Concerned about the militarization of law enforcement, a source within the intelligence community has provided The Intercept with a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies.
Le capitalisme enfante des monstres.
Après de longues années d'administration de la monnaie durant les années Kirchner, la Banque centrale a décidé de laisser flotter le peso.
As part of it's 25th Anniversary celebrations, EFF is releasing “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the Electronic Frontier,” an anthology of speculative fiction from more than 20 authors.
Microsoft renews its push to get Windows 7 and 8.1 users to upgrade to its latest OS - but it seems the company may just be getting a bit too pushy with its approach.
Jody Sofia borrowed $92,500 to get a degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. Now she’s in default, her outstanding balance having ballooned to almost $144,000, and she spends her days fielding calls from government-contracted debt collectors.
"Stay in the present because there's no future: the government sold it to the highest bidder"
A useful list of video tutorials.
GNU/Linux has infamously been wanting for a good, solid, professional-level free video editor for years. There have been glimpses of hope here and there, but mostly the editors that have the look and feel of a professional application are prone to blockbuster-worthy crashes, and those that have been stable have mostly been stable because they don't actually do anything beyond very basic editing. Kdenlive changes all of that.
Remember CISA? The "Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act"? It's getting much, much worse, with Congress and the administration looking to ram it through -- in the process, dropping any pretense that it's not a surveillance...
In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment. An expert player discovers that the line between games and reality is starting to fade away. 3DAR’s latest short film explores the frightening potential of our next technological revolution.
NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
Collabora Productivity has partnered with ownCloud to bring online LibreOffice to users
“Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.”
Implicit in this: You can do more good operating outside the bounds of capitalism than within them. Coming from folks who are at the upper echelons of the system, it’s a pretty powerful statement.
Great! Didn't know discourse was opensource. Gotta give a try.
We will create a self-hosted device with Western Digital hardware and ownCloud software, to be made available for on-line purchase in early 2016.
Jim Salter addresses concerns about FOSS in an open letter to parents.