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- Data Center Water Consumption: A Lack of Transparency (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00101-w 9 comments
- Carter Center weighs launching transparency campaign for U.S. elections https://www.axios.com/jimmy-carter-trump-usps-election-c505d73f-0802-4b81-8c22-0768c017a967.html 9 comments politics
- Twitter launches its Ads Transparency Center, where you can see ads bought by any account https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/twitter-ads-transparency-center/ 5 comments politics
- In October, Twitter Promised An Ad Transparency Center In 'Coming Weeks.' Where Is It? https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/where-is-twitters-promised-ad-transparency-center?utm_term=.tqjp75gyb#.ky5p3ymrv 9 comments politics
- Carter Center unable to verify Venezuela election results, blasts officials for lack of transparency https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-presidential-election-maduro-machado-edmundo-results-3ec88b273cabfee8e5696ff67d24186d 4 comments worldnews
- Trump administration rejects Center for Public Integrity request for transparency https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/ukraine-docs/trump-doj-rejects-center-for-public-integrity-request-transparency/ 7 comments politics
- Update from the Policy Forum on our approach to ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for hate speech | Transparency Center https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/hate-speech-update-july2024/ 30 comments worldevents
- Brennan Center Sends Letter to Arizona State Senate on Election Audit Transparency https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/brennan-center-sends-letter-arizona-state-senate-election-audit 15 comments politics
- I think this fix deserves its own post, Microsoft has fixed the "transparency bug" of the Action Center (build 19002). https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/djgjui/i_think_this_fix_deserves_its_own_post_microsoft/ 4 comments windowsinsiders
- Campaign Legal Center and OpenSecrets sue the FEC for delayed response to transparency rulemaking petition https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/10/campaign-legal-center-and-opensecrets-sue-the-fec-for-delayed-response-to-transparency-rulemaking-petition 3 comments politics
- Finnish state research center VTT develops transparent cellulose film to replace traditional plastic in food packaging https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/vtt-develops-transparent-cellulose-film-replace-traditional-plastic-food-packaging 15 comments europe
- Markups in prices of cancer therapies, lack of price transparency across cancer centers. Many substantially marked up drug prices for patients with private insurance, and markups ranged from approximately 120 percent to 630 percent of the cost for the hospital to acquire the drug. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950555 39 comments science
- Trump Administration Asserts Control Over Coronavirus Data | Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington, raising questions about transparency. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/coronavirus-data-trump-cdc.html 158 comments politics
- Switzerland and the United States are the most secretive financial centers in the world, according to a new global ranking compiled by a group campaigning for more fiscal transparency. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finance-secrecy-index/global-study-names-switzerland-as-capital-of-bank-secrecy-iduskbn1fj2i0?il=0 7 comments worldnews
- Chris Matthews at center of new NBC scandal as it emerges guests on his show Hardball gave his wife at least $79k to fund her political campaign: Chris Matthews assured viewers last summer he would maintain fair coverage and transparency on his show Hardball http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3489096/guests-msnbc-hardball-donated-79k-host-chris-matthews-wife-runs-congress-despite-promises-news-anchor-maintain-transparency.html 7 comments politics
- Science AMA Series: I'm David Mellor from the Center for Open Science talking about the biases that affect scientific research and what we're doing to make science more transparent and reproducible. AMA! https://twitter.com/OSFramework 47 comments science
- 'No back doors here': Microsoft opens site to let governments check out its source code | Microsoft has opened its second Transparency Center in the heart of Europe. http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-back-doors-here-microsoft-opens-site-to-let-governments-check-out-its-source-code/ 7 comments worldnews
- Ever since an update some time ago, all the images in Firefox are displayed -centered- in front of a dark grey background, which is especially stupid in the case of partially transparent PNGs; cf. image. Does anyone know how to fix this? (Firefox 11 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) http://eho.st/ppmusqam+ 6 comments linux