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Activists say Facebook boss’s decision to leave ‘shooting threat’ up sets dangerous precedent
For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.
For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.
In many countries, contact-tracing apps were presented as a precondition to end lockdowns. But our Track(ed) Together investigation reveals that many countries are struggling with the technology, turning instead to less high-tech solutions.
Know your rights.
Black lives matter on the streets. Black lives matter on the Internet. EFF stands with the communities mourning the victims of police homicide. We stand with the protesters who are plowed down by patrol cars. We stand with the journalists placed in handcuffs or fired upon while reporting these...
A new visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) displays the connections between each article and the “related entries” listed at the end of it. The visualization was created by Moses Boudourides (Northwestern University) and Mark Alfano (Macquarie University). From a distance it’s a bit hard to read: But once you zoom in… and then zoom in some more… …you can start to see the connections. And when you click on one of the nodes, all but it and its connected entries fade. Here is a detail from the map for “consciousness”: You can explore the map yourself here. Dr. Boudourides describes the project and what can be learned from it here.
The case of the vanishing comments
Complotten: Arjen van Veelen heeft een zwak voor complotdenkers die 5G-masten in de fik steken. Het is een gebaar van onmacht tegen de techniek.
Virusdetectie: Covid-19-patiënten scheiden het virus vaak uit via de ontlasting. Bij de rioolwaterzuivering is dit te detecteren. „De flessen gaan de koelkast in.”
The retailer denies there is any widespread issue with the software, but a group expressed frustration—and public health concerns.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks...
Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks...
Online onderwijs maakt van studenten, onderzoekers en docenten eenlingen met nog minder macht, schrijft Josef Früchtl.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
Kevin Kelly: Organizing and meta-analyzing some of the recent student surveys #MindWiresOnline
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled content to bring you a critical essay on the design world. I promise you that this will also be funny. This morning, the design website Dezeen tweeted a link...
Some thoughts on what post-COVID instruction might look like. (Spoiler alert: None are as good as face-to-face, but a few aren't too bad.)
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
A major security vulnerability in Qatar's COVID-19 contact tracing app exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million people.
A major security vulnerability in Qatar's COVID-19 contact tracing app exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million people.
In opmaat naar de nieuwe corona-app van het Ministerie van VWS startte SETUP haar eigen onderzoek naar corona-apps. Dat leidde tot drie scherpe provotypes, die we net als het ministerie presenteerden in een echte appathon.
In opmaat naar de nieuwe corona-app van het Ministerie van VWS startte SETUP haar eigen onderzoek naar corona-apps. Dat leidde tot drie scherpe provotypes, die we net als het ministerie presenteerden in een echte appathon.
Chinese MOOC platforms XuetangX and iCourse are releasing free online courses in English for global learners.
A crop of “new” body-worn devices issue alerts about hospital patients, the quarantined, people under house arrest, and workers who fail to social distance.
Fraude en aanvallen: Door de ‘intelligente lockdown’ neemt de afhankelijkheid van internet toe en grijpen cybercriminelen hun kans. De politie ziet vaker WhatsApp-fraude en DDoS-aanvallen.
Benjamin Bratton on the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Holland thinks unproven 600mph magnetic hovertrain could help replace air travel
Wereldorde: De klassieke complotdenker is een wijsneus, de hedendaagse complotdenker gaat het om het gevoel. Hysterie ligt altijd vlak onder de oppervlakte, meent Bas Heijne.
The national privacy watchdog has repeatedly broken ranks with EU peers over tracing technology. His approach seems to be winning.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents' permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled. It ended up in court after a falling-out between the woman and her daughter. The j...
Wob-verzoeken: De overheid lijkt zich meer te permitteren bij het Koninklijk Huis dan bij andere onderwerpen, als het gaat om het vrijgeven van informatie. Hoogleraar Wim Voermans noemt de werkwijze „verziekt”.
We’ve been skeptical of Facebook’s Oversight Board from day one. We’ll follow closely and keep open minds, because we appreciate it is a first attempt at some semblance of much-needed governance and external review. But no amount of “oversight” can fix the underlying problem: Content moderation is...
A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley’s ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step towards opting out
Messenger Rooms won’t “watch or listen” to your calls. But Facebook won’t say how it will handle metadata like who you chat with and when.
Thomas le Bonniec | Klokkenluider: In opdracht van Apple beluisterde Thomas Le Bonniec opnames van assistent Siri. Nu protesteert hij tegen ‘massaal afluisteren’.
De laatste maanden wordt op grote schaal gebruik gemaakt van synchroon, live, online leren. Het leerzame karakter van deze sessies wordt waarschijnlijk verstrekt als je op een didactisch doordachte…
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.