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Card Catalog: A complete guide to finding, reading, and evaluating scientific papers — and knowing what questions matter before you trust the findings. Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS: “We are living through a strange moment in the history of knowledge. More information is available to more people than at any point in human history, and yet …
MakeUseOf: “Every photo you share carries a hidden dossier. Your exact location, your device model, and the precise second you pressed the shutter. When your phone captures an image, it saves more than pixels. Embedded inside every JPEG is a layer of data called EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format), and it is quite thorough. A …
Poynter: “More than 200 journalists at Law360, a legal news outlet, and its sister publications have signed a letter demanding that their parent company RELX drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security. The letter, which was signed by more than 80% of the union representing editorial staff at Law360 and regulation news site …
How to Geek: “Thanks to the internet, it’s incredibly easy to open an app and immediately get a detailed weather report. But what you might not realize is that your phone has some precise weather instruments of its own. Most phones have a barometer inside, and it’s more useful than you might think. What does …
Proton Blog: “From Minneapolis to Munich to Tehran, people are taking to the streets as a form of political expression. The right to peaceful assembly and protest are bedrocks of democracy, and we support everyone’s ability to exercise these rights. Proton’s mission is to protect people’s privacy and freedom from surveillance and censorship. For this …
Lifehacker: “If you’re tired of X and Threads, it might be time to move to greener, or perhaps bluer, pastures…It turns out that, with the right platform, it’s possible to like social media again. Bluesky is quite unlike most other social media networks. You have a lot of control over who sees your posts and …
404 Media [no paywall]: “Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games, dating services, and fitness trackers, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 …
Ars Technica: “Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said. The finding, from a recently published research paper, is based on results of experiments correlating specific individuals with accounts …
MakeUseOf: “Your phone’s contact list is, in a way, one of the most intimate things you own. It holds the names, numbers, and sometimes addresses of everyone you care about. I’m talking about your family, your doctor, your oldest friend, your enemies, etc. And yet, by default, that entire list sits exposed in Android’s shared …
ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline. “Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually disappears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can’t save every type of content. ArchiveBox is an open …
LifeHacker: “Facebook is clearly no longer the hot social media property it once was—younger generations are now far more likely to spend their time on TikTok, Snapchat, or Instagram—but there are still billions of people logging into the Facebook site and mobile apps each month. During its 20+ years of existence, Facebook has added a …
The Verge (Gift Article): How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance. “Across social media and the AI industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman’s claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to these red lines when it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? …
