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| Feb 21, 2026 | Университетские годы Джулиана Ассанжа | Джулиан Ассанж в старой комнате MUMS
Джулиан Ассанж - основатель Wikileaks и вероятный создатель сообщества Cicada 3301. С 2003 по 2005 год Джулиан изучал математику и физику в Мельбурнском университете. Там он вступил в Сообщество математи... |
| Aug 12, 2024 | Pakistan and the Middle East’s evolving approach to Afghanistan | With the third anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan approaching, the plight of ordinary Afghans is by no means over. Throughout its history, the strategic location of this landlocked country has proven to be more of a curse ... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Why a U.S. recession may not be in the cards | While far from a universal principle in history, the notion that danger seldom lies where one expects it has always existed.
Three millennia ago, the Bronze Age civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean collapsed due to the mysterious sea ... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | A Rare Moment of Collective Wonder | Sign up for Climate on the Ballot, our weekly newsletter with ideas for reporting on climate and the 2024 elections.
Our species has been observing the sun, the moon, and the stars for all of our history. Doing so has brought order to our u... |
| Jan 21, 2024 | Gaza’s hunger crisis, cholera’s African surge, and peak Davos: The Cheat Sheet | Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe.
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‘Fundamental change’ needed to prevent starvation in Gaza
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| Jan 8, 2024 | FCC Continues To Punt On The Hard Questions Surrounding Media Ownership | Between the holidays, and to minimal fanfare, the FCC released a decision in the 2018 Quadrennial Review of Media Ownership policy. The timing of the release was no surprise, as the agency had been ordered by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appea... |
| Dec 5, 2023 | Скандинавы вывели Маска из себя: шведские профсоюзы против Tesla | Anonymous 5 декабря 2023, 16:22 Скандинавы вывели Маска из себя: шведские профсоюзы против Tesla
Впервые в истории компании началась массовая забастовка рабочих. Против выступили рабочие Швеции — страны, где профсоюзы имеют большое влияние.... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Africa: Actors Are Demanding That Hollywood Catch Up With Technological Changes in a Sequel to a 1960 Strike | For the first time since 1960, actors and screenwriters are on strike at the same time.
As with many of the other strikes that have rippled across the United States over the past three years, this walkout is over demands for better pay and ... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | UK PM Sunak denounces Ukrainian POW beheading video | Deminers of Ukrainian Emergency Service explode anti-tank mines and other explosive materials found in the town of Bucha, on a military site in Kyiv region on April 13, 2023. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on... |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Murdoch said Fox News hosts should say the election is over 'to stop the Trump myth' that it was stolen | Former President Donald Trump, left, and Rupert Murdoch, right, in a composite image. Getty Images
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| Feb 28, 2023 | The hidden costs of refinancing your student loans | Redeem now
It's an incredible feeling to finally become free of student debt, to feel the financial weight lifted off your shoulders after years of worrying about making payments.
I've gotten to see this joy over the past year by helping pe... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | 46 landmark Supreme Court cases that changed American life as we knew it | Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The US Supreme Court was formed... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Amazon Told Workers Union Organizers Are ‘Thugs,’ Labor Board Investigation Finds | Amazon representatives told workers at JFK8, its largest New York City warehouse, that an ongoing union drive would fail because union organizers were “thugs,” and said it would be “futile” to vote for a union because a union would “never h... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Is There An Iraq Precedent To The Failure Of Afghanistan’s Military? | “This is an army of, I think, 350,000 people, heavily armed by the United States and trained by the United States for 10 years. A couple of thousand guerrillas showed up, and they all ran away. The generals ran away first. And the soldiers ... |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Royal Dutch Shell : BREAKING - The XR activists who took on oil giant Shell - and won | Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) , [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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| Mar 19, 2021 | The Solution to Violence Against Women Will Never Be 'More Police' | On March 16, a gunman shot nine people, murdering eight, at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta area. Six of those victims were Asian women massage workers. There has been a rush to classify exactly what kind of violence the gunm... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | From The Bronx To Bessemer, Essential Workers Are Fighting Back | RWDSU protest in New York City in 2018. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightRocket via Getty Images |
