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The Atlantic Gift Article – Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. …
Meta has control over many of the social platforms that people use every day – YouTube. “Since Facebook started in 2004, the company has been fine-tuning how to turn user data from apps like Instagram and WhatsApp into ad revenue. Now Meta’s $1.5 trillion market cap isn’t enough for them, so they’ve been looking for …
Common Crawl is a 501(c)(3) non–profit founded in 2007. We make wholesale extraction, transformation and analysis of open web data accessible to researchers. Overview Over 300 billion pages spanning 19 years. Free and open corpus since 2007. Cited in over 10,000 research papers. 3–5 billion new pages added each month.
How to Geek: “If your Wi-Fi works fine in some parts of the house but feels downright miserable in others, you’re probably dealing with Wi-Fi dead zones. And yes, they can still be a thing even right next to your router under the wrong circumstances. Before you start buying Wi-Fi extenders or mesh Wi-Fi systems, …
Let’s Do Data Science: “U.S. courts remain split on whether training AI models on copyrighted material is fair use, after Judge William Alsup ruled in June 2025 that training on purchased, digitized books was fair use while Judge Vince Chhabria reached the opposite conclusion two days later in a related San Francisco case. The split …
ABCNetAU: “The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz almost immediately caused a fuel price shock felt in bank accounts around Australia. Even if the Strait returns to normal, that shock will keep sending prices up in a range of industries. Economic ripples will filter through to a plethora of products, such as plastics, fertilisers, building …
Bleeping Computer: “DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. The feature is enabled by default in the latest versions of DuckDuckGo for iOS, Mac, and Windows, while Android users can enable it manually by going to Settings > …
NOTUS: “In California’s gubernatorial primary, Tom Steyer had the biggest war chest in a crowded field of Democrats, spending more than $200 million out of his own pocket. But money alone wasn’t enough — he ended up placing third, falling just short in his quest to compete for November’s general election. A contributing factor, according …
PC Mag: “Does a Google search turn up way too much information about you? Follow these tips to remove your phone number, email and physical addresses, and other data from the site’s results….How to Submit a Manual Request to Delete. Google will let you manually request the removal of other things you may find harmful. That includes: …
“The Gap Map comes out of cumulative work to identify the points of highest leverage in the open source AI stack: where to build something new, where to invest in capability, where to open up the tools. By creating an up-to-date visualization of the ecosystem where we can all see both the progress and the …
A live radar of the aircraft above you. Tap a blip to see what it is. Enter a postcode, town, or city — anywhere in the world — or use your location, and see the aircraft overhead right now. Tap one to find out what it is. [h/t Tara Calishain] You heard a jet. You …
WantedInMilan: ” More than 32,000 volumes from the writer’s Milan study now housed at Palazzo Poggi, arranged exactly as he left them. The University of Bologna has opened the Biblioteca Eco, a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer and semiotician Umberto Eco, a decade after his death. The collection, comprising more than …