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How to Geek: “Most of us feel stuck switching back and forth between the same five apps. We’re stuck because companies spend billions to keep us “engaged” on their respective platforms. That’s why the internet feels like it has shrunk to a handful of apps, and stopped being a place you once explored and browsed. …
The Journalist’s Resource, Zoom Meeting – Vanishing Numbers: How Federal Data Manipulation and Removal Threaten Journalism and Public Trust Oct 1, 2025 12:00 PM [h/t Barclay Walsh] “Federal datasets are one of the pillars of democracy. They underpin everything from health research and economic forecasting to climate science, disaster response, and watchdog journalism. Yet today, these …
Follow up to Large Language Muddle It’s OK to be a Luddite! – See Also Neomam Studios: Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI: “…The rampant use of generative AI tools to automate our jobs has driven prices down to the ground and is flooding the web with subpar content that nobody cares enough to …
404 Media; [no paywall] “Some international sellers on large platforms like eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs to the United States to absurd prices in order to deter Americans from buying their products in an effort to avoid dealing with the logistical headaches of Trump’s tariffs. A Japanese eBay seller increased the …
N+1: “…For those of us working in reading- and writing-heavy fields — chiefly media and academia, the US’s last two eroded islands of institutional intellectual life — the boom in sophistication of large language models over the past few years has struck alarm bells that were already chiming. Well before the inflection point of OpenAI’s 2022 debut of ChatGPT, …
How To Geek: “You can finally upgrade to macOS 26 on supported Mac models, just head to System Settings > General > Software Update and click the “Upgrade” button. Some features, like app overhauls and the Liquid Glass facelift, are obvious. Others are buried deep within menus. Here are our favorite less celebrated macOS 26 …
404 Media no paywall: “A data broker owned by major U.S. airlines is selling masses of customers’ travel data to the government. New documents we just got show this includes “5 billion ticketing records for searching capabilities.” Where people went, how they paid, and even where they plan to go in the future are all …
The New York Times – [no paywall]: “…Most of this material — gathered by social media analysis, drone surveillance and more — will never be reviewed by any court and will be entirely inaccessible to anyone outside of law enforcement. For almost 90 percent of the technologies it deploys, the department has stated that it …
How to Geek: “Common wisdom says that you should never write down your passwords, and for the most part I agree. Especially if you write it down on a sticky note attached to your screen bezel. However, lately I’ve found that I keep forgetting my passwords, because we’re asked to enter them much more rarely …
“For people to experience the full benefits of access, the Internet itself needs to be able to adapt to challenges. The Pulse Internet Resilience Index (IRI) tracks a range of indicators and assigns a weighted score for each country, measured out of 100. It’s a holistic score that measures how well an Internet connection can …
LitHub: “…In 2005 I auditioned for my first audiobook, a grand 500-page historical fiction retelling of the Robin Hood legend. I realized there was a whole industry out there featuring the beautiful yet simple combination of a voice and a story—I was hooked. I’ve narrated 800 titles now, for publishers large and small, in every …
The More You Automate, the Less You See: Hidden Pitfalls of AI Scientist Systems – Ziming Luo, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Nihar B. Shah. September 10, 2025. “AI scientist systems, capable of autonomously executing the full research workflow from hypothesis generation and experimentation to paper writing, hold significant potential for accelerating scientific discovery. However, the internal workflow …