For the first time in military history, private-sector commercial data centers have been deliberately targeted and damaged in an active armed conflict, and it could mark the beginning of a dangerous new precedent.
13 May 2026 – The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, celebrates becoming a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), a multi-stakeholder initiative endorsed by the United Nations that promotes the discovery, development, and use of digital public goods (DPGs) — open-source software, dataset
School is done. What's next? Join the HIIG in Berlin for a Voluntary Year in Research (FJN) and experience what it means to work at a real research institute.
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Das neue Bayerische Zentrum für präventive Infektionsmedizin (BZI) wurde am 13. Mai 2026 feierlich in Würzburg eröffnet. Das landesweite und standortübergreifende Zentrum, das von der Universitätsmedizin Bayern e.V. maßgeblich mit vorangetrieben wurde, soll Forschung, Versorgung und Prävention im Bereich der Infektionsmedizin nachhaltig stärken.
Vind je het leuk te werken in een dynamische en internationale onderzoeks- en onderwijsomgeving? Ben je ondernemend met oog voor detail en beschik je over uitstekende organisatie- en communicatievaardigheden? Houd je van afwisseling en een breed pakket van taken en verantwoordelijkheden? Dan ben jij mogelijk de perfecte kandidaat om de nieuwe Coördinator Bedrijfsvoering te worden bij het IViR.
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Andrea Avezzù/Universität Ca' Foscari VenedigCondomini di carne e pudore: The Body in Italian Literature is an international doctoral seminar jointly organized by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Klagenfurt, bringing together scholars, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral candidates to explore representations of the body across literature, philosophy, media, memory studies, and contemporary culture.
Abu Huraira will join the department for one semester and support the faculty in teaching, research, and outreach activities. Find more about him in his short introduction below.
Abu Huraira, Erasmus+ Intern | Department of English and American Studies
Education: MA European Studies, BS International Relations.
RightsCon 2026, one of the biggest in-person convenings for digital rights, was de facto cancelled after Zambia’s government postponed it via public announcement, without prior communication with Access Now, the organizer of the event. With staff and some participants already on the ground in Lusaka, and others about to board their planes, this last-minute decision created chaos.
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From September on INC will be an autonomous entity, leaving the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences behind. This phase will present us with both challenges and exciting new opportunities. As INC will become an association with members, we are currently looking for 3 board members. The board will meet about 4 times a year to develop and monitor the association’s strategy.
Alongside the general board members, we are specifically looking for a:
Foto: aau/MüllerBrokenArm, a student team led by Nadezhda Varzonova, will compete in the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) from 2 to 4 June 2026. The Klagenfurt team enters the competition as one of the favourites after achieving the highest overall score in the qualification round.
Max, a young and ambitious researcher, travels to Svalbard, Norway, to speak at a conference on the ethics of mind enhancement. There, she discovers a high-tech experimental building powered by “Dual Resolve,” a system that harvests human body heat. As the conference unfolds, the warmth of bodies and the pressure of ideas begin to blur, pulling Max into a state of growing uncertainty where thought and sensation are no longer discernible.
In one of our very first AI Learning Labs projects, we are teaming up to explore how to design a chatbot that draws on reliable science and systemic social analysis
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In Art and the After-Culture, Ben Davis suggests that visual art in the age of the after-culture is increasingly diverging into three distinct tendencies.[1] Following his line of thought, I have tried to identify three corresponding artistic cases that resonate with these categories. Before rushing to define it, it might be more meaningful to first observe what is being recognized as art in our current context.
The German Network of Institutes for Digitalisation Research's annual meeting strengthens cross-institutional collaboration and cooperation.
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This Can’t be the Place: Alternative Theories of the Internet is the latest INC reader featuring a selection of INC Longform’s from the past five years. You can read it online, download it as a PDF, or order it for free at home.
How can we recognize, describe, and make use of symmetries—from nature to abstract mathematics?
Giant pandas are protected as global ‘natural heritage’ and as China’s ‘national treasure.’ Christof Lammer shows how, behind the spotlight on panda diplomacy, cultural ideas about kinship – and the genealogical, genetic, and behavioural measurements built on them – redirect species conservation.
Welche Folgen hat es für unsere Demokratie, wenn Parteien verstärkt über soziale Medien und Apps kommunizieren und Unterstützer mobilisieren? Diese Frage werfen Geographen der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg und der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in einer jüngst veröffentlichten Studie auf.
Digitaler Wandel erreicht die Parteizentralen