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She became a nun in 1934 at the age of 26 Canabarro had attributed her longevity to God He is the secret of everything," according to LongeviQuest Although she had claimed her date of birth was May 27 "her documented birth date according to records is June 8 LongeviQuest said Canabarro had been the 15th-oldest documented person in history and the second-oldest nun after France's Lucile Randon who lived to the age of 118 and died in 2023 Lecture du Monde en cours sur un autre appareil Vous pouvez lire Le Monde sur un seul appareil à la fois Ce message s’affichera sur l’autre appareil Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous) est en train de lire Le Monde avec ce compte sur un autre appareil Vous ne pouvez lire Le Monde que sur un seul appareil à la fois (ordinateur En cliquant sur « Continuer à lire ici » et en vous assurant que vous êtes la seule personne à consulter Le Monde avec ce compte Que se passera-t-il si vous continuez à lire ici Ce dernier restera connecté avec ce compte Vous pouvez vous connecter avec votre compte sur autant d’appareils que vous le souhaitez mais en les utilisant à des moments différents Nous vous conseillons de modifier votre mot de passe Votre abonnement n’autorise pas la lecture de cet article merci de contacter notre service commercial Here you can see the webcast of the BMW Group Press Conference at the Auto Shanghai 2025 LONDON, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fueled by soaring demand for AI-optimized servers from major US cloud providers, Foxconn's ODM direct business will achieve astronomical growth in 2024, securing the top spot in Omdia's global server market analysis marking the first time a non-US company tops the server market rankings "The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta—will comprise nearly half of 2024's data center capex, amplifying their influence on the competitive server market," said Vlad Galabov, Omdia Senior Director "With AI application development and deployment dominating compute priorities These dynamics have propelled Foxconn to the top spot." The consolidated nature of investment made 2024 a unique year in the server market Omdia projects 10 companies will make up nearly 60% of the global server investment; 10 companies will fulfil over 70% of market demand Omdia accounts only for direct-to-user sales by ODMs like Foxconn Revenue from manufacturing servers for OEMs like Dell HPE and Cisco is excluded to prevent double counting ODMs are not credited for sales realized by OEMs having secured a close partnership with NVIDIA to manufacture Blackwell GPU reference designs They will become the largest supplier of NVL36 and NVL72 racks to cloud service providers," added Sukumaran 2025 is set to be another strong year for the data center industry driven by the next phase of AI infrastructure deployment at both cloud service providers and enterprises This robust growth is expected to continue throughout the decade with the server market expected to reach $380 billion by 2028 approaching half a trillion dollars by 2030 "We've only seen the tip of the iceberg of AI-specialized cloud SP formation and spending Their server capex is set to grow significantly with CoreWeave potentially outspending Oracle in 2025," said Galabov Highly regulated industries have shared with Omdia that 2024 won't see the regulatory frameworks needed to scale AI production enterprise investment in 2024 was limited by GPU availability which will improve in 2025 Omdia, part of Informa TechTarget, Inc. 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Computer & Electronics Cloud Computing/Internet of Things Surveys, Polls and Research Do not sell or share my personal information: Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker We’re excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Power Pages Power Pages empowers you to build low-code With pre-built templates and tools to govern and administer your live sites this comprehensive website building and hosting platform is truly a one-stop shop At Microsoft Build in May 2022, Power Pages joined the Microsoft Power Platform family as a new standalone product available in preview Power Pages’ customer momentum has been evident as it now serves over 100 million monthly active website users across industries worldwide from state and local government to manufacturing Now, at Microsoft Ignite, we are announcing Power Pages’ general availability Power Pages: Low-Code Web Development with Sangya SinghOctober 12 Here’s a topline view of what I’ll be announcing at Microsoft Ignite The Design Studio enables makers to easily create modern data-centric business websites for desktop or mobile without writing a single line of code With new updates designed to support low-code and no-code solutions makers can now effortlessly build multi-step forms that include document uploads with the Pages and Data Workspaces Other updates include the ability to add custom CSS in the Styling Workspace makers can pick from a range of responsive customizable templates to jumpstart their website building journey—including 16 new business solution templates with patterns for processing building permits managing after-school activity registrations You can also extend Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications to your customers and vendors with templates for customer self-service Makers can explore helpful training materials on Power Pages capabilities—from different perspectives and dimensions—directly in the Power Pages platform with Learn Hub A newly added Tutorials section offers even more support to pro and citizen developers alike including embedded How-To videos and documentation Go beyond low-code with advanced pro-developer capabilities that allow makers to fine-tune and extend their web pages as needed New updates to pro-dev tooling include the integration of Power Pages Design Studio with Visual Studio (VS) Code Web zero-install Microsoft Visual Studio Code experience entirely in your browser This integration enables fusion team members to quickly and safely browse and edit source code for web page content (HTML and Liquid) and web page-scripts (JavaScript) and sync it back to the Design Studio This allows for a seamless round-trip experience between Power Pages’ no-code Design Studio to the code-first VS Code Web Building upon Power Pages’ secure and reliable platform new security and governance updates include turnkey integration with Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall Content Delivery Network (CDN) support with Azure Front Door A new go-live checklist simplifies site verification prior to going live which provides total control over when the site becomes public Power Pages subscription licensing is now based on monthly authenticated and anonymous users per website, making it easier than ever before to choose the right licensing options for your business needs. 