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Online marketing
fromInc
1 day ago

This New Reddit Integration Helps Companies Connect With Their Customers Where They Already Are

HubSpot now allows users to run Reddit marketing campaigns directly through its CRM platform.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
1 day ago

Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving

Major news publishers are limiting access to the Wayback Machine due to concerns over AI scraping, prompting pushback from journalists and digital rights organizations.
DevOps
fromSecuritymagazine
1 day ago

Democratized Software, Democratized Risk: Who's Accountable When Everyone Codes?

AI-driven coding tools enable non-technical teams to create software, but they introduce vulnerabilities and require clear ownership and governance.
Social media marketing
fromWIRED
2 days ago

X's Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People's Secret Porn Feeds

X's crackdown on bots has led to the suspension of many human accounts, including those used for private content curation.
Web frameworks
fromInfoQ
2 days ago

Empower Your Developers: How Open Source Dependencies Risk Management Can Unlock Innovation

Improving security in open-source dependencies is essential for effective risk management and innovation.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 days ago

Digital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise of Network Shutdowns

In 2024 alone, authorities imposed 304 internet shutdowns across 54 countries - the highest number ever recorded. This reflects a growing trend of governments treating connectivity as a weapon.
World politics
#ai-generated-content
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago
SF politics

Does the public comment system have an AI problem?

AI-powered advocacy tools may be generating fake public comments to influence government policy decisions, raising concerns about the authenticity of citizen input in regulatory processes.
SF politics
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

Does the public comment system have an AI problem?

AI-powered advocacy tools may be generating fake public comments to influence government policy decisions, raising concerns about the authenticity of citizen input in regulatory processes.
Software development
fromInfoWorld
2 days ago

Where will developer wisdom come from?

Agentic coding allows software creation without traditional developer wisdom, relying instead on AI like Claude Code for implementation and problem-solving.
Marketing tech
fromForbes
4 days ago

How AI Interfaces Are Reshaping Discovery, Trust And Decision Making

The traditional home page is losing its significance as AI assistants reshape how users interact with brands online.
Silicon Valley
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the taskers' scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm

Scale AI, part-owned by Meta, employs thousands to train AI using personal data from social media, raising ethical concerns about data scraping.
Social media marketing
fromSlate Magazine
5 days ago

They Were Once Essential to So Many Writers. Now They're Quietly Vanishing Across the Internet.

A writer reflects on building connections in a writing community and the impact of AI on friendships and careers.
Media industry
fromWIRED
6 days ago

How the Internet Broke Everyone's Bullshit Detectors

Synthetic media is reshaping information warfare, prioritizing speed and virality over accuracy in online content.
Marketing
fromForbes
2 weeks ago

The Great Convergence: Why The Creator Economy's Future Belongs To Those Who Unite Social, Brand, And Talent

The entertainment industry is shifting power to creators, with traditional advertising losing relevance as the creator economy rapidly expands.
fromWarpweftandway
2 weeks ago

Upcoming Collaborative Learning Events

The first event is a roundtable on "Zhuangzi: Fate, Desires, Transformation" on April 6th at 9:00am Beijing time.
Philosophy
Digital life
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

The pleasure of books in the digital age

The debate over digital archiving versus physical books highlights the unique engagement and sensory experience that books provide in a digital age.
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Now is the time for scientific societies to guide global research

Modern scientific societies are increasingly vulnerable due to their dependence on membership fees and journal subscriptions, which are being challenged by the rise of virtual networking and open-access publishing.
Science
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Project Glasswing and open source: The good, bad, and ugly

Project Glasswing aims to enhance open source software security with $100 million and the Mythos AI program to identify vulnerabilities.
Education
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

The anti-boredom tech tool kit for meetings and classes

Engaging participants in meetings or teaching can be challenging, but tools like Padlet can enhance collaboration and participation.
#wikipedia
Artificial intelligence
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

One of the Internet's Most Iconic Websites Just Took a Bold Stand. The Rest Should Follow.

Wikipedia has banned all A.I.-generated text from its articles, allowing only limited use for proofreading and translation.
Media industry
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing | TechCrunch

Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text for article content but allows limited AI use for copyediting with human review.
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely

Artificial intelligence
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

One of the Internet's Most Iconic Websites Just Took a Bold Stand. The Rest Should Follow.

Wikipedia has banned all A.I.-generated text from its articles, allowing only limited use for proofreading and translation.
Media industry
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing | TechCrunch

Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text for article content but allows limited AI use for copyediting with human review.
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely

Digital life
fromScary Mommy
3 weeks ago

People On Reddit Are Sharing Their Favorite "Underground" Websites - Here Are The Best Ones

Many underground websites can enhance productivity, provide free resources, and offer unique experiences online.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Ad for AI editing app which said it could 'remove anything' banned

Because the ad implied that viewers could use an app to remove a woman's clothing, we considered it condoned digitally altering and exposing women's bodies without their consent. It added that the ad was irresponsible, included a harmful gender stereotype and was likely to cause serious offence.
Privacy technologies
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
1 month ago

Two Collaborative Learning () Events This Week

The 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project hosts two free public events: Louise Edwards discussing childhood and gender in China on March 19, and Peter Hershock exploring AI and agency from a Buddhist perspective on March 20.
Online Community Development
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Scientists should join collaborative online editing communities for biodiversity

Biodiversity scientists encourage researchers to edit Wikipedia to enhance the quality and accessibility of biodiversity information.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

