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Follow up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool – See The World Factbook is now the OpenFactBook – “The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook. Comprehensive data on 254 countries and territories. OpenFactBook provides free, comprehensive, and accurate information about every country in the world. We believe geographic and …
A Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, developed by Henk van Ess with Claude Code by Anthropic as coding assistant. “Why AI Detection Fails on the Fakes That Matter Most. Total fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like …
“Humanize AI text from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for free. Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human. Guaranteed undetectable results.” [Let that sink in.] AI Humanizer Eliminates AI Tones for Natural Writing – Directly trim the stiff and repetitive patterns found in machine-generated writing. AI text humanizer converts dry drafts into …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 14, 2026 – 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 increasingly …
The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind Try this experiment. “Open ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and ask a complex question. Something with real nuance, like whether you should take a new job offer or stay where you are, or whether it’s worth refinancing your mortgage right now. You’ll get a …
PCMag: “You can now sync your contacts and ‘find friends’ on OpenAI. Is this the first major step toward the company becoming a social media app? ChatGPT is getting more social, with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, February 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …
“GeoConfirmed is a volunteer-driven open-source intelligence (OSINT) project dedicated to geolocating and verifying visual content—such as videos and photographs—from around the world. Our mission is to bring clarity and accuracy to events by confirming exactly where something happened, using publicly available information. While much of our recent work has focused on conflict zones, our methods …
The Guardian: “It is a mark of the power and honesty of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, A Hymn to Life – a seemingly impossible writing project in which the author must reconcile herself with horrors of which she has no recollection – that in the first 40 pages, the person I felt most angry towards was …
Via LLRX – Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw – Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the …
“The horrific kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie and the ongoing search for her has brought attention to the FBI’s Combined Index System (CODIS). The Bureau has prepared these FAQS CODIS and NDIS Fact Sheet — FBI on CODIS and the National DNA Data System (NDIS) that should be useful to our users.” [Professor Bert Chapman, Purdue …
Politico: “The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it had disabled “built-in artificial intelligence features” on corporate tablets after its IT department assessed …