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TechCrunch: “Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they’re seeing was made using AI technology. AI makes it easier for businesses to create ads, place their brand’s products in various settings, and save money on real-world e-commerce photography. But it can also be misleading if consumers don’t …
FoodFinder – Search by Zip Code Anywhere in America. Any time of year. Everyone should be able to find help. Hungry families can only get help from places they know about. That’s where we come in. It seems obvious, but the first step in getting help from any social service program is knowing that it’s …
Common Crawl is a 501(c)(3) non–profit founded in 2007. We make wholesale extraction, transformation and analysis of open web data accessible to researchers. Overview Over 300 billion pages spanning 19 years. Free and open corpus since 2007. Cited in over 10,000 research papers. 3–5 billion new pages added each month.
Let’s Do Data Science: “U.S. courts remain split on whether training AI models on copyrighted material is fair use, after Judge William Alsup ruled in June 2025 that training on purchased, digitized books was fair use while Judge Vince Chhabria reached the opposite conclusion two days later in a related San Francisco case. The split …
Bleeping Computer: “DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. The feature is enabled by default in the latest versions of DuckDuckGo for iOS, Mac, and Windows, while Android users can enable it manually by going to Settings > …
PC Mag: “Does a Google search turn up way too much information about you? Follow these tips to remove your phone number, email and physical addresses, and other data from the site’s results….How to Submit a Manual Request to Delete. Google will let you manually request the removal of other things you may find harmful. That includes: …
TechCrunch: “Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to …
Murray, Michael D., Exposing the Risk Surface of Agentic AI in the Practice of Law (April 14, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6576480 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6576480 This article examines how the legal profession’s shift from passive generative AI tools to autonomous or semi-autonomous agentic AI systems dramatically expands the “risk surface” of AI in law practice. It …
Brainyacts: What Karp Told CNBC and Why Law Firms Should Listen. Palantir’s CEO went on CNBC and bluntly described on live TV the exact trap your firm is walking into with AI. Not “AI is scary.” Sharper: you can pay a fortune, get modest value back, and quietly hand a vendor the three things that …
Worse on Purpose: Tracking the brands that got worse on purpose — and the ones that didn’t. The Brand Ledger tracks 215 brands across tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they’re still worth buying. Updated as things change. Search the Brand Ledger Browse all brands →Read …
Eurekalert: “AI and digitization transform fight against global extinction, landmark report reveals. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2026 report reveals the true scale of the biodiversity crisis has not yet been fully understood, but rapid data and technology advances offer hope. In a seismic shift since Kew’s inaugural State …
“A free digital library of vintage cycling publications — magazines, trade reviews, club bulletins, and books from the 1860s to the 1920s. Browse the collection below or search the archive.”
