New Zealand’s government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestiality, and other illegal content, as classified by the country’s official censors (you too can be a censor for a day ).
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New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the ‘Net
Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Google’s C-Day approaches.
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China and Google playing game of Chicken over censorship
The UK’s libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a closet industry in “libel tourism.” As such, there have been repeated efforts to reform the laws, often led by professional organizations of writers and journalists. A 2008 case, however, brought a new community into the fight: science communicators, drawn in when the British Chiropractic Association sued a journalist for calling some of its medical claims “bogus.” Although the legal fight has continued, the journalist in question, Simon Singh, has now been forced to quit his job at The Guardian in order to defend himself
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Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit
When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, however—according to an updated iPad specs page , there is now a screen-rotation-lock switch on the right-hand side of the device, seemingly replacing the mute switch that was there when the media first played with it
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Bed readers rejoice: iPad gains last-minute rotation lock
“Good morning, this hearing will come to order, and we welcome all.
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Comcast-NBCU merger: how the regulators will decide
Final Fantasy games often seem like a mixed bag. One one hand, they tend to take too long to get into; the first ten hours or so always feel like something you have to slog through before things really become exciting
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Beautiful innovation: the first 20 hours of FF XIII
Late last year, we described a genome sequencing technique that brought the price of consumables down to under $5,000. That technique, offered by Complete Genomics, has now been put to use: all the genomes have been obtained from a family of four in which both children suffer from two genetic disorders. In addition to identifying likely causative mutations, the full family pedigree has produced new measures of human mutation and recombination.
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Family of four gets their genomes sequenced
At GDC the Khronos Group announced not one but two new OpenGL specifications.
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OpenGL 4 spec arrives with Direct3D 11 feature parity