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Learn more about Power Pages licensing Now that Power Pages is generally available Power Apps portals makers can also leverage Power Pages’ low-code capabilities with access to the Design Studio With key customer scenarios spanning from sales to government services Power Pages websites are serving millions of users around the world today: Check out all of Power Pages capabilities and sign up for Power Pages to get started Data shows Microsoft Power Platform improves business outcomes Accelerate innovation and reduce costs as you analyze data words: What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when someone asks you about Jane Austen Perhaps it’s a high school memory of being forced to read “Pride and Prejudice” aloud while the rest of the class carved obscenities into their desks Maybe you were an English major and Austen’s name brings to mind riveting conversations about “Persuasion” over pizza and beer Or maybe you’re a movie buff and can’t stop thinking about how perfect a casting call Keira Knightley was for Elizabeth Bennet It’s time to forget all of those associations when you hear “Jane Austen,” think “beer brewer.” “It is you, however, in this instance, that have the little children, and I that have the great cask, for we are brewing spruce beer again…” Austen wrote in a letter to her sister Cassandra, which can be found on the dedicated Jane Austen fan page There you have it: Austen the brew master. Her beer of choice, spruce beer, is brewed with the buds of a spruce tree, which give off citrus and pine flavors — we’d like to think she’d be an IPA fan today. Spruce was an important source of vitamin C in the 1800s and was useful during long winters without fresh fruit Beer was simply the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine go down The fact that Austen brewed beer wasn’t all that uncommon in her era (born in 1775, died in 1817). Beer was safer than water and was considered a daily necessity just like food. And, just like food, it was the woman’s role to provide the beer. Beer has been brewed in Austen’s home country for some 4,000 years and was primarily made by women (or “brewsters”) for the much of that time, the BBC reports but we’re getting better; the present is a much more inclusive time than the 18th and 19th centuries and raise a glass to the female brewers who make the brew world go round Although we've covered one or two smartphones in the last couple of months of the calendar year the true “2019 flagship” phone season is really only starting now Samsung’s Galaxy S10 is among the first releases in this new wave of phones and for many markets it outright is the very first of a brand-new generation Samsung mixed things up this year by announcing the Galaxy S10 in San Francisco instead of the usual Mobile World Congress event the big reason here for the change in venues was to reflect Samsung's close collaboration with US carriers such as Verizon on 5G and other matters Indeed 5G has been pretty much the buzzword for the last year or more and the last few months have been especially busy in this regard however with its limited availability it doesn’t have nearly the same mass-market appeal as the new mainstream variants of the Galaxy 10 As we’re nearing this upcoming transition period in technology the new Galaxy S10 models have instead needed to double-down on the fundamental aspects of the phones in order to entice consumers who are increasingly holding on to their smartphones for three years or more as well as a brand new triple camera setup gives users quite a number of reasons to upgrade Today we’ll be reviewing the lead member of the Galaxy S10 family we're going to look at both variants of Samsung's king of phones: the North American Snapdragon 855 model With Samsung using different SoCs for what are otherwise (nearly) identical phones this gives us a unique opportunity to take an in-depth look at the two new processors and compare & contrast them under very similar circumstances there's a great deal to dig into with the Galaxy S10’s new screen and triple-module camera setup This is going to be a long piece so prepare yourselves The big changes of the new Galaxy S10 series can be summed up into three main aspects: a new design with a new screen new internal hardware with the latest-generation silicon and a new camera setup consisting of three camera modules Samsung has continued its tradition of introducing a new design language with every second Galaxy S generation The S8 and S9 were the first Samsung phones to employ new wide aspect ratio displays and the new S10 continues this trend towards the inevitable conclusion of a screen-only phone The key characteristic of the S10+ is the in-display cut-out of the front facing cameras offering a unique new alternative to the display notch The new AMOLED display offers a 3040 x 1440 resolution and now comes with HDR10+ support with Samsung promising some big increases in peak brightness We’ll continue on the design of the S10 on the next page in more detail and talk about other new features such as the new under-screen ultrasonic fingerprint sensor brand-new SoCs from Qualcomm and Samsung S.LSI promise generational jumps in performance and power efficiency These latest SoCs benefit from newer manufacturing nodes and introducing new dedicated blocks for neural network inferencing in the form of a new DSP and a new NPU the Galaxy S10+ incorporates much improved processing as well as support for high dynamic range image capture And this time around Samsung doesn't include just one or two camera modules but instead the company has moved up to three rear cameras for their flagship smartphone Altogether the phone now uses a trifecta of wide angle The Galaxy S10 mainline series comes in 3 models: the Galaxy S10e, the regular Galaxy S10, and the up-sized Galaxy S10+. With Samsung offering so many phone variations – 6 in all – we've decided to dedicate our coverage to just a single model. To that end, out of popular demand following last year’s review of the Galaxy S9 we've opted to focus on the headliner Galaxy S10+ taking a look at Samsung's big flagship and the Exynos and Snapdragon versions that it's comprised of And coming into 2019 those concerns are still present as Samsung continues its