Category «Internet»

Layoffs are making LinkedIn the new hot social network

Vox: “…In the past several months, as changing economic conditions, overhiring, and stock market drops have led to mass layoffs in tech, media, and other industries, vulnerability is having a moment on LinkedIn. It’s true that, early in the pandemic, many people turned to LinkedIn to share stories about how lockdown was negatively impacting their …

Subjects: Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Vermont State U Will Make Libraries All Digital

VT Digger: “Vermont State University plans to repurpose libraries on its five campuses and move to an “all-digital academic library” system when it launches as a unified institution in July. The university also expects to move one athletic program to a different conference and convert another to a club program.  Parwinder Grewal, who is set …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Google Maps’ Immersive View is now available across five cities

The Verge: “Immersive View is now rolling out for Google Maps in five global cities after the feature was first introduced across hundreds of notable landmarks last year. It combines billions of Street View and aerial images, allowing users to scope out neighborhoods as if they’re flying overhead and then drop down to street level …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Transportation

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare

The Conversation – If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned: “ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the tool’s advanced capabilities – and concerned by its potential to …

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

The Most Important Job Skill of This Century

The Atlantic: “A product race is under way in the world of artificial intelligence. Just this week, Google announced plans to release Bard, a search chatbot based on its proprietary large language model; yesterday, Microsoft held an event unveiling a next-generation web browser with a supercharged Bing interface powered by ChatGPT. Though most big tech …

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

EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats

1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats. Towards a framework for networked defence, February 2023. “This first edition of the report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference threats is informed by the work of the European External Action Service’s (EEAS) Stratcom division 8 in 2022. It is the first of its kind …

Subjects: Censorship, Cybercrime, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

NIST Selects ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Algorithms to Protect Small Devices

NIST: “Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a victor in their program to find a worthy defender of data generated by small devices. The winner, a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon, will be published as NIST’s lightweight …

Subjects: E-Records, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Microsoft’s new Bing and Edge hands-on: Surprisingly well-integrated AI

engadget: “The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard yesterday, Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in Redmond, WA today. Through a …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Search Engines

The Law of AI for Good

Lobel, Orly, The Law of AI for Good (January 26, 2023). San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 23-001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4338862 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4338862  – “Legal policy and scholarship are increasingly focused on regulating technology to safeguard against risks and harms, neglecting the ways in which the law should direct the use of new technology, …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data

Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania: A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it…In a new report, “Americans Can’t Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data,” researchers asked a nationally representative group …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th

The Verge: “Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need,” …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines