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“Byte? Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, its 277 issues chronicled …
The New York Times – “More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors…While judges and bar associations generally agree that it’s fine for lawyers to use chatbots for research, they must still ensure their filings are accurate. But as the technology has taken off, so has …
The New York Times [Gift Article] – A.I. has set off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls – Artificial intelligence is sweeping through newsrooms, transforming the way journalists around the world gather and disseminate information. Traditional news organizations increasingly use tools from companies like OpenAI and Google to streamline work that used to take …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Experts say the new policy, which ditches software that automatically captured text messages, opens ample room for both willful and unwitting noncompliance with federal records laws. The Department of Homeland Security has stopped using software that automatically captured text messages and saved trails of communication between officials, according to …
Wired [No Paywall] “Removing your phone number and address from the internet can be exceedingly difficult. A multibillion-dollar lawsuit led by an unlikely privacy crusader could soon catalyze change for everyone…”
Fast Company – “Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.. For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers. Sixty years ago, for example, Herbert Simon, who received a Nobel Prize …
Google’s Hidden Empire: This paper presents striking new data about the scale of Google’s involvement in the global digital and corporate landscape, head and shoulders above the other big tech firms. While public attention and some antitrust scrutiny has focused on these firms’ mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities, Google has also been amassing an empire …
404 Media: “Last month, a company called the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database announced a new version of a product called Class-Shelf Plus. The software, which is used by school libraries to keep track of which books are in their catalog, added several new features including “AI-driven automation and contextual risk analysis,” which includes an AI-powered …
ZDNet: Spyware can secretly track, record, and steal data from your phone. Watch for strange behavior, data spikes, or unknown apps as signs. Use antivirus tools, update often, and avoid untrusted app sources. Spyware is a threat to your personal security and privacy that you may not know is on your smartphone. But what is …
Five Percent: “Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, many companies have explored publishing content generated by LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to grow their traffic across channels such as Google Search, social, and advertising. This is a cost-effective alternative to spending hundreds of dollars for humans to write content. The quality of AI …
TechDirt: “Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks even after discovery. AT&T and …
404 Media: “The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part of …
