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MakeUseOf: “Most people receive a lot of spam emails, calls, and other messages daily. These usually represent some phishing attempt and try as you might, you’ll likely accidentally put yourself in a sketchy position eventually—it’s not your fault; it happens to everyone. If you get phished, it’s important not to worry too much. While it’s …
Gizmodo: The folks over at the Washington Post have had a rough week, losing more than 250,000 subscribers after owner Jeff Bezos ordered the newspaper to not make an endorsement in the 2024 election. But hey, look over there, it’s a shiny new AI chatbot! “Ask The Post AI,” as it’s aptly called, is a …
Save an entire web page—including images and styling—as a single HTML file. SingleFile is an add-on for Chrome, Firefox Desktop and Mobile that helps you to save an entire webpage including images, styling, frames, fonts etc. as a single HTML file. Getting started Wait until the page is fully loaded. Click on the SingleFile button …
PCMag: “Have I Been Pwned has long been one of the most useful ways to learn if your personal information was exposed in a hack. But a new site offers its own powerful tool to help you check if your data has been leaked to cybercriminals. DataBreach.com is the work of a New Jersey company …
News:iterary Project: News Literacy in America: A survey of teen information attitudes, habits and skills (2024). “American teens spend hours each day scrolling social media platforms, immersing themselves in an often-confusing stream of entertainment, ads, news, rumors and conspiracy theories. Young people need the knowledge, skills and habits of mind to assess the credibility and …
“The Federal Trade Commission today charged that Sitejabber, a company offering an AI-enabled consumer review platform, deceived consumers by misrepresenting that ratings and reviews it published came from customers who experienced the reviewed product or service, artificially inflating average ratings and review counts. Under a proposed order settling the agency’s complaint, Sitejabber will be prohibited from …
MakeUseOf: “Heard that your browser is giving up your privacy? Unfortunately, it’s the truth: your browser knows everything about you. Moreover, your browser has a unique fingerprint that can be used to identify you online—and this is how you find out just how unique you are…”
CBA – Lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court alleges that Caseway AI violates CanLII’s terms of service and copyrights: “The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has taken the makers of an AI chatbot to court over what it says is a violation of its terms of service, due to the chatbot scraping CanLII’s database in …
Axios: “Leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Google and Meta rely more on content from premium publishers to train their large language models (LLMs) than they publicly admit, according to new research from executives at Ziff Davis, one of the largest publicly-traded digital media companies. Why it matters: Publishers believe that the more they can …
MakeUseOf: “If you want to prevent companies from tracking what you do online, you may be tempted to turn on your browser’s “Do Not Track” option. However, while enabling it doesn’t exactly do any harm, it doesn’t do much good either. So, here’s what I do to stop websites from tracking me instead of relying …
“The internet is an unimaginably vast repository of modern life, with hundreds of billions of indexed webpages. But even as users across the world rely on the web to access books, images, news articles and other resources, this content sometimes disappears from view. A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content …
Wired unpaywalled: “…AT&T. Ticketmaster. Santander Bank. Neiman Marcus. Electronic Arts. These were not entirely isolated incidents. Instead, they were all hacked thanks to “infostealers,” a type of malware that is designed to pillage passwords and cookies stored in the victim’s browser. In turn, infostealers have given birth to a complex ecosystem that has been allowed …
