Discord has open-sourced Osprey, its internal event stream decisions engine capable of evaluating 2.3 million rules per second across 400 million daily actions. Engineered with a Rust coordinator and stateless Python worker nodes, Osprey provides a horizontally scalable architecture for real-time threat detection and mitigation. The project is managed in partnership with the ROOST organization … Read more
Don’t call it a Bluesky conference. Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol, or atproto — the technology that powers Bluesky’s growing social network of 33 million-plus users — was held in Seattle. At the event, developers, engineers, founders, and even members of the Bluesky team, including … Read more
Mastodon, the decentralized alternative to X, is going to adopt a controversial feature from the platform formerly known as Twitter: quote posts. The company on Friday shared the progress it’s making on the implementation of the feature, which has divided users over its potential to be used for online abuse and bullying. Critics have long … Read more
Certainly! Here is the content you requested: Chapter 12 – Knowledge and Disinformation – Cambridge University Press 12.1 Information and Disinformation Philosophers of information, as well as information and communication scientists, have traditionally focused their efforts in three main directions: offering an analysis of information, a way to measure it, and investigating prospects for analysing … Read more