“Nearly 75 percent of non-organic fresh produce sold in the U.S. contains residues of potentially harmful pesticides, EWG’s 2023 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ finds. In this year’s guide, blueberries and green beans join our Dirty Dozen™ list of the 12 fruits and vegetables sampled that have the highest traces of pesticides. Any exposure… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2023
‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us?
The New York Times: PFAS lurk in so much of what we eat, drink and use. “Scientists are only beginning to understand how they’re impacting our health — and what to do about them…PFAS can be removed from tap water, but according to the E.P.A., tap water typically accounts for only about 20 percent of… Continue Reading
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Wired: “The rapid rise of generative AI has stoked anxieties across disciplines. High school teachers and college professors are worried about the potential for cheating. News organizations have been caught with shoddy articles penned by AI. And now, peer-reviewed academic journals are grappling with submissions in which the authors may have used generative AI to… Continue Reading
Notes for a New Legal Research Pedagogy
Mignanelli, Nicholas, Notes for a New Legal Research Pedagogy (July 7, 2023). 43 North Illinois University Law Review (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4503396 “Do societal power structures shape the organization of legal information? Do they embed biases in legal research tools? If so, how can the insights of critical legal theory assist us in contending… Continue Reading
Learn as you search and browse using generative AI
Google Blog: “Today, we’re sharing a few more upgrades to SGE to help you better learn and make sense of information on the web: whether it’s deepening your understanding of complicated concepts, boosting your coding skills or tracking down details within a complex topic. See definitions within AI-generated responses – When you’re researching something new,… Continue Reading
Proposed Rule – Artificial Intelligence in Campaign Ads
Federal Election Commission – The Commission announces its receipt of a Petition for Rulemaking filed by Public Citizen. The Petition asks the Commission to amend its regulation on fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority to make clear that the related statutory prohibition applies to deliberately deceptive Artificial Intelligence campaign ads… The Petition asserts that generative Artificial… Continue Reading
Stop Trackers Dead: The Best Private Browsers for 2023
PCMag: “Online marketers mine your data and target you for sales. Foil their efforts with the tracking protection and privacy features offered by the top secure browsers we’ve tested. Online privacy is a major concern for everyone, and by far the biggest personal privacy issues arise when you browse the internet. Why? Because online marketers… Continue Reading
You can build your own AI chatbot with this drag-and-drop tool
ZDNET – We try out Botpress, a tool that helps you create powerful AI-based chatbots. “Botpress is a tool for building interactive chatbots. While it supports building chatbots for a wide range of applications, the killer app is using it to build a customer support chatbot and backing it up with AI smarts. At its… Continue Reading
AI in Banking and Finance, August 15, 2023
Via LLRX – AI in Banking and Finance, August 15, 2023 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government and regulatory documents and industry white papers as well as academic papers on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary… Continue Reading
The Corporatist Foundations of Financial Regulation
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. David T. Zaring is the Elizabeth F. Putzel Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. This post is based on his recent paper, published in the Iowa Law Review. “Nobody should feel sorry for banks, necessarily, but they labor under heavy, and in… Continue Reading
New Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinar
The next Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar is scheduled for August 29, 2023 from 2:00-3:00pm (Eastern). This session, Tips for Navigating Spatial Data Resources, is hosted by Kevin Dyke – the Maps and Spatial Data Curator at Edmon Low Library. Register here: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TB6XPsRGQR6pm3jDPjULvQ#/registration Continue Reading
Amazon Ring does not fight crime
NBC News: “Cute videos, but little evidence: Police say Amazon Ring isn’t much of a crime fighter. Hundreds of police departments have signed agreements with Ring to gain access to footage filmed on home surveillance cameras….Since 2018, Ring has signed up more than 800 law enforcement agencies as “partners,” offering them access to video footage… Continue Reading
