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Submission + - World's largest Wikipedia evaluation finds: Finnish Wikipedia largely error free (helsinkitimes.fi)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat evaluated 134 articles in the Finnish-language version of Wikipedia with 96 experts, most of them professors and other academics. That is said to be the most extensive individual investigation on the trustworthiness of Wikipedia in the whole world.
According to results, Wikipedia is better than it’s reputation: seventy per cent of the articles got good points for accuracy. But in many ways the Finnish Wikipedia is also far from flawless.
Read the story in English (17 000 characters) here. You can also download the result dataset as an open data here.
The story also states that Finnish Wikipedia is largely written by only three hundred active writers, and could use some more.

Submission + - Microsoft Takes Steps for Protecting customer data from government snooping

Submitted by rtoz
rtoz writes: Microsoft has announced that it is taking various step including data encryption process for Protecting customer data from government snooping. Brad Smith, General Counsel of Microsoft had written a detailed plan about its step to prevent government snooping.

Though he didn’t specifically mention “NSA”, he had said that Microsoft was alarmed by allegations that “some governments” had collected customer data from the Internet without warrants.

He is telling about below three action items for preventing such snooping activities.
  • Expanding encryption across Microsoft services.
  • Reinforcing legal protections for customers’ data.
  • Enhancing the transparency of software code, making it easier for customers to reassure themselves that Microsoft products do not contain back doors.

Brand Smith says Microsoft will pursue a comprehensive engineering effort to strengthen the encryption of customer data across networks and services. This effort will include major communications, productivity and developer services such as Outlook.com, Office 365, SkyDrive and Windows Azure, and will provide protection across the full lifecycle of customer-created content.

Submission + - New black holes found in Andromeda

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes: Astronomers have discovered 26 new likely black holes in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy — the largest haul of black hole candidates ever found in a galaxy apart from our own. The central region of the Andromeda galaxy is chock-full of black holes, according to extensive observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. 26 new stellar-mass black hole candidates have been identified, adding to nine previously known and bringing the grand total to 35. Scientists believe it may be 'tip of the iceberg'

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