On the occasion of the 2023 Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder forum that gathers governments, industry, civil society, the technical community, to discuss the most pressing issues related to internet governance.…

Nature - A neural network can identify references that are unlikely to support an article’s claims, and scour the web for better sources.

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Ten years ago today, on Friday, October 18, 2013, the effort to fix HealthCare.gov began in earnest. At 7:15 A.M. Eastern time, a small group assembled next to the entrance to the West Wing of the White House. The group included Todd Park, Brian...

Research published yesterday by several European media outlets has revealed that an international campaign in support of the EU's proposed child sexual abuse regulation has been largely orchestrated and financed by a network of organisations with links to…

The 10-year Treasury yield rose on Thursday hitting a 16-year high as investors pored over remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

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The other teamToday’s main feature is Miranda Reinert writing about the sale of the beloved music site Bandcamp…

We’ve recently open sourced a project called Ruvy! Ruvy is a toolchain that takes Ruby code as input and creates a WebAssembly module that will execute that Ruby code. There are other options for creating Wasm modules from Ruby code. The most common one is…

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Understanding the orbital dance of three celestial objects has challenged mathematicians for centuries. Now, the game has changed.

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Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Okta says the incident…

We are happy to announce a new release of Geany! Before going to the release …

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Bridge International Academies was in the midst of a key financing round when allegations of child sex abuse emerged. They fought back hard.

The hubris and determination of tech leaders to control society is threatening our individual, societal, and business autonomy.