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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 245 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity. Get started with SearXNG by using one of the instances listed at searx.space. If you don’t trust anyone, you can set up your …
MakeUseOf: “At first, all of this AI stuff felt exciting. I was curious to try everything (I was actually one of the few naive people who thought the Rabbit R1 was a good product before it eventually launched), and for a while, it felt useful.But over time, I realized AI isn’t just affecting smartphones; it’s …
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NiemanLab: “Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. ..The Wayback Machine, an initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive, has been archiving the webpages of news outlets — alongside millions of other websites — for nearly three decades. Earlier this month, it announced that it will soon archive its …
BBC: “New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was …
AP News: “OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in more internet …
Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy (July 03, 2024). 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4884485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4884485 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A …
Can generative AI create good data visualisations? – Nicola Rennie: “This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset. Nicola Rennie October 8, 2025. “Generative AI tools have been around for a little while now, and they’re mostly advertised as being able …
NiemanLab: “A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google….AI-generated news sites have proliferated in the last two years. One study published by NewsGuard in May tallied nearly 1,300 AI-generated news sites across 16 languages. Some sites churn out AI-generated local news; Oregon Public …
Ethan Mollick: “Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI¹, but now I write it in a world where about 10% of humanity uses AI weekly. The vast majority of that use involves free AI tools, which is often fine… except when it isn’t. OpenAI recently released a breakdown of …
How-toGeek: “I decided to find out what it’s like to keep a VPN on all the time—whether streaming, gaming, or doing online tasks. What I learned went beyond just better privacy: there were definite perks, some frustrations, and a few surprises. Curious about living with a VPN always on? Here’s my experience. TThe biggest benefit …
TechSpot: “Comet browser by Perplexity is the AI browser that acts as a personal assistant. Automate tasks, research the web, organize your email, and more with Comet. Comet uses Perplexity’s search engine, optimized for fast and accurate answers. Perplexity search gives you the choice to navigate the web and check sources for original facts. Unlike …
