GAMES
1. Wizards of the Coast settles Hex lawsuit
2. Dev Offers Free Games For Steam User Reviews, Gets Nuked By Valve
3. Black Forest Games loses Diesel trademark dispute
4. Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and more take aim at cyber harassment against women in new report
7. Valve blames developers for lingering VR nausea issues
8. Carmack: Minecraft is “the single most important application for VR”
9. Hothead Games opens new Halifax studio
10. FarmVille creator Mark Skaggs leaves Zynga
11. Over 20,000 attend first Twitchcon: 1.9 million unique online viewers for streamer show
12. Twitch policy on nudity a “disgrace” – Yang
13. Turner forms Counter-Strike eSports league, TV series
14. Five factors key to making eSports a $1bn business by 2020
DIGITAL
1. NSA snooping may endanger Safe Harbor Agreement with the EU
+ Opinion by ECJ Advocate General finds Safe Harbor invalid
2. Federal Judge Says Law Enforcement Can’t Make You Hand Over Your Smartphone Passcode
3. The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here (Bruce Schneier)
4. Snowden Treaty Launched: Effort To Get Countries To End Mass Surveillance
6. Facebook Ads Are All-Knowing, Unblockable, and in Everyone’s Phone
7. The Increasing Attacks On The Most Important Law On The Internet
8. Online activism and why the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act must die
9. Malware Outbreak in App Store Alerts Tech Companies to Security Risks of China’s Great Firewall
10. DARPA is implanting chips in soldiers’ brains, according to this new book
11. When Online Kremlin Propaganda Leaves the Web, It Looks Like This
12. Beyond ad blocking — the biggest boycott in human history
14. Why Universal, Affordable Internet Access Should be 2015 Election Campaign Issue (Michael Geist)
15. No, You Don’t Need to Post a Facebook Copyright Status
17. Focus: Companies responding to copyright infringement in creative ways
19. Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing
20. Waiting for a Drop in Corporate Hacks after U.S.-China Deal
21. Taylor Swift Deleting Periscope Concert Streams: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
22. Why Apple Music Missed a Beat
23. Election advertising gets with the #times
24. Creative Robots Replacing Artists And Writers…
25. John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus
26. What are the implications of the right to be forgotten in the Americas?
27. Will that be cash, credit or bitcoin? The pros and cons of digital currency
29. The Man Who Created Second Life Thinks We Can Make an Earth-Sized Virtual World
30. Moon-Landing Equivalent for Robots: Assembling an IKEA Chair
31. Volkswagen and the Era of Cheating Software
+ Volkswagen Scandal Proves It’s Time To Stop Being Passive About Our Tech
+ Should research on vehicle software be hidden from the public?
CREATIVITY
1. Pow! Appeals court assigns copyright to the Batmobile
+ Appeals Court Says The Batmobile Is A ‘Character’ Covered By Copyright
2. The Copyright Issue of Using Music in Election Campaigns
3. Gallagher v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc.
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