We invite researchers from around the world to take part in an essay competition, developing democratic visions of the future for the year 2050.
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20 maggio 2026 | CLAUDIO PAOLUCCI (Università di Bologna)
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Viele Anwendungen – ob in der Medizin, der Biotechnologie oder in der Landwirtschaft – erfordern die gezielte Abtötung unerwünschter Zellen. Denn diese Zellen können beispielsweise die Gesundheit gefährden, die Produktivität beeinträchtigen oder gewünschte biologische Prozesse stören. Die Herausforderung besteht jedoch darin, dies zu erreichen, ohne dabei andere Zellen zu beeinträchtigen.

JAKARTA — Indonesia officially enacted the Joint Decree (SKB) of Seven Ministers on Guidelines for the Use and Learning of Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across formal, non-formal, and informal education on March 12, 2026. The policy establishes a foundation for cross-sector coordination while ensuring that the use of technology aligns with child protection principles and the improvement of learning quality.

What testing commercial neurotech has taught us, and why these technologies require informed engagement now.
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As the war escalates, the digital battlefield is proving just as volatile as the physical one putting civilian lives directly in the line of fire. 

If you’ve ever wondered how platforms seem to know exactly where you came from, like prompting you to follow an account after watching a shared video, it’s probably due to ad trackers.

You’ve probably seen a link that looks normal at first, then keeps going: ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spring_sale. All that extra text after the ? is an ad tracker.

Le comité exécutif de la Ville de Montréal a entériné la nomination des 17 personnes qui se verront remettre, le 8 mai, les insignes de l’Ordre de Montréal. Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que Catherine Régis, chercheuse au CRDP, figure parmi elle et sera reçue officière.

Alison Grant, Canadian Ambassador to Austria, and Barbara Cullinane, Irish Ambassador to Austria, visited the University of Klagenfurt

How do climate change and artificial intelligence interact? How AI can help in the fight against climate change?
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As global conservation policy focuses primarily on the expansion of protected areas, one may ask if and how protected areas contribute to the conservation of endangered species and habitats. The usual way to answer this question in the context of conservation is to regularly survey, or monitor plants, animals and ecosystems.

Dunja Pucher successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “On the Stable Set and Graph Coloring Problems: Semidefinite Relaxations and a Quantum Annealing Approach” on April 27, 2026. 

The idea of using the entire internet as a basis for AI training data represents an unimaginable technical effort with questionable benefits for the quality of the respective models, yet there are developers of generative AI systems who claim to have done precisely that – naturally without asking permission of the rights holders of the media content used, let alone sharing any profits with them.