Stephen E. Arnold: Can Presscoin Defeat Fake News including Crap News Network, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and More?

Can Presscoin Keep News from Going Fake Fake news is a topic that has everyone on all sides of the aisle concerned. However, One innovative idea merging fake news and big data might have solved the problem. We learned more from a recent The Next Web story, “PresscoinL The Largest Crowdfunding Effort to Address the News Crisis.” …

Penguin: Autonomous Internet (Post-Amazon, Post-Google) Bits & Pieces

Blockchain Project Raises $61 Million from A16Z, Polychain Capital Announcing the news this morning, DFINITY Stiftung said the funding would go toward development of its blockchain protocol, aimed to support a public decentralized cloud computing platform. According to Reuters, $21 million of the total will be dedicated to development, with the rest devoted to a …

Penguin: Open Source Networking, Telecommunications Waking Up…

Open Source Networking and a Vision of Fully Automated Networks Transforming telecom As an example of transformative change that is now underway, Joshipura pointed to the telecom industry. “For the past 137 years, we saw proprietary solutions,” he said. “But in the past several years, disaggregation has arrived, where hardware is separated from software. If …

Event: 3-5 April 2018 Internet Identity Workshop — The Cure for #GoogleGestapo — Help End Amazon, Facebook, Google, MeetUp, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia…

Phi Beta Iota: What this innocuous announcement does not say is that the four rights that this group has been working on for over 20 years are the rights of Anonymity, Identity, Privacy, and Security, at the individual “you own your own data” level, and that they are therefore the anti-thesis to Amazon, Facebook, Google, …