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Ars Technica: “Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network …
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence, Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen. August 26, 2025. This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from the largest payroll software provider in the United States. We present …
Cloudflare: “A new category, AI crawlers, has emerged in recent years. These bots collect data from across the web to train AI models, improving tools and experiences, but also raising issues around content rights, unauthorized use, and infrastructure overload. We aimed to confirm the growth of both search and AI crawlers, examine specific AI crawlers, …
MakeUseOf: “I won’t say that the easiest way to determine if a photo is a fake is by using our eyes. Deepfakes are inching closer to “reality,” so we have to fall back on AI image detectors. These tools are trained on millions of images, both real and AI-generated, which allows them to recognize the …
The Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Division has launched a new database of human trafficking case-law as part of the HUDOC-GRETA Database. It contains selected cases which have been identified during GRETA’s evaluations or submitted by members of the Council of Europe Network of specialised lawyers and NGOs providing legal assistance to victims of human trafficking. …
MIT Technology Review: “Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by MIT Technology Review, raise questions about how reliable AI tools are at evaluating scientific research and could complicate efforts by countries and industries seeking to invest in AI tools for …
Access To Stochastically Approximate Information – “Through a series of public records requests, Cascade PBS and KNKX obtained thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversation logs from city officials in Washington. The volume of the records suggests widespread use of the technology in local government.” When government officials use generative AI chatbots those ‘conversations’ are considered public …
Via Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social – The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it’s also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items. I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial. This tutorial is part 26 of the OSINT At …
A LA Times review of the Trump administration’s settlement proposal to UCLA lays out sweeping demands on numerous aspects of campus life. The government has fined UCLA nearly $1.2 billion to settle allegations of civil rights violations. Hiring, admissions and the definitions of gender are among the areas the Department of Justice seeks to change. …
TNR / The New Republic – [no paywall] “…The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings. By that standard, the Roberts court has failed. The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and …
404 Media: “On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and …
CRS Legal Sidebar – Privacy Act Lawsuits and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) September 17, 2025. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order reorganizing and renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Executive Order tasked DOGE with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental …
