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Sundays are for waking up alongside a hilariously beautiful partner. They turn over and whisper softly in your ear that the pair of you should rob a bank. You agree, if only because of the heavenly way in which they roll the R in rob on their tongue as they…
The Guardian: EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others. “The European Commission intends for the centre to bring together expertise across the EU and from countries seeking to join the bloc to fight foreign information manipulation and interference.”
The post The Guardian: EU plans hub…NBC News: AI’s capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study. “According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to…
Spotted on Bluesky: Open Science Network. “Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers. The future of scholarly communication is open, community-owned and interconnected.”
The post Open Science Network first appeared on ResearchBuzz: FirehoseBusiness Insider: Military influencers are going viral, and the Pentagon’s social media rules aren’t keeping up. “Some share lighthearted or mundane glimpses of daily military life; others push boundaries with sexualized or irreverent posts. Across the ranks, Pentagon policies on social media are vague and unevenly enforced, leaving troops…
Reuters: Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show. “Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion…
WordPress: Let’s Grow Together: Introducing Recommended Blogs . “When you find a blog you genuinely enjoy, you can add it to your personal recommendations list. Your subscribers and readers can then see these recommendations when they visit your profile in the Reader or hover over your gravatar anywhere in the…
Search Engine Land: Google to remove more search features including practice problems, nutrition facts, nearby offers and more. “Google will be removing more search features in the coming months, but it has not disclosed the full list of which features. It appears that Google will do away with some…
Mashable: Common Crawl accused of feeding paywalled content to AI companies. “In a detailed investigation for The Atlantic, reporter Alex Reisner reveals that several major AI companies have quietly partnered with the Common Crawl Foundation — a nonprofit that scrapes the web to build a massive public archive of…
NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using…
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