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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 …
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 …
The Verge: “Reddit has become known as the place to go for unfiltered answers from real, human users. But as the site celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, the company is increasingly thinking about how it can augment that human work with AI. The initial rollout of AI tools, like Reddit Answers, is “going really …
Wirecutter: “As a privacy journalist, I have given all manner of advice for how to secure and obscure an online life, but I’d never undertaken a project that extends the idea of privacy to its logical conclusion: by disappearing completely. So I set out to erase my online life. I failed. Finding myself (online). The …
Indicator: “Google announced in a relatively muted fashion that it was killing off support for ClaimReview, the structured data that powered its fact-checking features in Search and News. This is directionally consistent — though far less dramatic in tone and impact — with Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to terminate Meta’s US fact-checking program earlier this year. …
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.
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 …
EFF: “Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy. Law …
Follow-up to previous post, Copyrighted books to train AI? Fair. Storing them? Not so much, via Ars Technica: “On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from …
Follow-up to House Bill Would Lay Waste to Congress’s Watchdogs and Information Experts, again via Daniel Schuman, House Republicans Advance Plan to Halve GAO’s Funding: “Monday evening, House Legislative Branch appropriators voted 6 to 4 on party lines to cut GAO’s funding by 50% and reduce the Library of Congress’s funding by 12%. This would …
ahrefs.blog: “Google says AI Overviews increase clicks. Cold, hard logic disagrees, and so does our research. We analyzed 300,000 keywords and found that the presence of an AI Overview in the search results correlated with a 34.5% lower average clickthrough rate (CTR) for the top-ranking page, compared to similar informational keywords without an AI Overview. …
“Project 2025 Tracker began as a humble spreadsheet created by /u/rusticgorilla, combined with /u/mollynaquafina‘s vision for making this information accessible to everyone through a dedicated website. What started as a passion project by two Redditors has grown into a community-driven resource, powered by people like you who believe in the importance of transparent, detailed analysis.” …
