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NewsGuard “tested leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of cases, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT. OpenAI’s new AI video-generating tool, Sora, has quickly gained a reputation for its ability to fool humans into thinking its videos are authentic. …
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified in front of Congress for more than three hours, January 22, 2026 [Video]. “If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or Republican. No one should be above the law in …
Via LLRX – Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? – In 2014, Rick Anderson wrote A quiet culture war in research libraries – and what it means for librarians, researchers and publishers’, arguing that there existed an ongoing conflict within the academic library profession over whether the library’s most important role …
All the Lonely People: An Integrated Review and Research Agenda on Work and Loneliness. Julie M. McCarthy, Berrin Erdogan, Emily Campion. Journal of Management [Open Access]. Volume 52, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241313320 “Decades of studies spanning multiple disciplines have provided insight into the critical role of loneliness in work contexts. In spite of this extensive research, …
The New York Times Gift Article – In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders to learn cursive. “Though script is little used these days beyond checkbooks and autographs [I beg to differ – on behalf of the silent cursive …
ASKVG: “This article will help you in getting rid of all AI (Artificial Intelligence) features and services available in Mozilla Firefox to make it an AI-free web browser. Mozilla team has started adding many AI-powered features to Firefox browser recently such as AI chatbots, link previews, smart tab groups, etc. Firefox utilizes ML (Machine Learning) …
Nature – A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce. “More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies that oversee research. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few …
Ars Technica: “On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the simple prompt plugin feeds Claude a list of 24 language and formatting patterns that Wikipedia editors have listed as chatbot giveaways. …
The Atlantic Gift Article – Drug deaths are finally falling—but the cause may be far outside of U.S. policy makers’ control. “For two decades, the United States and Canada have struggled with a drug epidemic. From 2003 to 2022, annual overdose deaths in the United States rose from less than 26,000 to nearly 108,000—becoming the …
Data is Beautiful: “I lead communications at Our World in Data. The data here is from the US FBI. I made this chart using our Grapher tool and Figma. This is from a new article we published this week, so check that out if you’re interested to learn more. Below is a bit about the …
Hackernoon: “…The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most …
The New York Times Gift Article – this is now America – Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home. “…As thousands of federal agents have flooded streets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to round up and deport undocumented immigrants, Mr. Amezcua, 46, has mobilized his church and organized free grocery deliveries …