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Security research Ophir Harpaz was trying to book a flight using Onetravel; as she browsed available itineraries, she couldn’t help but notice a prominent warning that “39 people are lo…
As pro-democracy protests continue in Hong Kong, the tech giant’s troubling relationship with an authoritarian regime has come into focus.
Do Not Track was a standardized way for browsers to tell services that their owners did not consent to having their activities and usage logged; however, it was subverted by Big Tech and big media …
Uno’s Greta Grotesk is a free font based on Greta Thunberg’s hand-lettered signs.
Earlier this month, Google announced a new collection of auto-delete settings for your personal information that allows you balance some of the conveniences of data-collection (for example, remembe…
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
This week, We Are Open Co-op met in London for our first IRL Co-op Day since January. We went deep and broad and forwards and backwards…
It’s an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword — “jews,” “women,” “black people” — and gets back a bunch of far-right conspira…
The Chinese government has been working for several years on a comprehensive Internet security/surveillance program. This program is based on the
Als een ezel tussen twee hooischelven vroeg ik me vorige week af op welke kop ik zou klikken. Koos ik voor de krantenkop van het Algemeen Dagblad? „Streep door gehate wet rol verpleegkundigen”. Of zou ik vallen voor het nieuwsbericht van RTL? „Omstreden wetsvoorstel verpleegkundigen van de baan.”Vorig jaar, toen u nog jong en onschuldig was, zou u uw schouders hebben opgehaald over zo’n vraag.
Blendle, De Correspondent en De Coöperatie zijn , ook door subsidiegevers, bestempeld als belangrijke strohalmen voor een journalistieke markt in verval. Alle drie trokken ze de Nederlandse grens
The Open Decision Framework describes a process for making transparent, inclusive decisions in organizations that embrace open source principles.
The behavioural scientist has advised tech companies on how to get people hooked – now he’s telling us how to break the habit• Follow Eyal’s guide to avoiding digital distraction
Cryptography engineers have been tearing their hair out over PGP’s deficiencies for (literally) decades. When other kinds of engineers get wind of this, they’re shocked. PGP is bad? Why do people keep telling me to use PGP? The answer is that they shouldn’t be telling you that, because PGP is bad and needs to go away.
There are, as you’re about to see, lots of problems with PGP. Fortunately, if you’re not morbidly curious, there’s a simple meta-problem with it: it was designed in the 1990s, before serious modern cryptography.
There are, as you’re about to see, lots of problems with PGP. Fortunately, if you’re not morbidly curious, there’s a simple meta-problem with it: it was designed in the 1990s, before serious modern cryptography.
decentralizing contributor license agreements
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Early versions of the free/open Unix variant BSD came with password files that included hashed passwords for such Unix luminaries as Dennis Ritchie, Stephen R. Bourne, Eric Schmidt, Brian W. Kernig…
The Volfefe Index measures how much the President's tweets affect volatility in the bond market. In 2017, we launched our own investing project based on the President's tweets.
How a Twitch-streamed no-limit hold’em player found himself at the heart of one of the most fascinating gambling controversies in years
SQL Murder Mystery is a free/open game from Northwestern University’s Knight Lab that teaches the player SQL database query structures and related concepts while they solve imaginary crimes.
There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare
The best designers employ specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles when they work. Here are a few of them.
As former MEP Marietje Schaake (previously) writes, “Can we please stop calling Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc ‘The online public square’? They’re ad companies. It is like calling a billbo…
China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users. From a report: From Dec. 1, people applying for new mobile and data services will have to have their faces scanned by telecom providers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology sa...
Ik ben namens Nederland Vrouwenvertegenwoordiger bij de Verenigde Naties. En maandag mocht ik in het VN-hoofdkwartier in New York een toespraak houden. Mijn stelling: waarom zou je niet willen dat de wereld voor iedereen, ook voor vrouwen, beter wordt? Dat is alleen een optie als je profiteert van het feit dat alles bij het oude blijft.
Essay: Silicon Valley deed lang chic met TED Talks en een zogenaamde ‘derde cultuur’ van tech-denkers. Meer dan pr was het niet, schrijft Evgeny Morozov .
It can pick out shoplifters, international criminals and lost children in seconds. But as the cameras proliferate, who’s watching the watchers?
Ik bezocht het grootste cruisevaartfestival ter wereld. Misschien wel de foutste show op aarde, een omgekeerde klimaatmars, een optocht van middelvingers naar de planeet. Toch? Een essay vanaf de walkant.
