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Law enforcement in Davao City familiar with the IBM program said the technology had assisted them in carrying out Duterte’s controversial anti-crime agenda.
Faulty server migration blamed for mass deletion of songs, photos and video
Overal ter wereld zijn leraren doelwit van autoritaire leiders en extremisten omdat ze ‘extreemlinks’ zouden zijn en leerlingen ‘indoctrineren’. Maar docenten leiden kinderen juist op tot kritische, democratische burgers. Daar moeten we vandaag, op de dag van de lerarenstaking, bij stilstaan.
The story of Ramsey Orta is one of continued and unending police harassment.
Spotify's Apple Complaint Cuts to a Core Antitrust Issue
bellingcat - Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre - bellingcat
On Friday, March 15th, one or more gunmen opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. As I write this, three men and one woman have been taken into custody by local law enforcement. It is unclear to what extent they were all involved. The only thing we know is that one of the...
Het is heel normaal om te lezen dat een auto een fietser aanrijdt, of een busje tegen een auto botst. Maar als je beter kijkt, zie je dat daar iets geks aan de hand is: het lijkt net alsof de mens is verdwenen. Alsof we meer compassie hebben voor een gebutst portier dan voor een gebutst mens.
Fed up with sensationalized portrayals, the country's hikikomori are reclaiming their narrative.
The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire.
Spotify's antitrust complaint against Apple is a neat parable about Big Tech's monopoly
A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms
TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it.
What ephemeral messaging is good for
Senator Warren’s proposal about how to regulate tech is wrong about history, the source of tech giant’s power, and the fundamental nature of technology itself. That doesn’t mean t…
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook would be ‘pivoting to privacy’. That’s an empty pledge
Elizabeth Warren reveals her plan to break up Big Tech
Following a campaign by Tinder and tech activist group Emojination, 71 new skin tone variations have been approved
De erfbelasting is de mooiste en eerlijkste belasting die er is, al begrijp ik de weerstand ertegen wel. De meeste erfenissen zijn immers helemaal niet zo groot. Zo kan het eenvoudiger én eerlijker.
Actiecomité Xs4all Moet Blijven richt een nieuwe commerciële internetaanbieder op coöperatieve grondslag op. Klanten kunnen straks kiezen tussen actieve deelname aan deze nieuwe partij of overgaan
For centuries, senders used folds, slits, and wax seals to guard correspondence from prying eyes.
The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history, and it's toxic bullshit
When I joined the artificial intelligence company Clarifai in early 2017, you could practically taste the promise in the air. My colleagues were brilliant, dedicated, and committed to making the world a better place.We founded Clarifai 4 Good where we helped students and charities, and we donated our software to researchers around the world whose projects had a socially beneficial goal. We were determined to be the one AI company that took our social responsibility seriously.
My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on importan
Facebook’s promise to build a “privacy-focused platform” is little more than a hollow reaction to recent PR disasters.
A brilliant, simple exercise to teach privacy fundamentals
Earlier this month, OpenAI revealed an impressive language model that can generate paragraphs of believable text. It declined to fully release their research “due to concerns about malicious applications of the technology.” OpenAI released a much smaller model and technical paper, but not the fully...
YouTube zet bij video’s met minderjarigen de reactiemogelijkheid uit, omdat er vaak seksueel getinte opmerkingen onder de filmpjes verschenen. Het gigantische videoplatform worstelt al jaren met extreem gedrag van makers en gebruikers, maar modereren is op deze schaal bijna niet te doen.
Superklein wonen is populair, ook in Nederland, bij idealisten én bij mensen met een kleine beurs. Toch komen er door alle regels maar mondjesmaat tiny houses bij. ‘Wij willen dat je weer gewoon kunt voelen: hé, ik leef op deze aarde.’
Als er geld op het spel staat, blijken zelfs de meningen van klimaatontkenners elastisch.
Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry
Het is een mooi woord: uploadfilter. U, o, a, i, e: alle enkele klinkers van het alfabet zitten erin. Daarmee is alles ook meteen gezegd, want zo’n uploadfilter is verder een lastig ingrediënt voor gezellige conversatie. O, nee, niet over uploadfilters beginnen, hoor ik u zuchten. En toch moet het. In het vervolg moet uw hart tekeergaan van internetfilters. Uw bloed moet koken van uploads en…
Scheidsrechters als Dennis Higler willen voetbalwedstrijden zo soepel en eerlijk mogelijk laten verlopen. Als ze het goed doen, horen ze niks. Als het fout gaat, zijn ze lange tijd mikpunt van kritiek. Geen wonder dat steeds minder mensen scheidsrechter willen worden. Ode aan de scheidsrechter, aan de hand van Higlers gedragsregels.
A group of employees said Google made hundreds of changes to smartphone apps for the controversial project, thought to be defunct.
Amnesty says social media firm must do more to support users who report harassment
Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Home and other AI devices tend to be voiced by women, playing into the stereotype that serving is a woman’s job. But do robots need to be gendered at all?
Wie niet luisteren wil, moet maar voelen
In 1971, three student-teachers in the Minneapolis public school system created the computer game The Oregon Trail for students in their American history c
"My concern, as I wrote the book, was that the public’s loathing of the established order was bound to implicate our democratic system itself."
While the eye is superior at perceiving sizes and ratios, the ear is better at detecting patterns that occur over time. Enter: sonification.
Born nearly two thousand years before Darwin and Freud, Epictetus seems to have anticipated a way out of their prisons.
Surveillancekapitalisme: Sociaal-psychologe Shoshana Zuboff waarschuwt in haar nieuwe boek voor de manier waarop techbedrijven met onze internetdata omgaan. De mens wordt steeds meer onderworpen aan algoritmen waarop hij geen invloed heeft.
KPMG heeft methode ontwikkeld om elke app en website die betrekking heeft op Amsterdam aan onderzoek te onderwerpen.
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the creation of a new task force to monitor competition in technology markets. Given the inadequacies of federal antitrust enforcement over the past generation, we welcome the new task force and reiterate our suggestions for how regulators can...
In February 2019, positive advancements were made regarding security standards in consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices: The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published a standard numbered TS 103 645, more appealingly named “Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things”. Under this new standard, compliant products will be expected to have unique passwords, a vulnerability …
The peace activist Hermann Theisen has been convicted by several lower courts for calling on employees of weapons manufacturers to expose illegal activities of their employers. EDRi observer Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) supports him in his appeal procedures to get German courts to recognise that neither whistleblowing in the public interest …
[This is a guest post authored by Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice. It was originally published in The End of Trust (McSweeney's 54)]In December 2017, FBI agents forced Rakem Balogun and his fifteen-year-old son out of their Dallas home. They arrested Balogun on...
When geek groups or events, such as technical conferences, user groups, etc, produce t-shirts as "swag" ("stuff we all get") for attendees, to sell to members, or to promote products such as software or online services, those t-shirts are often produced in straight-cut ("men's" or "unisex") sizes only. On the rare occasions that fitted ("women's") t-shirts are provided, only smaller sizes are usually available. Kathy Sierra illustrates the first issue in this blog post, with the illustration...
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Een docent in Lochem verloor zijn baan nadat hij tijdens de les naar pornobeelden had gekeken op zijn computer. De beelden verschenen per...