@migueldobrich

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Journo and educator based in Uruguay 🇺🇾
Founder of Dobcast. CEO and Editor-in-chief of Amenaza Roboto, a science and technology news website based in Montevideo.
2024 and 2023 Pulitzer Center grantee, Oxford Climate Journalism Network alum and 2018 Tow-Knight Fellow.
Webwww.amenazaroboto.com
Podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/1rO4lw13EujC5Ggaj3WX3h
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/dobcast
Email[email protected]

Honored to join the @pulitzercenter’s AI Accountability Fellowship — and to share this space with such a talented and inspiring group of journalists from around the world.
I celebrate this news with the #AmenazaRoboto team.

https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/new-cohort-fellows-will-ask-tough-questions-about-ai

Thrilled to receive the Schmidt Sciences / UCSC SciCom Catalyst Grant to pre-report and build an AI protocol for analyzing corporate climate narratives—advancing Amenaza Roboto’s mission as civic infrastructure: independent science & tech media. Thanks Erika Check & Kim Hickok!

Still grateful for the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. Honored to share it with my dear friend and co-author @gabrielfarias, the scientists we collaborated with, and the editorial team at #AmenazaRoboto.

https://youtu.be/P2yfuhUS2jM

Meet Miguel Dobrich — A Journalist from Uruguay who Turns Data into Powerful Stories

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📣 The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying.

Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.

So, Signal took steps to protect you and everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's hunger for (Signal) data.

Read more about how we navigated, and why we need to ecosystem to a lot more 👇

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

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Had to share this one.
Enjoy your weekend!
@jeffjarvis: Hola, I sent you an email a couple of days ago—would love to hear from you! 🖖

Have you checked out our educational resources?/ ¿Conocés nuestros recursos educativos?

🎯 "From Data To Action" - "De los datos a la acción"

This project was carried out through the Impact Seed Fund (ISF), an initiative by the @pulitzercenter.

👉 https://amenazaroboto.com/from-data-to-action

#OpenData #OpenClimateData #journalism

From Data To Action

Welcome to a space designed to provide access to educational resources that promote climate data journalism. Here, you can download our guide and explore tutorial videos. Learn how to use open data to investigate phenomena such as floods and their impact on cities, populations, and critical infrastructure.

REM 001 - Reconocimiento Facial

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ebooks are almost always just licensed to the reader—you don’t actually own the ebook itself. If something goes wrong with that publisher, or if it decides to pull its ebooks from retailers’ stores, you run the risk of losing access, EFF’s Cara Gagliano told @WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/bookshop-now-sells-ebooks/
Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks

The bookseller is applying its sales model—where online purchases support indie bookstores—to digital books. It has also released a mobile app for shopping and reading ebooks.

WIRED

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

The people should own the town square

It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.

Mastodon Blog