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Media industry
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Anghami CEO's side project World Monitor now has 2 million users tracking conflicts in real time - Silicon Canals

A music streaming CEO created World Monitor, an open-source geopolitical intelligence platform using algorithmic data convergence that now serves 2 million users by processing real-time conflict, military, and satellite data without human editorial intervention.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Atlantic
4 months ago

The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated, editorless encyclopedia that replicates and sanitizes Wikipedia content while attempting to displace it as a reliable information source.
fromArtforum
6 months ago

Machinelike Tendencies

AMONG A GROWING ARRAY of government-sanctioned informational systems, motion sensors, acoustic monitors, biometric scanners, and thermal cameras work in tandem with sprawling private networks of data brokers to track social and environmental flows with forensic precision. They measure footfalls, scan license plates, log financial transactions, and inspect the movement of people alongside particulate matter. As sensing technologies increasingly oversee and overwrite the spatial production of contemporary life, proposals for "smart cities" and other data-dependent composites-proliferating since the early 2010s-obfuscate regimented environments of surveillance and control through rosy prospects of connectivity, security, and risk management, all sustained by the tenacious dystopian dream we call information.
Privacy technologies
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