Inside the fight for Māori data sovereignty | The Spinoff
There's a place for tikanga everywhere, including online.
India Keeps Pulling the Plug on Its Digital Economy - WSJ
Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation
Open source alternative to gmaps
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...
I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) | The Nib
What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
Bias Optimizers | American Scientist
Alternatives to using genuine phone numbers, IP addresses, domain names and email addresses in your training and documentation - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded.
If you are preparing training or guidance, showcasing your product or service, or giving code samples, you'll often want an example phone
Recovering From “Rationalism” - Chronos’s Blog
For about five years, I was swept up into a cult-like ideology called “Rationalism”, via the writings of cult leader Eliezer Yudkowsky on his website Less Wrong. I'm ready to talk about it.
Elon Musk's SpaceX Mission Takes Flight in South Texas
Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks
Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
5 Indigenous engineering feats you should know about
For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have engineered our landscape. From an ochre mine to fish traps, here are five remarkable examples of First Nations technical know-how.
Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible
The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.
“the longing for a digital national champion” | MetaFilter
How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled A wild tale of state-corporate collusion in Germany's Fintech industry: The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a...
Ukraine suffered more data-wiping malware than anywhere, ever | Ars Technica
As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs.
How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome - Anil Dash
Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating eldercare | MIT Technology Review
The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened?
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? | MIT Technology Review
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by
Why the Age of American Progress Ended - The Atlantic
The real reason American progress has stalled
What went wrong? There are many answers, but one is that we have become too enthralled by the eureka myth and, more to the point, too inattentive to all the things that must follow a eureka moment. The U.S. has more Nobel Prizes for science than the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Canada, and Austria combined. But if there were a Nobel Prize for the deployment and widespread adoption of technology—even technology that we invented, even technology that’s not so new anymore—our legacy wouldn’t be so sterling. Americans invented the first nuclear reactor, the solar cell, and the microchip, but today, we’re well behind a variety of European and Asian countries in deploying and improving these technologies.