Category «Internet»

How to Make Your iPhone as Secure as Possible

How to Geek: Two-Factor Authentication iCloud Private Relay Advanced Data Protection Stolen Device Protection Lockdown Mode Other Key Habits to Improve Your iPhone Security Summary: Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to protect your iCloud account, while iCloud Private Relay safeguards your privacy when browsing online with Apple’s Safari browser.C onsider enabling Advanced …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy

AI Models Embrace Humanlike Reasoning

IEEE Spectrum – “Researchers are pushing beyond chain-of-thought prompting to new cognitive techniques. Since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI companies have been locked in a race to build increasingly gigantic models, causing companies to invest huge sums in building data centers. But toward the end of last year, there were rumblings that the …

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

Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law

Surden, Harry, Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law (February 12, 2025). 96 Colorado Law Review pp. 376 – 411 (2025), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-8, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5135305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5135305 “This article, based upon a keynote address by …

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

Tariff Tracker: We’re Watching Prices for 11 Products You Might Need to Buy

CNET – “President Donald Trump’s extensive new tariffs are expected to have huge, widespread effects on prices in the US, with more and more companies announcing price hikes for popular products. Recently, Microsoft announced price increases across its Xbox gaming brand, Canon announced that increases for its cameras are coming soon and toymaker Mattel warned of inevitable …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online

Critical Insights from FortiGuard Labs – 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report: “Our latest global threat landscape report uncovers how automation, AI, and stolen credentials are fueling faster, more scalable cyberattacks—outpacing defenders across industries and geographies.” Forbes: Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online – “Imagine having access to 19,030,305,929 passwords that were …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

Tired of Traditional Web Search? These Are the Best AI Search Engines We’ve Tested

PC Mag: “Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot (among others) have successfully made AI chatbots mainstream and serve as viable alternatives to standard web search engines. In turn, the standard search engines from those companies (along with alternative ones) have adopted some AI elements. Bing, for example, now offers the Copilot Search feature that shows you …

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

Don’t Get Burned: 7 Tariff-Beating Tips for Buying Tech in 2025

PC Mag – Concerned about high prices that might come with tariffs? Our experts offer handy buying advice to help you navigate this tricky global trade war.”Uncertainty reigns in global trade, with tensions brought on by the Trump administration’s decision to levy tariffs—taxation based on a percentage of a product’s value—on imports from countries near …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators

New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women. “Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford have uncovered a dramatic rise in easily accessible AI tools specifically designed to create deepfake images of identifiable people, finding nearly …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Supercharging Company Knowledge with AI

Harvard Business Review Report: “…Ineffective knowledge management can hinder decision making and lead to poor business performance. When knowledge is fragmented and disorganized, with information documented and stored across disconnected applications and systems, workers find it difficult and time-consuming to find the information they need when they need it. As a result, collaboration stagnates, teams …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research