Category «Internet»

The 12 Best Ways to Share Files With Anyone Over the Web

Make Use Of: “There are many ways to share files between people and devices, but a lot of those methods can be cumbersome by requiring app downloads, account registrations, cloud storage setups, and so on. That’s why we prefer these no-hassle file sharing websites that let you drag-and-drop files and share links to those files …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management

Collecting federal .gov databases

“Please help us by submitting the agency name and url of your favorite agency’s queryable database. We will attempt to harvest that information for the 2024 crawl. We appreciate your time in assisting us in collecting those .gov databases. Please feel free to forward this email to other interested people/communities/lists. For questions, please email me …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

OpenTheBooks.com – Every Dime. Online. In Real Time.

“At OpenTheBooks.com, we work hard to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government – federal, state, and local. In 2022, we filed 50,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and captured 25 million public employee pension and salary records. We also broke open the California state checkbook for the first time …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines

Yale Library – Objects from 200-plus collections are new online

“April 1 through June 30 of this year, more than 8,500 new object landing pages were created. These pages contain 30,000-plus images of individual items, including handwritten letters, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and more. The Lewis Walpole Library alone added digital images for more than 2,000 items, including objects from the British Theatrical and Literary Prints …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Legal Research

Exploring Goodreads Data: An Analysis of 10 Million Books

Ammar Alyousfi’s Blog: “Goodreads is one of the largest book websites on the internet. It has data about millions and millions of books from different genres and in many languages. It’s hard not to find a book on Goodreads whether it’s published hundreds of years ago or just a few days ago. Today, I present …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

Krebs on Security: “A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

The new Google AI Overview layout is a small win for publishers

Mashable: “Google’s AI Overviews got off to a rocky start, but it hasn’t deterred the tech giant from charging ahead with foisting AI-generated summaries upon your search results, like it or not. On Thursday Google announced new updates to AI Overviews, some of which might make publishers a little happier. As of today, Google is …

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

Most Adults are Not Confident They Can Tell Whether Information from AI Chatbots Is True or False

KFF: “…Most U.S. adults are not confident that they can tell what is true versus what is false when it comes to information from AI chatbots, such as Chat-GPT and Microsoft Copilot. Fewer than half say they are either “very confident” (9%) or “somewhat confident” (33%) that they can tell the difference between true and …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Microsoft, Search Engines

AI Risk Repository

What are the risks from Artificial Intelligence? A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain. Read preprint Explore database What is the AI Risk Repository? The AI Risk Repository has three parts: The AI Risk Database captures 700+ risks extracted from 43 existing frameworks, with quotes and …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation