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Slashdot: “A new study [PDF] from Ramp’s economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork and Fiverr with AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the substitution is happening at a fraction of the cost. The paper, authored by Ryan Stevens, Ramp’s Director of Applied Sciences, tracked …
9to5Google: “Google Maps is more than just a navigation app, as it contains a treasure trove of data about locations across the globe. But, suddenly, Google Maps appears to be changing how it functions for users who are signed out, including hiding reviews and images. As noticed by a few Google Maps users on Reddit …
ZDNET: “The vast majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, if any, has been conducted, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT and collaborators found…The 39-page report, “The 2025 AI Index: Documenting Sociotechnical Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems,” which can …
Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P. et al. The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 – The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects. Here we present results from …
How to Geek: “Does the thought of your parents facing an emergency when you’re not around keep you up at night? Are you worried they won’t be able to use their smartphone when they actually need it? These simple Android tweaks transformed how I care for my aging parents from afar…”
Most people get around 11 out of 20. “In a research paper published in the British Journal of Psychology, researchers from UNSW and the ANU recruited 125 participants – including 36 people with exceptional face-recognition ability, known as super recognisers, and 89 control participants – to complete an online test in which they were shown …
Internet Archive Blogs: “Digital journalists increasingly turn to web archives like the Wayback Machine to follow how things on the Internet break, change or disappear – from deleted posts to quietly edited pages. The web has become not only a source of information but also the subject of media investigations, prompting journalists, researchers and activists …
Gizmodo: “The era of AI has not been particularly great for cybersecurity. We know that vibe-coded websites and apps have been a hotbed of security flaws that leave the platforms vulnerable to attacks. It turns out that vibe-generating your passwords also puts you at risk. New research from cybersecurity firm Irregular found that passwords generated …
A Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, developed by Henk van Ess with Claude Code by Anthropic as coding assistant. “Why AI Detection Fails on the Fakes That Matter Most. Total fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like …
“Humanize AI text from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for free. Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human. Guaranteed undetectable results.” [Let that sink in.] AI Humanizer Eliminates AI Tones for Natural Writing – Directly trim the stiff and repetitive patterns found in machine-generated writing. AI text humanizer converts dry drafts into …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 14, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
“GeoConfirmed is a volunteer-driven open-source intelligence (OSINT) project dedicated to geolocating and verifying visual content—such as videos and photographs—from around the world. Our mission is to bring clarity and accuracy to events by confirming exactly where something happened, using publicly available information. While much of our recent work has focused on conflict zones, our methods …
