Category «Internet»

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

404 Media: “As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library. Some libraries are now intentionally using iconic Blockbuster branding to recall …

Subjects: E-Records, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Proton now has a Google Sheets clone with end-to-end encryption

Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business “Proton Sheets is rolling out gradually, so if you don’t see it in your Drive account yet, it will appear soon. Spreadsheets are the backbone of modern businesses, used to plan budgets, manage inventory, supervise members, and organize proprietary data. This is why Excel and …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How to glimpse a pre-AI internet

PopSci: “…To help raise awareness to just how bad it’s gotten, environmental engineer and artist Tega Brain created Slop Evader. After installing the extension on Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, users can employ it to search pre-AI archives on a handful of websites including Reddit and YouTube. “This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns

LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

The Atlantic – Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize – “The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. After three years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of generative AI, colleges are now scrambling to do too much. …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

OSoMeNet – tool that helps visualize content diffusion patterns on social media platforms

OSoMeNet is a tool that visualizes information spreading and sharing patterns on multiple social media platforms. How does OSoMeNet work? OSoMeNet uses search APIs provided by social media platforms (e.g. Bluesky and Mastodon) to generate diffusion and co-occurrence networks. The networks are visualized using Helios Web. Helios Web is a web-based library developed by Filipi …

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

‘Sloppy’ Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project

NOTUS – “For the low price of $1 million, you can apply for a new card that comes with exclusive perks and is marketed with a sleek website featuring an animated bald eagle standing before sunlit mountains. It has all the markings of a website selling a luxury travel credit card. But it’s not. It’s …

Subjects: AI, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

Forbes – “Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything

The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research