Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting
Social Media Posts Could Block Your Entry Jennifer Hansler / CNN : State Department orders embassies to pause new student visa appointments as it moves to expand social media vetting Ed Morrissey / Ho...
Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it
apnews.com/article/irs-... Representative Seth Magaziner / @magaziner.house.gov : So instead of using technology to make government more efficient, DOGE is canceling technology to make big corporation...
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard via an independent Washington-based foundation
- Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition — Blacklisted company's role kept private by DC-based group Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . X: @retogregori Bluesky: Mary Branscombe / @...
The Brookings Institution: from 2008 to 2021, Chinese companies accounted for 201 facial recognition tech export deals, followed by US companies with 128 deals
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @willknight Tweets: @wired : According to a study by academics at Harvard and MIT, China is the world leader in exporting face recognition. Experts fear what ...
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, others back Harvard and MIT's suit against ICE directive that will send international students home if classes are online
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Harvard study: community-owned broadband prices are up to 50% cheaper than lowest-cost services offered by private ISPs, are more transparent and less confusing
A new study out of Harvard once again makes it clear why incumbent ISPs like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T are so terrified by the idea … Tweets: @greenawakening , @jason_kint , and @leolaporte Tweets: Sa...
Study: after switching exclusively to HTTPS, Wikipedia saw fewer instances of government censorship
Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. — “Knowledge is power,” as the old saying goes …
Study: after switching exclusively to HTTPS, Wikipedia saw fewer instances of government censorship
Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. — “Knowledge is power,” as the old saying goes …