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The New York Times: “Each January, the editors and critics at the Book Review begin sifting through thousands of new books. By February, we’re meeting regularly to debate and discuss the standouts. All of us are passionate readers, but our tastes don’t necessarily overlap, so the conversations are lively! By September, we’re winnowing down our …
Above the Law – Stephen Embry – And It May All Be Discoverable: It’s incumbent on all of us to do all we can to make ordinary people aware of the dangers. The jury is still out on how much and how soon GenAI will impact the legal profession, as I pointed out in a …
No Thoughts Just AI: Biased LLM Hiring Recommendations Alter Human Decision Making and Limit Human Autonomy. Kyra Wilson, Mattea Sim, Anna-Maria Gueorguieva1, Aylin Caliskan. Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025): “Despite bias in artificial intelligence (AI) being a risk of their use in hiring systems, there is no large-scale …
MIT Technology Review: “Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry…”
Follow up to post – We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate – See also the new Epstein Files Search – powered by Justice for All Victims: Search Tags for Files, Images, People, Organizations, Countries. See also via Journalist Studio – Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found. You …
MakeUseOf: “Chrome is fast, capable, and one of the best browser options when convenience matters. However, it’s not the most privacy-focused browser, and relying on Chrome alone isn’t enough for online privacy. So, I started using some extensions as part of my Chrome privacy setup. Each one addresses a different privacy concern, ensuring I stay …
Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web. Nicolas Steinacker-Olsztyn, Devashish Gosain, Ha Dao Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly relying on web crawling to stay up to date and accurately answer user queries. These crawlers are expected to honor this http URL files, which govern automated access. In this study, …
Harvard Law Today: “Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/. On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, and …
MakeUseOf: Perplexity is often touted as the go-to ChatGPT alternative. “It is immensely popular, and the launch of Perplexity Comet, its browser, brought agentic AI browsing to many people for the first time. It was like a real look into the future of the internet.However, what if Perplexity is automatically downgrading your chats, prompts, and …
Updated on November 20, 2025 – “The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed. We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.” Via Mark Graham, Director, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive, in response to a question by a leading government documents Librarian respective to …
Anil Dash – “Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we’re in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned. Most people who actually have technical roles within the tech industry, like engineers, product managers, and others …
CNN via MSN: “Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But what was once the home of a Christian Scientist church, is now the holy grail of Internet history — …
