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Via LLRX – Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw – Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the …
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. RefSeek’s unique approach offers students comprehensive subject coverage without the information overload of a general search engine—increasing the visibility of …
W. A. Lawrence – “Marc Andreessen’s firm bankrolled Substack and donated $39 million to Trump’s orbit. Its former executives now serve in his administration. If you publish political journalism here, you should know whose roof you’re under. That is the sentence every political writer on Substack needs to sit with, because almost none of them …
Follow up to No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring’s Surveillance Nightmare – See Also How to Geek – “Picking a video doorbell that doesn’t rely on the cloud means you can save footage locally and not rely on pricey subscriptions. Pair it with a smart home platform like Home Assistant, and …
MakeUseOf: “There’s a little thrill in seeing 100% glowing in the corner of your laptop screen. It feels like topping off the tank before a long drive or walking into the week with a perfectly clean desk. Older nickel-cadmium batteries led us to believe that reaching full charge was not just good but necessary. That …
Deadline: “Claims Unconstitutional Effort “To Censor Speech” – “NewsGuard, the news media rating service, filed suit against the Federal Trade Commission and its chairman Andrew Ferguson on Friday, alleging that the agency was using its regulatory authority to stifle its speech. The service, launched in 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, employs a team of …
Medill: “In local news deserts in the U.S., residents rely heavily on social media and other non-journalistic sources to stay informed, according to a comprehensive survey by the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University. The survey revealed that among people who consume news daily in news deserts, a little more than half (51%) said …
Privacat Insights: “I want you to take a minute and visualize yourself climbing a long ladder. The ladder is fixed in space, and you can’t tell exactly how many steps there are to climb. You heard from a friend that if you make it to the platform at the top of the ladder, you’ll receive …
“PrintingFilms.com is a collection of vintage films that showcase the technologies and processes of printing, journalism, and typography. It was established by Doug Wilson in 2012 after his work as director of Linotype: The Film. The collection started when Doug was given a box of 16mm Linotype promotional films in 2011 by Dave Seat for …
EFF: “Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public. In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company previewed future surveillance of our …
Google Blog: “Our Results about you tool can now help you find and request the removal of Search results containing your government-issued IDs, like a passport, driver’s license or social security number. Over 10 million people have used the ‘Results about you’ tool to control how their sensitive personal information appears online, like a phone …
Google Blog: “Today, we’re introducing a new, simpler way for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search. This update builds on the range of protections in Search for victims of this harmful content. Here’s a look at what’s new: A quick and straightforward removal process: To access this tool, click on …
