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Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs
Today is Global Encryption Day, a day to highlight why encryption is critical for a safe, private internet.
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AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time
Peng-Jen Chen is well aware of how language barriers can affect people’s ability to communicate. Chen grew up in Taiwan speaking Mandarin Chinese, but his father, Sheng-Jiang Chen, a 70-year-old retired factory lead technician, hails from Southern Taiwan, where Taiwanese Hokkien is widely spoken. Though the two…
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75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12.
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No Congress 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and Camp 2023
The CCC sees no other option than to cancel the Chaos Communication Congress again this year. Instead, we call on local groups for decentralized and independent alternative events. The Chaos...
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Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)
Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? By Adara Liao | October 13, 2019
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Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros
Zur Verbindung mit dem Gesundheitsdatennetz „Telematik“ sind in deutschen Arztpraxen spezielle Router vorgeschrieben. Nach nur fünf Jahren Laufzeit soll nun ein Gerätetausch alternativlos sein – so...
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Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
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What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love
Wesley Faulkner’s story
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste?
Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?
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What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft
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From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically…
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U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
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MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
John Galvan was arrested at 18 and spent 35 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
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Call for Participation to Chaos Computer Club’s 37C3
The Chaos Communication Congress is the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) annual symposium and hacker party.
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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines
The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.
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Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown
One of the current puzzles in economics is the recent worldwide slowdown in productivity, compared to the late 1990s and early 2000s. This productivity loss is economically large: if productivity growth had stayed at the same level as in 1995-2004, American GDP would have increased by trillions of dollars. In this…
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Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations
Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
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Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications
Internet Archive has begun gathering content for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), which will be a massive online library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early digital communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from the Amateur Radio Digital…
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VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website
VideoLAN’s URL from which users download the VLC Media Player appears to have been banned by the DoT in India since March 2021. This was done without any prior notice, or affording VideoLAN an opportunity of hearing, which is contrary to the Indian law.
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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
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Autistic children with imaginary friends have better social skills
Results suggest that pretend play provides similar social benefits to autistic children as it does to neurotypical children.
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New Pegasus spyware abuses identified in Mexico
Mexican digital rights organization R3D, with technical support from the Citizen Lab, has determined that Mexican journalists and a human rights defender were infected with Pegasus between 2019 and 2021. The infections occurred years after the first revelations of Pegasus abuses in Mexico, and after Mexico’s current…
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230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establish Extraterritoriality
This latest installment in Safeguard Defenders’ Investigations series takes a deep dive into the Chinese police’s expanding global policing toolkit by examining a seemingly recent campaign to counter transnational telecom and online fraud (accordin
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The reality of celebratory gunfire
A must-see interactive analysis of Celebratory Gunfire, including animations and projections on how far and how fast bullets travel
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Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
After the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Danish Defence deployed the frigate Absalon and the pollution control vessel Gunnar Thorson, as well as a helicopter capacity.
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Adversarial Collaboration
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge , we are presenting original lectures from eminent scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are changing the way we think about science and our place in the world.]
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Wildfire smoke is exposing millions of Americans to extreme pollution levels
Stanford researchers have developed an AI model for predicting dangerous particle pollution to help track the American West’s rapidly worsening wildfire smoke. The detailed results show millions of Americans are routinely exposed to pollution at levels rarely seen just a decade ago.