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After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the Institute around research data support, mostly through the collaboration of the Library and the Tech Hub.

A roundup of articles and information related to the billionaire owner of X's political activities since his endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...

MIT researchers find large language models apply different norms when deciding whether similar home surveillance videos show a crime and whether the police should be called. The models often recommend...

This Dispatch demonstrates how far-right extremists leveraged a range of mainstream and smaller ‘alt-tech’ social media platforms in the wake of the Southport attack to grow their following, promote h...

Dá pra fazer muita coisa legal quando plataformas digitais permitem que outras aplicações acessem seus dados

In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...

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O pesquisador Pedro Maia, utilizando o Influence Industry Explorer como base, discute as conexões entre as plataformas da Meta, as eleições presidenciais brasileiras de 2018 e 2022 e a democracia no B...

Researcher Pedro Maia relates, using the Influence Industry Explorer as a foundation, the role of Meta platforms during the 2018 and 2022 presidential elections in Brazil.