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Spotify’s Bold New Transition from Streaming Music Service to Music Platform | Music Industry Blog
A Bold New User Experience But of more interest, to me at least, was a slew of new features that collectively transform the Spotify experience. Spotify has made a bold UI transformation from a list-based approach to a rich visual experience with modules of music content (which visually looks like a cross between Rdio and…
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So #TechHub is / was quite literally a Bomb Site
Bomb Sight – Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census.
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The government “is no doubt ruing the day” it decided to scrap ID cards
Officials are being allowed to trawl databases including the Royal Mail and the Student Loans Company to track down missing voters in a new trial. Data matching could be used to fill in gaps in the electoral register ahead of the launch of individual voter registration in 2014. Ministers say the technique is as accurate…
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Leaked: ITU’s secret Internet surveillance standard discussion draft – Boing Boing # oh, this is too much
Yesterday morning, I wrote about the closed-door International Telecommunications Union meeting where they were working on standardizing "deep packet inspection" — a technology crucial to mass Internet surveillance. Other standards bodies have refused to touch DPI because of the risk to Internet users that arises from making it easier to spy on them. But not…
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What happens when responsible disclosure fails? | #FreedomToTinker #FullDisclosure #security
So I wrote a letter to the FCPS technical support line, explaining the problem, and why it’s a bad idea to send passwords instead of a link. (In brief, because (1) if the site can send the password, that means they’re not storing it in a one-way hashed form as is best practice, (2) many…
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UK ISPs Block Access To The Legal Pirate Bay Project | TechWeekEurope UK
Can you say Government-Backed Anti-Competitive Censorship? Good! I knew you could! Several British ISPs have blocked access to the Promo Bay website (promobay.org), even though it does not host any illegal material. The platform was created in cooperation with controversial peer-to-peer sharing resource the Pirate Bay, in order to promote independent musicians, artists and filmmakers.…
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Bramble Bank Cricket Match: The Strangest in the World | Amusing Planet
Why do I like the UK? This is why I like the UK. Click through for pictures. The Brambles sandbank in central Solent, midway between Southampton and the Isle of Wight, is a low-tide sandbank that appears only once each year during spring. The exposed bank never lasts more than an hour before the tide…
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The obscure threat to the internet you need to know about – Index on Censorship
The obscure threat to the internet you need to know about As an arcane UN body seeks new relevance and campaigns to take over internet governance, Dominique Lazanski — a member of the UK WCIT-12 delegation — outlines the risks it poses to net freedom and free speech via The obscure threat to the internet…
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BBC Westminster Hour Coverage of #CCDP / Theresa May in The Sun
In Sun tomorrow @tnewtondunn says Theresa May attacks Nick Clegg over his opposition to giving more powers to police to monitor internet use — Westminster Hour (@BBCWestminHour) December 2, 2012 player goes here part 1 player goes here part 2 (CCDP from 02:27)