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The Silent Watchers in Your Browser
What 287 Chrome Extensions Tell Us About Digital Literacy As someone who spends a great deal of time thinking about technology, education, and the skills our students need to navigate the modern world, a recent investigation caught my attention – and frankly, it should catch yours too. A detailed technical analysis published on the QContinuum…
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When AI Remembers Too Much
New Research on Language Models and Copyrighted Content The intersection of artificial intelligence and intellectual property law continues to generate pressing questions for academics, policymakers, and industry leaders. Researchers have managed to reproduce 96% of a Harry Potter book by simply giving the LLM the first sentence and employing some clever prompting. A recent paper…
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Reflections from FOSDEM 2026
Brussels, February 1, 2026 This weekend, I had the privilege of attending FOSDEM 2026 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. For those unfamiliar with FOSDEM, it is Europe’s largest gathering of free and open source software developers. What makes it remarkable is not just its scale – 1,195 speakers, 1,078 events, and 71 specialized tracks…
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The Moltbot Hype Train Needs a Reality Check
Why This Viral AI Agent Raises Red Flags I’ll be honest – I was about to try Moltbot for myself. The promise of a proactive AI agent that could handle tasks across my communication platforms sounded incredibly appealing. Then I came across an article that made me hit the brakes hard. What’s more concerning is…
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The AI Browser Paradox. Why Innovation Sometimes Needs to Wait
Last week, Gartner issued one of the most striking advisories I’ve seen in recent years: organizations should block all AI browsers “for the foreseeable future.” Coming from a firm that typically champions technological adoption, this recommendation carries significant weight. As someone who has spent years integrating AI tools into undergraduate education and exploring their pedagogical…
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Why the Internet Is Turning Into Television (And Why That’s Good News)
Derek Thompson recently wrote an essay arguing that “everything is television.” Meta’s Instagram is now 93% strangers watching videos. Podcasts are racing to add video. Even AI tools are pivoting toward generating visual content. The pattern is unmistakable: the internet is becoming a continuous stream of episodic video. As someone who has spent two decades…
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The Web’s Inventor Speaks
Why AI Won’t Kill the Internet, But Could Save It Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think artificial intelligence will destroy the web, but he’s deeply concerned that AI could collapse the advertising-driven economic model that currently sustains it. In a recent interview on The Verge’s Decoder podcast with editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, the inventor of the World…
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Tech Venture Bootcamp – 5th Edition
Opening Week As a Vice Dean, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing countless academic programs and initiatives, but few have energized our campus quite like the opening week of Tech Venture Bootcamp. This 12-day intensive program, which launched on October 2nd 2025, has transformed our Madrid campus into a vibrant hub of innovation, collaboration, and…
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My Experience at the AI & Big Data Expo
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the AI & Big Data Expo in Amsterdam, and I’m still buzzing with excitement from everything I learned and experienced. As someone who works in computing and data science education, events like these remind me why I love this field so much. What is the AI &…
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The Future Has Arrived Underground: Shenzhen Launches the World’s First Autonomous Subway Delivery Robots
As Vice Dean of a university deeply invested in the intersection of technology, urban innovation, and user-centered design, I’m always drawn to real-world examples that illustrate the pace and promise of robotics in our everyday lives. This week, an extraordinary milestone was achieved in Shenzhen, China, where the world’s first autonomous delivery robot successfully completed…
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