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Reuters Institute – “The system allowed a team of OSINT specialists, reporters and computational journalists to accelerate their investigation of Russian nationalists. Any journalist who’s done online investigations knows there’s simply too much evidence for one human to ever collect or investigate. Too often, we are overwhelmed with a flood of information: tens of thousands …
PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer AI is creating a ‘two-track’ labour market: ‘professionalised’ roles (in which AI acts like a force multiplier for experts, requiring more human-intensive skills) see greater growth across headcount and wages than ‘democratised’ roles (in which AI makes the role itself easier for non-experts to perform) Companies most able to …
Library Journal: “AI companies are offering some libraries funding for digitization projects, but archives and special collections are working through how to manage projects responsibly. “Imagine a world where you know things but cannot say where you learned them,” begins “Memory Without Origin,” a paper published in April by University of Virginia (UVA) Dean of …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. “AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before…As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. (Malware, after …
Forbes: “A leak of private information purportedly related to an ultra-secret society called “Dialog” founded by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel has revealed the inner workings of an elite group to which hundreds of global leaders, business executives and billionaires belong. The documents, examined and revealed by Wired this week, show Thiel and investor Auren Hoffman …
PCMag: “Apple changes iOS all the time, and you can expect some major Siri upgrades later this year. However, new additions don’t change the aspects of iOS that have always been annoying, such as clutter, frustrating notification behaviors, and more. The good news is that you don’t have to suffer and can fix many of …
ZDNET: “I open Google Maps almost every day to get from point A to point B, find a restaurant, or check traffic before even leaving the house. But that approach barely scratches the surface of what the service can do. After writing about Google Maps for nearly 15 years, I’ve learned firsthand that it’s packed with …
The Atlantic [no paywall]: “…AI music generators can simulate human performances with surprising fidelity, but first they have to be trained on enormous quantities of those human performances. The actual recordings that go into any model are a closely guarded secret—AI companies have claimed they are proprietary—but the number of songs is almost certainly huge, …
minid.net – Diego Lafuente’s personal blog: “Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever. It never does. I saw information move from floppy disks to BBSs, from BBSs to the Web, from the Web to Flash, from Flash back to open standards, from websites to mobile apps, and now from search …
The Parnas Perspective: “A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track processing of a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records about why the Trump administration decided not to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in July, despite earlier promises of transparency. The request, brought by Democracy Forward, seeks internal communications that could reveal whether …
USAFacts: “35% of American households are using AI to find information. 14% of people trust that information. New Census Bureau data shows that 57% of Americans have used AI tools to search, brainstorm, complete work or school tasks, and more. Forty-two percent of respondents reported a productivity boost, though the responses also show concern with …
Follow up to Data Centers Exposed – The New York Times – The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers [unlocked article]. “Yes, the cloud has a sound, and some who live closest to data centers that emit the noise have reached their wit’s end trying to block it out. …