| Jan 23, 2021 | Rep. Rashida Tlaib on why she’s rallying progressives to fight back against calls for sweeping new government surveillance powers after the Capitol attack | Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 18, 2020 REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is leading the progressive opposition to a massive expansion of the security state in the wake of the deadly Capitol attack b... |
| Oct 12, 2020 | Thanks To Trump Administration, 1.8 Billion Tons More Greenhouse Gases Will Be Released | 1
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When President Donald Trump visited California on September 14 and dismissed the state Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot’s plea to recognize the role of climate change in the midst of the G... |
| May 1, 2020 | Как коронавирус ускорит четвёртую промышленную революцию | Один из плюсов пандемии — возможность экспериментировать с технологиями и использовать новые подходы в совместной работе, объединяющей разные страны. Всё это может привести к возникновению более безопасного, устойчивого и безбарьерного буду... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Почему коронавирус ускорит Четвертую промышленную революцию | Научное сотрудничество, целесообразное вмешательство в информационные ресурсы и политическое лидерство способно вывести нас из пандемии, пишет Санджив Хаграм (Sanjeev Khagram), декан Thunderbird School of Global Management (Индия), для The ... |
| Apr 19, 2020 | Beating Covid Is All About Electricity | The connections for a patient bed with a respirator are seen in the intensive care unit at the ... [+] University hospital of Aachen, western Germany, on April 15, 2020 during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDE... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Microsoft's Cloud and AI Services Tapped in Coronavirus Fight | News Microsoft's Cloud and AI Services Tapped in Coronavirus Fight By Kurt MackieMarch 23, 2020
Microsoft recently described the ways in which its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offerings, as well as its Azure cloud, are ... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Microsoft's Cloud and AI Services Tapped in Coronavirus Fight | News Microsoft's Cloud and AI Services Tapped in Coronavirus Fight By Kurt MackieMarch 23, 2020
Microsoft recently described the ways in which its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offerings, as well as its Azure cloud, are ... |
| Mar 16, 2020 | SingularityNET, Ocean, Algorand, Triffic, Enigma Add To Fight Against Coronavirus | Well, that escalated quickly. As we catch our breaths with the pace of COVID-19-related disruptions, this post will update frequently with the latest perspectives, support efforts and information from the blockchain community at large. Have... |
| Apr 12, 2019 | A timeline of Julian Assange's 6.5-year confinement in a 30-sq.-m. space in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he hung out with Pamela Anderson and hardly saw the sun | Julian Assange.
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UK police on Thursday arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after Ecuador rescinded his asylum, bringing an end to a nearly seven-year stay in the embassy.
During his stay, he dressed his cat in b... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Green New Deal doesn’t go far enough | Lindsey Allen Contributor
Lindsey Allen is executive director of Rainforest Action Network.
The Green New Deal brings much-needed urgency to the national conversation around the climate crisis, which is without a doubt the biggest threat to... |
| Jan 4, 2019 | Trump threatens years-long shutdown and national emergency if he doesn’t get wall funding | President Donald Trump once again unleashed what’s become his presidential hallmark: a bizarre, winding, threatening press conference, this time following his White House meeting with Democratic leaders Friday to try to break the impasse ca... |
| Jul 31, 2017 | LA Metro Planning to Go Renewable With 95 New Electric Buses | It's electric: Los Angeles county has a robust public transit system and now leaders at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority want to create a fleet of environmentally-friendly electric buses. Two of the most heavily ... |
| Jul 29, 2017 | Which Restaurants Will Suffer the Most Under a Higher Minimum Wage? | The debate over the minimum wage is dividing America in unprecedented ways, and how that question continues to be answered throughout the United States will undoubtedly be felt most acutely in the food services and restaurant industry—the s... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Academics, scientists, coders in mad scramble to rescue federal climate data | Politics, it would seem, has reached a flash point — such that it’s no longer sufficient to purge the staff and alter the message every time there’s a new Presidential administration. There was a time when an incumbent President could get a... |
| Jan 25, 2017 | Health professionals must fight a Trump administration expansion of torture | It was profoundly distressing to hear Donald Trump on the campaign trail vowing a return to abusing prisoners with “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Those thoughts threaten to reverse the work that I and others have done over the ... |
| Jan 15, 2017 | Puerto Rico turns to tech and entrepreneurialism to revitalize the economy | Jim Glade Contributor
Jim Glade is the marketing director at Publicize and a freelance reporter based in Medellín, Colombia. Jim is also a visiting mentor at Parallel18.
