“The Chinese internet today is unrecognizable from the internet we all know.” https://www.opentech.fund/news/otfs-nat-kretchun-testifies-on-the-great-firewall-and-the-ccps-export-of-its-techno-authoritarian-surveillance-state/
Smol is super interesting as a content aggregator for insights on public debate on social. is anyone working on something like this for fediverse/nostr? https://smol.fly.dev/sign-in
A good Cybercrime Treaty would recognize the perverse incentives that create the coalition to keep us from knowing which products we can trust and which ones we should avoid. It would shut down companies like the NSO Group, ban spy agencies from hoarding defects, and establish an absolute defense for security researchers who reveal true facts about defects. https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/
malicious software that, for the first time, allowed hackers to reach directly into a Ukrainian heating utility, switching off heat and hot water to hundreds of buildings in the midst of a winter freeze https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-frostygoop-malware-heating-utility/
Jigsaw has open sourced a counterterrorism tool designed to help smaller companies address extremist content shared through their online platforms.
Super interesting to watch editing activity on Wikipedia
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If you’re also tired of intellectually bankrupt political punditry that claims to be journalism but destroys everything in its path: meet this senior pug who has the biggest heart.
Depoorter has built all manner of quirky and provocative installations and online experiments. There’s a clock that tells you how much of your life you’ve already lived; a phone charger that only works when your eyes are closed; a mobile chat app that you can only use when your phone has less than 5% battery. https://www.theverge.com/24199020/ai-art-dries-depoorter-selfies-surveillance-privacy-generative-ai
The rebranding of Yandex International to Nebius marks a new era for European AI compute, thanks to Russia’s tech brain drain. https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/21/from-yandexs-ashes-comes-nebius-a-startup-with-plans-to-be-a-european-ai-compute-leader/
This moment says so much about the despicably extractive bully culture so much of journalism has succumbed to that leads to nothing good.
A site selling videos and photos of real people to bypass selfie checks for online services. https://www.404media.co/inside-the-face-fraud-factory/
Recommendations in the full report: https://www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LGBTQ-MENA-Report-3-Recommendations.pdf not rocket science and totally doable
Some have had success over time with making the argument of economic damage like increased difficulty of attracting investments
Wouldn’t “kleptocratic” be preferable to “fascist”? It describes the intent and doesn’t validate this performative tribalism as an ideology.
Facebook has been inaccessible on at least two networks in Bangladesh over the past days. The block appears to be implemented via TLS interference: https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/45013413801
… when you belatedly notice a typo and you have to ask all relays to delete the post
I posted this also on my LinkedIn and I’m picturing all my media development peers cringing. If they “liked” this, they risk upsetting their funders and partners’ funders.
“Banning TikTok without regulating the data broker sector does nothing.”
Stop treating social media companies as nation state representatives: All major ones “are now transnational entities that are happy to support dictators.”
Cory Doctorow 🔥 at Hope XV
just learned the internet archive now has an onion service archive6zg5vrdwm4ljllgxleekeoj43lqayscd4… the usual nice purple button in the tor browser takes you there if you go to the plain site
A subscription bundle is not going to fix either the Post nor CNN. Slowing and reversing decline by replicating Times is a strategy that could have worked briefly years ago, but no more. I would love to see a new generation of leaders define distinct market positioning and value propositions for these groups of extremely talented people, and help them redefine their success and help preserve journalistic craft and spirit.