October 14, 2013: Morning
- More Snowden fallout as all major internet organizations unanimously move to end U.S. online dominance.
- Buzzfeed is going global by crowdsourcing the translation of its content to foreign-language speakers learning English.
- A new report finds only a third of the global population between 15 and 24 are true "digital natives."
- In a music copyright crackdown, Google is removing eight URLs every second—four times the rate a year ago.
- David Byrne on streaming: "The whole model is unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work of any kind."
- Cheating feels good.
- See also: People don't like cheaters, especially when they rent bicycles instead of braving NYC on foot.
- The 2014 Social Security raise will be among the lowest since cost-of-living increases began in 1975.
- Cheney may have been the most influential VP in American history, but he wasn't exactly the puppet master of repute.
- Once someone unfurled a Confederate flag, yesterday's White House shutdown protest became the GOP's Altamont.
- Finding a water-rich asteroid near a white dwarf bolsters the long-shot idea that life might rise again around these dead stars.
- Why Anton Furst's 1989 Batman logo matters.
- Citing safety concerns, UK city council suspends crossing guard for high-fiving students.
- Novelist Oscar Hijuelos collapsed and died at age 62 in Manhattan on Saturday.
- Our 2012 interview with Hijuelos.