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Format Swap – “Below you will find links to the multiple converters and tools we have available. We have conversion utilities for nearly all document and image formats. There is also a link to our Tech Tutorials Blog. On the blog you will find articles on Programming, Machine Learning, OS Installs, Linux, Windows, and more.”
Civic Information Handbook by Karen Kornbluh and Adrienne Goldstein, May 11, 2023. Offering insight on how to compete with coordinated deceptive information campaigns – created in collaboration with UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. “This handbook aims to: Educate civic information providers about coordinated deceptive campaign…including how they build their audiences, seed compelling …
Washington Post: “A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s power in publishing — and raises questions about its longtime owner. Goodreads — an Amazon-owned review site beloved by the bookish — has grown beleaguered. The site is built on outdated technological infrastructure, which made the …
MakeUseOf: “Whether you’re just curious to see old websites or want to find information that no longer exists on the web, knowing how to view old versions of websites can come in handy. This article will introduce you to some tools and tricks to go back in time and view the old versions of websites…These …
“Risk and harm are set to scale exponentially and may strangle the opportunities generational technologies create. We have a narrow window and opportunity to leverage decades of hard won lessons and invest in reinforcing human dignity and societal resilience globally. That which occurs offline will occur online, and increasingly there is no choice but to …
Follow the Open Science Community on Mastodon. “Get in touch with the Open Science Community from around the world on Mastodon! This page lists accounts of people interested in Open Science, Metaresearch, Replication, Reproducibility, Open Educational Resources, Open Access, Open Data, Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Software, Open EVERYTHING. It also offers an easy method …
MakeUseOf: “Looking to translate a specific website? Rather than pasting the content into Google Translate, let the platform do the work for you. You can browse the web in any language with Google Translate. For instance, if you want to read an article from a German webpage, you can plug in Google Translate and translate …
PC Mag: “Every day, we walk around with a supercomputer in our pockets. It checks the weather, searches the internet, plays games, streams media, takes pictures, and analyzes data. Smartphones are great, except for the fact that newer, better versions are always on the horizon. Most of us can probably use the same phone for years, …
Gizmodo – “Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot. …
LLRX June 2023 Issue – Articles and Columns for June 2023 Brevity is the Soul of Profit: What Lawyers Need to Know About Executive Summaries – Elizabeth Southerland – The purpose of an executive summary is to boil this down to a few sentences that tell the leader what they want to know. AI and …
The New York Times [and free link] – “As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others…Even under increased regulatory scrutiny over concerns it could be influenced by the Chinese government, ByteDance can reach …
Google Blog: “The work of the fact-checking community is important not only to check harmful mis- and disinformation, but also to give people the tools to learn more about sources, stories and images for themselves. It’s just one way to help counter misinformation. While many people may have found themselves needing to verify a claim …
