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Press Gazzette. “Google’s search traffic to publishers declined globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data. In addition, referrals to more than 2,500 publisher websites from Google Discover, a feed served to users on Google’s native mobile apps and within its Android operating system, were down 21% year on …
MakeUseOf: “I use Google for almost everything. Search, email, maps, videos, documents, even my calendar. The biggest advantage here is convenience. I don’t have to create dozens of accounts and manage them separately. But it also means I’m giving way too much data to a single company. That’s not exactly a smart thing to do …
Data is Beautiful – JoonSimJoon: “When researchers write “recent studies show…” – how recent is recent, really? I scraped 749,853 references from 19,108 papers across 200 academic fields using OpenAlex data to find out. TL;DR: Average “recent” = about 5 years Virology/Pandemic research: 2 years (half their citations are from the last 2 years!) Philosophy/History: …
The Atlantic – And that could change everything for the tech industry. Alex Reisner: “On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the books they’ve been trained …
The Pragmatic Engineer: “No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry, Gergely Orosz, Jan 06, 2026. “This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete …
The Verge – no paywall: “Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: In one case that experts described as “really …
Washington Post via MSN no paywall: “Imagine you are redesigning your living space. You could hire an interior designer for a few thousand dollars. Or you could ask an artificial intelligence tool such as ChatGPT to do it instead. But can AI actually do the work? See what happened in a study that compared how well …
How to Geek: “Are you wanting to have the wallpaper on your iPhone change automatically at certain times of the day? It’s actually not as hard as you’d think to do, but it does take a few steps to achieve…”
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404 Media [no paywall]: “A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that …
“Advanced Passive Reconnaissance Tool for OSINT & Security Research. Generate powerful Google Dorks instantly • 100% Client-Side • Open Source. Google Dorking (also known as Google Hacking) is an OSINT technique that uses advanced search operators to uncover security vulnerabilities, exposed sensitive files, and misconfigurations in web servers and applications. Security researchers, penetration testers, and …
Washington Post [via MSN no paywall]: “…NWS said AI is not commonly used for public-facing content, nor is its use prohibited. The agency said it is exploring ways to employ AI to inform the public and acknowledged mistakes have been made. “Recently, a local office used AI to create a base map to display forecast …
