The New York Times [read free]: YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says. “YouTube’s advertising practices on kids’ channels could have resulted in companies tracking children across the web, a report said.This year, BMO, a Canadian bank, was looking for Canadian adults to apply for a credit card. So the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2023
How to Customize Your Google News Feed
Tech Republic: “Add sources, locations and topics you want to track in Google News — and hide those you don’t want to display — for a reliable and free way to aggregate global news. As a news aggregator, Google News showcases stories from thousands of sources around the world. It provides an effective and free… Continue Reading
Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool
NBC News: “Experts warn that EagleAI, a database that helps voters examine the voter rolls themselves, could drown election workers in unreliable reports of ineligible voters…For several months, activists around the country, organized in part by influential Trump ally Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network she founded, have been learning to use the program… Continue Reading
Government’s own experts found ‘barbaric’ and ‘negligent’ conditions in ICE detention
NPR Investigative Report: “Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States. In Michigan, a man in the custody… Continue Reading
Revising the Analytic Framework for Assessing Financial Stability Risk
Letters to FSOC in Support of Increased Supervision of Nonbank Companies, Revising the Analytic Framework for Assessing Financial Stability Risk View or download a PDF of the full technical letter and coalition letter. “AFREF submitted comment letters to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) on two proposals that would strengthen its toolbox for addressing threats… Continue Reading
How To Prepare for Cyber Disclosures In a New Era of Transparency
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Matt Gorham, Barbara Berlin, and Kevin Vaugh, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP: “The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its final rule on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure on July 26, 2023. This gives your organization approximately five months to confirm your compliance plans before the new disclosure… Continue Reading
Open challenges in LLM research
Aug 16, 2023 – Chip Huyen – “Never before in my life had I seen so many smart people working on the same goal: making LLMs better. After talking to many people working in both industry and academia, I noticed the 10 major research directions that emerged. The first two directions, hallucinations and context learning,… Continue Reading
Will Artificial Intelligence Make Contract Interpretation Easier?
ContractsProf Blog – By Jeremy Telman: “In case you’ve been on a Barbieheimer binge for the last few weeks and missed it, Yonathan Arbel (below, left) and David Hoffman (below, right) have posted Generative Interpretation on SSRN, and the early reviews, e.g. here, are glowing. A new land speed record has been established in that… Continue Reading
C-SPAN and Library of Congress Announce New Primetime Book Series for Fall 2023
Library of Congress: “C-SPAN and the Library of Congress today announced a joint original feature production for fall 2023: “Books That Shaped America.” The 10-part series – which C-SPAN will air LIVE on Mondays, starting Sept. 18 at 9 p.m. ET – will be a literary journey, tracing America’s history by exploring masterpieces in literature… Continue Reading
Extreme Temperature Diary
Guy on Climate [Meteorologist Guy Walton]: Extreme Temperature Diary – Wednesday August 16th, 2023/Main Topic: “The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to Main… Continue Reading
These apps and websites use your data to train AI
Los Angeles Times – You’re probably using one right now. “…What kind of info are we comfortable forking over to the AIs, if any? Right now we are in the midst of a destabilizing moment. It’s alarming, yes, but it’s also an opportunity to renegotiate what we do and do not want to hand over… Continue Reading
The 9 Best Alternatives to ChatGPT
MakeUseOf: “Since its public launch in November 2022, ChatGPT, the mesmerizing AI chatbot by OpenAI, has grown in popularity like wildfire. Social media feeds are filled with incredible things people do with the chatbot. Jobseekers, programmers, high school teachers, content creators, and professionals in almost every field are finding good uses for the tool. However,… Continue Reading