dual-sourcing strategy We’ll come back to the chipsets in further detail over the next few pages the new chipsets are going to play a critical role in the new phones and will dictate a lot of the user experience of this new generation The base configurations for the Galaxy S10 and S10+ come with 8GB of LPDDR4X DRAM so no phone at any tier is starting short on RAM What is also great is that Samsung has phased out the 64GB storage tier for this generation meaning that all S10 models come with at least 128GB of storage I think this is a pretty important aspect of the value proposition Samsung is making with the Galaxy S10’s base configurations as it contrasts very favorably against Apple's stingy storage tiers which sees all of its iPhone configurations start at just 64GB with the higher-tier 256GB models costing an extra $150 Going up to higher capacity configurations the S10e also comes in a 256GB configuration that includes an extra 2GB of DRAM all of which tacks another $100 on to the price tag Meanwhile the S10 and S10+ can jump from 128GB of storage to 512GB for an extra $250 the S10+ is available in an ultra-premium configuration that sports 12GB of DRAM for which Samsung is charging a $600 premium over the base configuration Another notable change in internal specifications from generation to generation has been the increased battery capacities The new Galaxy S10 comes advertised with a new 3400mAh battery while the S10+ claims a 4100mAh unit I say "advertised" here because Samsung is being a bit misleading with their numbers; for the new phones Samsung’s has shifted from listing the design capacity of the batteries to their typical capacity Sticking with the more traditional design capacity then the Galaxy S10 and S10+ would be rated for 3300mAh and 4000mAh respectively Which compared to Samsung's last-generation phones is still a 10% and 14.2% increase respectively over the Galaxy S9 and S9+ the nominal capacity (actual usable cycle capacity) for one of my S10+ units shows up as 3891mAh which as it happens is higher than even the 3747mAh showcased on my Note9 Samsung seems to have also changed their battery chemistry or charging behaviour as the PMIC is now programmed to reduce its charge capacity and voltage at 300 cycles instead of 200 cycles the degradation curve appears to have been delayed and it now reaches a lower 90% of the battery's design capacity after 700 cycles instead of 300 The degradation curves had been rather consistent for a few generations so it’s interesting to see such a big change in the S10 and it's something to keep an eye on in the next year or two of usage On the back of the phone we have the new horizontal camera layout with the inclusion of three camera modules the S10 marks the first time Samsung has ever included a wide-angle module in their Galaxy S flagships After many years of this being an LG-only feature we suddenly have 3 major vendors all offering a trifecta of regular angle the main and telephoto modules in the S10 haven't changed in terms of their official specifications: they are still 12MP sensors one with a f/2.4 2x zoom / 45° FoV lens and 1µm pixel pitch sensor the other with Samsung’s dual-aperture f/1.5 or f/2.4 main module with 77° FoV and a 1.4µm dual pixel PDAF sensor It’s to be noted that the S10 adopts new sensors for both these modules even though their specifications on paper remain seemingly the same as on the S9 Added to the duo is the new 16MP f/2.2 1µm pixel pitch 123° wide angle unit which gives the new Galaxy S10 a new perspective on the world Today we’re excited to share an update to Twitter for Windows 10. Now alongside the Twitter app on desktop and tablets, you can experience Twitter for Windows 10 on mobile phones I worked closely with our engineering and product teams to bring this experience to Windows 10 Mobile We’ve heard that one of your favorite things about Twitter for Windows phone is the dark theme Since this is also one of the most requested features for Twitter for Windows 10 on desktop and tablets Change your theme by going to Settings > Personalization you can use Cortana to send a Tweet or search Twitter When we redesigned Twitter for Windows last year we followed Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Twitter for Windows easily adapts to different devices and screen sizes When bringing the app to mobile phones we carefully considered each section of Twitter and how the user interaction translates from desktops and tablets. We found that 90% of the UI and interaction models could be shared from these devices to mobile phones, but there were places where we decided to make adjustments to optimize for each. For example, take Moments the smaller screen lends itself more to a full-screen and immersive experience: But while full-screen paging with swipe navigation is easy and delightful on mobile devices it’s a pain point when using a mouse to click through it made sense to present the information in a grid layout: If you use the Torrents Time browser plugin to stream videos from torrents on trackers like The Pirate Bay But it’s potentially dangerous to use as well Developer Andrew Sampson, who gave us apps for simulating fullscreen mode for windowed games and a way to decide what to watch on Netflix, has found glaring issues in Torrents Time’s code the plugin appears to be attempting to run an entire torrent client in your browser it misuses the cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) mechanism and could allow malicious sites to stream files other than what you wanted to watch Torrents Time also seems to use between 50 and 80 percent of your computer’s CPU cycles which is entirely unnecessary and symptomatic of flawed coding bunq & many more confirmed for TNW Conference 2025 investors and innovation champions in Amsterdam on June 19 & 20 You’re better off uninstalling the plugin for now even if it does mean losing the ability to stream torrents in your browser Update: The Torrents Time team has shared a response to Sampson’s comments Concerning the issues we’ve highlighted above User Tracking/Privacy: The full code of the XHR function which Sampson copied a part of, can be found here on line 712 It’s not that he dissected the application to retrieve it he would know and mention that Torrents Time is using the standard Javascript XHR object which is already in the browser It is thus obvious to anybody with some knowledge of the matter (or who has no hidden agenda) that Torrents Time has no issue of CORS Sampson appears not to be the expert he claims to be (or he has a hidden agenda) Sampson doesn’t know why he’s machine consumes so much of his