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A live radar of the aircraft above you. Tap a blip to see what it is. Enter a postcode, town, or city — anywhere in the world — or use your location, and see the aircraft overhead right now. Tap one to find out what it is. [h/t Tara Calishain] You heard a jet. You …
Wired – a Reminder That You Don’t Own What You Buy: “Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal. As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 …
TechCrunch: “Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to …
American Association of Law Librarians: “This guide is intended to help you use AI in your legal research effectively and responsibly.”
The Guardian: “”Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and …
Washington Post – no paywall: “…People working with AI tend to outperform those without it on tasks well-suited for AI, such as drafting text, synthesizing research and generating ideas. In controlled experiments, researchers have seen massive improvements — at least in the short term. In a 2026 peer-reviewed paper in Organization Science, Ethan Mollick at …
“PowerOutage.us collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available. Most states have multiple electric utilities, many small, some big. With these large numbers of companies, it can be hard to get …
AI in Finance and Banking, June 30, 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 provided are to …
404 Media – “What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning – “AI chatbots that were prompted to impersonate public figures produced responses that people perceived to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real thing, a finding that underscores “a dire need to inform the general public of the potential harm this can have …
The New York Times Gift article : “The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help. Wikipedia is in peril. In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every …
Explore decades of incredible images and videos of stars, planets, moons, and galaxies—most of which are free to use and share….what you might not know is that NASA makes its huge library of images and videos available for anyone to dig through, marvel at, and reshare. Because NASA is funded by the US government, most …
Inside Hook: “…I’ve put together a list of ways to live a more analog lifestyle. As I make the rules here, I’ve stretched the definition of “analog” a bit to accommodate a reasonably modern lifestyle. I’m not suggesting you cancel your wifi. This is more about adopting sustained, analog-adjacent routines — and while there are …
