The International Committee of the Red Cross, which runs major research archives, warned that AI models are fabricating research papers, journals, and archives
Dan Vergano / Scientific American :
Apple's Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac from iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and will get features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac :
Researchers detail a technique Meta and Yandex use to glean some logged-in Android users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers via web identifiers
even in incognito mode or with a VPN Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Meta and Yandex Apps on Android Have Been Tracking Users in Newly Creepy Ways Bluesky: Matthew Green / @matthewdgreen : Yuck. Meta apps l...
Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status
Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS? I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without a referral. More w...
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that uses optical character recognition to turn complex PDF documents into Markdown files ready for LLM training
It's available via their API, or it's “available to self-host on a selective basis” … Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Mistral launches OCR tool for fast document processing Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Mist...
Research integrity specialists and scientific publishers raise concerns about the ease with which scientific data can be fabricated using generative AI tools
Diana Kwon / Nature : X: @carissaveliz , @ezeferrero , @dianamkwon , and @lcademartirilab X: Carissa Véliz / @carissaveliz : The ease with which #GenAI can create text, images and data threatens with...
Apple releases iOS 17.2, with a Journal app, Qi2 support on iPhone 13 and 14, and 15 Pro spatial video capture, alongside macOS, tvOS, watchOS, iPadOS updates
here's what's new Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : iPhone's collaborative playlists and AirPlay in hotel rooms on hold until 2024 Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple explains why only the latest Apple Watch model...
How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors used generative AI to write without disclosure
How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors wrote using generative AI, without disclosure
Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...