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MakeUseOf: “I won’t say that the easiest way to determine if a photo is a fake is by using our eyes. Deepfakes are inching closer to “reality,” so we have to fall back on AI image detectors. These tools are trained on millions of images, both real and AI-generated, which allows them to recognize the …
The Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Division has launched a new database of human trafficking case-law as part of the HUDOC-GRETA Database. It contains selected cases which have been identified during GRETA’s evaluations or submitted by members of the Council of Europe Network of specialised lawyers and NGOs providing legal assistance to victims of human trafficking. …
MIT Technology Review: “Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by MIT Technology Review, raise questions about how reliable AI tools are at evaluating scientific research and could complicate efforts by countries and industries seeking to invest in AI tools for …
Harvard Business Review: “A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. Consider, for instance, that the number of companies with fully AI-led processes nearly doubled last year, while AI use has likewise doubled at work …
Access To Stochastically Approximate Information – “Through a series of public records requests, Cascade PBS and KNKX obtained thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversation logs from city officials in Washington. The volume of the records suggests widespread use of the technology in local government.” When government officials use generative AI chatbots those ‘conversations’ are considered public …
Via Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social – The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it’s also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items. I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial. This tutorial is part 26 of the OSINT At …
How to Geek: “Website addresses that end in “.onion” aren’t like normal domain names, and you can’t access them with a normal web browser. Addresses that end with “.onion” point to Tor hidden services on the deep web. Lots of deep web sites contain very nasty things, and many of them are likely scams or …
A LA Times review of the Trump administration’s settlement proposal to UCLA lays out sweeping demands on numerous aspects of campus life. The government has fined UCLA nearly $1.2 billion to settle allegations of civil rights violations. Hiring, admissions and the definitions of gender are among the areas the Department of Justice seeks to change. …
TNR / The New Republic – [no paywall] “…The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings. By that standard, the Roberts court has failed. The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and …
The new NOAA Space Weather Portal (SPOT) was created in response to user requests. It now includes: Instant data visualization and interaction; Data downloads in common formats (csv, json); Data discoverability using common search parameters; The ability to compare multiple data products in the same plot. SPOT is among the first in a series of …
404 Media: “On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and …
Forbes “Jessie Mahr led a team that restored critical climate data removed from public access under the Trump administration. Now, she’s pioneering a wider effort to fill data gaps in federal policy… As of September, PEDP had archived seven tools and 362 datasets — with 75 more in progress, Mahr told Forbes. The smallest datasets …