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Fast Company: “For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States. Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance. In thousands of towns and cities across the U.S., automatic license plate readers have been installed at major intersections, bridges and highway off-ramps. These camera-based systems capture the …
“A year ago, SFGATE launched a national parks bureau — a big bet on America’s best idea. We hired journalists across the American West to report in and around parks in California, the Pacific Northwest, Big Sky Country and the Southwest. We asked them to report on the things that make people fall in love …
ZDNET – Cesar Cadenas: “PrivacyBee is one of the most comprehensive data removal services I’ve tested. The service is far more comprehensive, offering a wide range of tools and features that its counterpart can’t match. It scanned deeper, uncovered additional potential exposures, and provided a level of control that exceeded my expectations. On top of …
Business Insider “ChatGPT can code and tutor. Now, contractors are helping the system to become ever more specialized in niche areas like animal husbandry, agriculture, music composition, and even commercial flying, documents show. Under Project Stagecraft, as it is internally known at data-labeling startup Handshake AI, freelancers are being paid at least $50 an hour …
404 Media: “Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups continue to explore use cases for AI …
ZDNET – “This free privacy tool gave me answers. Data is gold, and some companies go to great lengths to collect it, store it, and sell it. But you can put an end to it. [Note – sort of] There’s a service called Global Privacy Control that offers extensions and/or links to browsers and apps …
Android Authority: here’s how to do it. “A wide rollout in the US brings the long-awaited ability to refresh your digital identity without losing any of your data…Users in the US can go to their Google Account settings (navigate to any Google website or app like Gmail, tap the profile photo in the top-right corner, …
MakeUseOf: “I treat Bluetooth like a light switch. I turn it off when I don’t need it, and assume it’s gone. You did too, right? Turns out, we’re wrong. When you’re not actively connected to anything, your phone is still talking, constantly, to anyone nearby set up to listen. Your Bluetooth signal isn’t really turned …
Fstoppers: “Most photographers spend years building an archive worth protecting, but very few have a plan for what happens to it after they die. Copyright, physical media, cloud accounts, and stock licensing don’t sort themselves out automatically, and without a plan, decades of work can vanish or get tied up in legal chaos. Coming to …
Track live flights in 3D over the world’s busiest airspaces. Altitude-aware, beautifully rendered, and completely free. Open Source.
“The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of Transparency Hub, a user-friendly tool that aggregates policy documents and associated data of technology and social media companies allowing both researchers and users to search, compare, and analyze how policies have changed …
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