CPU or crashes We’ve not have had a similar complaint from normal users We know how to and we want the users to enjoy Torrents Time Crashing their computers is not something we want Torrents Time does not enable attackers to control your computer ➤ Torrents-time Security Issues [Andrew Sampson via Gizmodo] Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week It's been 33 years since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant tragically blew apart in a meltdown but the surroundings still contain some of the most radioactive patches of soil on the planet researchers from the University of Bristol mapped that radioactivity in a comprehensive survey of a fraction of the exclusion zone uncovering surprising hotspots local authorities had no idea existed The team used two types of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in an unprecedented fashion, mapping 15 square kilometres (5.8 square miles) of Chernobyl's 2,600 square kilometre (1,000 square miles) exclusion zone in 3D They used the pulsed laser system known as LIDAR to measure contours in the landscape while recording radiation levels with a lightweight gamma-ray spectrometer A rotary-wing UAV was used to get a closer look at anything that caught their eye Over a period of 10 days the team sent a fixed-wing survey craft out on 50 sorties to sweep the area in a grid-pattern starting near the relatively low-risk village of Buriakivka before making their way towards the zone's epicentre One specific feature that held the researchers' interest was the 10-square-kilometre (4 square miles) Red Forest – a dense woodland of dead pine trees near the ruins of the old reactor The forest weathered the brunt of the station's cloud of debris and to this day contains some of the most intense patches of radioactivity you'll find anywhere on Earth's surface Thanks to University of Bristol team's survey we have a better idea of just what that means Amid the rusting remains of an assortment of vehicles in an old depot, radiation levels surge magnitudes beyond anything found nearby, providing any daring visitor with a year's worth of sieverts in the space of a few hours The hotspot's intensity might have been unexpected but its location makes sense given the facility's role in separating contaminated soil during the disaster's clean-up "It's mother nature doing her job here," project leader Tom Scott told ITV science reporter Tom Clarke so the overall levels have dropped significantly But there are certain radioisotopes present that have very long half-lives and so they're going to be around for a long time." Knowing exactly which areas will remain dangerous for decades to come, and which are safe to visit, will be vital for future efforts to reclaim the area Abandoned settlements like the nearby ghost town of Pripyat are unlikely to see new life any time soon, with Ukrainian authorities estimating it will be tens of thousands of years before the area could be declared safe for human habitation But that doesn't put the entire area completely off limits Chernobyl might not be everybody's idea of a holiday hotspot but each year around 70,000 tourists enter the exclusion zone under the careful watch of a local guide The site of the old station is being resurrected as a solar plant outfitted with 3,800 photovoltaic panels to convert sunlight into a small but admirable megawatt of electricity to the local grid Meanwhile life scientists are paying close attention to how biology responds to both the fading wash of radiation and the sudden absence of humans Having highly detailed maps identifying the safest paths for entrants to follow would benefit any intrepid traveller or researcher interested in studying the aftermath of one of the biggest human-caused disasters in the modern age Sign up for The Media Today The Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s Emily Bell spoke to Edward Snowden over a secure channel about his experiences working with journalists and his perspective on the shifting media world It will appear in a forthcoming book: Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State which will be released by Columbia University Press in 2016 Emily Bell: Can you tell us about your interactions with journalists and the press Edward Snowden: One of the most challenging things about the changing nature of the public’s relationship to media and the government’s relationship to media is that media has never been stronger than it is now the press is less willing to use that sort of power and influence because of its increasing commercialization There was this tradition that the media culture we had inherited from early broadcasts was intended to be a public service particularly due to the 24-hour news cycle We see this routinely even at organizations like The New York Times. The Intercept recently published The Drone Papers which was an extraordinary act of public service on the part of a whistleblower within the government to get the public information that’s absolutely vital about things that we should have known more than a decade ago These are things that we really need to know to be able to analyze and assess policies so we get one journalistic institution that breaks the story they manage to get the information out there But the majors–specifically The New York Times–don’t actually run the story This was so extraordinary that the public editor had to get involved to investigate why they suppressed such a newsworthy story It’s a credit to the Times that they have a public editor but it’s frightening that there’s such a clear need for one when The Guardian was breaking the NSA story we saw that if there is a competitive role in the media environment anything that has material value that would benefit the competition even if it would simultaneously benefit the public the institutions are becoming less willing to serve the public to the detriment of themselves This is typically exercised through the editors This is something that maybe always existed but we don’t remember it as always existing we don’t like to think of it as having always existed because The Telegraph or the Times or any other paper in London decides that because this is somebody else’s exclusive we’ll try to “counter-narrative” it We’ll simply go to the government and ask them to make any statement at all and we will unquestioningly write it down and publish it because that’s content that’s exclusive to us Regardless of the fact that it’s much less valuable much less substantial than actual documented facts that we can base policy discussions on We’ve seemingly entered a world where editors are making decisions about what stories to run based on if it’ll give oxygen to a competitor I would love to hear your thoughts on this As somebody who has worked in these cultures there’s a problem when you have a press which finds it important to report what has happened without a prism of some sort of evaluation on it He says thousands of Muslims were celebrating in the streets of New Jersey after 9/11 and it’s demonstrably not true It’s not even a quantification issue and you see nothing changing in the polls–or I completely agree with you about how the economic dynamics have actually produced One of the interesting things which I think is hopeful about American journalism is that within the last 10 years there’s been a break between this relationship which says you can’t do good journalism unless you make a profit into intellectually understanding that really good journalism not only sometimes won’t make a profit but is almost never going to be anything other than unprofitable I think your acts and disclosures are really interesting in that it’s a really expensive story to do and it is not the kind of story that advertisers want to stand next to Actually people didn’t want to pay to read them we like The Guardian; we’re going to support their work So I agree with you that there’s been a disjuncture between facts and how they are projected I would like to think it’s going to get better and also having your own publishing stream through a social media company The press no longer has to be the aperture for you you have people directly reaching an audience through tools like Twitter and I have about 1.7 million followers right now (this number reflects the number of Twitter followers Snowden had in December 2015) Whether it’s a hundred people or a million people individuals can build audiences to speak with directly This is actually one of the ways that you’ve seen new media actors exploit what are perceived as new vulnerabilities in media control of the narrative At the same time these strategies still don’t work […] for changing views and persuading people on a larger scope The director of the FBI can make a false statement or some kind of misleading claim in congressional testimony I can fact-check and I can say this is inaccurate the value of these sorts of statements is still fairly minimal They are following these new streams of information This is why I think we see such a large interplay and valuable interactions that are emerging from these new media self-publication Twitter-type services and the generation of stories and the journalist user base of Twitter If you look at the membership of Twitter in terms of the influence and impact that people have there are a lot of celebrities out there on Twitter but really they’re just trying to maintain an image They’re not typically effecting any change Bell: Let’s think about it in terms of your role in changing the world There was a section of the technology press and the intelligence press who there was a broad shift of public perception about surveillance technologies Are you frustrated that there isn’t more long-term impact Do you feel the world has not changed quickly enough I’m really optimistic about how things have gone and I’m staggered by how much more impact there’s been as a result of these revelations than I initially presumed I’m famous for telling Alan Rusbridger that it would be a three-day story You’re sort of alluding to this idea that people don’t really care We’ve heard this in a number of different ways but I think it actually has changed in a substantial way Now when we talk about the technical press to the same kind of signaling where they have to indicate we have expertise what underlies why the leaks had such an impact Some people say stories about the mass collection of internet records and metadata were published in 2006 There was a warrantless wiretapping story in The New York Times as well Why didn’t they have the same sort of transformative impact This is because there’s a fundamental difference when it comes down to the actionability of information between knowledge of capability the allegation that the capability could be used Now what happened in 2013 is we transformed the public debate from allegation to fact is what defines the best kind of journalism This is one of the things that is really underappreciated about what happened in 2013 like I’m this amazing figure who did this I personally see myself as having a quite minor role I was the mechanism of revelation for a very narrow topic of governments it’s about what the public understands–how much control the public has over the programs and policies of its governments If we don’t know what our government really does if we don’t know the powers that authorities are claiming for themselves we can’t really be said to be holding the leash of government at all One of the things that’s really missed is the fact that as valuable and important as the reporting that came out of the primary archive of material has been and also very valuable amount of disclosure that was actually forced from the government because they were so back-footed by the aggressive nature of the reporting There were stories being reported that showed how they had abused these capabilities the fact that they had broken the law in many cases One of the biggest issues is that we have many more publishers competing for a finite shrinking amount of attention span that’s available When the government is shown in a most public way particularly for a president who campaigned on the idea of curtailing this sort of activity in many cases expanded them in ways contrary to what the public would expect we got rhetorical defenses where they went nobody’s listening to your phone calls “It’s just metadata.” Actually that worked for quite some time It is still difficult for the average person in the street to understand that metadata is actually more revealing and more dangerous than the content of your phone calls even if it is “just metadata,” it’s still unconstitutional activity Then they go–well they are lawful in this context They suddenly needed to make a case for lawfulness and that meant the government had to disclose court orders that the journalists themselves did not have access to that no one in the NSA at all had access to because they were bounded in a completely different agency is where you’re moving from suspicion The government wants to show itself in the best possible light But even self-interested disclosures can still be valuable They’re filling in a piece of the puzzle which may provide the final string that another journalist I think that is something that has