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Hide and seek: A catalog of useful steganography tools
We leven in hysterische tijden. Van populisten tot megabedrijven als Facebook en Twitter, allemaal varen ze wel bij opwinding, want hysterische berichten krijgen meer aandacht. Irritant, maar die hysterie moeten we wel serieus nemen – want ze zegt iets over ons verlangen naar geborgenheid en erkenning.
Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.
Try the EU Compliant Meme Generator for yourself
At a blockchain event i was at on Friday, someone made an offhand comment about how Patreon's editorial decisions meant that people no longer felt
The Safe Face Pledge: an ethical code of conduct for facial recognition scientists and developers
Today we're releasing a draft charter giving more detail about a content oversight board.
Wie een woning wil kopen moet tegenwoordig een dikke portemonnee hebben. Vooral in de Randstad rijzen de huizenprijzen de pan uit. Voor starters is het zonder hulp van ouders bijna onmogelijk een betaalbare woning te bemachtigen. Maar hoe zit het met de tieners van nu: kunnen zij straks een koopwoning betalen? Of is het tijd om het ideaal van huiseigenaarschap op te geven?
The lesson of BuzzFeed is that dominant Aggregators like Facebook have no incentive to act against their self interest and support suppliers.
NEW YORK (AP) — The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle before his gruesome death are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives, The Associated Press has...
Mark Zuckerberg’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today (paywalled, but summarized here) relies on all-too-familiar refrains to explain the dubious principles and so-called “facts” behind Facebook’s business model. It’s the same old song we’ve heard before. And, as usual, it wildly misses users’...
This was originally published by USA Today.
While Google publicly supported employees who protested company policies, it quietly asked the government to narrow the right to organize over work email
How sex with robots became safer—and better—than sex with actual men.
"Slow multitasking" is the good kind of multitasking
Staff discussed what to do with high-spending children before deciding to refuse refunds
Companies lack incentives to stop the creepiness.
This essay was co-authored by Andrew Kortina and Namrata Patel.
What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? A lot.
This was originally published by Rolling Stone.As FBI director J. Edgar Hoover became increasingly disturbed by the growing political power of the Civil Rights Movement — and paranoid about its possible connections to communists — he directed his agents to step up their surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Op 18 januari vierde vereniging Ons Suriname haar 100-jarige bestaan met een feestelijke receptie. Femke Halsema, burgemeester van Amsterdam, gaf er de volgende toespraak en reikte een stadspenning...
The American wing of the movement sees big tech as a target of attack while populists in the rest of the world see it as their best chance of escaping intellectual hegemony
Ruling will ensure doctors no longer judged by Google on fitness to practise, lawyer says
Meetbaarheid is het sleutelwoord bij online adverteren. Dankzij internet zouden grillige consumenten in beïnvloedbare ip-adressen veranderen. Maar door grootschalige fraude, dubieuze meetmethoden en populaire advertentieblockers zijn veel metrics waarop de digitale advertentie-industrie draait in feite waardeloos. Slotdeel van een tweeluik over de (on)zin van onlinereclame.
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the author 10 key questions
Internet zou de heilige graal worden van de reclamemarkt: eindelijk konden adverteerders exact meten wat een campagne opleverde. Maar is dat wel zo? We doken in de wereld van kliks, banners en keywords en ontdekten dat je bijna niet kunt weten wat het effect is van een online advertentie – áls er al een effect is. Deel één van een tweeluik.
A group of Amazon shareholders are trying to prevent the company from selling its facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies out of concern for the technology’s impact on civil liberties.
Bjørn Karmann
Geautomatiseerde gezichtsherkenning moet streng gereguleerd worden, betoogt Berber Brouwer [advocaat bij Brouwer & Law]. Anders is het straks te laat. Iedere dictator, terreurgroepering of topcr
The two designers behind Project Alias compare it to a virus–or perhaps a parasitic fungus. In a good way.
A stock image of an egg has amassed 26m likes to become the most popular post of all time, bumping Jenner’s shot of her newborn daughter and spurring some unlikely imitators
#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won’t until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
I got caught up in the hype – and then the bubble burst
Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine.
Tracking is everywhere on the Internet. Over the past year, a drumbeat of tech-industry scandals has acclimated users to the sheer number of ways that personal information can be collected and leaked. As a result, it might not come as a surprise to learn that emails, too, can be vectors for...
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed.
Last year he focused on ‘fixing’ Facebook. Now Mark Zuckerberg plans to host talks about technology’s future in society
The Silicon Valley gospel of “disruption” has descended into caricature, but, at its core, there are some sound tactics buried beneath the self-serving bullshit. A lot of our systems an…
Blame authors' fortunes on monopolism, not university professors, booksellers and librarians
— Winnaar van de derde prijs van de OZSW/BNI Essaywedstrijd — Door Dascha Düring (docent-onderzoeker Universiteit Utrecht) Je hebt een afspraakje met iemand die je via een datingwebsite hebt ontmo…
“The Boy—the boy whose robot girlfriend Charlie was paid to pretend to be—lived eight time zones and more than 5,000 miles away in San Jose.”
The ad-driven, surveillance-happy status quo isn't just corrosive. It's avoidable.
Why is Grindr being sued by Matthew Herrick, an aspiring actor working in a restaurant in New York? "His former partner created fake profiles on the app to impersonate Herrick and then direct men to show up at Herrick's home and the restaurant where he worked asking for sex, sometimes more than a d...
Sans Forgetica is a typeface designed using the principles of cognitive psychology to help you to better remember your study notes.
It turned out to be a real pain to find an easy to use hybrid email template. This one works.
Google will defeat its own captchas for you
So, we’ve got a lot of books. Of course we do—books are great! What’s not great is trying to figure out how to organize them in such a way that you’re not just randomly shoving tomes into what