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Many developers work on the “web platform” because they believe in the model of competing and interoperable implementations (i.e. browsers). These folks (of which I am one) believe that competing and interoperable implementations is what makes the web fundamentally stronger than other platforms. Unlike Windows, iOS, or Android (for example), the web’s users have choice about how they participate. If they disagree with how their chosen browser is being managed, they can switch to another.
Many developers work on the “web platform” because they believe in the model of competing and interoperable implementations (i.e. browsers). These folks (of which I am one) believe that competing and interoperable implementations is what makes the web fundamentally stronger than other platforms. Unlike Windows, iOS, or Android (for example), the web’s users have choice about how they participate. If they disagree with how their chosen browser is being managed, they can switch to another.
Before there was Big Tech, there was "adversarial interoperability": when someone decides to compete with a dominant company by creating a product or service that "interoperates" (works with) its offerings.In tech, "network effects" can be a powerful force to maintain market dominance: if everyone...
In the past week, a controversy around F-Droid took place at its forum and in the fediverse. We feel like we have to put out a public statement to clear F-Dr...
Startup plans to use small ‘threads’ to detect neuron activity, as Musk claims tests already show ‘monkey can control computer with its brain’
Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform
Everyone in the tech world claims to love interoperability—the technical ability to plug one product or service into another product or service—but interoperability covers a lot of territory, and depending on what's meant by interoperability, it can do a lot, a little, or nothing at all to protect...
Carlos Maza started posting videos on YouTube, and ran afoul of a guy who reminded him of his high school bullies. He asked YouTube to intervene, and then things got extremely complicated.Carlos Maza's video series StrikethroughMark Bergen on how toxic videos became more common on YouTubeMegan Farokhmanesh's article about Google's LGBTQ employees and their reaction to the company's policy decisionsKevin Roose's "The Making of a YouTube Radical"
Today, President Trump is hosting a social media summit at the White House. Rather than inviting actual social media platforms and experts to have a
Via de slimme luidsprekers en de Assistent-app van Google krijgen medewerkers dingen te horen die bewust of onbewust zijn ingesproken.
De grote bedrijven trekken zich het lot aan van de allerarmsten. Facebook maakt plannen voor de introductie van een eigen munt en stelt dat mensen zonder bankrekening dan toch online kunnen betalen. Een private munt als redding van ‘the unbanked’: het bedrijf claimt trots een maatschappelijke opdracht te vervullen. „We vinden dat veel meer mensen toegang moeten hebben tot financiële diensten en…
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.
Many digital payments can be tracked, potentially assisting an authoritarian crackdown.
In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms. The devices purport to identify stress and anger before violence erupts. Our testing found them less than reliable.
Microsoft has closed its ebook store—and will soon make its customers' libraries disappear along with it.
I’m Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. Over the last 24 hours, we have seen vigorous debate on pixel tracking within email, also…
Several times over the 13 years that I’ve been writing this column, I’ve railed against the toxic myth that science fiction is a predictive literature, a way to know the future. Scienc…
To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me.
Opinion: We've been assured that facial recognition technology is secure, reliable, and accurate. That's far from certain.
Your guide to understanding an industry where capitalism is euphemized
Posted by Alex Fabrikant, Research Scientist, Google Research Hundreds of millions of people across the world rely on public transit for...
Security through obscurity is out, security through tomfoolery is in. From a report: That's the basic philosophy sold by Track THIS, "a new kind of incognito" browsing project, which opens up 100 tabs crafted to fit a specific character -- a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an...
The way we regulated social media platforms didn’t end harassment, extremism or disinformation. It only gave them more power and made the problem worse.
The typical response to the onslaught of falsehood is to say, lol, nothing matters. But when so many of us are reaching this point, it really does matter.
The tech giant knows its best weapon is mobilizing the faux-populism other Silicon Valley companies have used to defeat regulation
Finn Brunton's Digital Cash is a "history of the present," presenting contemporary innovations in electronic money and cryptocurrency through an archaeology of digital cash.
Some contractors are dealing with rate cuts by leasing their accounts to immigrants, many of them underage or in the country illegally, and taking part of their pay.
We look back at 10 years of Feminist Frequency
I cringe when I hear self-proclaimed experts implore everyone to “use a password manager for all your passwords” and “turn on two-factor…
Astrologists — and Libras in particular — are lashing out at Facebook for naming its new cryptocurrency after the zodiac sign.
In this podcast, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the intersection of technology and human nature by interviewing a wide range of guest experts.
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Ze maken een hele mooie analyse van wat je nodig zou hebben om samen te werken aan documenten en toch local first te zijn. De oplossing lijkt te zitten in ‘Conflict-free Replicated Data Types’
We moeten stoppen elkaar angst aan te praten over een naderende robot-apocalyps. In doemscenario’s over verdwijnende banen door kunstmatige intelligentie worden mensen structureel onderschat, schrijft Robert Went. En de mogelijkheden van nieuwe technologieën? Die overschatten we des te meer.
Those protesting against the contentious extradition bill have learned the lessons of 2014. They are tolerant of different views, careful with their identities and freed by a lack of leadership.
Ondanks de nieuwe regels kopte het onderzoeksplatform Pointer begin april ‘Jan-Willem weer de fout in’. Volgens de redactie heeft Schut onder meer het horloge van een verdachte in beeld gebracht en is de naam van een partner van een verdachte niet weggepiept. De politievlogger zucht. Die herleidbaarheid is niet zo zwart-wit, vindt hij. Wat de één een herkenbaar T-shirt vindt, vindt de ander niet herleidbaar. Bovendien: ‘Sommige mensen springen letterlijk op mijn nek om maar in beeld te komen. Laatst hadden we een vuurwapengevaarlijke man aangehouden. Terwijl hij zijn handboeien om kreeg, draaide hij zich om en vroeg hij: hé Jan-Willem, wanneer komt dit op YouTube?’
Last month Facebook declined to remove a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi even after it was viewed millions of times
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Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
Posted by Paul Dille, Senior Software Developer, Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab, and Chris Herwig, Geo Data Engineer, Google Earth Ou...
Demonstrators cover bodies with stickers to ensure nipples on display are ‘male’, in line with Facebook policy
Heel mooi stuk dat laat zien hoe pragmatisch je moet zijn als je mensen wilt beveiligen. Plus deze man is een meesterlijke en hilarische schrijver.
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
You can outsource pretty much every aspect of irritation in your life. But you can’t outsource loneliness
The Data Transparency Advisory Group just released an independent assessment of whether the metrics we share in our enforcement report are accurate and meaningful.
Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
Experts worry that dark money groups and foreign actors could use the loophole to mislead users.
Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it
Het kabinet vindt een blijvende dominante positie van digitale platforms onwenselijk. Dat belemmert de toetreding van nieuwe bedrijven en beperkt de online keuzevrijheid van consumenten en ondernemers. Staatssecretaris Mona Keijzer (Economische Zaken en Klimaat) stelt daarom vandaag in een beleidsbrief aan de Tweede Kamer drie maatregelen voor om in te kunnen grijpen bij deze mededingingsproblematiek.
Pulling apart the social network could keep the EU busy in court for a decade, says Margrethe Vestager.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No.