For the past few weeks I’ve been sharing my photos on Unsplash so they can be reused under a public-domain license. And yesterday I reached a small personal highlight: one of my images actually made it onto the Spanish MSN site! Yes, that MSN from Microsoft—the one that used to be the Internet Explorer homepage—I honestly didn’t even know it still existed! If you understand Spanish, you can read the article at hier. ...
Although Randy Bias’s article, titled “Avoiding a Geopolitical Open Source Apocalypse”, is a bit dated — it was published in October 2024 — it remains relevant. The piece appears on thenewstack.io and provides useful food for thought about cooperation between East and West for a shared, secure open-source ecosystem. Some think that open source software is generally more secure, but is it? Open source software mainly made in the West has well-documented security issues of its own, due in part to its heavy reliance on overworked and volunteer maintainers. Securing open source software requires time, energy and diligence. Unfortunately, many projects are very thinly resourced and lack the expertise required to look for security risks diligently. ...
Jeffrey Dastin writes in »AI with reasoning power will be less predictable, Ilya Sutskever says« for reuters.com The more a system reasons, the more unpredictable it becomes. — Ilya Sutskever The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is an international organization committed to ensuring that the web works for everyone—not just today, but in the future as well—through clear standards and guidelines that safeguard growth and interoperability. In their statement »Ethical Web Principles« they really put it succinctly: the web should be for everyone. The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore consider the consequences of our work. The following document sets out ethical principles that will drive W3C’s continuing work in this direction. ...
The article »TIME 2024 Person of the Year« by Eric Cortellessa on time.com clearly illustrates how absurd the notion is that Donald Trump could become President of the United States again. Trump has vowed to seek retribution against his political enemies—saying the likes of Biden, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, special counsel Jack Smith, and others would face investigation and potential prosecution. Trump was coy in his interview with TIME about whether his DOJ will target his domestic political adversaries, saying only that the decision will be left to Bondi if she’s confirmed. “That’s up to her,” he says. Either way, his victory spells the end of federal prosecutions that charged him with crimes ranging from election subversion to willfully retaining classified documents. ...