not been appreciated and it was driven entirely by journalists doing follow-up I predicted they were going to charge me under the Espionage Act I predicted they were going to say I helped terrorists This was not a staggering work of genius on my part this is how it always works in the case of prominent whistleblowers It was because of this that we needed other voices Because of the nature of the abuse of classification authorities in the United States there is no one that’s ever held a security clearance who’s actually able to make these arguments Modern media institutions prefer never to use their institutional voice to factualize a claim in a reported story journalism must recognize that sometimes it takes the institutional weight to assess the claims that are publicly available then put the argument forth to whoever the person under suspicion is at the time all of the evidence says you were doing this Is there any reason that we should not say this This is something that institutions today are loath to do because it’s regarded as advocacy They don’t want to be in the position of having to referee what is and is not fact Instead they want to play these “both sides games” where they say instead we’ll just print allegations we’ll print their demonstrations of evidence but we won’t actually involve ourselves in it that [election] was decided by the smallest margin in a presidential election It’s hard to believe that had that story been published it would not have changed the course of that election Bell: Former Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson has said her paper definitely made mistakes, “I wish we had not withheld stories.” What you’re saying certainly resonates with what I know and understand of the recent history of the US press which is that national security concerns post-9/11 really did alter the relationship of reporting particularly with administration and authority in this country What we know about drone programs comes from reporting some of it comes from the story which The Intercept got hold of and Jeremy Scahill’s reporting on it But a great deal of it has also come from the ground level The fact that we were aware at all that drones were blowing up villages crossing borders where they were not supposed to be really comes from people who would report from the ground Something interesting has definitely happened in the last three years which makes me think about what you are telling us about how the NSA operates We’re seeing a much closer relationship now between journalism and technology and mass communication technology than we’ve ever seen before People are now completely reliant on Facebook Some of that is a commercial movement in the US but you also have activists and journalists being regularly tortured or killed in where it’s really impossible to operate a free press It is almost like the American public media now is Facebook Snowden: One of the biggest issues is that we have many more publishers competing for a finite shrinking amount of attention span that’s available This is why we have the rise of these sort of hybrid publications that create just an enormous amount of trash and cruft They’re doing AB testing and using scientific principles Their content is specifically engineered to be more attention getting even though they have no public value at all Like here’s 10 pictures of kittens that are so adorable But then they develop a news line within the institution and the idea is that they can drive traffic with this one line of stories and then get people to go over onto the other side Someone’s going to exploit this; if it’s not going to be BuzzFeed This isn’t a criticism of any particular model that first link is actually consuming attention that’s actually reshaping our brains sort of memetic expressions that we then carry around with us that shape what we look for in the future well that’s the coming singularity between the creation of journalism and large-scale technology platforms Snowden: They don’t have a journalistic role So when you came to Glenn and The Guardian there wasn’t a hesitation in knowing the primary role of the organization is to get that story to the outside world as securely and quickly as possible You were extremely prescient in thinking there’s no point in protecting yourself that’s a big change from 20 years ago because the traditional work of journalism where the journalist would just call their contact and say the government employee who is working with a journalist to report some issue of public interest if this individual has gone so far to commit an act of journalism suddenly they can be discovered trivially if they’re not aware of this We see the delta between the periods of time that successive administrations can keep a secret is actually diminishing–the secrets are becoming public at an accelerated pace I didn’t have that insight at the time I was trying to come forward because I had no relationship with journalists I had never talked to a journalist in any substantive capacity instead I simply thought about the adversarial relationship that I had inherited from my work as an intelligence officer Everything is a secret and you’ve got two different kinds of cover you’re living as a diplomat because you have to explain why you’re there But you also have a different kind of cover which is what’s called cover for action Where you’re not going to live in the region for a long time you may just be in a building and you have to explain why you’re walking through there This kind of trade-craft unfortunately is becoming more necessary in the reportorial process if you were pulled over by a police officer and they want to search your phone or something like that you might need to explain the presence of an application This is particularly true if you’re in a country like Bangladesh I have heard that they’re now looking for the presence of VPN [virtual private network software] for avoiding censorship locks and being able to access uncontrolled news networks as evidence of opposition that could get you in real trouble in these areas of the world At the time of the leaks I was simply thinking alright the government—and this isn’t a single government now–we’re actually talking about the Five Eyes intelligence alliance [the United States Canada] forming a pan-continental super-state in this context of sharing they’re going to lose their minds over this In the United States it’s not actually certain that the government would not try to exercise prior restraint in slightly different ways or that they wouldn’t charge journalists as accomplices in some kind of criminality to interfere