Happy Birthday to Us!

April 1st marked one year of DARC.

A lot has happened this past year. We’ve committed to the commons with OpenAleph, rolled out some major improvements and new features, collaborated on incredible projects, and most importantly, built a community that continues to challenge and inspire us.

And of course, none of this would be possible without our growing team.

Buckle up for year two. We’ve got a lot of work to do!

#openaleph #darc

OpenAleph 5.2 is out!

We go through the main changes in this release: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/openaleph-5-2-strengthening-email-and-breaking-language-barriers/a1df2376-0bda-44a8-9cf3-ccc4d8534c54/

...and then dive deeper into our new document translation feature: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/in-platform-translation-for-sensitive-documents/38401cf3-2455-4b0f-a8ea-95e38b97b2f2/

...as well as our improvements in ingesting and extracting information from emails: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/when-emails-get-complicated-5-2-handles-it/64dac929-6e82-493e-af84-c0afc8783239/

And yes, the UI got a little glow-up too.

#DARC #openaleph

OpenAleph, the FOSS tool for investigative journalists that i work on with @darcdataresearch just released version 5.2

i've published two technical deep dives into the things we spent most of our energy on with this new version:

* translating documents using deterministic machine learning tools (no genAI bullshit here): https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/in-platform-translation-for-sensitive-documents/38401cf3-2455-4b0f-a8ea-95e38b97b2f2/

* parsing e-mails to extract even more information and properly handle malformed headers and attachments: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/when-emails-get-complicated-5-2-handles-it/64dac929-6e82-493e-af84-c0afc8783239/

#DARC #openaleph

Jan Strozyk, has published a write-up of the messiness of the latest Epstein files release from the US DOJ.

In the Readwrite newsletter, Jan stresses that "that technical frustration is secondary to the much bigger issue: that there still appears to be no meaningful accountability for what was done to girls and young women"

https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-10-so-much-went-wrong-with-the-epstein/

#DARC #OpenAleph #Epstein

i got cozy at the social web (fediverse) track at #fosdem (#fosdem2026 ).

i have stickers
yes they are political, tech is political
come say hi, grab stickers, chat

@yawnbox and i are setting up an exciting project that i'd love to chat about ( @discotheque )

(also, if you wanna talk about OpenAleph, i can slip into my @darcdataresearch personna)

#disobeydiscotheque #openaleph #fediverse

@darcdataresearch has published a 2025 year is review edition of our newsletter

it always feels good for all the chaos across one entire year to finally form a clear and coherent narrative

https://buttondown.com/dataresearchcenter/archive/2025-darcest-year-in-history/

here's to 2026!

#darc #openaleph #aleph

I saw a funny toot that said "I wonder what the overlap of the Panama Papers and the Epstein files is".

This is exactly the kind of question that free and open-source software like #OpenAleph can answer.

@darcdataresearch is doing a session at #39c3 on making sense of leaked data and solving "AI problems" without AI.

Join us on Day 3 at 19:30 at SoS Stage H https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/where-do-all-the-leaks-go-openaleph-roundtable

It's #TeamTuesday and we're finally revealing our ghost in the machine and Senior Developer!

@catileptic is an open-source developer working on investigative tooling, including #OpenAleph. She is the #CTO of the digital rights advocacy non-profit ApTI - Asociatia pentru Tehnologie si Internet, Romania and has served as the CTO of the civic rights non-profit Code for Romania in the past.