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Reset the Net Campaign

CTOvision

Fight for the Future , a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and Internet freedom, is spearheading an anti- National Security Agency protest on June 5 th to Reset the Net. Cyber Security Edward Snowden Fight for the Future National Security Agency New York Times NSA Reddit Wall Street Journal Washington Post' By ShannonPerry.

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Univ. of Washington set to break ground on 69-acre redevelopment to create Seattle innovation hub

GeekWire

An view from the south of the proposed green space expansion within the University of Washington’s planned Portage Bay Crossing development. to develop what it calls “knowledge communities.” An artist’s rendering of Brightwork, a new building planned for the UW’s Portage Bay Crossing development.

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Will Apple end the newsletter boom?

The Verge

Today, let’s talk about one of Apple’s many announcements this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference, which some see as a possible threat to the rise of journalism distributed by email. At the same time, email-based publishing has been of the few bright spots for journalism in recent years.

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What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?

Vox

So what, if anything, should the tech companies that are rapidly developing AI be doing to prevent their tools from being used to bombard the internet with hyperrealistic misinformation? “We Now we’re going to see the other end of this equation.”

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It’s getting harder for people to believe that Facebook is a net good for society

Vox

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Germany in 2020. Already, the Journal’s reporting has prompted consequences for Facebook: A bipartisan Senate committee is investigating Instagram’s impact on teenagers, and a group of legislators led by Sen. Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Hichert is a director of the Southern African node of the Millennium Project and helped organize the first African Futures Conference. Her Foresight for Development profile profile reveals one of her favorite quotes: “If you don’t create your future, the others will do, according to their own agenda.”. Zanelle Njapha. Location: Kenya.

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How effective altruism let Sam Bankman-Fried happen

Vox

I thought Bankman-Fried was going to commit billions toward tremendously beneficial causes, a development I chronicled in a long piece earlier this year on how EA was coping with its sudden influx of billions. Journalism, as an industry, is struggling badly. Maybe the problem was a theory of change that involved billionaires at all.

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