Category «Internet»

I’m drowning in AI features I never asked for and I absolutely hate it

MakeUseOf: “At first, all of this AI stuff felt exciting. I was curious to try everything (I was actually one of the few naive people who thought the Rabbit R1 was a good product before it eventually launched), and for a while, it felt useful.But over time, I realized AI isn’t just affecting smartphones; it’s …

Subjects: AI, E-Mail, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft, Search Engines

Check This Database to See If Your Email Credentials Have Been Leaked

Lifehacker: “Breaches are an unfortunate reality of the digital era. Chances are, some of the companies you trust your data to are going to get hacked, and sensitive information stored on those servers is going to leak. If you’ve been online for a long time, that means quite a bit of your data is floating …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

Courts Adapt to the Challenges of Generative AI

Via LLRX – Courts Adapt to the Challenges of Generative AI – AI in Law & Legal Tech Expert Nicole L. Black frames how AI is changing how legal work gets done, and the effects aren’t limited to law offices. Other legal organizations are equally impacted, including the courts. As judicial offices around the country grapple with …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ring’s CEO says his cameras can almost ‘zero out crime’ within the next 12 months

The Verge Jamie Siminoff’s new book, Ding Dong charts how his video doorbell startup turned into a home security behemoth. A set of changes to TikTok’s law enforcement policy make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with government and “regulatory authorities.” TikTok did not respond to repeated questions about the changes. …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

How the Proud Boys invented antifa

Salon – The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump’s White House: “The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long time, in the sense that there have …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

Mother Jones: “…Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap’s European founders and executives have quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley. It calls its proprietary system Altamides, which it describes in …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

NiemanLab: “Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. ..The Wayback Machine, an initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive, has been archiving the webpages of news outlets — alongside millions of other websites — for nearly three decades. Earlier this month, it announced that it will soon archive its …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

EFF Report on Street Level Surveillance

EFF Social Media Monitoring: “Social media includes some of the most intimate details of our lives, including our health information, likes and dislikes, political views and religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and people with whom we associate. Its content includes usernames, bios, contact information, status updates, comments, photos, videos and streams, event postings, friend or follower …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Largest Study of Its Kind Shows AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time

BBC: “New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was …

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

OpenAI launches Atlas browser to compete with Google Chrome

AP News: “OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in more internet …

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