Category «Internet»

Privacy Pros Always Change These 5 VPN Settings. Do You?

PCMag – Installing a VPN isn’t the end of the story. To truly secure your connection, you need to dive into pro-level settings—like kill switches and LAN protection—that take your privacy to the next level. You might think that installing and connecting to a VPN  is all you need for better privacy or bypassing geographical …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

10 Things Your Smartphone Camera Can Do Unrelated to Photography

MakeUseOf: “Your smartphone camera is good for far more than snapping yet another overly flattering shot of your lunch. It’s a surprisingly powerful tool that can make your day-to-day life easier, more efficient, and occasionally even safer…Your smartphone camera is good for far more than snapping yet another overly flattering shot of your lunch. It’s …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Kiwix

Kiwix is a non-profit organization and a free and open-source software project dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content. The name “Kiwix” is a play on the word “Wiki” as it represented our initial goal of making Wikipedia accessible offline. Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or …

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 16, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 16, 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 …

Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

ldial

ldial – Listen to the best independent and community radio stations in the US. Free – and so much to explore. Stations from colleges and universities across the country as well and non commercial public radio stations throughout the country playing a wide range of music across eras.

Subjects: Internet

Death of the Billable Hour: Legal’s $900B AI Repricing

Death of the Billable Hour: Legal’s $900B AI Repricing – Ethan Batraski. Aug 12, 2025. “The legal industry’s last great inefficiency is ending. How AI-native firms will replace billable hours with outcome-based pricing at scale. The legal industry represents one of the last great market inefficiencies in the modern economy. While every other sector discovered …

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

How to Remove Your Profile From National Public Data

PCMag: The new National Public Data site has an opt-out form to delete your profile data. However, many users are likely unaware of such an option, enabling these type of sites to continue trafficking their information. Here’s how to delete your data: Search your name on nationalpublicdata.com When you find your profile, click View Full Profile Copy …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

The Interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker

“Coming Soon: The Interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker — Sneak Peek Today! August 10, 2025 by Jenny Wondracek – “If you follow me on LinkedIn or spoke with me at AALL, you’ve probably seen me teasing this project like it’s the season finale of a legal tech drama. Well, the wait is (almost) over — …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

The 25 pieces of culture that explain the last 25 years

Vox – no paywall: “Here’s a picture of what life looked like at the turn of the millennium: We couldn’t stop gossiping about the extramarital affairs of the scandal-ridden president of the United States; we rented movies from Blockbuster and showed off our vast CD collections; we waited patiently for modems to connect us to …

Subjects: Education, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legislation, Social Media

Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

TechCrunch: “Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, …

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