Robert James Beckett: IBM’s OpenPower — Wrong Thing Righter?

Competing Billion-Dollar Tech Companies Are Joining Forces. Here’s Why. The combination of open innovation and accelerated computing represents one of this decade’s most important technology trends. It’s transforming the concept of the closed-off supercomputer to a more diverse open architecture. As a result, companies that haven’t worked together before—and that may, in fact, be competitors—are …

Blake Percival, IC Security Clearance Whistleblower, Wins One on the Margins

The whistleblower who exposed U.S.’s flawed security clearance system finally gets his reward By Christian Davenport, The Washington Post, 18 December 2015 “I hate that we dump,” one of them confided. “What do you mean?” Blake Percival asked. The answer — that the company was cutting corners performing the federal background checks used in granting …

Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

Google and Facebook as the dark force… Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund Matt McAlister of Publish.org The Guardian EXTRACT Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

Robert Steele: New Chapter on Augmented Human Intelligence with Man-Machine Integrity

ROBERT STEELE: I am interested in hearing from anyone who wishes to share sources and perspectives relevant to the below planned work that has been commissioned for a 2016 publication. I am especially interested in having one or more major information technology companies in this space subsidize several months of research. Title: “Augmented Human Intelligence …

Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge. Read full first …

Daniel Araya: Interview with Robert Steele on the Open Source Revolution

Interview: Former CIA Officer Robert Steele Discusses Why We Need an Open Source Revolution 全文下面的折疊對於那些使用谷歌翻譯。 Полный текст ниже раза для тех, кто использует Google Translate.  النص الكامل بالأسفل أضعاف عن تلك التي تستخدم مترجم جوجل. Textul complet partea inferioară a paginii pentru cei care folosesc Google Translate.