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IEEE Spectrum “Every time you unlock your smartphone or start your connected car, you are generating a trail of digital evidence that can be used to track your every move. In Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, just published by NYU Press, law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson exposes …
Sourati Z, S. Ziabari A, Dehghani M. The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2026; Online March 11, 2026. No paywall. “Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, …
Ars Technica: “On Monday [March 16, 2026], a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, provides a home for interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on anything atmospheric. Many of the country’s leading …
Marco Lardelli – “A few weeks ago, stock prices for SaaS (Software as a Service) companies have dropped significantly. It seems that many people expect AI to be capable of writing such tools at very low cost soon. But these events could be only forerunners for much bigger things yet to come. What happens on …
“The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem. Skills are reusable capabilities for AI agents. Install them with a single command to enhance your agents with access to procedural knowledge. What are skills? – Skills are reusable capabilities for AI agents. They provide procedural knowledge that helps agents accomplish specific tasks more effectively. Think of them as plugins …
The Verge – no paywall: “Amazon is going on the defensive after a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that the ecommerce giant plans to slash shipments with the United States Postal Service, which said this week that it’s running out of money. In a lengthy statement published on Wednesday, Amazon says it didn’t …
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itsnicethat: “Once a mainstay of social life in Britain, the branded matchbook no longer accompanies a restaurant bill or sits on a pub’s bar. This new book presents a vast collection of these miniature windows into the graphic sensibilities of a former era. As wild as it might sound to anyone born within the last …
Report and impact assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – A report and impact assessment on the use of copyright works in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, published under Sections 135 and 136 of the Data (Use and Access) Act. Published 18 March 2026 Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (web-optimised PDF) Ref: …
“For the first time, journalists and researchers have a searchable directory of over 1,500 of the world’s knowledge repositories. The new publication is from Newsjunkie.net, the data-journalism resource known for its “Who’s Behind the News” reporting. Guide to Public Archives II, a fully revised and expanded directory of the world’s artifact and document repositories, is …
Shubham Bose: “If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time. I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. …
The Marshall Project – “Child welfare agencies often relied on flawed drug tests administered at childbirth to report tens of thousands of new parents to law enforcement. In New York, guards who brutalized prisoners or covered it up were rarely fired. And at least 50 people died while being treated behind bars by a for-profit …
