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404 Media: “After launching a feature that adds more AI junk than ever to search results, Google is experimenting with a radical new feature that lets users see only the results they were looking for, in the form of normal text links. As in, what most people actually use Google for. “We’ve launched a new …
MakeUseOf: “Key Takeaways The invisible web is vast, including the deep & dark web. Specialist search engines like Ahmia and Torch can access it but use Tor to access individual sites from the search results. Sites like Pipl, Directory of Open Access Journals, The Wayback Machine, Veridian, and Project Gutenberg hold valuable content for different …
How To Geek: “We hear it all the time: “Google search is getting worse!” The reasons why are many, but one of them just became fixable: cluttered results pages. Thanks to a new filter option, you can remove the cruft that’s been building up around certain types of searches, and you can even make it …
Tech Republic: “In Microsoft Word documents, unwanted pages — usually blank pages — are a common mishap that usually occur when someone presses Ctrl + Enter or Command + Return to force a new page (I recommend you do not use that method). Most Word documents have a few hard page breaks, so it’s easy …
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh et al, A Browser Extension for in-place Signaling and Assessment of Misinformation, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.11485 MIT News: “Most people agree that the spread of online misinformation is a serious problem. But there is much less consensus on what to do about it. Many proposed solutions focus on how social media platforms can …
MakeUseOf: “Key Takeaways Onion sites are unindexed web addresses on the dark web with “.onion” suffixes. Compared to other methods, using the Tor Browser is the safest way to visit onion sites. Accessing onion sites using everyday browsers poses significant security risks. You can use Tor proxies, browser extensions, or Proton VPN to access onion …
“Today, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released Generating Harms II: Generative AI’s New & Continued Impacts, a follow-up report that expands on the harms detailed in last year’s Generating Harms report. The new report includes a deep dive into four new issue areas and explores the different remedies and enforcement actions that are being …
Pluralistic: “The big news in search this week is that Google is continuing its transition to “AI search” – instead of typing in search terms and getting links to websites, you’ll ask Google a question and an AI will compose an answer based on things it finds on the web: https://blog.google/products/search/generative-ai-google-search-may-2024/ – Google bills this as …
WSJ via MSN: “Want to get the best answers out of an AI? It’s all in how you talk to it. Tell it, for instance, to pretend it is Albert Einstein. Or that somebody’s life depends on the response. Or that it needs to stay focused on its goals. Prodding an artificial-intelligence chatbot is nothing …
PNAS – The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment. Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321584121, Published Online: 2024-05-13. Published Print: 2024-05-21 Significance – We provide the largest-scale evidence available to date on the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in a presidential election season. This …
“Poynter’s PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom, is pleased to announce the launch of a new Spanish-language experience, PolitiFact en Español, to help more than 40 million Spanish-speakers in the U.S. sort out the truth in politics. A new Spanish-language website and a related social media presence are the culmination of an effort that began …
The Conversation: “Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and they can involve just about anything. People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons – including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives. The …
