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Zimmer, Z. (2026). Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421474 (Original work published 2026) – “The Enron Corpus is a canonical training dataset representing one of the first scale jumps in the size of natural language data for machine learning (ML) research. That corpus was …
9to5Google: “After testing in recent months, YouTube Music looks to be widely rolling out a Premium paywall for lyrics. Lyrics in YouTube Music now require a YouTube Premium or Music Premium subscription. The middle tab in the Now Playing screen gains a new card at the top when this has rolled out to your account: …
Follow-up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool, See Also Internet Archive Way Back Machine – Search CIA World Factbook collection: Search 18,004 web pages using an index built from anchor text, all URL parts (file names, hosts, domains), MIME Types, language, HTTP Status codes and the full text of the …
NewsGuard: “Over the first seven months of Reality Gap Index reports — from June to December 2025 — NewsGuard found that an average of nearly half of Americans believed at least one false claim about major claims spreading in the news. For the first six months after the launch of the NewsGuard Reality Gap Index …
PCMag – “Biometric locks like face recognition are easy to set up—but thanks to a legal loophole, they’re easier for law enforcement to bypass than a passcode: “Using a face scan to unlock your phone and log in to accounts is easy to set up, but it’s not the best option for everyone. That’s because, …
Vox – AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first. ChatGPT is boring compared to what comes next. The Atlantic [no paywall] – “The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by …
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 …
The dataindex.us team is excited to launch the Data Checkup – a comprehensive framework for assessing the health of federal data collections, highlighting key dimensions of risk and presenting a clear status of data well-being. When we started dataindex.us, one of our earliest tools was a URL tracker: a simple way to monitor whether a …
TechCrunch: “The Internet Archive is a nonprofit that — as you might expect — is devoted to archiving the internet and preserving digital context for future generations. This week, the platform announced a new tool designed to expand on that mission by helping the world’s WordPress users keep their articles in peak digital health. The …
The Verge: “When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn’t invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology was confined to research labs at companies and institutions around the world. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. And better than anyone expected. …
“The Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI) tracks the dynamics of the fake SMS-verifications market across different platforms and countries. The Index aims to answer the following questions: How easy (and cheap) is it to engage in online manipulation? Is the situation with fake accounts improving or worsening over time? Which online platforms are …
The Atlantic [no paywall]: Even the administration’s budget proposals read like Truth Social posts. “…No one better exemplifies the clicktatorship than the president himself. Trump routinely makes policy announcements via social media. Consider when, in August, he attempted to fire the Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook on Truth Social. When a government lawyer was …
