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• C keeps its lead over Java, but index's accuracy is questioned

  The C language, which displaced Java as the most popular language in the Tiobe Programming Community monthly assessment in April, has maintained its number 1 spot in the May report released this week. But a high-profile member of the PHP community is questioning the accuracy of the index itself.

• OpenStreetMap posing surprise threat to Google Maps

  The announcement last week that the Wikimedia Foundation will switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap for its cartographic needs marks the latest in an increasingly long line of high-profile defections.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Now Online Only

  After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease to publish its flagship line of reference books and will concentrate instead on its digital offerings.

• Gender issues to take centre stage at Wikimania

  The Ada Initiative, an organisation that works to increase women's participation in open source and open culture, will be in the spotlight at the July Wikimania conference in Washington DC, with one of the organisation's co-founders, Mary Gardiner, keynoting the international Wikimedia conference.

• We need a better definition of paperless

  A literal reading of this survey question leads inevitably to a pair of correct answers: absolutely yes and absolutely not.

• Mozilla touts Firefox impact in SOPA blackout

  Mozilla yesterday extolled the impact of its 12-hour participation in Wednesday's anti-SOPA strike, saying Firefox users and fans generated over a third-of-a-million emails to the U.S. Congress.

• No blackout for SOPA/PIPA? We know who you are.

  Given the week that just was there's really only one topic I can write about: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).

• SOPA, PIPA opponents celebrate, but say work isn't done

  A day after an estimated 10,000 websites went dark and more than 7 million people signed a Google.com petition opposing two controversial copyright enforcement bills, opponents of the bills said there's more work to do.

• Twitter, Facebook fuel SOPA protests

  Several major Internet companies and thousands of concerned users are successfully lighting up social networks to spread opposition to controversial anti-piracy bills now under debate in the U.S. Congress.

• Wikipedia, Google protest US net bills

  Wikipedia went dark, Google blotted out its logo and other popular websites planned protests to voice concern over legislation in the US Congress intended to crack down on online piracy.

• Microsoft opposes SOPA, declines to join blackout strike

  Microsoft today said it opposes a controversial anti-piracy bill in the US, but declined to join the widespread "Internet strike" that sites like Google and Wikipedia were conducting.

• Supporters of SOPA, PIPA stick to their guns

  Beleaguered supporters of two online antipiracy bills today downplayed widespread protests against the legislation and insisted the opposition is misguided and misinformed.

• Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout bypass trick roils backers

  A security company's advice on how to circumvent today's Wikipedia blackout has roiled some users.

• Mozilla, Firefox join anti-SOPA strike

  Mozilla, the open-source organization responsible for Firefox, joined other major technology companies today to protest anti-piracy legislation by blackening the browser's home page.

• Wikipedia, Craigslist, other sites black out against SOPA at midnight

  Wikipedia and some other Internet companies blacked out their websites in one way or the other early Wednesday in protest against controversial legislation in the U.S.