Day archives: July 28th, 2024

NIST releases a tool for testing AI model risk

TechCrunch: “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government, companies and the broader public, has re-released a testbed designed to measure how malicious attacks — particularly attacks that “poison” AI model training data — might degrade the performance of an AI …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

CancerDB: Datasets about Cancer

“CancerDB is a public domain blog assembling searchable key datasets on cancer for dependable models. The focus is on cancer, cancer preventions and treatments, but the database also includes datasets on closely connected things–from cancer types to organizations and more. CancerDB is for two groups of people: Cancer researchers. CancerDB is organized big data to …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Fake images are getting harder to spot. Here’s a field guide.

Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “Photographs have a profound power to shape our understanding of the world. And it’s never been more important to be able to discern which ones are genuine and which are doctored to push an agenda, especially in the wake of dramatic or contentious moments. But advances in technology mean that spotting manipulated …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Legal Research

Our World in Data

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems – “Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Poverty, Search Engines

What is The Scale of Life?

Everyday Life in Real Time – “Our site is a “real-time” visualization of the relative scale of different life events and natural phenomena (details on what real-time means below). You can select from various categories, time periods, and some unique units of measure that we created in the dropdowns to modify the counter lists.  Each …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side

The Verge: “Bing’s new search experience puts AI-generated answers front and center while pushing traditional search results to the side. The new layout, which is rolling out for a small number of queries, fills your search results page with AI-generated summaries addressing various aspects of your question. Microsoft has shared an early look at what …

Subjects: AI, Search Engines

Congressional District Geography Workbook

CRS Insight: Congressional District Geography Workbook: An Interactive Tool for Congressional Users July 23, 2024. This Insight accompanies the Congressional District Geography Workbook, a Microsoft Excel file that congressional users can download from CRS.gov. The workbook provides information about U.S. House districts as configured in the 118th Congress (2023-2024)….The workbook, when downloaded and opened in …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Button Stealer

“A Chrome extension that “steals” a button from every website you open. Button Stealer works automatically. Do your usual everyday online stuff and watch the collection of your stolen buttons grow. It’s fun, useless, and free!”

Subjects: Internet

A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data

MIT Technology Review [unpaywalled]: “Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set. Now they have a new way …

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 27, 2024

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 27, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy