Bellingcat: “Google Analytics is a popular service for tracking and analysing traffic to a website. Through a short code placed in the source of a website, a user can monitor the performance of all their online properties. These tracking codes can also clearly indicate when multiple websites are run by a single user or entity… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2024
Does It Matter Which Internet Speed Test You Use?
How to Geek: ” Different speed test services give different results due to variables like the servers used and their distance from your location. Internet speed tests are useful for verifying if you’re getting the performance you pay for and finding out if your network hardware is causing bottlenecks. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter which speed… Continue Reading
Confirm the authenticity of digital content across FOX media outlets
Via Fox Corp. – “Conveniently search, verify, and share your findings. Please note that the VERIFY TOOL currently supports verification of content from limited publications. Verifying Image Files: Upload the image file you want to verify. The supported file formats are .jpeg, .png, .avif, and .webp. The VERIFY TOOL will search our database for a… Continue Reading
Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less
Nieman Lab: “A new study asked thousands to evaluate the accuracy of news articles — both real and fake — by doing some research online. But for many, heading to Google led them farther from the truth, not closer… Media literacy proponents often advocate doing your own research — emphasis on the search, since Google… Continue Reading
Most States Have Tax Codes That Are Rigged To Benefit The Wealthy: Report
Huffington Post: “In many states, the tax code directly widens income inequality — and it’s a deliberate policy choice driven by low or nonexistent income taxes. A sweeping new analysis of taxes across the country reveals that in four out of every five states, the top 1% are paying a lower tax rate than their… Continue Reading
British Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attack
FT.com [read free]: “The British Library will drain about 40 per cent of its reserves to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled one of the UK’s critical research bodies and rendered most of its services inaccessible. The London-based institution, which stores nearly 170mn pieces of work ranging from books to sound recordings, was… Continue Reading
What’s the Value of 3 Million LPs in a Digital World?
Wired: “Kindle libraries; troves of infinitely streamable songs on Spotify and Apple Music; scores of shows and films on Netflix, Max, and Hulu. Even the Criterion Collection is online now. Cultural archives now live on server farms, so much so that the value of physical media seems ever-shifting. While there’s some benefit to it—the ineffable… Continue Reading
Don’t Sell Your Old Phone or Laptop Without Doing These 10 Things First
Make Use Of: Always back up your data before disposing of any hardware. Transfer valuable data to multiple mediums to ensure it is safe before disposal. Remove connected accounts, log out of all applications, and remove devices from accounts to prevent unauthorized access. Make hard drive data unreadable by utilizing data-wiping software or encryption methods… Continue Reading
Here’s what you’re really swallowing when you drink bottled water
Washington Post [read free]: “People are swallowing hundreds of thousands of microscopic pieces of plastic each time they drink a liter of bottled water, scientists have shown — a revelation that could have profound implications for human health A new paper released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found about 240,000… Continue Reading
Deloitte rolls out artificial intelligence chatbot to employees
FT.com – read free: “Deloitte is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to 75,000 employees across Europe and the Middle East to create power point presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity. The Big Four accounting and consulting firm first launched the internal tool, called “PairD”, in the UK… Continue Reading
NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems
NIST: “Adversaries can deliberately confuse or even “poison” artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them malfunction — and there’s no foolproof defense that their developers can employ. Computer scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators identify these and other vulnerabilities of AI and machine learning (ML) in a new… Continue Reading
The Perfect Webpage
The Verge – How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same….Google controls around 90 percent of the search market, by some measures, so it’s too valuable a referral source to just leave up to luck. Search engine optimization — or SEO, the practice of… Continue Reading
