Category «Internet»

Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says

Ars Technica: “Newly unsealed emails reveal the sneaky ways that Amazon colludes with rivals to raise prices across the Internet on “everything from diapers to clothing to furniture,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged in a press release Monday. “Amazon and a competitor will knowingly stop price matching each other, so that one retailer can increase …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines

Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users

Bloomberg (Gift Article): “A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with the matter and documentation viewed by Bloomberg News. A handful of users in a private online forum gained …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research

Nothing speaks.

The Verge: “Nothing has launched Essential Voice, a dictation tool that tidies speech in more than 100 languages and sounds similar to a product Google launched earlier this month. It supports shortcuts for repeated words and phrases and speech-to-text translation. It’s currently only available for Phone (3) and Phone (4a) Pro, but Nothing hopes it’s …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Spoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them

Wired – no paywall: “Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative…Tracking disappearing ships makes use of several technologies, some of them newer than others. Samir Madani, the cofounder of …

Subjects: Energy, Internet, Search Engines, Transportation

The New Tactics of TikTok Journalism

Miissouri School of Journalism: “Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content. TikTok has exploded as a source of news for young people, and its rise offers key insights for news organizations looking to adapt to changing audience habits. New research from Kaia Tran, MA ’25, highlights how to create news content that resonates with TikTok …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Social Media

How we OCR’ed 30,000 papers using Codex, open OCR models and Jobs

Huggin Face: “On the hub, we index arXiv papers any time someone mentions an arXiv abstract or PDF link in the README of a model, dataset or Space. Besides, any researcher can submit their work to Daily Papers at https://hf.co/papers/submit, up to 14 days after the publication date on arXiv. Daily Papers view. This enables …

Subjects: AI, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem

The New York Times: “For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain… A.I. system is to ask the model to explain itself. If a therapy language model tells you that you should take antidepressants, you …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

How to actually recycle electronics, beauty empties, toys, and more tricky items in 2026

Mashable: “…Perhaps you’ve Googled “how to recycle insert item here” just to be given some vague instructions like “Check locally.” If you did check locally, you probably learned that most municipal recycling programs max out at trash-like recyclables. This isn’t because recycling everything else is impossible on a technical level — it often just costs …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Internet

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Forbes: “When Shanna Johnson was winding down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she ran as CEO, she discovered an unexpected asset: its operational exhaust—the digital leftovers that pile up across years of work and collaboration. To close the company out, she worked with SimpleClosure, a startup that specializes in helping companies wind down. SimpleClosure …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

NeimanLab: “Depending on whom you ask, prediction markets are either: A dangerous, unregulated form of gambling that allows for degenerate betting on real events, unfettered by the economic and legal rules that keep stock markets and sports betting in check, creating an opportunity for corruption and insider trading on a scale we have never seen …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 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 increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026

Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026 – This twice a month 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 …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines