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Global Digital Intimacies Conference

In the light of these transformations, the Global Digital Intimacies conference aims to gather together scholars from around the world to investigate digital intimacy in all its varieties. The post Global Digital Intimacies Conference appeared first on Eur…

Bringing Command Line Tools to the Browser and Investigating Russian Courts, Social Media Narratives, and Gaza’s Landfills: Here are the Results of Bellingcat’s First In-person Hackathon

Earlier this month, Bellingcat hosted its fourth hackathon, our first to take place in-person. We’re excited to share the projects our participants brought to life over three days of intense hacking at the University of Amsterdam. The post Bringing Command…

Trouble from CAR-T Treatment?

The FDA took everyone by surprise this week by announcing that they were looking into 19 cases of lymphoma that they believe were actually brought on by the use of CAR-T cell therapy to treat other blood cancers. CAR-T is pretty much the last technologica…

Spyware Targeting Against Serbian Civil Society

We confirm that two members of Serbian civil society were targeted with spyware earlier this year. Both have publicly criticized the Serbian government. We are not naming the individuals at this time by their request. The Citizen Lab’s technical analysis …

The Shortfall

I try to work out how much money would be needed to restore a functioning state. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd November 2023 Many names have been proposed for our pathology: Thatcherism, Reaganism, austerity, Trussonomics. But they are…

We are happy to announce 55 new projects have been awarded an NGI Zero grant. That means 55 teams and individuals working on great ideas that contribute to the Next Generation Internet. Projects cover all ten layers of the NGI technology sta…

Abolish Frontex on the Civil Fleet Podcast

In advance of the upcoming action day, we talked to the Civil Fleet podcast about Frontex’s wrongdoings on the African continent, the problems with border externalisation, and why the EU border regime needs to be abolished. Listen to the episode on Spotif…

Evaluation

As announced earlier, we are evaluating what happened at No Border Camp this summer. For those who it concerns, we invite you to join our conversation about it on thursday evening novembre 30th at 19:30h. Send us an email (nbc-2023@riseup.net) for the loc…

Notes from The Tea Plantation

Fashion is an industry that is obnoxious, loud and extroverted. To do well, one must discard one’s shame and fear of rejection. This is because the business of fashion is not about making clothes, but about selling them. And the mark of a good salesman is…

Summary of changes for October 2023

Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Thousand Rooms, added a Brazili…

Rescue ship SEA-EYE 4 detained in Vibo Valentia

The SEA-EYE 4 is again punished with an administrative detention of 20 days and a fine of around 3,000 euros. The Italian coastguard accused the crew of disobeying instructions from the so-called Libyan coastguard. According to an expert, the sanctions ha…

Life Cycle Assessment of 2022 Laptop

Laptop manufacturer Framework commissioned Fraunhofer IZM to do a detailed life cycle analysis on their Framework Laptop 13, which is designed to be upgradeable, repairable, and customizable. The functional unit used in the study is the use of this notebo…

webshit weekly

An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of August, 2021. One Bad Apple August 08, 2021 (comments) An Internet is mad about Apple (business model: "Uber for spyware") turning your phone…

Confessions of a Necromancer

Thirty-five years I've written code, a necromancer weaving spells to bring the dead to life. Hardware and electronics never held any charm for me. I've no love for chips and cables and solder. Give me a keyboard, a screen, and a language, and you …