Category «Internet»

The Breachies 2024: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year

EFF: “Every year, countless emails hit our inboxes telling us that our personal information was accessed, shared, or stolen in a data breach. In many cases, there is little we can do. Most of us can assume that at least our phone numbers, emails, addresses, credit card numbers, and social security numbers are all available …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, ID Theft, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

What is your digital footprint and how can you protect it?

Proton VPN Blog: “Whenever you do something online, you leave a trail of information behind that can be used to uniquely identify and track you. This is your digital footprint(new window). In this article, we’ll look at: What is a digital footprint? Digital footprint examples Why does your digital footprint matter? How to check your …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

Gizmodo: “Do you use text messages for multi-factor authentication? You should probably switch to a different method, especially with everything we’re learning about a recent hack that’s been dubbed the “worst in our nation’s history.” Even the federal government is putting out warnings now, including a call for government officials to only use encrypted apps …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time

The Verge [unpaywalled]: “A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times’ digital team. They found that this problem affected over half of the articles containing links in the …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Year in Pictures – The New York Times

“This year was made up of such extraordinary moments. And Times photographers captured them in extraordinary images. “The Year in Pictures” brings you the most powerful, evocative and history-making of those images — and allows you to see the biggest stories of 2024 through our photographers’ eyes.”  

Subjects: Internet

Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education

Harrington, Sean, Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education (October 03, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4975804 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4975804  –  “This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage …

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

You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT

Lifehacker – “ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines like Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, and Microsoft Bing (powered by Copilot). OpenAI originally announced its search plans back …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy

MIT Technology Review – “Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back. The internet loves a good neologism, especially if it can capture a purported vibe shift or explain a new trend. In 2013, the columnist Adrian Wooldridge coined …

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