Category «Internet»

Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law

Surden, Harry, Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law (February 12, 2025). 96 Colorado Law Review pp. 376 – 411 (2025), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-8, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5135305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5135305 “This article, based upon a keynote address by …

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

Tariff Tracker: We’re Watching Prices for 11 Products You Might Need to Buy

CNET – “President Donald Trump’s extensive new tariffs are expected to have huge, widespread effects on prices in the US, with more and more companies announcing price hikes for popular products. Recently, Microsoft announced price increases across its Xbox gaming brand, Canon announced that increases for its cameras are coming soon and toymaker Mattel warned of inevitable …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online

Critical Insights from FortiGuard Labs – 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report: “Our latest global threat landscape report uncovers how automation, AI, and stolen credentials are fueling faster, more scalable cyberattacks—outpacing defenders across industries and geographies.” Forbes: Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online – “Imagine having access to 19,030,305,929 passwords that were …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

Tired of Traditional Web Search? These Are the Best AI Search Engines We’ve Tested

PC Mag: “Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot (among others) have successfully made AI chatbots mainstream and serve as viable alternatives to standard web search engines. In turn, the standard search engines from those companies (along with alternative ones) have adopted some AI elements. Bing, for example, now offers the Copilot Search feature that shows you …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Don’t Get Burned: 7 Tariff-Beating Tips for Buying Tech in 2025

PC Mag – Concerned about high prices that might come with tariffs? Our experts offer handy buying advice to help you navigate this tricky global trade war.”Uncertainty reigns in global trade, with tensions brought on by the Trump administration’s decision to levy tariffs—taxation based on a percentage of a product’s value—on imports from countries near …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Using AI Can Be Ethically Iffy. Here’s How to Do It Right

PC Mag: “Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay. You’ve probably heard a lot of chatter about how it’s an incredible tool that can transform society and a malevolent force that steals work and is destined to put us all out of a job. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between. …

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

Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators

New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women. “Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford have uncovered a dramatic rise in easily accessible AI tools specifically designed to create deepfake images of identifiable people, finding nearly …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Supercharging Company Knowledge with AI

Harvard Business Review Report: “…Ineffective knowledge management can hinder decision making and lead to poor business performance. When knowledge is fragmented and disorganized, with information documented and stored across disconnected applications and systems, workers find it difficult and time-consuming to find the information they need when they need it. As a result, collaboration stagnates, teams …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

Intelligencer [no paywall] ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project – “In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. In its first year of existence, ChatGPT’s total monthly visits steadily increased …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

The “End of 10” project wants to save aging PCs with Linux instead of Windows 11

TechSpot: “An estimated 240 million PCs will become obsolete when Windows 10 reaches end-of-life status in October. Microsoft is begging impacted users to buy new devices (preferably Copilot+ PCs) to upgrade to Windows 11, but the “End of 10” project aims to use the opportunity to introduce more people to Linux. A recently created website …

Subjects: Internet, Microsoft, Privacy

Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants

EFF: “The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants, according to a report from the Washington Post. Now, immigration officials want two sets of data from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). First, they want access …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

American University librarians take up the mantle with government data rescue project

The Eagle: “A team of four librarians at American University is joining a nationwide effort to preserve removed or redacted data in a Government Information Data Rescue guide. Editors Jessica Breen, Gwendolyn Reece, Olivia Ivey and Sarah Gilchrist each bring their own expertise to the table. The effort follows multiple executive orders starting Jan. 31, …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

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