Category «Internet»

PrintingFilms.com

“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 …

Subjects: Internet

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring’s Surveillance Nightmare

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 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Stay in control of your personal information online – Sort of

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 …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work – It Intensifies It

The Harvard Business Review – “…Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and debugging code—and allowing workers more time for high-value tasks is tantalizing. But are they ready for what might …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities

NeimanLab: “In our recent rankings of web traffic at the top local newspapers and public media outlets, there’s been a consistent trend: Wherever ICE unleashes its controversial deportation tactics, the audience’s attention follows. Operation Midway Blitz sent readers to Chicago’s WBEZ, Operation Charlotte’s Web did the same for Charlotte’s WFAE, and the chaos in Minneapolis …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Why AI Detection Fails on the Fakes That Matter Most

“Image Whisperer AI Image Detector – beta v9.94 – Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, by Henk van EssTotal fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like detectives — really look at the evidence. Developed by Henk van Ess with Claude …

Subjects: AI, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

PDF Association: “We report on the technical aspects of the PDF files released by the US Department of Justice in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The recent release of a tranche of files by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405)” has once again prompted many people …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: “Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception. For this reason, new AI tools have …

Subjects: Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

“Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. AD 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management