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Wired unpaywalled: “The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle [The case is Hachette Book Group Inc. v. Internet Archive, 2d Cir., No. 23-1260, 9/4/24.]—in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the long-running digital …
The New Yorker [unpaywalled]: “…Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices. This might be easiest to explain if we use fiction writing as an example. When you are …
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation: “Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates …
PopSci: “YouTube’s website is a rabbit hole, designed to keep you watching as long as possible. Freetube won’t cure your addiction, but it does let you take control over your relationship with the video streaming site. The application allows you to take total control of what does and doesn’t show up on the screen. Don’t …
Gizmodo: “Reddit isn’t difficult to use, and you don’t even need an account to browse through everything ‘the front page of the internet’ has to offer. Recent and popular posts are just a click away from the main homepage, and you can use the search box at the top to look for posts on almost …
ProPublica: “…Late last month, Telegram burst into the news with another arrest related to alleged criminal activity on the giant messaging and social media platform. This time, the man in police custody was the company’s founder, Pavel Durov. French authorities detained the Russian-born billionaire after his plane touched down at an airport a few miles …
Pew Research Center – “Why parents say it’s harder being a teen today. There are big debates about how teenagers are faring these days. And technology’s impact is often at the center of these conversations. Prominent figures, including the U.S. Surgeon General, have been vocal about the harmful effects technology may be having on young …
Make Use Of: “Have you ever wanted to find the title of a book but can only remember the plot or main character’s name? Gone are the days of friendly, knowledgeable librarians [what!!], but online search tricks make it easy to find a book using vague descriptions.”
Artificial Intelligence and the Law – David Colarusso AI in Finance and Banking, August 30, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Six highlights from this …
Tech Policy Press, Eryk Salvaggio – “Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination is shaped by the people selling services that rely on that infrastructure. This has given rise to a …
The Verge: “The rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power most of our laptops may be the most practical battery tech we have right now, but they naturally degrade over time as their ions flow back and forth — it’s an inevitable consequence of the way they’re built and the way they work. Eventually, the batteries can’t …
Court Watch – This article was produced in collaboration with 404 Media, a new independent technology investigations site. By Jason Koebler “In its antitrust case against Google, the Federal Government filed a list of chats it had obtained that show Google employees explicitly asking each other to turn off a chat history feature to discuss …
