Washington Post [read free]: “Google is changing how you log into your account, but don’t worry — it’ll make your life easier. This month, Google said it’s making “passkeys” the default log-in option for Google accounts. That means that instead of typing in a password, you’ll log into your Google account and Google apps with… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2023
How to Search for a Better Deal on Broadband
The MarkUp: “One of the first things I did upon moving into a new apartment last November was get a better deal on my broadband internet. To discover what other internet service providers (ISPs) offered service to my building, I used a handy resource that the Federal Communications Commission had just released to the public… Continue Reading
Novavax Finder
Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist: “Novavax is a small company based in Maryland and has never brought a vaccine to market. This company has a fascinating rollercoaster history; I highly recommend googling over coffee. Their Covid-19 vaccine contains a coronavirus protein that prompts the immune system. (This differs from Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines,… Continue Reading
IRS advances innovative Direct File project for 2024 tax season
IRS -“As part of larger transformation efforts underway, the Internal Revenue Service announced today key details about the Direct File pilot for the 2024 filing season with several states planning to join the innovative effort. The IRS will conduct a limited-scope pilot during the 2024 tax season to further assess customer support and technology needs.… Continue Reading
Who blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl?
palewire – Ben Welsh: “In total, 546 of 1,149 news publishers surveyed by the homepages.news archive have instructed OpenAI, Google AI or the non-profit Common Crawl to stop scanning their sites, which amounts to 47.5% of the sample. The three organizations systematically crawl web sites to gather the information that fuels generative chatbots like OpenAI’s… Continue Reading
Digital Dystopia – The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling
ACLU Report – Digital Dystopia. The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling [63 pages]: “Over the last two decades, a segment of the educational technology (EdTech) sector that markets student surveillance products to schools — the EdTech Surveillance industry — has grown into a $3.1 billion a year economic juggernaut with… Continue Reading
The Dangers Of Searching For Medical Information Online
MakeUseOf: “Looking for medical information online is a gamble at best. You key in a symptom, a disease, a medical term or two, and you’re quickly presented with a bunch of matching results at random. You take one look at them, add two and two, and come up with five. Searching for and relying on… Continue Reading
CRS – International War Crimes
LSB10747| International Atrocity Crimes and Their Domestic Counterparts – LSB10747 Download LSB10747 PDF – Stephen P. Mulligan, May 25, 2022: “…In 2014, the United Nations defined atrocity crimes as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. International law also criminalizes related conduct that can take place in wartime, such as torture and the crime of aggression. Some,… Continue Reading
The Online Maze of Job Applications
CareerFair-Shikhar Sachdev: “Applying to jobs online is like navigating a maze. Amidst the special torture that is resume parsing software, the inability to reuse information across different application tracking systems (ATS), and the existence of a certain company that rhymes with every day of the week, it can get pretty frustrating. I wanted to explore… Continue Reading
Generative AI and Guidance on Abusiveness
ABA Journal – Generative AI and Guidance on Abusiveness May Illuminate a New Focus on “Dark Patterns” for Enforcement and Related Consumer Research: Consumer Protection enforcement authorities are showing a new interest in “dark patterns” which they describe as manipulative design practices that subvert consumer choice, particularly in digital settings. This interest likely stems from… Continue Reading
Scholastic’s “bigot button”
Popular Information: “Scholastic, the popular publisher of children’s books, is a big business. It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion. Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million. Since 1981, Scholastic has hosted book fairs… Continue Reading
Your old phone is safe for longer than you think
Washington Post [free to read]: “…Apple, Samsung and other phone manufacturers keep remotely fixing the security flaws in their phones’ software for years. That keeps your old phone safer from hackers. It isn’t easy to tell exactly how old is too old to be secure. Digital security experts told me that generally, an Android phone… Continue Reading
