Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2025

America’s Cybersecurity Risks and How GAO Is Helping to Address Them

On this special episode of the Watchdog Report podcast, we discuss America’s cybersecurity risks, as well as GAO’s role in auditing and improving defenses again…

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Wikimedia Research Showcase - February 2026

Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender

While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from earlier this week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke wit…

Which Critical Government IT Systems Are Most In Need of Modernization?

Each year, the federal government spends more than $100 billion on IT systems and cyber-related investments. About 80% of this funding goes to operating and mai…

Open Source Beats Authoritarianism

What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which everyone can see the how and why of policy making, and everyone’s concer…

2025年のNASA主要プロジェクト評価

NASAは、アメリカ宇宙飛行士を月に戻すプロジェクトを含む主要プロジェクトに今年は数十億の投資を計画しています。毎年発行されるNASAの報告書のために、私たちはこれらのプロジェクトの現状、その費用、そしてスケジュール通りに進んでいるかどうかを調査しました。…

Trudi Radtke on InclusiveAccess.org

In this month's episode, Jennryn Wetzler, CC's Director of Learning and Training, talks all things Open Education and Inclusive Access Textbooks with Trudi Radt…

金融分野における人工知能の活用拡大とそのリスク

The financial services sector is increasingly using artificial intelligence to automate services and decisions. While this could provide benefits for consumers,…

Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker of Smarthistory

On this episode, we're joined by art historians, Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, the co-founders and executive directors of Smarthistory. Smarthistory is…

Artificial Intelligence Could Improve Critical Infrastructure Services, But It Comes with Risks

Artificial intelligence could be used to improve services and utilities we use every day—such as electricity, water, transportation, banking, and more. But AI c…

Sam Williams of Arweave

On this episode of CC's Open Minds, CC’s Chief Operating Officer, Anna Tumadóttir, sits down for an interesting conversation with Sam Williams, the co-founder a…

FDA's Foreign Inspections of Drug Manufacturers Have Not Rebounded to Pre-Pandemic Levels

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspects drug manufacturers here and overseas to ensure the safety and quality of drug sold in the United States. But FDA…

*Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT

In this episode, we switch things up from our typical interview style and play back the recording of Creative Commons’ hybrid roundtable on the EU Data Act, whi…

Wordle and the Web We Need

Where is the internet we were promised? It feels like we’re dominated by megalithic, siloed platforms where users have little or no say over how their data is u…

An AI Hammer in Search of a Nail

It often feels like machine learning experts are running around with a hammer, looking at everything as a potential nail - they have a system that does cool thi…

The Philosopher King

コンピュータ科学者は、問題を「解決する」ことに焦点を当ててアルゴリズムを構築することが多く、技術のより大きな影響や潜在的な誤用を考慮しないことがあります。その結果、機械学習が資格のある求職者の進歩を妨げたり、住宅ローン申請者をブロックしたり、刑事司法システムの仮釈放などの面で不公正を生み出したりすることがあります。ハー…