The commonwealth of Puerto Rico is steeped in more than $70 billion of... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Could President Trump Really Turn the NSA Into a Personal Spy Machine? | It's the nightmare scenario that many worried about: the US elects a president who uses the country's nearly omnipotent surveillance powers for his or her own gain. Edward Snowden has described the NSA's spying capabilities as the "arc... |
| Oct 18, 2016 | Judge Rejects 'Rioting' Charge Against Journalist For Reporting On Protestors, But Prosecutor Still Looking For New Charges | Last week it was announced that journalist Amy Goodman would go to North Dakota to face charges over her coverage of North Dakota oil pipeline protests that went viral. The idea that Goodman was charged with doing journalism was really ridi... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | Prosecutors Changing Charges Against Reporter To 'Rioting' Because Her Coverage Was Sympathetic To Protestors | On Friday, we wrote about the ridiculous arrest warrant for reporter Amy Goodman for reporting on the protests over the North Dakota oil pipeline. At the time, the charges against Goodman were apparently for trespassing, but late on Friday,... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | Judge dismisses riot charges against Democracy Now! cofounder Amy Goodman | There may be hope for the First Amendment rights of new media journalists― a North Dakota judge has dismissed riot charges against Democracy Now! cofounder and investigative reporter Amy Goodman.
As TechCrunch reported this weekend, Goodman... |
| Oct 15, 2016 | Multi-media journalists face jail time after reporting on North Dakota pipeline protest | Investigative reporter and co-founder of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman, is now facing riot charges in the state of North Dakota after her report on a Native American-led pipeline protest there went viral on Facebook.
Democracy Now! issued a s... |
| Oct 14, 2016 | Why Is North Dakota Arresting Journalists For Doing Journalism? | Two years ago, we wrote about the ridiculousness of police arresting reporters for reporting in Ferguson, Missouri, even though courts had told police to knock it off. Even more ridiculous is that those reporters were eventually charged, le... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Prolific FOIA Requester Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of FOIA Law By Suing FBI Over Its Document Search Methods | No better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act than filing a lawsuit claiming an agency is refusing to comply with it. FOIA enthusiast Ryan Shapiro has done exactly that, suing the DOJ [PDF] for the FBI’s ... |
| Jul 11, 2016 | NON Launches "BLACK Friday in July" Campaign to Promote Black-Owned Business | This past week, America has seen massive protests accross the country in response to two recent police killings of Black men—Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Aside from demonstratio... |
| Sep 27, 2015 | Is the U.S. drone program in Yemen working? | Editor’s Note: The U.S. drone program – as Lawfare readers well know – raises contentious policy issues as well as criticisms of its legality and morality. Many of these policy issues come to the fore in Yemen, where chaos and civil war are... |
| Jun 16, 2015 | John Oliver Gets Helen Mirren To Read CIA Torture Report As An eBook To Get People To Read It | Another week, another John Oliver report that covers topics we talk about on Techdirt. This time, it’s the CIA torture report, put together by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The 6,000+ page document is still classified, but the 500+ pag... |
| Jun 11, 2015 | How the Angola Three Became National Symbols of Injustice | Albert Woodfox in prison, via Amnesty USA
It's hard to explain how, of all the inmates in the world, Albert Woodfox is the one who's been in solitary confinement the longest. But since the Nixon administration, the dude has been in what pri... |
| May 19, 2015 | Adnan Syed from 'Serial' May Be Inching Closer to Receiving a New Trial | On Monday, a court order was issued in Baltimore that might ultimately help push the case of Adnan Syed, subject of the wildly popular podcast Serial, a bit closer to a new trial by potentially introducing a new alibi.