with the reporting without actually going after the institutions themselves We have seen this in court documents before where the DOJ had named him as sort of an accessory–they said he was a co-conspirator So the idea I thought about here was that we need institutions working beyond borders in multiple jurisdictions simply to complicate it legally to the point that the journalists could play games legally and journalistically more effectively and more quickly than the government could play legalistic games to interfere with them but that’s kind of what happened with the reporting of the story Snowden: And in ways that I didn’t even predict because who could imagine the way a story like that would actually get out of hand and go even further: Glenn Greenwald living in Brazil writing for a US institution for that branch The Washington Post providing the institutional clout and saying these aren’t just crazy leftists arguing about this and Der Spiegel in Germany with Laura [Poitras] It simply represented a system that I did not believe could be overcome before the story could be put out By the time the government could get their ducks in a row and try to interfere with it Bell: You’re actually giving a sophisticated analysis of much of what’s happened to both reporting practice and media structures you had no prior interactions with journalists I think one of the reasons the press warmed to you was because you put faith in journalists You went in thinking I think I can trust these people What was that reverse frisking process like as you were getting to know them My experience is as people get closer to the press Snowden: This gets into the larger question–how did you feel about journalists what was the process of becoming acquainted with them There’s both a political response and a practical response I believe very strongly that there’s no more important quality for a journalist than independence There’s an argument that was put forth by an earlier journalist Stone: “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” In my experience I’ve met with Daniel Ellsberg and spoken about this and it comports with his experience as well He would be briefing the Secretary of Defense on the airplane and then when the Secretary of Defense would disembark right down the eight steps of the plane and shake hands with the press he would say something that he knew was absolutely false and was completely contrary to what they had just said in the meeting [inside the place] because that was his role his responsibility as a member of that institution There’s an argument that was put forth by an earlier journalist I would argue that despite the failings of any journalist in one way or another if they have that independence of perspective they have the greatest capacity for reporting that a journalist can attain no matter how perfect or absolute your sourcing is if you simply take the claims of institutions that have the most privilege that they must protect and you’re willing to sort of repeat them all of those other things that are working in your favor in the final calculus amount to nothing because you’re missing the fundamentals There was the broader question of what it’s like working with these journalists and going through that process There is the argument that I was naïve that’s one of the most common criticisms about me today–that I am too naïve that I have too much faith in the government but I think that idealism is critical to achieving change we can change this or that policy or program it’s the values of the people in these institutions that are producing these policies or programs It’s the values of the people who are sitting at the desk with the blank page in Microsoft Office Bell: I hope they’re not using Microsoft Office Snowden: They have the blank page … Snowden: In their content management system How is that individual going to approach this collection of facts in the next week What will the professor in the journalism school say in their lecture that will impart these values sort of memetically into the next cohort of reporters I would still be living quite comfortably in Hawaii How could you trust a journalist that you knew had no training at all in operational security to keep your identity safe because if they screw up The answer was that that was actually what I was expecting but my ultimate goal was simply to get this information back in the hands of the public I felt that the only way that could be done meaningfully was through the press if we can’t sort of take that leap of faith and either be served well by them You cannot have an open society without open communication the test of open communication is a free press if they can’t contest the government’s control of information and ultimately print information–not just about government that has a deleterious impact on the preferences of power but I would argue it’s not the traditional American democracy that I believed in So the idea here was that I could take these risks because I already expected to bear the costs I expected the end of the road was a cliff This is actually illustrated quite well in Citizenfour because it shows that there was absolutely no plan at all for the day after The planning to get to the point of working with the journalists contextualizing–it was obsessively detailed because if the journalists had done anything shady–for example if I had stayed in place at the NSA as a source and they had asked me for this document and actually brought risks upon them that could have led to new constraints upon journalism Bell: So nothing you experienced in the room with the team made you question or reevaluate journalism Actually working more closely with the journalists has radically reshaped my understanding of journalism I think you would agree that anybody who’s worked in the news industry You also have journalists who go out on their own and they publish details which actually are damaging There were details published by at least one of the journalists that were discussing communication methods that I was still actively using But the journalists didn’t even forewarn me so suddenly I had to change all of my methods on the fly Which worked out OK because I had the capabilities to do that Snowden: This was at the height of public interest The idea here is that a journalist ultimately and particularly a certain class of journalist they don’t owe any allegiance to their source They don’t write the story in line with what the sources desires they don’t go about their publication schedule to benefit There are strong arguments that that’s the way it should be: public knowledge of the