Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 23, 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… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
“General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry. The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the… Continue Reading
Visualizing All of the U.S. Currency in Circulation
Visual Capitalist: “This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Have you ever wondered how much U.S. currency is in circulation? Every year, the U.S. Federal Reserve submits a print order for U.S. currency to… Continue Reading
US hits new low in World Happiness Report
“The World Happiness Report 2024 is a partnership among Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the World Happiness Report’s Editorial Board. The World Happiness Report has become an indispensable resource for satisfying the growing global interest in prioritizing happiness — or wellbeing — in government policymaking. Gallup’s World… Continue Reading
How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You
EFF – (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can): “Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what’s being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by… Continue Reading
Keep Up With Claude 3: It Reads and Analyzes So You Don’t Have To!
Via LLRX – Keep Up With Claude 3: It Reads and Analyzes So You Don’t Have To! – Discover the power of Claude 3, the AI-powered news analyst that can help you stay on top of the news without spending hours sifting through articles and podcasts. Sarah Gotschall recently put Claude 3 to the test by… Continue Reading
What We Know About You: Welcome to the Surveillance State
Via LLRX – What We Know About You: Welcome to the Surveillance State – Kevin Novak begins his article with a reference to a report in The Wall Street Journal that caught his attention. Commercial data brokers are selling their third-party data to the government. If you’re an optimist, you would think this could be… Continue Reading
This Website Tells Travelers If They’re Flying on a Boeing Plane
Gizmodo: “Some travelers have become nervous about flying on Boeing planes after a string of highly publicized technical issues, including the door plug that simply fell off an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet back in January. But is there any way to easily check the type of plane you’ll be flying on? The new… Continue Reading
Free Coloring Books from Libraries & Museums
Open Culture – Download & Color Thousands of Free Images (2024): “Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, Color Our Collections is “an annual coloring festival on social media during which libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions around the world share free coloring content featuring images from their collections.” In… Continue Reading
Researchers publish dataset of over 6,000 agri-environmental policies from all over the world
“The database is accessible to the general public at this link…researchers from the University of Bonn and the Swiss Federal Institution of Technology (ETH) Zurich have published a database containing over 6,000 agri-environmental policies, thus enabling their peers as well as policymakers and businesses to seek answers to all manner of different questions. The researchers… Continue Reading
The 8 Best AI Image Detector Tools
MakeUseOf: “Key Takeaways Hive Moderation offers a free and quick detector tool for AI images and texts, including a browser extension for Google Chrome. Illuminarty provides a simple AI image detector with a premium plan for detailed analysis and API access. AI or Not is an easy-to-use tool for detecting AI images with both free… Continue Reading
158 Cherry Blossom Trees Will Be Cut Down in DC
Smithsonian: “This spring, Washington, D.C.’s beloved cherry blossom trees reached their earliest peak bloom in more than two decades, a consequence of an abnormally warm winter, consistent with climate change trends. The blossoms around the city’s Tidal Basin reached “peak bloom” on March 17—between one and three weeks earlier than in recent years, and a… Continue Reading
