The service will allow British security officials to censor videos "at scale" — but not illegal videos, just material that "certainly is unsavoury and may not be the sort of… Read the rest of the article: Youtube bids happy 25th to the Web by granting British spies mass-censorship power

Jeffrey sez, "Paul French, who recently won an Edgar in the true crime category, uses the forthcoming US publication of Decoded, the first spy novel by a PRC author to… Read the rest of the article: From Snowden to Decoded: spies in China

Tor.com has reprinted China Mieville's inspired introduction to The Borribles, the classic, 1980s urban fantasy young adult trilogy by Michael de Larrabeiti, recently relaunched in the UK. As Mieville points… Read the rest of the article: China Mieville on The Borribles

As previously mentioned, Jen Wang and I have adapted my short story "Anda's Game" as a full-length, young adult graphic novel called "In Real Life," which comes out next October.… Read the rest of the article: Get a signed, inscribed copy of "In Real Life" delivered to your door, courtesy of WORD Books

Jeff Vinall, a Conservative Party activist who is director of communications for the Oxford University Tories and is a second year law student at Brasenose College has abused the US… Read the rest of the article: Young Oxford Conservatives leader abuses DMCA to censor reporting of his calling Mandela a "terrorist"

Developers from the Replicant project (a free Android offshoot) have documented a serious software back-door in Samsung's Android phones, which "provides remote access to the data stored on the device."… Read the rest of the article: Samsung Galaxy back-door allows for over-the-air filesystem access

UCAS is the UK post-secondary admissions service, and is the sole means of applying to most British tertiary institutions. It has been caught selling its applicants' data to marketing departments… Read the rest of the article: UK university admissions service sells applicants' data to energy drink companies

Here's a great history of English mispronunciations that became the received pronunciations. The piece makes the important point that English has no canon, no unequivocal right way or wrong way… Read the rest of the article: English mispronunciations that became common usage

Mini Metro is a video-game from New Zealand's Dinosaur Polo Club in which you create public transit systems in order to improve the lives of virtual citizens of an imaginary… Read the rest of the article: Mini Metro: fun game simulates planning and running public transit system

Nothing is a supercut of scenes from Seinfeld in which no humans appear, creating a show that's not only about nothing, but also about no one. It's pretty great, especially… Read the rest of the article: Nothing: Seinfeld supercut with no people

The Web is 25 today, and its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, has called for a "Magna Carta" for the Web, through which the people of the world will articulate how they… Read the rest of the article: Tim Berners-Lee calls for Web "Magna Carta" – does the "Web we want" have DRM in it?

Etsy seller Matthew Cummings of Kentucky's Pretentious Beer Glass Company created a set of four cylindrical, dual-chambered beer glasses, which allows you to mix any two beers without regard to… Read the rest of the article: Dual-chambered beer-glasses for mixing the perfect black-and-tan

It's the fortieth anniversary of the release of Free to Be…You and Me, the groundbreaking movie/record/book that encouraged kids and their grownups to break out of gender stereotypes and shame… Read the rest of the article: Free to Be…You and Me is 40

Maria Droujkova writes, "Last week, The Atlantic published my interview called 5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus. I have been following the discussions on blogs, forums, and news sites. The themes that… Read the rest of the article: Thoughts on teaching calculus to five-year-olds

XKCD creator Randall Munroe has announced that Houghton Mifflin will collect his amazing What If? science columns into a book called What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,… Read the rest of the article: Randall "XKCD" Munroe is doing a What If? book!

It's the Web's 25th birthday and Tim Bray, inventor of XML and Web pioneer, has a great remembrance of the milestones of the early Web:

A new Snowden leak, detailed in a long, fascinating piece in The Intercept, explains the NSA's TURBINE initiative, intended to automate malicious software infections. These infections — called "implants" in… Read the rest of the article: How the NSA plans to automatically infect "millions" of computers with spyware

396 pure, unadulterated, dyed-in-the-wool, 100% made-up, completely fake disneyland "facts" is funny book of plausible-sounding Disneyland lies, penned by Horatio Liar (AKA Dominick Cancilla). As John Frost notes, Cancilla has… Read the rest of the article: Funny book of Disneyland "facts" that aren't

One year ago today McDonald's price increases over the years: Rob Cockerham says: "Because I have pictures of every fast food franchise's Drive Thru menu from 2002, I was able… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: McDonald's price increases, illustrated; Love. Life. Ukelele.; Everquest widows tell all

In my latest Guardian column, If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology, I argue that computer security isn't really an engineering issue, it's a public… Read the rest of the article: Security as a public health discipline, not an engineering one