This week on the show I follow up with the Huawei/NSA espionage developments we talked about last week, as well as the Turkey/Twitter and DNS story. Mark Zuckerberg backed Internet.org’s plan to use drones to bring the internet everywhere, and we learn about an asteroid that seems to have rings.

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Huawei on NSA

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/huawei-on-nsa-if-foreign-spies-attacked-a-us-firm-thered-be-outrage/

 

Supreme Court revisits Software Patents

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/in-new-case-supreme-court-revisits-the-question-of-software-patents/2014/03/28/a3da1c52-ad3a-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html

 

Google Claims Turkey intercepts DNS

http://www.zdnet.com/google-claims-turkey-intercepts-their-dns-7000027851/

 

Twitter accessible in Turkey, still banned

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/victory-for-free-expression-in-turkish-court

 

New information regarding Aaron Swartz

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/29/the-inside-story-mit-and-aaron-swartz/YvJZ5P6VHaPJusReuaN7SI/story.html

 

Mozilla Employees tell CEO to stepdown

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to-brendan-eich-step-down/

 

Facebook Frackups

Zuckerberg on the Future of the Internet

http://gigaom.com/2014/03/28/drones-vs-balloons-zuckerberg-explains-why-wings-are-better-for-the-internet-than-helium/

 

Facebook Designer on most recent redesign

https://medium.com/p/ed75a0ee7641

 

Science News

Asteroid body has rings

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/asteroid-like-body-appears-to-have-rings/