When Technology Policy Defends Human Dignity

In late August, Italy took a decisive step to protect women from one of the most insidious forms of online abuse: the non‑consensual sharing of intimate or misappropriated images. After years of complaints, activism, and public outrage, a notorious website — home to thousands of stolen photos of women, from ordinary citizens to public figures — was forced offline following a wave of legal and political pressure.

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The NYPD’s $3B “Domain Awareness System” isn’t just a New York problem—it’s a warning for every American

In her September 15, 2025, New York Times opinion piece, Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez lays bare a reality too many Americans have ignored: the New York Police Department has quietly built one of the most expansive, integrated surveillance systems in the nation’s history.

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Inbox, Meet AI: How I Built My Personal Email Agent with LangGraph

Imagine having an assistant who never sleeps, never forgets, and always keeps an open line of communication with you. No fancy apps, no constant prompting—just a simple inbox. That’s the beauty of an email-based AI agent. By giving my AI its own email address and letting it regularly check for messages, I suddenly had a flexible, asynchronous way to collaborate with it.

Whenever I need something—summarize a long document, draft a reply, add a task to my list—I don’t have to open a special dashboard or remember a new command syntax. I just send an email. Hours later, I can check...

GNUnet 0.25.0

GNUnet 0.25.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.25.0.
GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

This is a new major release. Major...

libgnunetchat 0.6.0

libgnunetchat 0.6.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of libgnunetchat 0.6.0.
This is a minor new release bringing compatibility with the major changes in latest GNUnet release 0.25.0. A few API updates and fixes are included. Additionally the messaging client applications using libgnunetchat got updated to stay compatible. This release will also require the GNUnet services from version 0.25.0 or later because of that.

Amazon S3 Vectors: A Cost-Effective Revolution for AI Applications and Agents

Amazon S3 Vectors is a new feature of Amazon S3 that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at scale. This innovative addition transforms S3 into an AI-ready storage solution, offering a cost-optimized approach for building AI applications, AI agents, and semantic search capabilities. By significantly reducing the costs associated with vector storage and querying, S3 Vectors democratizes access to large-scale vector datasets, empowering developers to create more intelligent and context-aware AI solutions. This blog post will delve into the capabilities of Amazon S3 Vectors, exploring its benefits, use cases, and potential impact on the broader vector database landscape.

Звуковые эффекты на ZX Spectrum: AYFXEdit и BeepFX

Расскажу, как устроены и реализуются звуковые эффекты в рамках примитивных возможностей 8-битных машин на примере нашего народно любимого ZX Spectrum, для которого я сделал несколько соответствующих редакторов и наборов процедур, для бипера и для звукового чипа AY-3-8910.

LabWeek Web3 Returns — See You in Buenos Aires This November

Join us Nov. 13-19, 2025, in Buenos Aires for a decentralized conference focused on advancing digital human rights and driving real-world applications.

When Half My Blog Readers Turned Out to Be Bots

It’s funny how sometimes the smallest corner of the internet can give you a glimpse into much larger changes at work. My blog is tiny — so tiny, in fact, that I sometimes wonder if it even deserves to be called a “blog.” It’s more like a digital notebook, a space where I publish stray thoughts, reflections, and small experiments. I don’t optimize it for search engines. I don’t run ads. I don’t promote it on social media. It exists almost in defiance of the hyper-optimized web: a quiet island in a stormy sea.

And yet, even here, in this quiet...

The Death of Social Media is the Renaissance of RSS

The Flood of Artificial Content

Social media was once hailed as the great democratizer of information. It promised a world where anyone could share their voice, connect with like-minded communities, and discover authentic human perspectives. But in 2025, the landscape looks very different. Social platforms are drowning in a flood of Generative AI (GenAI) content—articles, images, videos, and even entire conversations churned out at industrial scale. The result is a noisy ocean of sameness, where genuine human voices struggle to be heard.

For years, one could track the slow decline of social platforms: from algorithmic manipulation and advertising overload, to bot armies,...