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Apr 18, 2024

Applied Social Media Lab Hiring

New Product Manager Role Available

Hiring Product Manager, Applied Social Media Lab Posted Apr 18, 2024 SHARE TO Do you have a deep and abiding interest in grappling…

Sustainable Futures

How to unite local initiatives for a more sustainable global future

BKC Faculty Associate Vasilis Kostakis and Nikiforos Tsiouris advocate for a commons-based technology framework, challenging the notion that high-tech will solve major socio…

Apr 16, 2024
Rest of World

The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data

BKC Affiliate Mariel García–Montes comments on Nippy, the startup that offers gig workers services, like bathroom access, in exchange for their data.

Apr 15, 2024
Bloomberg

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images

Rebecca Tushnet spoke to Bloomberg about the training of Adobe's AI tool Firefly

Apr 12, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 @ 6:00 PM

Enshittification, Disenshittification and The Bezzle: Cory Doctorow in conversation with Randall Munroe

Conversation & Book Signing

Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification," the American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year, describing how platforms decay...

Lawfare

Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened

Bruce Schneier writes about a recent potential cybersecurity catastrophe.

Apr 9, 2024
Communications of the ACM

In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024

Bruce Schneier memorializes Ross Anderson. "Ross was a pragmatic visionary. His mastery of both the technologies and the underlying policy issues…

Apr 8, 2024
Open Global Rights

“Nothing about us without us”: People on the move interrogate border tech with the Migration and Technology Monitor

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar advocates for prioritizing the meaningful participation by individuals with lived experiences at border crossings in conversations around border…

Apr 5, 2024
The Harvard Gazette

How dating sites automate racism

Apryl Williams joined BKC for an event on her new book about algorithmic bias in online dating apps.

Apr 4, 2024
Harvard Law Today

Faculty share stories of an intellectual about-face

Jonathan Zittrain moderates an event centered around reckoning with changing one's mind. Ruth Okediji, one of the panelists,…

Apr 4, 2024
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