Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival! A significant step towards decentralizing big-tech social media. Reports suggest that Meta is working on an ActivityPub protocol-based platform, under the Instagram brand (codenamed ‘P92’), for sharing text updates. Decentralized, federated, open social networks provide a robust alternative to big-tech networks. Wouldn’t it be wonderful…

Jack Dorsey-backed open source and federated Twitter alternative, Bluesky, is now available in the App Store. Bluesky, the decentralized open source project that originated within Twitter, is available on the Apple App Store as an invite-only social network. Last year, Bluesky was spun off as a separate company, noting that…

There is a lot of chatter in the tech industry around ChatGPT creating code and what it means to the developer. Will it make them more productive, or will it replace them? Look at the big picture. Many experiences will be reinvented through generative and higher-degree conversational AI. This is…

Elon Musk recently announced that Twitter would share ad revenue with content creators on the platform. This is a very interesting development and a step in the positive direction. Twitter has long been seen as a short-text social platform. However, content creation on Twitter has scaled over the years across…

AI-generated artwork wins the top prize in a U.S. art competition! Jason Allen’s “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” or ‘Space Opera Theater’ won the top prize at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition in the “digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography” category. While the category allowed digital art, this issue has ignited fierce debate…

The haunting images of Afghans falling off a US evacuation plane, and babies handed across barbed wires to strangers in search of hope, foretell another humanitarian crisis unfolding. Afghanistan is the third-largest source-nation for refugees, with Syria and Venezuela leading the list. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)…

Open Source Intelligence has played a pivotal role in key events like tracing Covid-19 origins, MH17 downing, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Myanmar refugee crisis. Approximately 500 million tweets are published every day, totaling over 200 billion posts in a year. Facebook users upload 350 million photos per day…

The U.S. Department of Justice repatriated an additional $452 million in 1MDB funds to Malaysia. This repatriation took the total amount recovered from the corruption scandal to $1.2 billion. The funds had been laundered through major financial institutions worldwide, including in the United States, Switzerland, Singapore, and Luxembourg. While there…

Amazon was recently fined $886 million for EU data privacy. The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the fine on Amazon Europe in a July 16 decision, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing. Amazon further stated that they strongly disagree with the CNPD’s ruling, and intended to…