truth is more important than the risks that knowledge creates for a few when a journalist is reporting on something like a classified program implicating one of the government’s sources you see an incredibly high standard of care applied to make sure they can’t be blamed if something goes wrong down the road after publication well we’ll hold back this detail from that story reporting on classified documents because if we name this government official it might expose them to some harm or even if it might cause them to have to rearrange the deck chairs in the operations in some far away country But ask yourself–should journalists be just as careful when the one facing the blowback of a particular detail is their own source the answer does not seem to be as obvious as you might expect Bell: Do you foresee a world where someone won’t have to be a whistleblower in order to reveal the kinds of documents that you revealed What kinds of internal mechanisms would that require on behalf of the government Snowden: That’s a really interesting philosophical question It doesn’t come down to technical mechanisms We’ve seen in the EU a number of reports from parliamentary bodies that said we need to protect whistleblowers in particular national security whistleblowers In the national context no country really wants to pass a law that allows individuals rightly But can we provide an international framework for this particularly when espionage laws are being used to prosecute people throughout Western Europe they’re going But if he shows up on the doorstep we’re going to ship him back immediately just because the US is going to retaliate against us It’s extraordinary that the top members of German government have said this on the record–that it’s realpolitik; it’s about power and we need a press that’s more willing and actually eager to criticize government than they are today Even though we’ve got a number of good institutions that do that The only counterargument the government has made against national security whistleblowing and many other things that embarrassed them in the past Why do they have different ground rules in the context of national security journalism in every more authoritarian country by comparison they are embracing the idea of state secrets and we refer to elected representatives as public officials because we’re supposed to know everything about them and their activities they’re supposed to know nothing about us We’re increasingly monitored and tracked and reported at the same time that they’re getting themselves off and becoming less reachable and also less accountable you make it sound as though you see this as a progression It felt from the outside as though America it was almost like a sort of national psychosis there were regular terrorist acts in almost every country after the Second World War You talk about it as an ever increasing problem the press identified this as a significant moment where the temperature had changed You don’t sound like you really think that You sound as though you think that this public/private secrecy Particularly in the current political climate where post-Paris and other terrorist attacks we’ve already seen arguments for breaking encryption Snowden: I don’t think they are actually contradictory views to hold I think what we’re talking about are the natural inclinations of power and vice So when we think about where things have gone in the USA Freedom Act it was even worse in terms of the level of comfort that the government had that it could engage in abuses and get away with them One of the most important legacies of 2013 is not anything that was necessarily published but it was the impact of the publication on the culture of government It was a confirmation coming quite quickly in the wake of the WikiLeaks stories which were equally important in this regard If you authorize a policy that is clearly contrary to law can you keep it under wraps long enough to get out of the administration and hopefully for it to be out of the egregious sort of thing where you’ll lose an election as a result This is the same in the context of terrorism There is an interesting idea–when you were saying it’s sort of weird that the US has what you described as a collective psychosis in the wake of 9/11 given that European countries have been facing terrorist attacks routinely The US had actually been facing the same thing where a Federal building was destroyed by a single individual or one actor Bell: What do you think about the relationship between governments asking Facebook and other communications platforms to help fight ISIS Snowden: Should we basically deputize companies to become the policy enforcers of the world When you put it in that context suddenly it becomes clear that this is not really a good idea particularly because terrorism does not have a strong definition that’s internationally recognized we will take down any post from anybody who the government says is a terrorist suddenly they have to do that for the other government The Chinese allegations of who is and who is not a terrorist are going to look radically different than what the FBI’s are going to be But if the companies try to be selective about them we’re only going to do this for one government they immediately lose access to the markets of the other ones and that’s not a position companies want to be in there are already policies in place for them to do that If Facebook gets a notification that says this is a terrorist thing It’s not like this is a particularly difficult or burdensome review when it comes to violence The distinction is the government is trying to say now we want them to start cracking down on radical speech Should private companies be who we as society are reliant upon to bound the limits of public conversations I think that’s an extraordinarily dangerous precedent to be embracing irresponsible for American leaders to be championing The real solutions here are much more likely to be in terms of entirely new institutions that bound the way law enforcement works moving us away from the point of military conflict There’s no reason why we could not have an international counter-terrorism force that actually has universal jurisdiction Edward Snowden is a former intelligence officer who served the CIA and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cybersecurity he revealed the scope of NSA surveillance globally by providing classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald He has been exiled in Russia since July 2013 Has America ever needed a media defender more than now? 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