Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory? Two reporters from Zurich-based Das Magazin went data-gathering. On November 9 at around 8.30 AM., Michal Kosinski woke up in the Hotel Sunnehus in Zurich. The 34-year-old … Read more
What is SecureDrop? SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to accept documents from anonymous sources. It was originally coded by the late Aaron Swartz, with assistance from Wired editor Kevin Poulsen and James Dolan. The project was previously called DeadDrop. Freedom of the Press Foundation took over management of … Read more
Starting on the Global Summit in Korea in 2015, a group of volunteers and staff members started shaping what will became this new Global Network Strategy we are presenting today. After an intense discussion process, including in person meetings in May and in November of 2016, and several online meet ups, we ended up having … Read more
Open Technologies Alliance will apply to the 2017 Google Summer Code as mentor organization. We invite all interested student developers to join our effort and be part of our team. Please fill this form with the project you wish to participate, define your ideas and the expected outcome and be ready if our project approved … Read more
Summary: please help us to get the idea about the importance of Free Software as a condition for Open Science into the mind of stakeholders and decision-takers of the Horizon2020 program. You can do so by participating in the interim evaluation and re-using FSFE’s position paper. What came to my mind the first times that … Read more
Firefox is the only browser that answers only to you, our users; so all of us who work on Firefox spend a lot of effort making your browsing experience more private and secure. We update Firefox every 6 weeks, and every new change ships to you as fast as we can make and verify it. … Read more
Recently, the EU ministers responsible for research and innovation decided unanimously that by 2020, all results and scientific publications of publicly and publicly-private funded research must be freely available. This shall be ensured by the mandatory use of Open Access licenses that guarantee free access to publications. In addition “the data must be made accessible, … Read more
Chances are, you’ve used some sort of “sharing” service or technology recently. Maybe you’ve taken an Uber ride home from the airport, or rented out a loft from Airbnb for a weekend trip. Many people are saying that the sharing economy is the way of the future. It may indeed be disruptive, but is this … Read more
This article has been published at http://www.esa.int ESA is inviting teams of students who are 16 years old and younger to join the first European Astro Pi challenge and have their experiments run on the International Space Station! Take this opportunity to learn about science and coding, just like space scientists do! Deadline to submit … Read more
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Linux, we’ve released our seventh edition of the Linux Kernel Development Report. It analyzes the work done by over 13,500 developers since the kernel’s early days, as well as more recent trends. Key findings: Over 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel … Read more
