FOSS4G 2023 Prizren Presenter: Logan Williams At Bellingcat, a non-profit investigative organization in the Netherlands, we research war crimes, find tiger smugglers, monitor environmental degradation and track extremist hate. To do this, we use "open sources", including public databases, social…

“AI” companies and “AI” influencers love to argue that the space is so new and unregulated, that we quickly need new regulation to give business a foundation to thrive on. This argument is very dishonest. There is regulation, just not the one they like. Data protection law, copyright law, anti…

The political Europe is very busy currently: Having passed the GDPR a few and the DMA even fewer years ago its currently in the process of debating the so-called “AI Act”, a piece of legislation aimed at the developers of so-called “AI” systems trying to enforce “European Values” (I don’t wanna get…

Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere with an airplane’s navigation systems, potentially causing a disaster. However, the necessity of airplane mode is largely a myth, and there’s…

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In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a California highway. He finds it 10 miles away, hiding in a bush—a run-and-dump tactic that he says thieves use to test whether anyone will come after them before they take a scooter home. John, not…

Als im Juni 2013 der britische «Guardian» die Aussagen von Edward Snowden publik machte, stand die Welt für einen Moment still. Die Enthüllungen von Snowden, seines Zeichens Ex-Dienstleister des US-amerikanischen Auslands­geheimdienstes NSA, bestätigten die schlimmsten Befürchtungen: Die…

The conversation about the “dangers of AI” is full of weird little tidbits that show only marginal connection to the real world. Is stochastic parrots becoming Skynet really a thing? Will some future “AI” lock us in a torture VR environment for not helping it emerge fast enough? You know probably a…

Letter from London After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death? February 5, 2024 On November 28, 2019, Zac Brettler, a nineteen-year-old from West…

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Space sickness What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back? “If you guys don’t give me a chance to repair my instrument, I’m not going back.” Eric Berger – Jan 22, 2024 6:00 am | 322 The STS-51-B mission begins with the liftoff of the Challenger from Pad 39A in April 1985.…

Long ago, in a parallel universe three doors down and one to the left of our own, OpenAI headquarters found itself in chaos. A klaxon blared overhead as red lights began flashing. A message played over a loud-speaker: “Warning! Warning! This is not a drill! Artificial General Intelligence window…

Ello launched on August 7, 2014 with big dreams and big promises, a new social network defined by what it wouldn’t do. They laid it all out in a manifesto, right on their homepage: Your social network is owned by advertisers. Every post you share, every friend you make and every link you follow is…

1. Not setting a morning alarm. During the pandemic, I found I didn’t need to set one. Now, I very rarely do. It means I don’t start the day with the hideous stress of the alarm going off – I wake up naturally, when I’ve had enough sleep. Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert The Guardian’s journalism is…

[Header image: Photo of the lunar lander taken during Apollo 11.] In 1969, after successfully bringing men back from landing on the moon, the astronauts, spacecraft, and all the samples from the moon surface were quarantined for 21 days. This was to account for the possibility that they were…

This much was clear. At some point in my future, I would have access to a time machine. This was a ridiculous sentence and a tragically irrelevant concern while my wife Judi was on the floor and possibly dying, but there it was: nonsense, in the presence of death. This was the central tragic…

Every month or so, a new blog article declaring the near demise of CSV in favor of some "obviously superior" format (parquet, newline-delimited JSON, MessagePack records etc.) find its ways to the reader's eyes. Sadly those articles often offer a very narrow and biased comparison and often fail to…

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How big is YouTube? I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal of social media research focuses on finding unwanted behavior – mis/disinformation, hate speech – on platforms. This isn’t that hard to do: search for “white…

Die vergangene Woche war Tracking durch Webseiten ein Dauerthema. Niemand scheint unseren Willen nach Privatsphäre respektieren zu wollen. Da muss doch irgendwie Abhilfe möglich sein? Wir zeigen, wie. Inhalte Tracking überall! Hier ein Auszug aus kürzlich erschienen Artikeln, ohne Anspruch auf…

aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Dieser Artikel behandelt die Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Emanuel Schikaneder. Zu weiteren Bedeutungen siehe Die Zauberflöte (Begriffsklärung). Werkdaten Originaltitel: Die Zauberflöte Emanuel Schikaneder als mit Federn bedeckter Papageno…

This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why…

In the eternal words of The Thick of it, everything that happens in the world has to happen somewhere. It sounds obvious, but so many good pieces of research or analysis forget just how much where you are matters…and that’s why, this christmas, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time contributing to…

Google is protecting your privacy like a wolf would protect sheep Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year. Ron Amadeo – Nov 21, 2023 3:35 pm | 379 Credit: Aurich Lawson Credit: Aurich Lawson Story text Size…

Die Welt ist nicht angenehm im Moment. Seit dem Jahr 2020 erlebten wir eine Pandemie, zwei Kriege, drei Prozent Inflation und am Horizont vier Jahre, in denen der US-Präsident erneut Donald Trump heissen könnte. In dieser unangenehmen Welt wollen viele Menschen ihre Meinung äussern. Und sie wollen…

Die Schweizer Post und ihre digitalen Angebote sind auf DNIP ja ein schon mehrmals beleuchtetes Thema, so haben wir dieses Jahr schon über IncaMail und Google Cloud geschrieben und einen Blick auf die Datenschutz-Odyssee bei SwissID geworfen. Heute geht es um ein Angebot der Swisspost-App (und…

Ich bin wütend, verzwei­felt, frustriert, entsetzt, rasend, ange­wi­dert; you name it, I feel it. Ein paar Tage vor dem Inter­na­tio­nalen Tag gegen Gewalt an Frauen am 25. November haben sich die News aus dem Patri­ar­chat mal wieder über­schlagen. Einer­seits wurde bekannt gegeben, dass der Bund…

Some mistakes feel worse than death. A February evening in 2003 started out routine at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. I gowned up in cleanroom garb and passed into the High Bay 1 airlock in Building 179 where nearly all of NASA’s historic interplanetary spacecraft have been…

Assistant Curator Shaz Hussain explores the history of the personal computer to answer the ever important question: why beige? They say black is the chicest colour, it goes with everything. Which is why the sleek, minimalist design of your phone, laptop or tablet fits neatly into your lifestyle. But…

NEWS 22 November 2023 Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic. By Miryam Naddaf View author publications Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Access through your institution…

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Subscribe >> A Reporter at LargeMay 18, 2020 Issue Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth. By Ben Taub Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin May 10, 2020 Sea level—perpetual flux. There is a micromillimetre on the surface of the ocean that…

I am continuously surprised by how few people outside of the community know the story of OpenStreetMap. Coming into this community from a world of writers and communicators who spend their days spinning up stories–some of them more worthy than others–sometimes feels like visiting another planet. For…

Stranger Video Stare into a stranger's eyes Nov 16, 2023 Update: the day after I posted this stranger video went viral in japan. It was a ton of fun. The viralness has died off for now; I’m working on a separate post about the experience of using stranger video at peak popularity. I have a new…