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If you run Home Assistant locally, Whisper is doing your speech recognition, and it doesn't always understand Australian voices. At Everything Open 2026 I ran a tutorial on fine-tuning Whisper with Australian English from Mozilla Common Voice, and the video is now online.
Much has been made of the recent announcement of the collaboration between OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and Apple design guru Jony Ive on a new hardware device (Jess Weatherbed, The Verge), and speculation has followed on the form it might take (Ryan Morrison, Tom's Hardware)…
Mirca Madianou's Technocolonialism shows how six logics of digital humanitarianism - humanitarian accountability, audit, capitalism, technosolutionism, securitization and resistance - together combine to reproduce colonial practices of extraction, paternalisation, marginalisation and disempowerment through digital solutions. Using examples from fieldwork in multiple geographies, Madianou first provides…
An overview of the software, hardware and other personal productivity toolchains I'm using as of December 2024.
I unpack how the OSI's definition of open source AI, which does not require that the data used for training models be open, places more onus on dataset documentation practices for describing that data.
What does abstraction have to do with ISP-hobbled firmware on a modem router?
Data, surveillance, artificial intelligence and digging where you stand: Meredith Whittaker stands up to the power of Big Tech
Universities run many academic conferences each year. But they're often organised by academic teams, whose core skills are not in event management. Would we be better off having an integrated academic conferencing service?
You've heard of the dark web, and dark kitchens, but what's a dark printer?
What I learned using dask for the first time for a data science project.
