A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age
Varsha Bansal / Rest of World : Tweets: @xor , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , @restofworld , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @dlberes , @raju , @varshaabansal , and @restofworld Tweets: Parker Higgins / @xo...
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations
especially highlighting web pages that were part of IO campaigns (h/t @Graphika_NYC). Integrating context like this around the internet helps ensure public debate is resilient, authentic, and informed...
Most of Scots Wikipedia appears to be written by an American attempting a Scottish accent, not Scots, Scotland's official language; the user has 23K+ articles
not the Scots language—with misspellings to imitate a Scottish accent. https://www.vice.com/... Evan Greer / @evan_greer : Tbh it's just nice to know the internet can still be weird https://twitter.co...
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy's Shorenstein Center, where I am the director … Tweets: @aaronwall , @thedailybeast , @wrklsshrd ,...
Imagining the future where regulations of social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism, or disinformation, and only made the platforms stronger
The way we regulated social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism or disinformation. It only gave them more power and made the problem worse. Tweets: @javierpallero , @dangillmor , @xor , ...
Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers to a GitHub page where developers protest “996” work culture
Filters block access to words … Tweets: @realnewschina : GitHub isn't just an online platform for programmers around the world to share their code. In China, it's also a place where sleep-deprived tec...
Adobe is shutting down Storify's standalone service on May 16, 2018, with new signups halted today
Storify is an online service that lets … Facebook: Xavier Damman : Storify is no more. Adobe is finally pulling the plug. Tweets: Josh Stearns / @jcstearns : For almost two years I tracked more than ...
Malware attack raises concern that the NSA has lost control over cyberweapons they developed, and that damage from the Shadow Brokers leaks could be much worse
Twice in the past month, National Security Agency cyberweapons stolen from its arsenal have been turned against two very different partners … Tweets: @xor , @counternotions , @privacyint , @nicoleperl...