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404 Media no paywall: “WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out …
Pew – “When Americans look to learn more about a breaking news event, they turn to a variety of sources. This mirrors the fragmented way that people get news and information more broadly these days. When a breaking news event happens, 36% of U.S. adults say they typically turn first to their preferred news organization to …
Art Discovery Engine – The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over 120,000 artworks from museums and institutions — searchable by feeling, mood, atmosphere, era, and medium. Every piece links back to its original source. 95% are public domain. Nothing here is generated. It’s discovery, not creation. The best experience is on desktop, but …
Shubham Bose: “If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time. I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. …
EWG: “Thousands of everyday food products potentially could contain substances that carry unknown health risks, a new EWG analysis finds. Although Congress intended for most food chemicals to be rigorously reviewed before being introduced into the market, the reality of food chemical review is far different. A flood of unregulated and potentially unsafe substances have …
The Verge – “On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it used their copyrighted content to train its AI, then generated responses that were “substantially similar” to their content, as previously reported by Reuters. According to Britannica, OpenAI repeatedly copied its content without permission, stating, “GPT-4 itself …
“When disaster strikes, information is a lifeline. For years, as part of Google’s Crisis Resilience efforts, we’ve provided early warnings about natural hazards to help communities stay safe. However, high-fidelity data for certain disasters like flash floods simply did not exist. This data gap has long prevented our ability to train AI models to predict …
“Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe. I created the European Tech Map to change this. It is aimed to be the most comprehensive and curated directory of European tech, software, and services companies. Built on a single conviction: …
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite. Perma.cc is simple, easy to use, and is built and supported by libraries. One good reason to use Perma.cc? How about 404? – Websites change, go away, and get taken down. When linked citations lead to broken, blank, altered, …
Wikilinker – Auto-links the most popular 1,000,000 people, places, organizations, and other matchable names to their Wikipedia pages on any webpage, using a bloom filter for compact name lookup. Browser extension – The best way to use Wikilinker is with the browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. It works on any website, runs entirely …
NextGov/FCW: “Nearly 30 years after Congress put accessibility requirements for government technology into law, much of the federal government’s technology still isn’t fully meeting accessibility standards. Less than 40% of the government’s most-viewed public webpages are fully accessible, according to a new report by the General Services Administration. Overall, the federal government’s technology, including internal …
The Elliott Report is a news site published by consumer advocate Christopher Elliott in association with Elliott Advocacy, a nonprofit organization. The Elliott Report features articles and commentary about how to become a smarter consumer. We publish an authoritative list of executive contacts. If you have a problem with a company, this information will help …
