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Pew Research: Many Americans often encounter news they think is inaccurate, and those who do are more likely to find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not. Nine-in-ten U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, including 42% who say this happens extremely often or often. Just …
API – “Trusting News has partnered with The Lenfest Institute’s Knight Communities Network and Project C to put together a Creator Journalism Trust and Credibility Toolkit. It includes an ethics checklist to help assess whether creator journalists and influencers “are working to be fair and accurate,” writes Mollie Muchna. Link: Access the toolkit (Lenfest Institute) …
ZDNET: “AI browsers promise to change how we search, shop, and work online. So, I’ve been trying them – and found 5 so far that really deliver…. BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser capable of turning your words into actions. Describe a task in plain language, and BrowserOS will handle the rest for you. BrowserOS …
SPACE TYPE GENERATOR by Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus, is a motion and generative designer from Maryland. Kiel’s studio focuses around crafting generative tools to create bespoke typography, image, and motion work. His coding project, Space Type Generator, is an open source tool that allows users to create their own kinetic type experiments. There are 16 variations …
Gizmodo: “The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 jobs, Paramount axed 1,000 people, Target let go of 1,800 employees, UPS said it will start a purge of 14,000 people with the aim of getting rid of 48,000 workers in total, and Meta …
Matthew Cassinelli – YouTube has the same permalink for every profile that redirects to the channel’s streams – here’s how I take advantage of it (and my shortcut to do it for you).: “If you’re someone who enjoys watching livestreams on YouTube, you may not know about the permanent redirect for every YouTube channel that …
AI Incident Database – Search over 3000 reports of AI Harms. Why “AI Incidents”? Intelligent systems are currently prone to unforeseen and often dangerous failures when they are deployed to the real world. Much like the transportation sector before it (e.g., FAA and FARS) and more recently computer systems, intelligent systems require a repository of …
The Atlantic / Gift Article [14 days] – “Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king. In the normal course of history, the president of the United States is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, and political inevitability—the …
ZDNet – “I’ve been testing AI content detectors for more than two years. And now there’s an equally effective option that doesn’t require a new subscription….Before I go on, though, let’s discuss plagiarism and how it relates to our problem. Merriam-Webster defines “plagiarize” as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) …
PCMag: “You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here’s what you can do about it. Everyone wants your data. There’s a lot of money in selling or sharing the information that apps collect about you. That’s why …
The Augmented Educator: Security, Privacy, and Academic Integrity in the Age of Agentic Web Browsers – “A few days ago, OpenAI released Atlas, an agentic web browser that embeds ChatGPT directly into the browsing experience. Atlas is not the first browser of its kind. Perplexity’s Comet and several other experimental systems preceded it. What distinguishes Atlas …
Vox: “TikTok and airlines have something in common with your search engine, your grocery app, and (increasingly) your car: They start out great, lock you in, and then quietly get worse while you keep using them. That very familiar decline now has a catchy name: “enshittification.” Cory Doctorow has been writing about this for decades …
