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Microsoft’s generative search engine weds something new, something old

ZDNET: “Microsoft has been a major player in the AI race and one of the first companies to unveil a chatbot that’s a worthy ChatGPT competitor — Copilot. Now, the company is returning its attention to the project that started it all: the Bing search engine. On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled a new generative search experience that combines the conversational responses facilitated by generative AI with a search engine results page found in traditional search engines.”

When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’

Via LLRX – When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’ – Reading and writing articles published in academic journals and presented at conferences is a central part of being a researcher. When researchers write a scholarly article, they must cite the work of peers to provide context, detail sources of inspiration and explain differences in… Continue Reading

News homepages, archived

Data is Plural: “Since launching in March 2022, homepages.news has archived millions of screenshots, performance audits, robots.txt files, accessibility trees, and hyperlink lists from the homepages of 1,100+ news sites. The open-source project, run by journalist Ben Welsh, provides bulk data for each of those assets. The screenshots themselves are stored on the Internet Archive;… Continue Reading

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk

The Scholarly Kitchen: “There is broad consensus in scholarly publishing that AI tools will make the task of ensuring the integrity of the scientific record a Herculean task. However, it seems that many publishers are still struggling to figure out how to address the new issues and challenges that these AI tools present. Current publisher… Continue Reading

FCC Mobile Speed Test App

“Speed tests run using the FCC Mobile Speed Test app will help to improve the accuracy of the mobile broadband coverage shown on the FCC’s National Broadband Map. The FCC Mobile Speed Test App is a free mobile application available in the United States, designed to evaluate the performance of mobile broadband service. Tests conducted… Continue Reading

Data Privacy Law as a New Field of Law

Papakonstantinou, Vagelis, Data Privacy Law as a New Field of Law (January 06, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4865297 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4865297 “The turn of the 1980s was a milestone period in the development of data privacy laws, that was only paralleled by the turn of the 2020s. The former saw the introduction of Convention 108 by… Continue Reading

webXray

Wired [unpaywalled]- This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations. A former Google engineer has built a search engine, WebXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”…It’s a search engine for rooting out specific privacy violations anywhere on the web. By searching for a specific… Continue Reading

How good is your metadata?

Via Mastodon – Ludo Waltman@[email protected] Scientific Director and Professor of Quantitative Science Studies @cwts, @universiteitleiden; Open Science Ambassador @universiteitleiden; Co-chair @RoRInstitute; President @ASAPbio; Editor-in-Chief MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review); Former Editor-in-Chief @QSS_ISSI University libraries now have easy access to the information they need to include openness of publication metadata in their negotiations with publishers. Try it… Continue Reading

Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date

Meta: “Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals the top AI models when it comes to state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use, and multilingual translation. With the release of the 405B model, we’re poised to supercharge innovation—with unprecedented opportunities for growth and exploration. We believe the latest generation… Continue Reading

HHS – Online Health and Safety for Children and Youth

“The Biden-Harris Administration’s Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force, co-led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DOC) National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), released a new report today with recommendations and best practices for safer social… Continue Reading