UB Media Forensic Lab – DEEPFAKE-O-METER – An Open Platform Integrating State-Of-The-Art Algorithms for DeepFake Image, Video, and Audio Detection. Free but requires login.
UB Media Forensic Lab – DEEPFAKE-O-METER – An Open Platform Integrating State-Of-The-Art Algorithms for DeepFake Image, Video, and Audio Detection. Free but requires login.
“About Phone Validator: We are the service used by brands, apps and websites to learn more about phone numbers in their contact lists. They use it to find out if any U.S. or Canadian phone number line type is cell, landline, VOIP, toll-free or fake/invalid. Our approach is authoritative: We use the most accurate real-time… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2024 – 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 complex and… Continue Reading
137 Harv. L. Rev. 1138 – “Voter turnout was higher in the 2020 U.S. presidential election than it had been in 120 years. Nearly sixty-seven percent of citizens over eighteen voted that November, exceeding rates that hovered around sixty percent in the twenty-first century and never broke sixty percent from 1972 to 2000. Some pundits… Continue Reading
IMF is currently testing the beta version of the revamped IMF Data Portal, which will launch in 2025. We hope you will take the time to join the beta testing phase and provide feedback the new data portal. Since 2021, the IMF has undertaken a project to streamline and modernize the way IMF data is… Continue Reading
Academic paper: “Evaluating modern ML models is hard. The strong incentive for researchers and companies to report a state-of-the-art result on some metric often leads to questionable research practices (QRPs): bad practices which fall short of outright research fraud. We describe 43 such practices which can undermine reported results, giving examples where possible. Our list… Continue Reading
National Park Service: This article is part of the series, The American Home Front and World War II. It explores life on the home front by looking at the things people invented, created, and used and the ways that everyday life changed. They include the effects of war mobilization and of conflict and incarceration on the… Continue Reading
Business Insider ungated – “Millennials are about to be crushed by all the junk their parents accumulated…In some ways, this is a timeless problem — every generation accumulates things, and younger generations rebel against older generations’ tastes. But the sheer size of the current problem is unprecedented given that baby boomers are an extra-materialistic breed.… Continue Reading
Make Use Of: “Have you noticed that your VPN is detected more than it once was? Unfortunately for VPN users, websites, companies, and governments have more techniques than ever to uncover VPN use, so they’re no longer as invisible as they once were. Suspicious Login Patterns – One of the common ways websites detect VPN… Continue Reading
New rules for airlines could help you get speedy refunds – Consumer protections just went into effect that require airlines to repay passengers for lost luggage and bad WiFi. DOT: Please use this form to file a complaint or comment about service you received or requested from an airline or ticket agent that does not… Continue Reading
AP: “Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts… Continue Reading
This chart is an overview of Meaningness and Time: the past, present, and future of culture, society, and our selves. It shows how the modes of meaningness manifest in many aspects of life. Some people find this sort of systematic presentation helpful; others do not. Skip it if you are one of those who don’t.… Continue Reading