoT Tshirt

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• Five Illinois Cops Are Caught Lying On The Stand When Defense Produces A Recording Contradicting Their Testimony

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1. Jellylegs by The Long Now

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• Landmark Case Sees Pirate Bay User Hit With 5 Year Sentence
• Why People Pirate Game of Thrones, a Global Cost Breakdown
• Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network
• US Airways apologises for explicit image sent on Twitter
• Did You Retweet The USAir Pornographic Tweet? You May Have Violated New Jersey’s Revenge Porn Law
• Stop UK Internet Censorship | Indiegogo
• Podcrawl – Glasgow 2014

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• BitTorrent Sync for NAS boxes lets you roll your own private, secure Dropbox
• Recording Industry Wants To Have It Both Ways When It Comes To Pre-1972 Recordings
• UK Prime Minister Asked for Permanent Police Anti-Piracy Unit Funding

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1. Down to Earth by Rosko

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• Record Labels Lose Big as Court Declares File-Sharing Tools Legal
• Netflix 4K streaming is now live
• A New Animated Web Series About Copying And Copyright
• Digital drugs will transform healthcare
• NSA Spied On Human Rights Watch And Amnesty International
• Here’s everything you need to know about the Heartbleed web security flaw
• The rise of mobile apps and the decline of the open web — a threat or an over-reaction?

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1. Maybe I’m Blind by Soma
2. Glasgow by Glasgow

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• Canonical shutting down Ubuntu One file services
• Why We’re Dropping Freemium as a Business Model: Value vs. Cost
• Samsung: Our ‘next big thing’ ads drove Apple’s marketing chief ‘crazy’
• Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014
• Users face serious threat as hackers take aim at routers, embedded devices
• Mobile Spyware Use In Domestic Violence Ramps Up

Also Worth A read

• UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer
• City Of London Police Create Secret ‘Pirate Site Blacklist’ For Advertisers, With No Transparency

Tunes

1. Whiskey Lullaby (feat. Jeanette Robertson) by Kognitif
2. Devil with the Devil by The Underscore Orkestra

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