Since the beginning of the war, people around the world have been trying to help the Ukrainian refugees and cause. For those with investigative skills like Aeden, that means using their time and efforts to analyze material posted on the web by Ukrainians to document possible war crimes and confirm their exact location.
Skills gained from the January 6 uprising in the US and subsequent efforts to find online rioters were transformed into online rioters using similar skills during the war. in Ukraine. But whether that effort will actually lead to admissible evidence to prosecute potential war criminals remains unclear, especially without a universal system for classifying the flood of evidence. arrive. Read full story.
—Tanya Basu
Things to read
I’ve scoured the internet to find you today’s most interesting/important/scary/fascinating stories about tech.
1 Pfizer is applying for FDA emergency authorization for fourth covid scans
Only for over 65 years old, now. (Politico)
Wastewater monitoring shows infections are on the rise again in many parts of the US. (Bloomberg $)
Vaccine supplies are finally reaching Africa, but it’s a logistical nightmare tracking who gets what when. (NYT $)
New Zealand will reopen to fully vaccinated travelers next month. (Guardians)
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine appears to be more effective than previously thought. (NYT $)
2 Inside Ukraine’s 300,000-strong volunteer hacker army
It sounds impressive, but it’s hard to measure the true impact of the group. (Guardians)
+ It brought down prominent Russian websites. (New Scientist $)
But the propaganda war overshadowed the cyber war in Ukraine. (CHILDREN)
+ Digital repression has been on the rise in Russia for years now. (American Science $)
3 This will be the ideal time for electric vehicles
But the industry is not yet ready to take advantage. (Wired)
4 OpenAI’s New Encryption Program Is Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws
This can help us automate boring tasks in life. But it can also cause the Internet to fail. (Wired $)
+ FTC has a new enforcement mechanism: algorithmic destruction. (Protocol)
5 Swiss cartographers are manually wiping out the glaciers in the Alps ️
This must be an anxiety-provoking job. (NYT $)
6 Ways Amazon Traps You Into Prime
There’s an undercurrent of crap at work from the moment you sign up. (Insiders $)
El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is falling apart
This was a slow-motion car crash from the start. (The rest of the world)
+ The crypto scene seems chaotic. (Guardians)
8 Interest in the metaverse and NFTs is falling apart
That level of hype will never be sustainable. (Forbes)
+ Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing with the plan to bring NFT to Instagram. (Engadget)
9 Hours of Daylight Saving Could Be Permanent in the US ️
The proposal received a rare unanimous vote from senators yesterday. (Ars Technica)
10 An American astronaut broke the record for the longest time in space
Mark Vande Hei has been on the International Space Station since April 2021. (Cnet)
“Controlling the information flow of populations from day one, such as China or North Korea. It’s another way to give them access to Western culture and internet freedom and… then take it away. ”
—Graham Shellenberger, global group director at Miburo Solutions, which monitors online extremism, told Financial Times Why we shouldn’t underestimate the anger that suddenly losing access to platforms like Instagram can cause in Russia.
We can still have good things
A place for comfort, fun and distraction during these strange times. (Any comments? Drop me a line or tweet ’em with me.)
+ Like this insight into the way David Byrne wrote the lyrics.
+ We have a The ship is stuck! It’s a bland imitation of its predecessor, but anyway I can’t pretend I’m not a little nervous. Especially since the ship is called “Ever Forward.”
+ A beautiful wood bridge in China.
+ Technology, a miracle. Until it stop working.
+ This one flower looks like it belongs to another world.
+ I really want to know this place bird-based war in Japan the next escalation.
+ This yacht version Swan Lake is the coolest thing I’ve ever clapped.
+ If you are celebrating Easter, this is the place to find culinary inspiration.