Syed, who was convict... |
| Nov 22, 2014 | The Blockchain and the Rise of Networked Trust | “We are free to plant our own seeds; we don’t buy the brand nor the patent from a multinational. In order to plant, we don’t need permission. Also, we don’t ask anyone’s permission for what to do with our money!”
Santiago Zaz is an organic ... |
| Jul 9, 2014 | Drones to be Used to Side-Step “Ag Gag” Laws, Photographing Animal Cruelty | Drones are causing a stir in agriculture these days, and not in that exciting, disruptive, tech-y way they have before.
Today, investigative journalist Will Potter successfully closed a Kickstarter campaign raising money to document animal ... |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Don’t Worry—There’s No Epidemic of Cop Killers on the Horizon | A police-training exercise in Kentucky. Photo via Flickr user Maximillian Curry
On June 8, Jerad and Amanda Miller targeted and killed Las Vegas police officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck. The Millers apparently harbored a lot of anti-governm... |
| May 19, 2014 | US Gov Alleges Chinese Hackers Compromised American Companies To Steal Trade Secrets | Remember the Mandiant report that highlighted an advanced hacking threat from inside of China, presumed to be tied to that country’s military? Today the U.S. government announced an indictment of “unit 61398,” indicating that actors from th... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | If Russian And Chinese Intelligence Could Supposedly Get Access To Snowden's Documents So Easily, Why Couldn't The NSA Figure Out What He Has? | Democracy Now! recently hosted a debate between ardent NSA supporter Stewart Baker and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. The entire debate is worth watching/reading (a full transcript is provided) but Baker’s opening statement reiterated a cla... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Comcast tower unanimously approved by Planning Commission [Comcast Roundup] | New Comcast tower gets unanimous approval from Planning Commission [PlanPhilly] “The only criticism: Not enough bicycle parking.”
Comcast acquisition of Time Warner Cable could undermine CBS deal [LA Times] “The new distribution contract CB... |
| Nov 25, 2013 | Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, McDonalds spying on nonprofits — allegedly with former NSA, CIA hackers | A new report from corporate watchdog Essential Information titled “Spooky Business” details how American corporations such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, McDonalds, and Shell are allegedly spying on nonprofits in the environmental... |
| Nov 25, 2013 | Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, McDonalds spying on nonprofits — allegedly with former NSA, CIA hackers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A new report from corporate watchdog Essential In... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | This weekend in the transnational NSA fallout:
On Saturday, the New York Times published a lengthy feature on NSA's domestic and international eavesdropping. The piece overviews everything from NSA's interception of FARC rebel communication... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Pakistan surprised the international community by releasing an updated version of the Pakistani government’s official estimate of civilian casualties caused by American drone strikes. The number is significantly lower than the figure that t... |
| Oct 28, 2013 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | Syria continues its cooperative streak. On Sunday, the country filed its initial plan to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal---three days ahead of schedule, no less---according to a statement released by the Organization for the Prohibitio... |
| Oct 14, 2013 | Snowden goes on video to further bash U.S. spying | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Edward Snowden has been laying low in Russia ever... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | Smashed Hard Drives, Shuttered Email Services, And The Slow Leak Of Free Speech | It can’t be easy defending the NSA’s surveillance efforts. The task continues to be made increasingly difficult by the myriad revelations that continue to spill from the treasure trove of information that Edward Snowden released to the worl... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | Why Ladar Levison Shuttered Encrypted Email Service Lavabit In The Face Of Government Pressure | Today Ladar Levison, owner of the now-shuttered Lavabit email service, spoke to Democracy Now about his decision to close his company and the government pressure that led to that choice. Along the way, he touched on Edward Snowden and the l... |
| Aug 6, 2013 | The NSA Leaks Put Our 'Methods' At Risk, But Bragging About Monitoring Al Qaeda Emails Doesn't? | Throughout the whole Snowden leaks, one thing we keep hearing from defenders of the NSA’s surveillance programs is how this is revealing “sources and methods” that we use to do surveillance on our [classified] enemies. Of course, what he ac... |
| Jun 14, 2013 | Former NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney: The NSA Is Making Itself Dysfunctional With Too Much Data | Former NSA whistleblower Bill Binney has been making the interview rounds in the wake of the NSA surveillance leaks, adding some useful context and history to some of the allegations. In one interview, with the Daily Caller, almost as an as... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | If PRISM Is Real, Why Are All These Tech Companies Denying Participation? | PRISM is real. Even the U.S. government now acknowledges its existence. The question that remains unanswered, though, is how involved Google, Apple, Yahoo, AOL, Paltalk and Facebook were. These companies are all named as “providers” on the ... |
| Jan 19, 2013 | Senator John Cornyn Wants Answers: Did U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Aim To ‘Make An Example’ Of Aaron Swartz? | It’s been one week since the death of Aaron Swartz, the prominent programmer and digital activist who took his own life as he was facing federal prosecution for computer fraud after he allegedly used the network at MIT to illegally download... |
| Dec 1, 2012 | P2P Lending & Education: CommonBond Launches With $3.5M, Joining SoFi In Quest To Solve The Student Debt Crisis | Piggy-backing on the recent launch (and massive funding) of SoFi, a new startup is launching today that wants to breathe some fresh air into the broken, complex and molasses-slow student loan system.