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he…
Met apologises after local police passed on images for controversial surveillance scheme
Coraline Ada Ehmke’s Hippocratic License is a software license that permits the broad swathe of activities enabled by traditional free/open licenses, with one exception it bars use by: “…
A man who had not walked for two years was able to move all his limbs thanks to new technology.
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.
The popular app doesn’t tell users when a video was posted. Creators say that makes it easier to steal content—but there are also upsides to forgetting what day it is.
Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
Machine learning systems are pretty good at finding hidden correlations in data and using them to infer potentially compromising information about the people who generate that data: for example, re…
Hkmap Live is a crowdsourced app that uses reports from a Telegram group to track the locations of protesters, police, and traffic, as well as the use of antipersonnel weapons like tear gas, mass a…
A beauty from last February: Kyle McDonald tweeted redacted social media screenshots from a surveillance camera owner that emitted a steady stream of alerts because it saw a face in the garden R…
Instead of breaking up Facebook, America should create a public alternative.
Spain’s High Court is investigating the director of UC Global S. L. and the activities of his company, which had been hired to protect the Ecuadorian embassy in the English capital
Day 15: Exercise Day - Floor (Glute Hamstring Raise) GHR Marcel demonstrates the floor GHR an exercise from his strength building programming. Visit our webs...
Edward Snowden, late in the pages of his memoir, Permanent Record, describes his sensation at being personally introduced to XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s ultimate tool of intimate, individual electronic surveillance. Among the NSA’s technological tools (some of which Snowden aided in perfecting), XKEYSCORE was, according to Snowden, “the most invasive...if only because [the NSA agents are] closest to the user—that is, the closest to the person being surveilled.” For nearly three hundred pages, the memoir has built to this scene.
The curdling of the internet in 2012
The curdling of the internet in 2012
Edward Snowden, late in the pages of his memoir, Permanent Record, describes his sensation at being personally introduced to XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s ultimate tool of intimate, individual electronic surveillance. Among the NSA’s technological tools (some of which Snowden aided in perfecting), XKEYSCORE was, according to Snowden, “the most invasive...if only because [the NSA agents are] closest to the user—that is, the closest to the person being surveilled.” For nearly three hundred pages, the memoir has built to this scene.
Especially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager.
Between its line of Ring-brand surveillance doorbells and its “Rekognition” facial recognition product (both of which are used in law-enforcement and immigration-enforcement contexts), …
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*If he’d delivered this rant from a podium at South by South West in Austin instead of the floor of the UN, people would have just nodded thoughtfully, and even been rather pleased that a major G-7 politician was so up to speed with the mutant chickens.This article has been reproduced in a new format…
The British prime minister Boris Johnson has delivered his inaugural speech to the UN General Assembly just hours after the UK supreme court found his advice...
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
Hasbro’s got a new foam dart gun, the $50 Nerf Ultra One blaster, and to make sure that owners of this toy arrange their affairs to the benefit of Hasbro’s shareholders, the company has…
Let maar niet op mij. Ik heb nergens verstand van. Ik ben een jurist. Tot nu toe dacht ik in mijn ijdelheid dat ik, nou ja, verstand van de dingen had, maar ik had het mis. VVD-fractievoorzitter Klaas Dijkhoff heeft het me geleerd. Over de toekomst zei hij tijdens de Algemene Beschouwingen: „Ik heb er geen verstand van, als jurist.” Een strategie die we nog kennen van de Spaanse ober Manuel in de…
Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did …
In mijn nieuwsbrief: kwalijke technologiejournalistiek, Kamervragen over mijn onthulling, een nieuw boek over Uber en narcisten in de politiek.
What if you could create your own easily destructible website by just visiting a URL?
Privacy: In de populaire app Nextdoor praten bewoners met elkaar over hun buurt. Wat doet het bedrijf met die gegevens? Gebruikers die het niet vertrouwen willen hun data inzien.
Ilex Studio’s avocado and acorn vases give new trees a head start while adding some greenery to your interior space. Riffing on the age-old technique of using crossed toothpicks or grilling skewers to balance sprouting plants over water, the uniquely shaped glass vessels are comprised of a large, fl
The tech ethics movement has progressed to the point where various practitioners are trying to come up with a kind of oath of service, not unlike the fiduciary principle, or possibly the Hippocrati…
Het laatste nieuws over privacy en vrijheid.
In this excerpt from his memoir, the NSA whistleblower describes his realization that no one should have to "pretend to be perfect."
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
Zelfs de kalmste mensen kunnen in opgefokte monsters veranderen zodra ze de weg op gaan. Waar komt die road rage vandaan en vooral: wat kun je eraan doen? Ik stapte in de auto met een super-ervaren rij-instructeur en leerde: kijk door het glas, rubber en blik en zie de mens.