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Washington Post and free via MSN: “OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, can create high-definition clips of just about anything you could ask for — a breakthrough in artificial intelligence expected to transform the entertainment industry. But whose data OpenAI used to create its groundbreaking system is a mystery. With ChatGPT, OpenAI helped popularize the now-standard …
profulus – Measuring Political Violence in the United States by Ideological Alignment: Right-Wing Actors Dominate Incidents of Politically Motivated Violence. The Landscape of Domestic Political Violence: “Political violence in the U.S. refers to violent acts motivated by political beliefs, ideologies, or partisan affiliations. These range from hate crimes and extremist attacks to targeted assassinations and …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 20, 2025 – 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 increasingly …
LawSites: “Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to have forgotten everything they ever learned in law school about how to research and cite the law. Standing as a …
“The American Bar Association Women Trailblazers in the Law Project today announced the release of the oral history of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Justice Ginsburg’s oral history memorializes her personal and professional life in her own words, preserving her experiences, observations …
CNBC: Google adds Gemini to Chrome for all users in push to bolster AI search. “In a blog post Thursday, Google said it’s rolling out Gemini in Chrome to users of Mac and Windows computers in the U.S. as well as to mobile devices. Users will be able to ask Gemini for help understanding the …
404 Media: “Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022. But the problem escalated over the summer after fielding patron requests for the same fake …
The New York Times Archive – Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime: BERLIN, Feb. 4, 1939: “Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five “Aryan” actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their …
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: “We are excited to announce today that the Library Innovation Lab has expanded our Public Data Project beyond datasets available through Data.gov to include 710 TB of data from the Smithsonian Institution — the complete open access portion of the Smithsonian’s collections. This marks an important step in our …
MakeUseOf: “When you open an app for the first time on your iPhone, it often requests various permissions—such as access to your camera, contacts, microphone, photos, and, most importantly, your location. What you may not realize is that granting location access often means giving the app your exact coordinates. This means any app on your …
Lifehacker: “If you’ve ever felt like you were duped by overpaying for something that was advertised as a “great deal,” you’re in the right place. It’s easy to get caught up in frenzied online shopping holidays like the upcoming October Prime Day sale— especially when retailers sometimes sneak price hikes before major sales or deceive shoppers …
Colossal: “In so-called “granary trees,” acorn woodpeckers drill remarkable pegboard-like patterns in which they store thousands upon thousands of acorns for food over the winter. And the Austral pygmy-owl, endemic to parts of Argentina and Chile, can be identified by its high-pitched toot. These are just a few of the incredible array of bird species …
