TechDirt: “Earlier this week there was finally a hearing in the case brought by the big book publishers to kill off libraries. That, of course, is not how the publishers describe the lawsuit, but it’s absolutely what the lawsuit is about. We’ll get to some of the details in a moment, but we’ve joked in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2023
FTC Proposes Rule Provision – “Click to Cancel” Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
“The Federal Trade Commission today proposed a “click to cancel” provision requiring sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up. That is just one of several significant updates the Commission is proposing to its rules regarding subscriptions and recurring payments. The new click to cancel… Continue Reading
Your next job interview could be judged by AI. Here’s how to prepare.
Washington Post: “Some employers are using AI to assess video interviews candidates do on their own time without a human on the other side. Depending on the software, the AI can evaluate a candidate’s communication skills, problem-solving skills, initiative, professionalism and attitude. And ultimately, the AI screening could eliminate you before you ever speak to… Continue Reading
Utah parent says the Bible contains porn – remove from school libraries
The Salt Lake Tribune: “Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”So they’ve submitted a request for their school district in Davis County to now review the Bible… Continue Reading
Hitting the Books: How the ‘Godfather of Cybercrime’ got his start on eBay
Engadget – “From bunk Beanie Babies to signal-stealing cable boxes, Brett Johnson has scammed them all. The internet has connected nearly everybody on the planet to a global network of information and influence, enabling humanity’s best and brightest minds unparalleled collaborative capabilities. At least that was the idea, more often than not these days, it… Continue Reading
Dramatic shift in US gun culture made the AR-15 a bestseller
Washington Post: The numbers: About 1 in 20 U.S. adults — roughly 16 million people — own at least one AR-15, according to new polling data from The Post and Ipsos. How it happened: The industry embraced the gun’s political and cultural significance as a marketing tool after a federal assault weapons ban expired in… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 25, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 25, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
AI chatbots compared: Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT
The Verge: “The chatbots are out in force, but which is better and for what task? We’ve compared Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT models with a range of questions spanning common requests from holiday tips to gaming advice to mortgage calculations. Naturally, this is far from an exhaustive rundown of these systems’ capabilities… Continue Reading
The AI Copyright Fight: A Guide How copyright’s past may shape AI’s future
Ever / Helen Jiang: “Whenever a client wants to skirt the edges of copyright law, the usual response of copyright lawyers is: “Do you really want to find out?” That is…do you actually want to learn how much you’d owe in damages from copyright infringement? I heard this a lot from lawyers when I ran… Continue Reading
Internet Archive
Internet Archives Blog: “Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only… Continue Reading
The People’s Plan for Nature
“This document describes the creation of the People’s Plan for Nature – the direct output of the UK’s largest ever public conversation about the future of nature. The People’s Plan for Nature sets out the public’s vision for the future of nature in the UK, and the actions we all need to take to protect… Continue Reading
OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more
The Verge: “OpenAI is adding support for plug-ins to ChatGPT — an upgrade that massively expands the chatbot’s capabilities and gives it access for the first time to live data from the web. Up until now, ChatGPT has been limited by the fact it can only pull information from its training data, which ends in… Continue Reading
