Category «Internet»

DOGE has the keys to sensitive data that could help Elon Musk

Washington Post gift article: “A Washington Post review found that in at least seven major departments or agencies, DOGE secured the power to view records that experts say could benefit Musk’s businesses for years. For months, Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Weather Watcher in NYC

“AI is people-watching this New York street cam, counting the people walking by, if they’re using umbrellas, and what they’re wearing. Forecasts can lie. Crowds don’t. Just follow the crowd.”

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet

Recent Trends in Legal AI: A Comprehensive Review

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is transforming legal firms by enhancing legal text analysis, legal document management, and judicial decision prediction. Conventional rule-based and statistical methods lack the contextual understanding, and scalability required for processing complex legal texts, while deep learning and transformer-based models have revolutionized advanced Legal Artificial Intelligence (LegalAI) technologies. Large Language Models (LLMs), …

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

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech

Via LLRX – We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca of The Markup and CalMatters …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Medicine, Privacy, Social Media

AI In Finance and Banking, June 30, 2025

Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, June 30, 2025: This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Eight highlights from …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

It’s 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators

The Register: “Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos. The vendor surveyed 3,400 IT pros in early 2025 about their experiences over the last year and found 49 percent paid ransoms on their …

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

GIFS Just Got a Lot More Searchable

Internet Archive: Earlier this month, we announced an updated version of GifCities, the Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine. We’ve enacted several improvements to the search engine holding 1.6 million old-school GIFs from the GeoCities era—including “GifSearchies,” an updated text-based search, GIFs searchable by size, GifGrams (customizable webcards) and lots more.

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines

Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Vox: “…Americans still consume plenty of text. Social media platforms teem with words — even video-based apps like TikTok are replete with captions and comments. And on average, we spend more than two hours scrolling through such platforms each day. But not all reading is created equal. The mind can skim over the surface of …

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

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