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Engadget: “Google Earth seems to be the area where the massive company remembers that tech can be cool and downright fun. In 2024, it added an option for seeing historical recreations of select times and places. This is the sort of clever curio we love, and Google delivered even more the following year. Once you …
“Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages. Words of Type has been initiated by Lisa Huang, a French and Chinese typeface designer. Words of Type Encyclopedia aims to be a useful and accessible tool for everyone interested in typography and type design, at all times and …
Open Laws Foundation: Most legal-data projects scrape statutes and dump them into a convenient format. That throws away the structure: cross-references, temporal validity, the relationships between acts. And that structure is the part that actually makes legislation useful to machines. We do the opposite. Read the spec GitHub ↗︎ Stable identifier olf:it/legge/2019/123/art_3 A profile of …
404 Media: “A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it is trivially easy for brands to inject promotional content on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Wikipedia …
The New York Times Gift Article – In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself. For more than two decades, Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, but in the last six months he’d stopped trusting his …
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target The Hollywood Reporter: “The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved. The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker …
Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …
Yahoo News “The U.S. Postal Service has recently proposed new rules for mailing absentee and mail-in ballots in federal elections, requiring states to provide voter eligibility lists and unique barcodes to ensure ballots are sent only to approved recipients. The proposal, published in the Federal Register, follows an executive order issued by President Donald Trump …
Tech Policy: “At its I/O conference in May, Google announced what it called the biggest overhaul of Search in more than 25 years. Since 2024, Google Search has moved through several phases: from legacy search, which used some personal data to rank results; to AI Overviews, AI-synthesized summaries displayed above traditional results; and now to …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026 – 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 …
Calishat: “Let me tell you about a search tool of mine I just upgraded using Diffbot’s new Web API. It’s an upgraded version of Super Edu Search that I’m calling Super Edu Search Powered by Diffbot. I bet you have added site:edu to a Google search at some point. It’s an easy way to instantly …
“Sir David Attenborough just turned 100. In recognition of his brilliant career and life, here’s everything he’s ever worked on, in one place. Nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re …
