• Ant studies to aid design of search and rescue robots, BBC News
• New wireless network world record: 40Gbps over 1km, using EHF 240GHz, ExtremeTech
• Dev writes comments as limericks and other coding secrets, The Register
• Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler on github, github.com via Groklaw NewsPicks
• Xbox One pre-owned games may require fee payment
  BBC News was the first I saw in my feeds to talk about this particular wrinkle of the just unveiled Xbox One. If ever you want an example of what Cory Doctorow refers to as the UTI business model, here you go. What makes me insane is that the ability to play older games could just as easily be seen as giving the customer more value for the same price and hence even more reason to buy than just the upcoming crop of games intended for the new console.
• Disney’s Aireal: A tactile feedback device to enhance the gaming experience, ExtremeTech

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• 7 open source projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid), www.itworld.com via Slashdot
• Google’s chat client drops Jabber compatibility
  Fab at The H’s Open channel was one of several to mention this at the start of the week. I am sure I have seen some mention of Google’s nominal reasons for this, undoubtedly the same or a similar refrain as when they moved away from joint development on WebKit. It is their prerogative, of course, to do whatever the hell they want, but we can also see it as tragic. In the cases where these changes reduce interoperability, I think there is a legitimate concern for the rest of the space, a la Reader. How long before Google ditches SMTP in Gmail? And our rabid adoption of it makes that almost as much of a non-event as their dropping of XMPP?
• Illegal numbers: Can you break the law with math?
  ExtremeTech poses an interesting question and some further thoughts for unpacking what used to be given adequate weight in patent law, the nature of facts and obviousness. Sadly, I think this consideration overlooks that the worst patent trolling has little to do with fair interpretation of the law. Worse I fear that there is now just too much at stake for seeking out and institutionalizing some of the meta-principles the post discusses to ever happen as it doesn’t align with any of the moneyed interests in the current patent debate.
• They WANT to EAT YOUR COMPUTER: welcome your ANT overlords, The Register
• Reporters threatened with CFAA, labeled hackers for finding security hole, Privacy and Security Fanatic at NetworkWorld
• Computer use irrelevant to education outcomes, says US study, The Register

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• 3D printed guns and the law: will judges be able to think clearly about digital files when guns are involved?, Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com
• VP9 nears completion at WebM, The H Open
• MPAA Freaks Out: Insists That Having To Consider Fair Use Before Filing A DMCA Takedown Would Be Crazy at Techdirt,
• Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case, www.huffingtonpost.com via Slashdot
• Google’s programming language, Go, gets a big speed boost, Ars Technica
• Dow Lohnes Patent Alert: En banc Federal Circuit indecisive on patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions (CLS v. Alice), The Essential Patent Blog via Groklaw NewsPicks
• Once Again Top Downloaders Are Top Spenders, According To UK Gov’t Study, Techdirt
• Do Not Track: Are Weak Protections Worse Than None At All?, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• NeuroGaming Conference Profiles the Rise of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Slashdot
• Sen. Warner fires warning shot at broadcasters over Aereo dispute, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• CISPA Sponsor Mike Rogers May Go On To Lead The FBI, Techdirt
• Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Peter Sunde, Of The Pirate Bay & Flattr To Run For EU Parliament at Techdirt, Interesting Move
• Copyright Holders Will Define Details Of UK’s Orphan Works Bill, But Not The Public, Techdirt
• Is It Wrong to Use Data From the World’s First ‘Nice’ Botnet?, Wired Enterprise at Wired.com
• “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Outfit Loses Company Status, Faces Penalties, TorrentFreak
• Aereo’s on a Roll, MIT Technology Review
• Syria Severed from Internet Again, threatpost
• OVERNIGHT TECH: AT&T CEO’s comments prompt net-neutrality fears, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• Hacking Politics: name-your-price ebook on the history of the SOPA fight, Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com
• Google and NASA Launch Quantum Computing AI Lab, MIT Technology Review
• Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says, Threat Level at Wired.com
• New tool lets you create 3D-printed models with a literal wave of your hand, ExtremeTech
• Opening a New Front Against Secret IP Treaties at Electronic Frontier Foundation, We Beat Them to Lima
• IsoHunt Will Take DMCA Safe Harbor Fight to the Supreme Court, TorrentFreak
• A Framework For Copyright Reform, Techdirt
• MetroPCS drops challenge to net neutrality rules, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• House bill requires court order for phone record seizures, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• We Demand a Fair Deal for the Internet at Electronic Frontier Foundation, New International Coalition to TPP Negotiators

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• Survey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the Past, O’Reilly Programming via Slashdot
• 1983′s wonderful “Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners”, Boing Boing
• Computer scientists to FBI: don’t require all our devices to have backdoors for spies, Boing Boing
• Risks of wiretap modifications to endpoints, CALEA II
• Smartphones Have Bridged The Digital Divide, I am a little concerned at the lead for this ReadWrite piece. While device ownership, based on the study cited, may be more equitable than old devices, in particular personal computers, I fear this fails to take into account the network to which smartphones are attached. At least in the US, fixed broadband is still more cost effective and overall a better experience for any number of media literacy related pursuits. Condoning the perception that these networks are just as valuable in terms of social and economic benefits as fixed networks strikes me as incredibly risky, not the least because the regulatory regimes are also far less developed than fixed broadband access networks.
• Patenting Open Source Software, Slashdot
• FCC scraps 126 telecom regulations, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• MIT Master’s Thesis on Denial of Service attacks as a form of political activism, Boing Boing

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• Hex & plugs & ROM & roll: Computer music stars rock Bletchley, The Register
• Meet the Woman Behind Pakistan’s First Hackathon, Threat Level at Wired.com
• Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship, Slashdot
• New Yorker opens Strongbox – a Tor-based anonymous drop site, The H Open at News and Features
• Bletchley Park, In Lego, MAKE
• Biological chips go analog to boost efficiency, The Register
• Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes, Slashdot

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• How to Take a Break From Your Technology, NYTimes.com
• Paper Man (1971): early movie about hackers (complete on YouTube), Boing Boing
• Obama Administration Secretly Obtains Phone Records of AP Journalists, Threat Level at Wired.com
• A Saudi Arabia Telecom’s Surveillance Pitch, Moxie Marlinspike via Slashdot
• Screen use is bad for brain development, scientist claims, BBC News
• New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart, Forbes via Groklaw NewsPicks

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