A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.

Economic anxiety and geopolitical tensions may be dampening Canadian support for climate action. A recent poll found that 61% think energy policies should prioritize economic growth over environmental...

别再造金水管去修马桶了

No more golden toilet pipes, please 

DWeb Camp is happening this year July 8th - 12th in Alte Holle, about an hour and a half drive outside of Berlin, Germany. Yes, there's actual camping! Are you part of the atproto community or interested in learning more, and planning to attend? Let us know you're coming by RSVP'ing, and get involved in coordinating in the community forum. DWeb Camp has lots of unconference spaces and time, we can bring many of our beloved stickers, and share what we're building. Note as well that Local-First Conf https://www.localfirstconf.com/ is right after, and after THAT we're considering a July 15th one day hack session in Berlin Community Forum coordination https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/coordinating-around-dweb-camp-local-first-conf-and-possible-atproto-hack-day/847

How AI Can, And Can't, Cure Cancer

What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat o...

And this is already affecting the world, regardless of whether or not AI ever actually is.

Children And Families In Gaza Are Facing Hunger, Disease and Fear. Make a MATCHED donation to help UNICEF stay and deliver.

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.

Web search is a crucial technology for the digital economy. Dominated by a few gatekeepers focused on commercial success, however, web publishers have to optimize their content for these gatekeepers,...

The control, governance, and management of the web have become increasingly centralised, resulting in security, privacy, and censorship concerns. Decentralised initiatives have emerged to address thes...

If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would yo...

The co-op board has made a motion to empower the Tech Ops Working Group to move services to fully Canadian owned businesses. We’re going to collect research and share other progress in public here ...

As you probably know, Leigh (locally known as "Skate Leigh") loves carving up the… Wesley Finck needs your support for Skate Leigh's Hip Surgery Recovery Fund

This is the abstract and introduction of our new paper. We show that finetuning state-of-the-art LLMs on a narrow task, such as writing vulnerable co…

As you probably know, Leigh (locally known as "Skate Leigh") loves carving up the… Wesley Finck needs your support for Skate Leigh's Hip Surgery Recovery Fund

RightsCon(https://www.rightscon.org), the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age is happening in Taipei from February 24–27. Whether you’re…