Day archives: July 10th, 2023

JournalistsToolbox.ai

Created by Mike Reilley, Founder and Editor of Journalist’s Toolbox Ai: “A few years ago, I was doing a digital tools training for a group of journalists in Phoenix. One of the attendees took me to task for saying that a surge of AI tools would be coming in the next few years. “Google uses …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases

Popular Science: “Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed. And CVS is not the only pharmacy …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Medicine, Microsoft, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Massive collection of 11 million postage stamps represents every life lost in Holocaust

Forward: “A teacher’s quest to help students understand the enormity of the Holocaust has culminated in a mind-boggling exhibition of 11 million postage stamps — one for each of the Nazis’ victims, including Jews and non-Jews. The project began when teacher Charlotte Sheer read the Newbery Award-winning children’s novel Number the Stars with her fifth …

Subjects: Education

The Coolest Library on Earth

Hakai Magazine:  “At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future…Copenhagen is one of several places in the world where pieces of ice cores drilled from our planet’s extremities are kept safely cold. Other large research freezers are located in the United States, Australia, France, …

Subjects: Climate Change, EU Data Protection, Libraries

“Shadow libraries” at heart of mounting copyright lawsuits against OpenAI

Quartz: “…Shadow libraries are online databases that provide access to millions of books and articles that are out of print, hard to obtain, and paywalled. Many of these databases, which began appearing online around 2008, originated in Russia, which has a long tradition of sharing forbidden books, according to the magazine Reason. Soon enough, these …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

America’s first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week

Quartz: “Artificial intelligence isn’t simply changing how we do our jobs: It’s also deciding whether we get jobs at all. Companies are increasingly incorporating algorithmic tools into their hiring processes, from software that reads our resumes to AI bots that score our first interviews. Now in New York City, new legislation is being used to determine …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Government Documents, Legal Research