Apple revenue is level but profit is down. As usual the doomsayers reved up their engines taking cue from the new Nexus 7 and chromecast. And everybody’s still shocked Facebook beat estimates.

Apparently dolphins have names. We should probably invest more in talking to them.

Ah UK. Is it your massive police cover of crimes by rich people and companies ? Or is it your IngSoc Great Firewall powered by Huawei. Cause if you’re gonna enact mass censorship and spying you might as well go talk to someone who has some actual experience instead of say, icelanders.

NSA claims it can’t search its own emails. Really. You can’t make this stuff up. Meanwhile, just in case you were using a safe provider the NSA is pressuring providers to hand over encryption keys so that they may search your email.

Is the USA at war with you ? You don’t know cause the list of people USA is at war with is a secret.

Monsanto buys Blackwater. That’s the nightmare of farmers worldwide.

In case you’re confused about climate change, the North Pole defrosted. Several people who have been preparing for this in the last decade are bound to be very wealthy. And they have been planning for it cause you know, the climate models are wrong and the poles aren’t warming.

Microsoft takes a nearly $1B hit on Surface.

Both ubuntuforums and developer.apple got hacked this week. For some reason there’s a slight difference in news coverage level.

Yahoo will enable massive account theft by recycling old email accounts.

Showing itself to be a progressive society the UK govt discussed pardoning Alan Turning for being gay. All the other gay people who where persecuted should have had the foresight to be instrumental in the defeat of the Nazi. On the same progressive vein the IngSoc govt want pornography censorship on all Internet connections. This of course is “for the children” and has no relation to the massive and potentially illegal widespread govt snooping. You may ask yourself, if pornography is that bad why not just outlaw it ? Well, if that happened what would the rags use to fill up page 3 ?

Bezos put a bit of his fortune to work and fished a Apollo 11 engine from the sea bed. How cool is that ?

More about the undersea cable tapping I first discussed here.

Can injecting large amounts of liquids under high pressure into the bedrock cause earthquakes ?

MIT has things to hide in the Aaron case. For shame.

Muad’Dib is that you ?

Turns out a US Senator is OK with the Snowden leak and the House Judiciary Committee is not happy about the NSA/CIA activities. If only elected representatives had any power!

Microsoft goes out of its way to hand stuff over to the NSA and HP keeps backdooring their equipment. Ah the good old days when we were afraid of Huawei and ZTE equipment.

The french vote for OSS priority and get rid of internet bans on baseless accusations on the same week.

Estonia goes all open source with its e-voting system while apparently the brasilian e-voting system was written by 5 year olds. I am a software architect, designer and developer and I’m really annoyed when people who couldn’t pass my qualifying phone interview to be interviewed to developed kitten websites are allowed to screw around with democracy. The person responsible for allowing this to happen should be in jail.

Thom Yorke pulls out of internet streaming not because he doesn’t make money but because new artists don’t make money. Which is probably because the tariff structure is designed so that RIAA members take 70% of the fees.

It has come to the point where The Economist is pointing out the US’s shadow administration and legal system are not the stuff of democracy. The non secret legal system isn’t agreeing with the secret legal system so things might turn. Meanwhile a former head of MI5 points out UK is going down the police-state road and the Telegraph reports the UK is doing unwarranted personal device seizure and data theft at the border.

You know who’s not talking about problems in RFID ? The Mythbusters. Listen to Savage to know about who didn’t want to let the myths be confirmed.

Douglas Engelbart died this week. While most media refer to him as “the man who invented the mouse” he’s actually the man who invented the computers we could have today if Microsoft didn’t manage to grind the industry to an halt for a couple of decades. His vision in 1968 included real time collaboration across the network, hypertext and graphical displays. We’re now barely getting back on track with real time collaboration.

Xbox One will give advertisers access to Kinect. That’s gotta end well!

The Swedes vetoed an investigation into US spying of the EU even in light of allegations of massive spying at all levels. It’s becoming clearer who the Swedish govt is friendly with and it doesn’t seem to be the Swedes or Europe in general. Also, without much surprise Australia is in on it. On the other hand, Switzerland is experiencing a boom in digital business.

UN doesn’t like whistleblowers. After all, the UN mostly isn’t a syndicate of countries who don’t like whistleblowers.

Opera was breached, signing certs were used.

Guess what, RIAA fuded some math and got someone to say Pandora payed him $0.00001689 per song play. But turns out he’s a songwriter that gets 7% of what the record company gets. The record company gets 44%, the songwriter gets 3% while the “rights administrator” (read, overhead) gets 5.3%. And that’s copyright math.

If you look a post down you can find a story about undersea cables. Apparently the thing about people taping undersea cables is pretty much true at least in UK. And that’s not all UK snoops apparently political campaigners and corruption critics are all fair game.

Oh my, US officials seems to have been caught lying to the US public about only spying on damned fureiners and generally evil people. But wait, we’re the fureiners!! If only Germans weren’t so uptight about their past totalitarian regimes and stoped comparing DHS to the Nazis and NSA to Stasi this would all just go away. But they insist on getting mad about just a bit of spying between friends and bit a violation of diplomatic secret and of military allies state secrets.

Someone stated the obvious which is, effective terrorists, the ones you really worry about, don’t use Gmail or Skype or Facebook.

You know that brand new thing that’s putting ads on web pages ? It was patented in 2008. Cause noone but noone did banners back in 1998.

Damn it feels good to be bankster.