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The Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100 a week in Bitcoin, is programmed to do a very specific task: go to one particular marketplace on the Deep Web and make one random purchase a week with the provided allowance. The purchases have all been compiled for an art show in Zurich, Switzerland titled The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, which runs through January 11.

The concept would be all gravy if not for one thing: the programmers came home one day to find a shipment of 10 ecstasy pills, followed by an apparently very legit falsified Hungarian passport– developments which have left some observers of the bot’s blog a little uneasy.

If this bot was shipping to the U.S., asks Forbes contributor and University of Washington law professor contributor Ryan Calo, who would be legally responsible for purchasing the goodies? The coders? Or the bot itself?

ROBOTS ARE STARTING TO BREAK THE LAW AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT - Fusion

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Self-destructing site shows how long it takes Google to find you

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/09/self-destructing-website/

Matthew Rothenberg recently launched Unindexed, a purposefully short-lived web community that was set to self-destruct as soon as Google's indexing technology made it searchable. 

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Useless machines compilation

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Here’s the brief, for anyone who missed the project launch today !

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Lisa Kori’s project Museum of Future Government is an interactive design futures exhibition commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office of the United Arab Emirates. Five visually-impactful exhibits offer amibitious visions of how government services could be delivered in the future, including health care, infrastructure and education.

The exhibition was created by Tellart and FABRICA in creative consultation withSuperflux, Near Future Laboratory and Noah Radford of Institute for the Future.

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Rafaël Rozendaal

Rafaël Rozendaal is an Internet Artist and the owner of the first website to be sold at auction.

His interactive pieces make prime use of the internet as a canvas, culminating in a huge archive of previous works. Check them out here.

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DNCODER INFOMERCIAL A design concept by Max Salesse, Deniz Örs, Billie Rehwald University Of Applied Arts Vienna Industrial design class Fiona Raby

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JODI

Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans. Their background is in photography and video art: since the mid-1990s they started to create original artworks for the World Wide Web. A few years later, they also turned to software and artistic computer game modification.

From wordsinspace.net: 

“Their 2008 web project entitled GEO GOO (geogoo.net) uses and bends the Google Maps and Google Earth interface. Using what is already in the interface of these two services, JODI hacked maps and the earth view to mathematically show us the earth (and the moon at certain times). Users of Google Maps will recognize the iconic symbols: the red line that gives direction, the place marker along with other icons, and the different views of the map.”

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Dunne & Raby

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have previously coordinated the Design Interactions MA at the RCA. Their forward facing studio produces work that questions and challenges the role of emerging technologies, encompassing speculative design. 

Cat Rossi, lecturer of History of Art and Design at Kingston, has written a great article about the duo here.

Dunne & Raby’s project, UMK: LIVES AND LANDSCAPES, 2014 was commissioned by curator Zoe Ryan to develop elements of the United Micro Kingdoms project for the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial.

This image depicts “A Here-and-Now protest in Digiland: This group places an enormous emphasis on fully engaging with the present, the place you are in, and the people you are with, now. They rip their ‘wearable' gadget sleeves off in protest.”

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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz "The film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties."

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DDoSing: Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

DDoSing is a modern tool of process. 

“In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.A DoS attack generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.”

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Phone Story is An iPhone educational game that guides players through the production process behind the device they are playing it on.

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Teh Internet Is Serious Business was a play performed at the Royal Court last year. It tells the story of how the online Anonymous movement came to prominence, and the part it played in the creation of LulzSec, a Hacker group that became well known for their political and playful high-profile hacks. To promote the play, four key members of LulzSec appeared together for the first time since they were convicted.

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James Bridle

James Bridle is a writer, artist, critic, publisher and technologist that works across a broad range of digital culture. 

His website links to a wider range of projects that he works on. Check it out here.

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Disobedient Objects Blog

The exhibition itself may be over, but the Disobedient Objects show at the V&A has a great blog that can be found here.

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TECHNO: A collaboration between Kingston University Hackspace and the Stanley Picker Gallery

Over the next month, the Hackspace workshop will be running a project with the Stanley Picker gallery leading up to an exhibition of work.

We’re launching the project and giving out the brief at the Stanley Picker next Tuesday the 25th of March at 12:00. All students are welcome.

For the duration of the project we’ll be posting a range of interesting links and information.

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Footage of Moving Brands’ Ink Hack from last year