We live on a planet where new technology seems to be working against the vast majority of humans living on this planet, rather than helping us to live better. This is sometimes called “singularity”, and Tristan Harris, a former Google ethics guru has now joined a public crusade so that tech companies “stop exploiting our …
A Prominent Bitcoin Promoter is Punished for Sharing the Satoshi Original Paper and Bitcoin Core Developers Surrender Sad day for freedom of speech in cryptography. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright has won a legal battle claiming copyright infringement on the part of bitcoin.org for hosting the Bitcoin original whitepaper. After censorship of Garcia paper …
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Charlie Hebdo has released a cartoon which has infuriated half of the British empire plus 5000 more fascists in Poland and 200 more crypto fascists.
With great sadness we are are remembering our colleague professor Val Curtis from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She left us on 19 October 2020. For a long time she was involved in the questions of hygiene and education in developing countries. In July 2020 she became famous when she has described in …
The attack allows the attacker to execute arbitrary code on another PC running Linux. The exploit is possible due to an extremely serious vulnerability in Bluetooth stack inside Linux. The attacker literally can run an application of his choice on the other PC. The exploit was found by Andy Nguyen, a security researcher at Google. …
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Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer and privacy rights advocate, has been fighting in courts since 2011 against Facebook and other abusive corporations whose business model is stealing our data and our lives and our businesses, against our will and against our interests, and to transform us into slaves and puppets, in a mass-surveillance based stalker …
There is a chance the the Internet will be completely transformed. One wind of change blows from blockchain tech community. Another from Communist China. Essentially all the technology we know, could disappear completely, and could be replaced by something completely different, a different set of protocols and systems. For decades the so called “Internet” was …
Today, Jo Grady, general secretary of my university trade Union (UCU) wrote these words to all academic staff who are members of the union: “we are asking you to withdraw, where possible, from activities relating to the REF […] […] These activities are important to employers but they damage our sector. They rely on inappropriate …
Exactly 30 years ago, Stasi was dissolved. 13 January 1990. 91,000 full time employees and 189,000 unofficial collaborators and informants lost their jobs and privileges. The German government has done a lot to preserve anything which Stasi has ever done. Some links: At this moment in Brussels, inside the EU Parliament there is an exposition on this …
George Soros decided in his old days to pick up a new fight. Let us be clear about who is George Soros. This man represents simultaneously what is the best and what is possibly the worst, inside our barely democratic Western pseudo-liberal but generally still rather free world (for now). Wisdom and great intelligence, great sensibility …