Google has registered eight new web domains, but two of them have sparked a debate about the havoc they could wreak on the security of the internet. TechSpot explains how .zip and .mov could be exploited by cybercriminals.
The promise: all of the world's knowledge, instantly at your fingertips.
The reality: a few "facts," possibly made up by a large language model, swimming in a sea of prose after the jump, IF you can find the “X” to close the ad.
I know there is a lot of anti-AI sentiment around here, and for good reason, but is anyone using #ChatGPT or #GoogleBard for anything useful? Is it helping you at work?
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I agree with your last sentence. However, it seems to me that this has been true for years. Search engines have been able to lead us astray for years.
So, #ai is NOT the #wisdom of our time. You always have to check. Question is: 'how can you do that on #internet?'
(1) If I may, here's a story about using the #Internet. My ex-wife has a heart condition and she went on the internet looking for a cure over 13 years ago. She found stories that she needed surgery for her heart condition.
Finally we went to a heart specialist. He began to laugh at her complaint, for the remedy was very simple.
Her heart valve sometimes came in the wrong position and by bending over and pinching your nose and applying pressure, the heart ...(2)
🆕 blog! “The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems”
Many years ago, Google applied for the .zip Top Level Domain. ICAAN, in its infinite wisdom, granted it. And now, I think, bad things are going to happen. You see computers try to be helpful. They see you wrote "visit example.com" and autolink the thing which looks like a domain name. That's handy - especi…
#historisch gezien is dit niets nieuws, want onze #voorouders deden dat al. De #trend om altijd de 'laatste mode' te volgen bestaat eigenlijk pas een ...(2)
"The #OnlineNewsAct endangers the Internet at a time when we need this critical resource the most.Parliament must reverse course and withdraw the bill, before the Internet as we know it slips out of our hands." - Natalie Campbell in The Hill Times
Article:
"The Online News Act will make the Internet less open and secure for all Canadians"
Thank you to Reuters news service reporter Carey Biron who spoke to me and broadband-for-all titans (Jim Baller & Gigi Sohn) for this story on the debate around municipal #broadband and other forms of publicly-owned, locally-controlled high-speed #Internet networks.
The community broadband #movement is really starting to gain momentum
「 Berners-Lee eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the public domain without any patents or fees. He has since attributed the runaway success of the web to that single decision 」
— @NPR