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New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
We’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text.
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UK Online Safety Bill threatens encryption, secure communication, and reporting
Does the image above, depicting the rescue of a child who attempted to reach the U.K. by sea, present the act of immigration in “a positive light”? It’s an absurd question, of course. It’s journalism – an effort to convey in visual terms the stark truth that tens of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers try to…
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BBC Modi Documentary Removal
We have observed some confusion about the Internet Archive’s removal of links to a BBC documentary about Indian PM Narendra Modi ("India: the Modi Question"). Internet Archive can confirm that it has removed links in response to DMCA takedown requests from the BBC.
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ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
Daragh O Brien poses some thoughts on ChatGPT, AI Text Generation, and the Enshittening of Knowledge and what we can learn from Plato.
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Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
Digitec Galaxus is blazing a trail. The Swiss online retailer now displays how often customers return products, how often products break during the warranty period and how long it takes for a warranty claim to be settled. With that, Galaxus and Digitec now serve as a reference work for the product and service quality…
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What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?
AI will make us smarter and better at our jobs. But if we don't watch out, it will create chaos.
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There’s no such thing as affordable housing
Los Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how.
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The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
Despite aggregate productivity for the US economy having doubled over the past 50 years, the country’s construction sector has diverged considerably, trending downward throughout that period. And this is no slight decrease. Raw BEA data suggest that the value added per worker in the construction sector was about 40…
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Magnetic method to clean PFAS contaminated water
Researchers at The University of Queensland have pioneered a simple, fast and effective technique to remove PFAS chemicals from water.
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Official Warning: Zero3K
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus
Exklusive Einblicke und individuelle Angebote: Erleben Sie mit Mercedes-Benz das Maximum aus digitaler Live-PR. Exclusive insights and individual offers: Experience the maximum of digital live PR with Mercedes-Benz.
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NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition
Thousands of volunteers helped map surveillance cameras that the NYPD could use to track people using facial recognition.
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Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Do heat pumps work in cold climates?
Heat pumps work even in very, very cold weather. Thanks to technological advancements in recent decades, heat pumps keep your home toasty warm even when the temperature drops dramatically. In fact, eight of the major heat pump companies — Bosch, Carrier, Daikin, Johnson Controls, Lennox, Midea, Rheem, and Trane…
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Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage
The Cornell ILR Wage Atlas shows who in New York state earns living wages and where, helping policymakers and other stakeholders to understand patterns of inequality.
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Politics and the English Language (1946)
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.
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Unearthing a long-ignored African writing system
When BU’s Fallou Ngom found a note written by his late father, in a language that looked like Arabic but sounded like Wolof, it opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.
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Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain
This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in the United States, including books, periodicals, sheet music, and movies. Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New York to London, the formation of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first successful…
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U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its value, study finds
A UCLA–MIT Press paper highlights a lack of data infrastructure and data strategy in U.S. higher education.
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CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database
The U.S. military used biometric devices en masse to capture people in Afghanistan. Some devices were left behind during the hasty withdrawal of NATO troops. CCC researchers found large amounts of...
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6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
Read the onX report on corner locked land to learn how much land is involved, the concerns of affected property owners, and what can be done to solve this issue.
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Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom
Pandemic study shows distraction of social media may suck up the time and energy that allow us to find new passions
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Picture This: The Periodic Table
Philip Ball on the visual ordering of all the elements known to humankind—and how we might order them differently.