67 open technology projects awarded NGI grants

5 days 19 hours ago
The NLnet Foundation announced 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet initiative, covering an entire technology stack from trustworthy open hardware,…
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【オンライン講演】地域紙は人結ぶハブ 大船渡 2つの被災から 「元に戻る力」信じて「東海新報」社長が語る=北海道支部

5 days 19 hours ago
         地域紙の役割などについてオンラインで語る鈴木英里さん JCJ北海道支部は、東日本大震災で被災した岩手県大船渡市の地域紙「東海新報」の鈴木英里社長による講演会「大船渡の地元紙が伝えてきたこと」を4月25日、札幌市内で開いた。記者でもある鈴木さんは、15年前の震災と昨年の大規模山林火災という二つの被災の取材経験を踏まえ「地域から求められるメディア」像を語った。 鈴木さんは5日前の三陸沖を震源とする地震で「北海道・三陸沖後発地震注意情報」が発表されたため地元を離れ..
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Joint statement: AI-accelerated warfare must stop

6 days 1 hour ago
AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks…
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Weekly Report: 複数のCheck Point Software Technologies製品のVPNおよびモバイルアクセスに認証バイパスの脆弱性

6 days 11 hours ago
複数のCheck Point Software Technologies製品のVPNおよびモバイルアクセスには、認証バイパスの脆弱性があります。Check Point Software Technologiesによると、今回修正された脆弱性が悪用された可能性があるとのことです。この問題は、当該製品を修正済みのバージョンに更新することで解決します。詳細は、開発者が提供する情報を参照してください。

Onward, Friends

6 days 16 hours ago

After 26 years, today is my last day at EFF. It's been a terrific and wild ride — the organization has grown from a tiny band of fighty people trying to plant a flag for freedom and justice in the coming digital world into a large, established band of fighty people doing, well, much the same. The world around us has changed enormously. Our core values haven't budged.

I'm proud of what we've achieved: freeing encryption, defending coders, pushing to rein in government and corporate surveillance and ensure the right to have a private conversation online, standing up for free speech and anonymous speech, fighting for network neutrality and safe voting machines, busting stupid patents, and making sure copyright didn't become the one law that rules the internet. That's only the start. We've stopped more bad legislative, regulatory, and legal ideas than I can count, built tools that millions rely on to protect their privacy, and helped encrypt the web. I've long said EFF is the plumber of the internet — finding the clogs and barriers that prevent technology from serving freedom, justice, and innovation for everyone.  

In addition to presenting cases in courts across the land, testifying in Congress and in California, in the European Parliament and at the United Nations, I went onto the internet with Stephen Colbert and engaged in a healthy disagreement with Jon Stewart.  I wrote a lot of it down in a book, hoping to recruit others to the cause.  The work has been hard and often frustrating at times.  But looking back, the fun parts are what I remember most.   

None of it would have been possible without EFF’s stalwart members. More than 30,000 people, some with big wallets and some with small ones, give us what we need to stand up to bullies and fight for the long haul. EFF has always served as a beacon for people who know that for technology to support freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world, we need a dedicated band of folks working overtime on behalf of users, innovators, and creators. 

There's still plenty left to do. We haven't killed the third-party doctrine, tamed the surveillance business model, or gotten metadata the constitutional protection it deserves. Stupid patents persist as does the overreach of DMCA section 1201 and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The government is now the largest purchaser of data from shady brokers, communities everywhere are fighting license plate readers and other street-level surveillance, and we haven't reined in NSA and FBI spying nearly enough. Meanwhile, the rise of AI is supercharging problems we've fought against for years. 

But I'm proud of what we've built together. I'm grateful to every EFFer — past, present, and future — who threw in with us when the odds were long and the pay was much better elsewhere. I'm grateful to the EFF Board and especially to my mentors and friends Pam Samuelson and Shari Steele, along with my longtime partner in justice, Lee Tien, who has been working with me since the Bernstein case. Fighting for justice is easier when you have a posse: coworkers, co-counsel, coalitions, interns, volunteers, and the heroic clients who trusted us to steward their cases in ways that bent the law toward everyone's benefit. Twenty-six years later, EFF is part of a global diaspora of organizations defending internet freedom — and I'm proud of that too. 

I'm stepping down because good leaders should make way for new ones, and the time feels right. EFF is strong and full of fight. My successor Nicole Ozer — a longtime friend and collaborator — is exactly the right person for this moment. She understands EFF's role and values at a deep level and will protect them while helping the organization rise to meet what's coming. 

As for me, I'm not going far. After a few months off to reflect and walk dogs, I plan to get back into the fight for justice — likely heading back into the courtroom. And I'll be watching, cheering, donating, and wearing the merch from EFF, just like the rest of you.

Cindy Cohn

【焦点】核のごみ処分地候補 南鳥島に「6つの難題」 安全な処分法 未来世代に 原子力資料情報室研究員の高野聡氏に聞く=橋詰雅博

6 days 19 hours ago
 原発から出る高レベル放射性廃棄物(核のごみ)の地層処分地として東京都小笠原村の南鳥島が新たに選定され、第一段階の文献調査が始まった。2020年に文献調査を受け入れた北海道の寿都(すっつ)町と神恵内(かもえない)村、24年の佐賀県玄海町はいずれも自治体が手を挙げたが、南鳥島は国が自治体に調査を申し入れ渋谷正昭村長が容認した国主導による初のケース。火山や地震がない太平洋プレート上にのるこの島は、地層処分の最も有力候補地と複数の地質学専門家が挙げていた。南鳥島の課題は何か。北海道..
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