Category «Internet»

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters

The New York Times Gift Article includes dozens of images: “…Mr. Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times on his Truth Social account since late 2022, according to a review by The New York Times of his posts to the social network. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Social Media

The Best Ad Blockers for 2025

PCMag: “Real ads from legitimate companies are annoying on their own, but some online advertisements can be downright dangerous. For example, you may have encountered malicious scareware ads that look like antivirus alerts. Other ads impersonate law enforcement and demand hefty fines. You should also want advertisers to know less about you. Ad blockers not …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Marketing, Privacy

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy (July 03, 2024). 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4884485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4884485 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A …

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

Generative AI for Data Visualisation

Can generative AI create good data visualisations? – Nicola Rennie: “This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset. Nicola Rennie October 8, 2025. “Generative AI tools have been around for a little while now, and they’re mostly advertised as being able …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers  Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, October 2025 PDF Version Knowledge & Understanding Analysis & Evaluation Use & Application Notes In July 2024, the ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force was created to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers that align with the evolving needs …

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

AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs

NiemanLab: “A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google….AI-generated news sites have proliferated in the last two years. One study published by NewsGuard in May tallied nearly 1,300 AI-generated news sites across 16 languages. Some sites churn out AI-generated local news; Oregon Public …

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

Image Scrubber

Gizmodo: “he EFF suggests Image Scrubber as a software tool for obscuring faces, and also stripping out the identifying metadata attached to your photos — which can include your location and sometimes even your name…”  “This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests. It will remove identifying metadata (Exif data) from photographs, and …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 18, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 18, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

Ars Technica: “Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

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Subjects: Internet

If you only do one thing to keep your phone healthy

“Experts including Kyle Wiens, chief executive of the repair organization iFixit, said that we should have our phone batteries replaced every two to three years.” Apple.com: “Learn about the built-in software and hardware system that iPhone 11 models and later use to reduce performance effects as your battery chemically ages. About performance as batteries age …

Subjects: Internet