Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him With 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy – wired http://www.wired.com/2015/02/hacker-claims-feds-hit-44-felonies-refused-fbi-spy/ Don’t Want Your Laptop Tampered With? Just Add Glitter Nail Polish – wired http://www.wired.com/2013/12/better-data-security-nail-polish Spies Can Track You Just by Watching Your Phone’s Power Use – wired http://www.wired.com/2015/02/powerspy-phone-tracking  The Great SIM Heist How Spies Stole the […]

Due to a cold instead of talking too much Lena decided to play a bunch of interesting TED talks for tonights show. She choose the theme of love, intimacy and the internet in honor of Valentines Day.

Google opens its domain registration service to everyone in the US http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/13/7538197/google-domains-now-available-to-everyone-in-united-states * 3rd Annual Black Comic Book Festival http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/01/17/3rd-annual-black-comic-book-festival * Mike Street  is calling in at 7:30p of @MrMikeStreet on twitter and Head of Blacks In Technology will recap last weeks >> http://madamenoire.com/503823/rev-jesse-jacksons-rainbow-push-economic-summit-focuses-paths-greater-tech-diversity/ Mike has launched SmartBrownVoices.com a podcast : https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smartbrownvoices-celebration/id957351613?mt=2 – Other News –   […]

Lorrie Faith Cranor: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd? Sally Kohn: Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click Nikey auto matic tying sneakers coming – http://consumerist.com/2015/01/09/nike-marty-mcflys-air-mag-sneakers-with-power-laces-will-arrive-in-2015/ Defining what ‘broadband’ menas http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/241361/fcc-chair-to-propose-redefining-broadband-as-25-mb.html Is Facebook a ‘video platform’? http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/241385/facebook-says-it-isnt-a-social-network-anymore-r.html WiMAX is being turned of this November http://www.dailytech.com/Sprint+Will+Turn+off+WiMAX+4G+in+Nov+2015+Downgrading+Older+Devices+to+3G/article36697.htm Enable Android’s Secret Right-to-Left Layout If You’re Left Handed Android: Your phone’s default […]

Rose Regina is Angry about Go Go you should be too http://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates http://www.wired.com/2014/04/gogo-collaboration-feds/  * Damon Wayans (actor of the Wayans Bros) has a pretty cool app so says Martin  http://youtu.be/rL-_IDK5KT4?t=7m8s Martin Talks about a cool donation thing called – the extra mile http://thextramile.org/ “Our mission is simple. Collect frequent flyer miles from people who don’t need […]

http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_crump_the_small_and_surprisingly_dangerous_detail_the_police_track_about_you ACLU – Report https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/071613-aclu-alprreport-opt-v05.pdf You Are Being Tracked – How License Plate Readers Are Being Used To Record Americans’ Movements http://www.ted.com/talks/kenneth_cukier_big_data_is_better_data?language=en MakeUseOf.com 29 Debian vs Ubuntu: How Far Has Ubuntu Come in 10 Years? Ubuntu recently released 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”, which coincides with the fact that Ubuntu is now 10 years old! The king of Linux […]

Lena talks about how wonderful her new phone is.   Body Cams: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/12/04/bodycams-transformed-a-tiny-airport-police-force-they-could-do-the-same-for-the-rest-of-america/ complaints against Springfield Mo regional airport saw this massive drop in complaints from a couple a week to about once a month. complaints against officers in rialto CA dropped by 88%: https://ojpdiagnosticcenter.org/sites/default/files/spotlight/download/Police%20Officer%20Body-Worn%20Cameras.pdf annectdotal evidence of a similar phenomenon in phoenix http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-body-cameras-20140927-story.html#page=1 “A recent […]

http://devswithferguson.itch.io/bundle Devs With Ferguson Bundle this is a bundle of 9 games (all for Windows & OSX, some also for Linux) donated by their authors in support of the Ferguson Public Library and in solidarity with protesters resisting antiblack state violence and white supremacy ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE FERGUSON PUBLIC LIBRARY (paypal takes $.30 […]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1346078/-A-lie-in-the-Darren-Wilson-defense-in-the-shooting-death-of-Mike-Brown-that-just-won-t-go-away# interesting use of google maps http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/ferguson-police-spending-thousands-riot-gear-protests coverage of this report: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/amnesty-international-releases-new-ferguson-report-documenting-human-rights-abuses only covers the amount spent through the end of october not ferguson: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/google-search-judge-free-speech 3h Gothamist 200+ Free Wi-Fi Will Be Weaker In Poorer Neighborhoods The city’s plan to convert ratty, disused pay phones into convenient Wi-fi hotspots was a noble endeavor—the right to peruse […]

Engadget 2K Taking apart Google’s modular smartphone What do you want to know about Project Ara? Does a modular smartphone actually work? Yes. Is it very different from Android phones? In a basic how-a-phone-all-works, yes indeed. Paul Eremenko, Technical Project Lead on Google’s modular phone project… 2d Engadget 1K 60 seconds with Hemingwrite, an E […]