Didi Rankovic
Didi Rankovic is an experienced online journalist, editor, and translator, with a career spanning over ten years writing for major a English-language website in Serbia, and previously working as translator for international organizations and peacekeepers in the Balkans. Rankovic is passionate about free and open source tech and is a head contributor for Reclaim The Net, focusing on lead stories. [email protected]
Google botched their News Initiative by expecting invited journalists to keep everything “off the record”
Journalists reportedly arrived expecting transparency – got the opposite.
Malwarebytes starts enforcing policy that restricts “lifetime” license to just one device
Users had been using the license on multiple computers until Malwarebytes put in restrictions.
UK Facebook use drops 38% in the last year, analytics company shows
People’s suspicions have been confirmed – people are turning their backs on Facebook.
The ice cream licking viral “challenge” is leading to copycats, and arrests
The viral sensation of the summer reflects some of the worst of humanity.
IBM acquires open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion
The company now hopes to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud space.
LAPD ends invasive “crime prediction” – not on the grounds of civil liberties, but because it was a flop
The “Minority Report” experiment has come to an end.
UK’s ICO advises that website owners need to get users’ permission to use analytics
Whether analytics are considered essential has long been debated among website owners.
Court cases featuring emoji use doubled in the last year
Can daggers and gun emojis be considered a threat?
Facebook used “Stormchaser” tool to keep track of negative press
You would think that with a negative Facebook story every day, the company would have already given up the idea of trying to contain negative press.
Tutanota launches end-to-end encrypted calendar
The popular privacy-focused email provider is slowly adding on tools to increase the experience.
France is about to impose a 3% revenue tax on big tech companies
France wants big tech companies to fund its piggy bank.
Mastodon attempts to censor free speech social network Gab by blocking its domain
Mastodon seems to be struggling to comprehend what a fediverse is supposed to be.