#News
Nous participons au #Festival Nothing2Hide Decentralized Festival #N2HDF porté par @nothing2hide « des ateliers dans toute la France les 27, 28, 29 et 30 mai » (que dans l'hexagone à ce jour)

2 demi journée d’ateliers à #Rennes sur inscription
− Jeudi 28 Mai : Introduction à la sécurité numérique en enquête de terrain
− Vendredi 29 mai : Exercice #data et terrains avec dedans du #OpenAleph by Data and Research Center
https://nothing2hide.org/fr/2026/04/21/n2hdf-2026-le-programme/

Et 2 soirées radio live ouvertes aux publics avec @liminal
https://forum.hack2o.eu/t/2-soirees-radio-liminal-pendant-n2hdf-a-rennes-mai-2026/377

#Radio #Podcast
on a fêté nous 1 an de radio
https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@liminal/episodes/on-fete-nos-1-an-arheu-arheu-et-anecdotes-entres-deux-ou-troix-serieus

Puis on est allé à #Noirmoutier #Vendée traîner nos pieds pour parler d'eaux et de sel
https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@liminal/episodes/noirmoutier-tribulations-et-sel

Un nouvel ep. de @hydromedia est dispo issu des lives à #Nancy
Il porte sur les ouvriers en #Lorraine à Longwy qui sont soulevés et autogérés #CFDT (et oui, à l'époque là à Longwy la CGT était… sage et alignée) en faisant de la radio piratant l' #ORTF , prenant le contrôle de relais TV, kidnappant Johnny Hallyday, volant la Coupe de France de Foot, assiégeant un comico, piégeant les usines face aux entrées des gendarmes.

https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@hydromedia/episodes/habiter-en-lorraine-cest-heriter-1-4-longwy-la-republique-rouge-populaire

#FreeArtLicense

More to come…

nothing like working on email parsing, facing the demons of real-world data, resigning one's self that standards are like flimsy manifestos nailed to the door of a church and the hydra of email servers will do as it pleases

...and, at the end of the day, delivering one tiny improvement to #OpenAleph

now it's time to take a long walk and dissolve all i know about header encoding in the smell of spring

Once we started putting the translation feature to work, we realized it needed a few adjustments to account for messy, real-world data.

And so, OpenAleph 5.2.1 was born.

The translation feature now includes:
- Improved detection for multilingual documents
- An option to choose the source language manually
- A new command to delete existing translations

All in all: more control and better results: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/04/OpenAleph-5.2.1:-Taking-Translations-a-Step-Further/a9e1585c-3c3d-43b3-9319-021dc76e908f/

#openaleph #darc

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