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Indicator: “Hilke Schellmann, an assistant professor of journalism at New York University, tested AI tools for summarization and research. Four LLMs were tasked with summarizing local government meetings. They performed well when asked to generate short summaries but were “surprisingly poor” at longer overviews. Schellmann also tested four summarization tools by asking them to generate …
Tara Calishain – “Do your Internet research tasks include a lot of date-based searching? I find that date-based searching helps a lot when searching historical (and man do I feel weird saying that about stuff that happened just a couple decades ago) events, companies, people and information. The results you’ll find when searching for something …
MakeUseOf: “I’ve always known Google had a lot of information on me, but “a lot” is vague. I wanted to see the receipts. That’s when I stumbled upon a tool hidden in plain sight: Google Takeout. It gave me a way to download my data directly from Google’s servers, neatly packaged for my inspection. Google …
Death of the Billable Hour: Legal’s $900B AI Repricing – Ethan Batraski. Aug 12, 2025. “The legal industry’s last great inefficiency is ending. How AI-native firms will replace billable hours with outcome-based pricing at scale. The legal industry represents one of the last great market inefficiencies in the modern economy. While every other sector discovered …
Google Blog: “Attention deal-seekers Today, we’re introducing Flight Deals, a new, AI-powered search tool within Google Flights. Flight Deals is designed for flexible travelers whose number one goal is saving money on their next trip. Instead of playing with different dates, destinations and filters to uncover the best deals, you can just describe when, where …
PCMag: The new National Public Data site has an opt-out form to delete your profile data. However, many users are likely unaware of such an option, enabling these type of sites to continue trafficking their information. Here’s how to delete your data: Search your name on nationalpublicdata.com When you find your profile, click View Full Profile Copy …
“Coming Soon: The Interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker — Sneak Peek Today! August 10, 2025 by Jenny Wondracek – “If you follow me on LinkedIn or spoke with me at AALL, you’ve probably seen me teasing this project like it’s the season finale of a legal tech drama. Well, the wait is (almost) over — …
TechCrunch: “Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, …
bellingcat: “bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down. Publicly launched in 2022, it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date. The Auto Archiver has been used by Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast …
SCWorld: LAS VEGA: “Just as it had at BSides Las Vegas earlier in the week, the risks of artificial intelligence dominated the Black Hat USA 2025 security conference on Aug. 6 and 7. We couldn’t see all the AI-related talks, but we did catch three of the most promising ones, plus an off-site panel discussion …
The Verge: “Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only …
Wired no paywall – “A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than that of legitimate research. Over the last four centuries, an implicit contract has been established between scientists and …
