In recent days, a public dispute has laid bare tensions between AI companies and the US military over who decides how the AI is used. The US Department of Defense cancelled Anthropic’s AI agent Claude and instead struck a deal with OpenAI. Where constitutional protection is limited to domestic surveillance, the rest of the world becomes a legitimate target of AI-enabled mass surveillance. AI-enabled surveillance is no longer science fiction.

Citing “exceptional circumstances” amid ongoing war and the forced displacement of more than 700,000 people, Lebanon’s government approved a decision on Thursday, March 5, 2026, to expand eligibility for Starlink satellite internet services and delegated new licensing authority to the telecommunications minister.

Musik ist bekanntlich Geschmackssache und für jeden Geschmack gibt es das passende Genre: Von populären Musikrichtungen wie Pop und Rock bis hin zu Nischen-Musik wie Deathstep, das den elektronischen Klang von Dubstep in eine Metal-Ästhetik verpackt. Ein im Mittelalter bekanntes Genre sind Tropen. Das sind eingeschobene Texte und Melodien, die in gregorianischen Chorälen vorkamen.

Open Technology Research (OTR) is entering one of its most important phases: shaping a shared research agenda that will guide our collective work over the next two years and beyond.
The post Shaping a Shared Research Agenda for Open Technology Research first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

A real case of an AI agent publishing a smear piece raises new legal questions about responsibility and digital identity.
The post The bot that bit back: AI agents, defamation and the digital construction of identity appeared first on HIIG.

© aau/Tischler-BanfieldClimate change is bringing rising temperatures and more frequent extreme heatwaves, with consequences at many levels. Over the next three years, Antonio Piolanti, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Klagenfurt’s Department of Health Psychology, will explore how extreme ambient temperatures may contribute to violence against women in intimate relationships and to child maltreatment.

Beirut, March 9, 2026 — Israel has displaced more than half a million Lebanese residents from South Lebanon, Beirut, and the Beqaa in yet another round of indiscriminate bombing of the country, provoking another severe humanitarian crisis. 

25 marzo 2026 | PRATYUSH NATH UPRETI (Queen's University Belfast)
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Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) und das Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) der Universität Würzburg haben am 9. März 2026 das Datenportal EO4CAM (Earth Observation Laboratory for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation) freigeschaltet.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence « Le déclin du « Législateur » ? Une mise en perspective de la Convention citoyenne sur la fin de vie en France ». Elle sera présentée par le professeur Jacques Commaille.
 
Date : Mercredi 1er avril 2026,
Heure : 16h30-18h
Lieu : Salon François-Chevrette (A-3464) + Zoom

Valuable works of art and historical documents are kept in secure locations that the general public can access only under certain conditions — if at all. If digital images capture what we consider essential about an object, it is often sufficient to view the copy. As is expected in democratic societies, access to these images should be as unobstructed as possible. Open access is the keyword here. Additionally, digital processing goes beyond mere reproduction, creating entirely new possibilities for access and potentially breaking down barriers to reception.

After more than 20 years of service, the INC mailing list facility listcultures.org was closed on 9 March 2026. This step is part of INC’s transition out of the polytech and toward becoming an independent organization: INC 2.0.
Over the past months we archived the 20 mailing lists; most are now closed, while some will continue elsewhere. If you’d like to take a trip down memory lane, you can explore the archived Mailman lists here: https://www.networkcultures.org/archives.

Cultural participation, including in literature, is a human right. Access to cultural assets and works of art, which can be individually enriching and shape our society, should be open to as many people as possible. ‘Access’ means, on the one hand, experiencing the essential aspects of a work through the senses, and, on the other hand, having the opportunity to understand it. However, sophisticated written language is an obstacle for many people when it comes to literature.

aau/MüllerDaniel Brosch, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Klagenfurt, is looking into some of the toughest open questions in discrete mathematics. For his research, he recently received a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will take him to the world’s northernmost university in Norway for two years.

In the thirteenth episode, we address the topic of trust. Trust has long been a buzzword in German digital policy, which is hardly surprising. After all, new data intermediaries designed to promote data exchange in business, science, and society will only be successful in the long term if people trust them. So what does trust mean in the context of digitalization and data sharing, and how can new data services create new reasons for trust?

Max van Drunen wordt geciteerd door Nieuwsuur in een artikel waarin hij reageert op onderzoek van de UvA over politieke advertenties op Facebook en Instagram.
The post “Meta’s verbod op politieke reclame werkt niet, partijen adverteren gewoon door” appeared first on IVIR.

Europe’s courts are busy with rightsholders' challenges to AI giants – but there's little prospect of clarity on IP use soon. João Pedro Quintais was interviewed for this Euractiv piece.
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Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

The Crypto Holding Period – Germany’s Most Unnecessary Tax Privilege

By Co-Pierre Georg

10 March 2026

Almost two thirds of all private crypto gains in Germany remain tax-free – an almost unique special path in Europe. Four reform models show how the crypto gap could be closed – with additional revenues of up to 11.4 billion euros for 2024 alone.