The recent surge in NFT coverage in tyhe technology and financial press was typified by the story of an early NFT auction in which an investor paid $2.9m for an NFT linked to Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever Tweet on the platform. This, it was claimed, was an example of how new value could […]
Despite claiming in a recent interview that “technically” he could afford to purchase Twitter personally, Musk has chosen instead to fund the $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover with $21bn of his own money plus debt structures. The threatened poison pill response from the Twitter board appears to have been ineffective in the light of threatened legal action […]
View this email in your browser Spring Issue: 2022 In this issue … AI & Facial Recognition in the News – Jim Hendler Privacy and the Individual – Kieron O’Hara In Conversation with Bill Thompson Recent Publications Upcoming events – WebSci’22 AI & Facial Recognition in the News Jim Hendler Jim Hendler, a long-time WST […]
In this talk, Jennifer Zhu Scott talks about the need to create global inclusive data infrastructures and processes to address global issue Notes Technology has become a transformative force in almost every aspect of our lives. It permeates our personal, economic, and political life. However, large for-profit tech companies or a handful of tech-savvy governments dominate […]
The technology billionaire behind Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink and the Boring Company bought 9.2 per cent of the company, worth more than £2.2 billion, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr Musk is yet to publicly confirm or comment on the announcement.
This panel will tackle the ambitious challenge of examining the intersection of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the production of news media in an online environment. Notes Worldwide, there are vast disparities in the ways in which digital government is enacted. The ‘splinternet’, or Balkanisation of the internet, heralds deep shifts in how people […]
The US-based NFT trading platform, Cent, which stunned an unsuspecting public by selling an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet on Twitter for £2.1 million has recently suspended trading of (most) NFT assets because “people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them”, with its co-founder Cameron Hejazi admitting this was a […]
Usually at this time of year we publish a letter to mark the anniversary of the web’s invention, reflecting on its role in our world and the tech challenges and opportunities we face. But these are not normal times. Alongside the rest of the world, we have been watching Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with despair […]
A proposed amendment to Article 45 in eIDAS would have a significant, negative impact on web users’ security Leading cyber security experts, advocates and practitioners have urged EU lawmakers not to implement proposed changes for securing online transactions, which they say could jeopardise internet users’ security and privacy. In a letter to Members of the European […]