By Severin Matusek, Nick Houde and Paloma MonizOkt. 15, 2025
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
Mozilla Foundation and the Mellon Foundation invite U.S. faculty teams to apply for the 2026 Responsible Computing Challenge. Grants of up to $125,000 will support innovative, interdisciplinary curricula that connect computing, STEM, humanities, and social sciences around themes of Subversion, Imagination, and Insignificance.
A lack of basic data around most viewed content on social media makes it harder to understand how these platforms are influencing society and to monitor harmful content in a timely way. That's why researchers are making a request for a 'birds eye view' dataset of top 1,000 most seen social media posts.
