Global Investigative Journalism Network

New Tools for Geolocation, Collaboration, Illicit Finance, Deportation Data, and Bad-Actor Tracking

At the NICAR 2026 conference, dozens of leading data journalists shared some of their favorite digital tools and databases ...
IEEE

UncertaintyGeo: A Dirichlet Network Architecture for Evaluating IP Geolocation Uncertainty

Abstract: Fine-grained IP geolocation plays a critical role in location-based services and cybersecurity. However, due to the impact of inherent noise on data features, most existing fine-grained IP ...
IEEE

Bridging Extreme Viewpoint Gap: Robust Cross-Domain Matching of Tower Surveillance and Satellite Images for Precise Geolocation

Abstract: Tower-based surveillance (TBS) systems provide continuous, high-resolution, and real-time monitoring over wide spatial extents. However, accurate geolocation of TBS imagery remains largely ...
GitHub

remoteStorage is a simple library that combines the localStorage API with a remote server to persist data across browsers and devices.

Storing data in localStorage is useful, but it's not a good solution when you store data that needs to be shared across multiple devices or browsers. For instance, let's say you want to show a welcome ...
GitHub

JavaScript captcha solver (Node.js): Bypass reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest and more

Use the JavaScript captcha solver to automatically bypass any captcha - including reCAPTCHA v2, Invisible, v3, Enterprise, Cloudflare Turnstile, GeeTest sliders, Amazon WAF, FunCaptcha, and both image ...