Original Internet Tech & Culture

This paper explores three key phases of “Digital Public Infrastructure” (DPI) development—from openness through consolidation to localization.

The [Windsurf Editor](https://codeium.com/windsurf) is Codeium's highly regarded entrant into the fork-of-VS-code AI-enhanced IDE model first pioneered by [Cursor](https://www.cursor.com/) (and by VS Code itself). I heard online that it had a …

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmental...

At long last, my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is officially available from Anthology Editions for pre-order here! Sadly, despite publishing many gorgeous books, th…

A print and digital magazine coming soon.

XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.

Probabilistic generalizations based on internet content are not steps toward algorithmic moral personhood, write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.

A port of DOOM for a quantum computer. Contribute to Lumorti/Quandoom development by creating an account on GitHub.

The symbiosis of humans and technology portends a new AIxial Age.

a synchronized global capslock key

Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as a tech hero.

BLE mesh for nostr notes when the internet is down - KoalaSat/samiz

Data protection as we have known it for the past 25 years has failed. We have lost control over our personal data. We are of course responsible of this situation. We accept using services that are designed to provide us comfort through processing and reselling our personal data that we fail to value...

Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

Street Artists and hackers unite!

How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

Yet again, Earth passed the arbitrary point of it's orbit around the sun. But every day is good moment for introspection, and every second is the right time to change something we don't like about ourselves.

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was commissioned by then Conversation technology editor Michael Parker (now director of operations) to write an in-...

The audience holds their breath in unison, and when the music turns emotional, everyone sits perfectly still together. These are the initial findings from the world's largest music experiment.

Nicolas Nova, auteur et chercheur spécialisé en anthropologie numérique, est décédé ce mardi 31 décembre 2024, à l’âge de 47 ans, des suites d’un arrêt cardiaque. En voyage au Moyen-Orient au moment de son déc&egr...

While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s Office post, which criticized Google’s decision to introduce device fingerprinting for advertising pu...

This study discusses the current state of affairs in the theoretical aspects and physical implementation of quantum computing, with a focus on applications in cryptanalysis. It is designed to be an orientation for scientists with a connection to one of the fields involved—such as mathematicians, com...

Qwant, France's privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and

Visit this link to see the note. Giving the URL to anyone allows them to access the note, too.

Cooperation worked better for ants than for humans in a Weizmann Institute experiment

In The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law.

Digital fingerprinting is suddenly back and it will be everywhere—here's what you need to know.