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FastCompany – no paywall: “More than half of Americans now use a chatbot, with an increasing number of people replacing search engines with large language model (LLM)-powered chat queries to navigate the web and find answers. In general, the quality of these outputs is improving as the underlying models get better. However, the challenge of …
Calishat: “I made a new site because there’s a lot of information warfare going on and I wasn’t aware of any place to find content from *only* FCC-licensed television stations. So presenting Local News TV – browse 660 US television stations by state and metro area and view recent broadcast content via YouTube. Super simple …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 28, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
The Verge: “Reddit has become known as the place to go for unfiltered answers from real, human users. But as the site celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, the company is increasingly thinking about how it can augment that human work with AI. The initial rollout of AI tools, like Reddit Answers, is “going really …
Wirecutter: “As a privacy journalist, I have given all manner of advice for how to secure and obscure an online life, but I’d never undertaken a project that extends the idea of privacy to its logical conclusion: by disappearing completely. So I set out to erase my online life. I failed. Finding myself (online). The …
Indicator: “Google announced in a relatively muted fashion that it was killing off support for ClaimReview, the structured data that powered its fact-checking features in Search and News. This is directionally consistent — though far less dramatic in tone and impact — with Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to terminate Meta’s US fact-checking program earlier this year. …
Internet Archive: Earlier this month, we announced an updated version of GifCities, the Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine. We’ve enacted several improvements to the search engine holding 1.6 million old-school GIFs from the GeoCities era—including “GifSearchies,” an updated text-based search, GIFs searchable by size, GifGrams (customizable webcards) and lots more.
ahrefs.blog: “Google says AI Overviews increase clicks. Cold, hard logic disagrees, and so does our research. We analyzed 300,000 keywords and found that the presence of an AI Overview in the search results correlated with a 34.5% lower average clickthrough rate (CTR) for the top-ranking page, compared to similar informational keywords without an AI Overview. …
SciLight – Climate.gov Didn’t Fit Trump’s “Gold Standard.” Dismantling climate.gov is not an accident; it is a blueprint. Jacob Carter. Well, I didn’t expect confirmation so soon, but we now know how this administration will be using the “gold standard science” executive order (EO) and the subsequent OSTP guidance: to undo science that is politically …
“Today, the U.S. Copyright Office is pleased to announce that the Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) has replaced its Online Public Catalog. CPRS provides copyright registration and recordation data with advanced search capabilities, filters, and improved interfaces for public users and Office staff. CPRS is the second component of the Office’s Enterprise Copyright System (ECS) …
The Verge: “Google Earth will now let you look at historical imagery from Street View. The update, which comes as part of the tool’s 20th anniversary, allows you to see how a location has changed over time. Google Earth already offers the ability to switch to Street View while viewing satellite imagery, but now you …
The DuckDuckGo browser’s built-in Scam Blocker guards against phishing sites, malware, and other common online scams. It’s on by default, so you’re protected as soon as you open the browser. NEW: Scam Blocker now also covers sham e-commerce sites, fake cryptocurrency exchanges, “scareware” that falsely claims your device has a virus, and other sites known …
