I remember scrolling the Instagram account @eyeonpalestine for months, and how you start to feel like when you stay there long enough and become doomed by a sensation, becoming a fog. The feeling is both physical and emotional. It’s like being somewhere after an explosion. You got blurry vision, your ears are buzzing.
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Since its emergence in 2022, ChatGPT became the gateway to global AI discourse, including in Indonesia. It was followed by a range of other AI-based applications with diverse functions—productivity, creativity, and even automation—requiring today’s society to become increasingly relevant and to adopt them into everyday life.
Yogyakarta (20/07/2026) – Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the defining forces shaping governance, creativity, and public life. As intelligent technologies increasingly influence how societies make decisions, produce knowledge, and imagine the future, the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL), Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, convened the Australia-Indonesia in Conversation (AIC) 2026 under the theme “Is AI the Game-Changer?
Die Bundesregierung plant ein Gesetz gegen digitale Gewalt, um Betroffenen die Durchsetzung ihrer Rechte im digitalen Raum zu erleichtern und Schutzlücken zu schließen. Wie groß ist das Problem, vor allem mit Hatespeech, aktuell aus Ihrer Sicht?
On June 1, 2026, in a ceremony in Tripoli, the Government of National Unity unveiled what it called a milestone for Libya’s digital future: the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026–2030, alongside a National Charter for AI Ethics.
aau/MüllerEmanuele Artioli wants to make video streaming better – with higher quality, greater personalisation, and more reliable playback even when network conditions are poor, such as on a train journey or in a remote location. One of his main research interests is using AI to identify which parts of a video genuinely matter to viewers – and should therefore be delivered in higher quality. He plans to complete his doctoral programme at the University of Klagenfurt in the autumn of 2026.
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Der Beitrag Ein Rückblick auf das 20. Internationale For..Net Symposium erschien zuerst auf bidt DE.
Paris, France, 22 July 2026 — This week, Paris hosts Wikimania 2026, the twenty-first edition of the flagship annual conference that celebrates Wikipedia, Wikimedia projects, and the global community of volunteers (Wikimedians) who make them possible.
On 6 and 7 July, IViR hosted the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI). Academics, practitioners, government representatives and others from all across the world, united by their interest in the various economic aspects of copyright, gathered at the Institute for Information Law for two content-packed days with a keynote address by Imke Reimers (Cornell University), more than twenty other high-quality paper presentations and numerous inspiring conversations.
Seit dem 6. Mai 2025 ist Dorothee Bär Bundesministerin für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In dieser Funktion hat sie am 16. Juli 2026 erstmals die Vollversammlung der IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt besucht und einen Gastvortrag gehalten.
Darin beschäftigte sie sich mit den Chancen, die Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt für die Region Mainfranken bieten. Passend zum Thema fand das Treffen im Missionskontrollzentrum der Universität Würzburg statt, das von Hakan Kayal, Professor für Raumfahrttechnik am Institut für Informatik, geleitet wird.
Die Forschungsstelle Historische Bildmedien der Universität Würzburg hat über die Jahre eine beachtliche Sammlung von Schulwandbildern aus Deutschland und anderen europäischen Ländern zusammengetragen. In ihren Räumen auf dem Campus Nord bewahrt sie mehr als 20.000 Stücke aus 150 Jahren Schulgeschichte auf. „Damit besitzen wir die größte Sammlung von Schulwandbildern in Europa“, sagt Dr.
Watch the full interview on Portulans’ Substack.
Bill Dutton, Co-President of the Portulans Institute, interviewed Mr. Shylesh (Shy) Muralidharan about his development of an AI tool to inform multiple stakeholders about the impact of data center developments.
Every time a new cybercrime law is introduced somewhere in the SWANA region, it is often explained using the same premise. Governments present these laws as necessary to fight hackers, protect national security, and curb online fraud. But upon a closer look at the law itself, and not the government’s statement around it, you notice that these laws often reach far beyond hacking, fraud, or other technical offenses.
Die Europäische Hochschulallianz CHARM-EU (Challenge-Driven, Accessible, Research-Based and Mobile European University), zu der auch die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) gehört, hat sich im Wettbewerb um eine Förderung im Erasmus+-Programm 2026 durchgesetzt. Die Europäische Kommission stellt der Allianz 7,2 Millionen Euro zur Verfügung, um ihre grenzübergreifende Zusammenarbeit bis 2028 weiter auszubauen.
Ralf TerlutterWith the participation of Prof. Dr Sandra Diehl, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, and Prof.
Ralf TerlutterWith the participation of Prof. Dr Sandra Diehl, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, and Prof.
The digital commons are under threat: with the advent of generative AI, bots have officially surpassed human traffic on the internet. Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation shared our concerns around drops in human traffic on Wikipedia.
Sonja BidmonAs part of the 24th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), which took place from 25 to 27 June 2026 at Pompeu Fabra University (Poblenou Campus) in Barcelona, Spain, researchers from all over the world exchanged views on this year’s conference theme, “Communicating Consumer Health and Wellbeing in the Digital Age”. The Research Group Marketing and International Management was also represented with several academic papers.
En un contexto marcado por la rápida adopción de la inteligencia artificial en organizaciones públicas y privadas, Matías Aránguiz y Sebastián Dueñas analizaron los desafíos jurídicos que plantea su implementación, el nuevo rol que deberán asumir los abogados y cómo el Diplomado en Derecho e Inteligencia Artificial UC busca formar profesionales capaces de enfrentar este escenario.
