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PC Mag: “…You probably already pay for internet access, but once you’re online, surfing the web doesn’t cost a penny. But as with many things that don’t have a cash price, you pay in other ways. Advertisers and data brokers monetize their knowledge about your online habits and activities. They use data that your browser …
404 Media: “Earlier this month, an appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief, and many of the quotations in plaintiff’s reply brief, are fabricated” through the use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, …
AP – “Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. The information will give ICE …
How People Use ChatGPT, Aaron Chatterji, Working Paper 34255. DOI 10.3386/w34255. Issue Date, September 2025. Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We document the growth of ChatGPT’s consumer product from its launch in November 2022 through July 2025, when it had been adopted by around 10% …
PEN America – The Normalization of Book Banning: “In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the …
“In the second country case study published under the Disarming Disinformation project, we examine the critical role played by the ethnic and Indigenous press in countering disinformation in the U.S. We highlight unique challenges ethnic and Indigenous outlets face related to disinformation during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.The findings come from a far-reaching, mixed methods …
The New Yorker [no paywall]: “Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, in 1989, but people informed of this often respond with a joke: Wasn’t that Al …
“This is your guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way. There are over 12,100 bird tracks from nearly 200 species, including new tagging data from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, USGS Bird Banding Lab, and Movebank. The Bird Migration Explorer now has …
Jewish Insider: “The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’. Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of …
Via Kelly Smith’s LibGuide – U.S. Government Information: Shutdown – “In the event of a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations, agency contingency plans will indicate which of the agency’s activities will continue and which will cease, which staff will be furloughed and which are “excepted” from furlough, and other details. Unlike in …
“At Free Law Project, we believe the law belongs to everyone. But for too long, the information needed to understand and use the law—especially in civil rights litigation—has been locked behind paywalls, scattered across jurisdictions, or buried in technical complexity. That’s why we teamed up with the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse on an exploratory grant …
MakeUseOf: “ackups are one of those chores we all know we should be doing, but most people either put it off or do it halfway. That’s because backing up an entire digital life is overwhelming, and storage space isn’t exactly free. Also, just to be clear here, backing something up is not the same thing …
