How to Geek: “Mozilla Firefox receives a major update about every four weeks, giving the web browser a steady stream of new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements. Firefox 120 will start rolling out today, with new link options, enhancements to data importing, new security features, and more. Firefox 120 has a few new improvements… Continue Reading
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New tool tracks disinformation laws globally
ijnet: “Amid the rise in disinformation today, journalists should look into legal measures adopted by countries around the world to combat it. Brazil’s Agência Lupa is helping reporters do just that, this month launching an interactive map showing national and supranational laws globally intended to legislate disinformation online. The tool, called LupaMundi, provides details about… Continue Reading
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer Gets Email Alerts and Other Major Improvements
“For the past decade, ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer has published financial details of every tax-exempt organization in the United States that files annual reports with the Internal Revenue Service. And until this year, the site looked about its age. While we regularly update our database with new documents, we’ve only occasionally added new features (like a… Continue Reading
How to Find Latitude and Longitude Coordinates Using Google Maps
How to Geek: “As one of the most powerful mapping tools available, Google Maps has a number of features designed to help you pinpoint your location. If you want to know your exact position, you can pull up your GPS coordinates in Google Maps. You can get coordinates on all platforms, including the Google Maps… Continue Reading
The best place for product reviews is Reddit?
Vox: “Whether you’re looking for a new TV or the best bagel in Brooklyn, you’re bound to come across online reviews, and it’s hard to find something that feels trustworthy. There are a lot of reasons why this is true, and it doesn’t look like the situation will get any better soon. Despite regulators and… Continue Reading
How To Translate Websites in Any Browser
Gizmodo: “We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean that you can’t read it. All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don’t have… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 11, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 11, 2023 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 the… Continue Reading
Paying for News: What Google and Meta Owe US Publishers — Draft Working Paper
Paying for News: What Google and Meta Owe US Publishers — Draft Working Paper, Working Paper #1 Patrick Holder, Haaris Mateen, Anya Schiffrin, Haris Tabakovic Overview – Paper “This paper estimates the payment that Facebook and Google Search platforms would owe to news publishers for the use of news content, if the Journalism Competition &… Continue Reading
Fakespot Chat, Mozilla’s first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot
TechCrunch: “Earlier this year, Mozilla acquired Fakespot, a startup that leverages AI and machine learning to identify fake and deceptive product reviews. Now, Mozilla is launching its first LLM (large language model) with the arrival of Fakespot Chat, an AI agent that will help consumers as they shop online by answering questions about the product… Continue Reading
This New Tool Aims to Keep Terrorism Content Off the Internet
Wired [free to read]: “Small platforms without resources to handle takedown requests have been weaponized by terrorist groups that share their content online. A free new tool is coming to help clean house… Terrorist groups have found a home on smaller, less well-known online platforms in recent years where they store, share, and link to… Continue Reading
How to Use DALL-E 3 for Free Inside Microsoft Bing
Make Use Of: “Key Takeaways Easily access and use DALL-E 3 for free with Microsoft Bing Chat or Bing Image Creator. No subscription fees or sign-up required. DALL-E 3 offers improved accuracy, better photorealism, and more creative images. It’s integrated into ChatGPT, providing a fresh way to interact with the image generator. With DALL-E 3… Continue Reading
Google Search and Chrome are getting new tools to help users find discounts
Google Blog: How to find holiday shopping deals on Google: “…Thanks to the Shopping Graph, our comprehensive data set of the world’s constantly-changing products and shopping information, holiday shoppers on Google will have access to double the amount of deals as last year. And we’re introducing new ways to help you shop those great prices:… Continue Reading
