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The Verge: Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig – After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d think about AI and TikTok — and he has surprising thoughts about balancing free speech with protecting democracy. Nilay Patel: “…Larry and I talked about the current and recurring controversy around react videos on …
The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the most influential accounts engaged in Hamas/Israel discourse. Oct 20, 2023 RAPID RESEARCH REPORT University of Washington Center for an Informed Public: “Since the first news of the attack on Israel by Hamas, we have seen anecdotal reports from users of X (formerly Twitter) that the platform has become …
PrePrint, arXiv, October 11, 2023. Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy Via Inference With Large Language Models. Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Mislav Balunovic, Martin Vechev, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. “Current privacy research on large language models (LLMs) primarily focuses on the issue of extracting memorized training data. At the same time, models’ inference capabilities have …
Fast Company: “I’ll let you in on a little secret: Google’s apps and services are absolutely overflowing with buried treasures. More than any other tech company, Google loves tucking interesting options and features into out-of-the-way places. Some of the best elements of Gmail, Google Calendar, and other popular productivity tools are almost completely out of …
Solove, Daniel J. and MATSUMI, Hideyuki, AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans (October 16, 2023). 96 Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2024), Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4603992 “This Essay critiques a set of arguments often made to justify the use of AI and algorithmic decision-making technologies. These arguments all share a common premise – that human decision-making is …
“PeerTube ⧉ is a video platform for the Fediverse, and allows anyone to start their own independent video site. Because it’s part of the Fediverse, PeerTube accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc as well as other PeerTube servers. PeerTube videos are streamed using clever peer-to-peer technology which means the more people watch a video, …
“This new Public Case Access site was created as a result of a collaboration between the Harvard Law School Library and Ravel Law. The company supported the library in its work to digitize 40,000 printed volumes of cases, comprised of over forty million pages of court decisions, including original materials from cases that predate the …
Financial Times (read free): “…Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Stunning numbers of people with years of schooling are effectively illiterate. Admittedly, nostalgics have been whining about new media since 1492, but today’s whines have an evidential basis. To quote this month’s Ljubljana Reading Manifesto, signed by publishers’ and library associations, …
BlackLight – “A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector. Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what …
BoingBoing: “Protomaps is a free and open-source map of the world for use in your websites, apps, and other projects: an alternative to hosted services, freer than Google Maps and simpler to adapt than OpenStreetMap. A fraction of the cost – Can reduce your mapping bills from hundreds per month to pennies, all on cloud …
The New York Times via Yahoo: “Campbell Brown, Facebook’s top news executive, left the company this month. Twitter, now known as X, removed headlines from the platform days later. The head of Instagram’s Threads app, an X competitor, reiterated that his social network would not amplify news. Even Google — the strongest partner to news …
“Mozilla’s Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter distills what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just plain creepy in the world of consumer tech. Since 2017, Mozilla has published 15 editions of *Privacy Not Included, our consumer tech buyers guide. We’ve reviewed over 500 gadgets, apps, cars, and more, assessing their security features, what data they collect, and who …
