As every year the Chaos Computer Club organised a Chaos Communication Congress packed with talks, workshops and private discussions about freedom, information technology, cryptography, software, hacking, cracking, gadgets, art and more. It took place from December 27th to 30th in Berlin and provided the warm and friendly atmosphere usual for this this kind of meetings. [...]
22C3 remarks
Nature test: Good qualitity of scientific entries in Wikipedia
EN: The current issue of Nature contains a special report [1] and an editorial [2] reporting the good quality of scientific articles in Wikipedia. A comparison shows that on average the number of errors is not much higher than in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The topic is also discussed in the current entry of Nature [...]
Founder of veganism died
EN: The TIMES ONLINE Obituaries reported yesterday the death of Donald Watson, the founder the Vegan Society. In his youth he made some experiences which convinced him to stop the consumption of meat and other animal products. He became 95 years old and seems to be an excellent proove that a plant based nutrition [...]
Wikipedia fights vandalism
EN: As a reaction to the wrong information occuring in a Wikipedia entry about the US journalist John Seigenthaler the online encyclopedia has changed its policy. From now on people have to register to create articles, but modifications can still be done by anonymous users. The new rules are experimental and are only applied [...]