The Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communication has asked Internet Service Providers to block any attempts to play online games between the hours of 10:00pm and 8:00am, in an attempt to curtail game addiction.
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Pentagon to Spend $500M on Cyber Defense
The United States Department of Defense has pledged $500 Million to research new ways to defend themselves from cyber attacks.
Read More »Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (4): the Uncanny Market
Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.
Read More »Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (2): Cloud Castles
Adam Rothstein ponders hardware betas, connections between the world and the cloud, and products that aren't products, in the second post reviewing Google's Cr-48 Chrome Notebook.
Read More »Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (1)
Adam Rothstein is a blogger, tech thinker, unemployed philosopher�and now, a beta tester of one of the coveted Google Chrome notebook computers. In the first of four posts about the beta experience, Adam finds that the unnanounced arrival of the device makes him feel like a combination of The Matrix's Neo and a Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth.
Read More »Scryberspace: Art-Hacking the Search Experience
The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.
Read More »The Internet and Politics: It’s All Good (Except When It’s Not)
In a stirring piece for The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal reports on Tunisian authorities' attempts to steal the passwords of Facebook users�and comments on what such a move means for the Internet's role as a means of fomenting political change.
Read More »Stuxnet and the Uncertain Future of the Internet of Things
The Sunday New York Times' thrilling coverage of the uncovering of the Stuxnet worm prompts questions that complicate images of the coming Internet of Things.
Read More »Wikileaks and the End of Stolen Kisses
Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.
Read More »Hit Points: Second Life and Ambient Gaming
Julian Dibbell says that while Second Life seems to have failed to live up to its early promise, it has helped further the baked in gamification of life online and off.
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