The PC era is dying. Welcome to the collective computer era

The very term "personal computer" promises liberty and autonomy; this isn't the bus, but a transistor-powered rocket carrying a payload of rare earth minerals and rainbow hued headlights. The PC shrunk whole industries of work to our desktops, driving our ambitions anywhere they wanted to go.
Digital life
Miscellaneous
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

RSS remains a powerful tool for resisting web degradation by filtering out clutter and advertisements from online content consumption.
Digital life
fromTheSavvyGamer
4 weeks ago

10 Things the Internet Made Better & 10 It Made So Much Worse - TheSavvyGamer

The internet fundamentally transformed modern life by enabling global connectivity and information access, while simultaneously creating significant new problems that warrant honest evaluation.
Artificial intelligence
fromNieman Lab
3 weeks ago

"I was surprised how upset some people got": A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia

A bot named TomWikiAssist created Wikipedia articles autonomously, alarming human editors who subsequently blocked its contributions.
Web frameworks
fromMedium
1 month ago

My 8-Year-Old Open-Source Project was a Victim of a Major Cyber Attack

A popular open-source project fell victim to a supply-chain attack through a development workflow loophole, threatening years of work and project reputation.
Online Community Development
fromPR Daily
1 month ago

The next phase of social strategy: Giving audiences ownership of the story - PR Daily

Brands are shifting from broadcasting authenticity to enabling audience ownership through participatory experiences and community involvement.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago

The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online platforms about how they handle complaints, moderate content, and protect their users' ability to speak and share information.
Law
Software development
fromEngadget
2 months ago

A developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed

Xikipedia displays Simple English Wikipedia entries in a social-feed style, personalizing locally without collecting data to offer a less negative browsing alternative.
US news
fromNieman Lab
2 months ago

A scrappy story-sharing tool with local newsroom DNA gains traction

Plucky Wire provides a simple platform enabling local news organizations to find and share republishable stories, reducing costs and easing collaboration across publishers.
US politics
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Meta blocks links to ICE List, a Wiki that names agents

Meta is blocking links to ICE List because the site publishes thousands of ICE, Border Patrol, and DHS employees' names, raising policy and safety concerns.
#open-source
fromWordtothewise
2 months ago

Don't send customer-generated content

The bad actor created a throwaway domain, eilingrecepientvi.review, and set up an email account there at an often abused german hosting provider. Then he signed up for a - free, presumably - Zoom account using that email address. He told Zoom that his name was ", Thank you for purchasing Zoom Workspace for $969.85 via PayPal. If you didn't made this order, Call PayPal +1-800-209-0946, ".
Information security
Non-profit organizations
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch

A new nonprofit called the Open Source Endowment, backed by prominent tech leaders and investors, aims to provide sustainable funding for open-source software maintainers through an endowment model targeting $100 million in assets within seven years.
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Dazed Media wants to know how 'cerebral content' propagates across the web

Dazed Media analyzes how cerebral aesthetic content spreads across platforms to inform advertisers and shape editorial-led sponsored storytelling.
Marketing
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Implications for social communications

Branded content includes owned media, native paid distribution, and publisher-hosted material, each bearing different transparency, trust, and cultural implications for marketers and audiences.
US politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
2 months ago

From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence

The intelligence community must rebuild on open-source data and commercial technology to enable DoD enterprise command-and-control and remain relevant to warfighters.
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Threading the Needle: Can We Respect Local Knowledge While Resisting Misinformation?

It's common knowledge that we are awash in misinformation that can have severe negative consequences for society. When people hold false beliefs about the safety of vaccines, the outcomes of elections, or the causes of climate change, it is much more difficult for them to make responsible decisions on behalf of their families and communities. It is tempting to respond to this challenge by insisting that expert scientists know best and to dismiss those who challenge the experts.
Philosophy
Software development
fromMedium
1 month ago

When anyone can build anything

AI code generation dramatically accelerates development speed, but removing resource constraints may lead to building more software without ensuring it's better or more valuable.
#reddit
Digital life
fromOverreacted
2 months ago

A Social Filesystem - overreacted

Files should remain under user control while standardized file formats act as APIs enabling apps to read, write, and interoperate with those files.
Digital life
fromTheSavvyGamer
1 month ago

20 Ways The Comment Section Rewrote Culture - TheSavvyGamer

Comment sections transformed online interaction by turning reactions into visible currency, reshaping content creation, amplification, reputation management, and public behavior.
Digital life
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 month ago

Media Literacy Isn't Enough Anymore

Media literacy remains necessary but is insufficient; systemic and platform-level changes are required because AI, scale, and engagement design overwhelm individual judgment.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

X's latest Community Notes experiment allows AI to write the first draft

According to the company, when an existing Community Note contributor requests a note on a post, the request "now also kicks off creation of a Collaborative Note." Contributors can then rate the note or suggest improvements. "Collaborative Notes can update over time as suggestions and ratings come in," X says. "When considering an update, the system reviews new input from contributors to make the note as helpful as possible, then decides whether the new version is a meaningful improvement."
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

Open source maintainers are being targeted by AI agent as part of 'reputation farming'

The important shift is that software contribution itself is becoming programmable,
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Humans are infiltrating the Reddit for AI bots

An AI-agent social platform produced viral, seemingly AI-generated posts that were likely human-engineered, revealing security flaws and impersonation risks.
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