Category «Internet»

16 billion passwords exposed in record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable

Cybernews: Several collections of login credentials reveal one of the largest data breaches in history, totaling a humongous 16 billion exposed login credentials. The data most likely originates from various infostealers. This story, based on unique Cybernews findings and originally published on the website on June 18, is constantly being updated with clarifications and additional …

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

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It’s Hobbling Future AI Development

Futurism – The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors’ generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it’s already kneecapping the development of future AI models. As the AI-generated data clouds the human creations that these models are so heavily dependent on amalgamating, …

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

Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI Use on Children

The Alan Turing Institute and LEGO Foundation: “There is a growing body of research looking at the potential positive and negative impacts of generative AI and its associated risks. However, there is a lack of research that considers the potential impacts of these technologies on children, even though generative AI is already being deployed within …

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Subjects: AI, Congress, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

Trump Anti-Press Social Media Tracker

“Few modern presidents have waged a more visible or sustained campaign against the press than Donald Trump. From the launch of his political career, Trump has used social platforms — first Twitter, then Truth Social — to attack, belittle and discredit journalists, news outlets and the media as a whole. To better understand the scope …

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Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Don’t Call The Police. Community-based alternatives to police in your city

“Founded in June 2020, dontcallthepolice.com is an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to calling the police or 911. We know that involving law enforcement in situations that they are not best equipped to handle can cause more harm than good. These harms disproportionately impact communities of color and the populations most in …

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Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Social media now main source of news in US

Reuters Institute – Digital News Report 2025. “The most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world. Against that background, evidence-based and analytical journalism should be thriving, with newspapers …

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Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2025

AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 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. The chronological links provided are to …

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

GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to ‘Accelerate’ AI Across Government

404 Media – The federal government is working on a website and API called “ai.gov” to “accelerate government innovation with AI” that is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI, according to an early version of the website and …

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Subjects: AI, E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web

Ars Technica: “Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after years of search dominance, the company has lost a major antitrust case that could reshape both …

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Subjects: Courts, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines
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