New York City-based CommonBond aims to b... |
| Sep 30, 2012 | How Technology Is Empowering Teachers, Minting Millionaires, And Improving Education | Thanks to the rise of in-classroom technology, the focus in education tends to be on student engagement and how to improve learning. It becomes easy to forget the importance of great teachers. Startups, entrepreneurs, businesses (and the re... |
| Sep 5, 2012 | The Six Names You Won't Hear at the Democratic National Convention | Joe Biden summed up the essence of Obama's reelection campaign months ago. "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." These duel sentiments will be showcased at the DNC over the next few days, the slightest glimmers of... |
| Apr 7, 2012 | America's Old Pal the Merchant of Death Gets 25 Years | Viktor Bout, an arms smuggler so infamous that he is frequently referred to as "The Merchant of Death," has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Manhattan court for charges of terrorism and conspiracy.
Before earning the omin... |
| Dec 11, 2010 | Letter From Canada: Why Is America So Furious About Wikileaks? | The most baffling thing about the Wikileaks Cablegate kerfuffle is the massive foot-shooting overreaction across the entire American political spectrum. Here in the rest of the world (okay, in Canada), we’ve already moved on, because (to da... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | WikiLeaks, Anonymous & the Unfolding Cyberwar, 11 Days In | It’s been 11 days since the first batch of U.S. diplomatic cables was released by the online organization WikiLeaks.
A lot has happened in those 11 days. Below is a recounting of the key events, issues and debates that have arisen. There’s ... |
| May 10, 2010 | Missouri’s Newsy Changes Journalism on the iPad | Jim Spencer spent the end of the 1990’s as an executive at NBC, AOL and Ask Jeeves when those were all viable media companies, before the dot-com crash. Now he’s taking on the iPad-media-era from an office across the street at his alma mate... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Creative Commons Scores One of Its Biggest Wins Ever: Democracy Now! | The Creative Commons Foundation announced today that award winning TV and radio news show Democracy Now! will now be distributed under a CC license. Democracy Now! is broadcast daily on more than 700 television and radio stations around the... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Fail: Social News on World Events, Like Cuba | Here’s a test for Web 2.0. Cuba’s Fidel Castro announced yesterday morning that he is resigning from his post as ruler of that communist country. What better way to celebrate the departure of an authoritarian dictator than to look at how th... |
| WHERE ARE THEY NOW: First kids of the United States | Children of US presidents are in the public eye almost as much as their parents.
Some first kids follow their parents into politics, while others steer clear of the limelight.
Many remain involved with their parents' foundations and preside... |
| Vanessa Nakate takes an African voice to Cop26 | Even limiting global temperature rises to 1.5°C would not be safe for many communities in Africa, Ugandan climate campaigner Vanessa Nakate told a rally of 100,000 fellow activists in Glasgow on 6 November.
“1.2C is already hell for us. It’... |
| If we don't waive vaccine patents, thousands of people will needlessly die | ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images
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| A return to Cold War levels of Pentagon funding would actually require reducing the US defense budget | President John F. Kennedy looks over the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie, June 26, 1963. Anonymous/AP
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