The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon #internet #hardware #history #longread

The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a specific problem: storing massive amounts of data with minimal power consumption and heat generation. In the early 2000s, off-the-shelf enterprise storage solutions from giants like EMC or NetApp were prohibitively expensive and power-hungry. They were designed for high-speed transactional data—like banking systems or stock exchanges—where milliseconds of latency matter. Archival storage, however, has different requirements. It needs to be dense, cheap, and low-power.

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Just the Browser #software

Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you "just the browser" and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for companies and other organizations.

To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI - passo.uno #ai #writing #career

The solution is to augment your technical writers It’s not all bad news: Marvelous things can happen if you provide your writers with AI tools and training while you protect the quality of your content through an AI policy. I’ve described the ideal end state in My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030, a vision of the future where writers orchestrate, edit, and publish docs together with AI agents. This is already happening before our eyes.

Productivity gains are real when you understand that augmentation is better than replacing humans, a reality even AWS’ CEO, Matt Garman, acknowledged. Read how I’m using AI as a technical writer. I’m not alone: Follow Tom Johnson, CT Smith, and Sarah Deaton, and discover how tech writers are building tools through AI to better apply it to docs.

Develop an AI strategy for docs together with tech writers, and give them time and resources to experiment with AI. Tech writers are resourceful by nature: they’ve spent careers doing more with less, optimizing workflows, finding clever solutions to impossible quests. Give them the tools and a bit of runway, and they’ll figure out how to make AI work for the docs, not instead of them.

'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare #ai #security

Microsoft is trying to bring agentic AI to its Windows 11 users via Recall. Recall takes a screenshot of your screen every few seconds, OCRs the text, and does semantic analysis of the context and actions. It then creates a forensic dossier of everything you do into a single database on your computer. The database includes a precise timeline of actions, full raw text (via OCR), dwell time, and focus on specific apps and actions. Additionally, it assigns topics to specific activities.

Tiwari says the problem with this approach is that it doesn’t mitigate the threat of malware (via online attacks) and indirect (hidden) prompt injection attacks, which can all gain access to the database. These vulnerabilities subsequently circumvent end-to-end encryption (E2EE), prompting Signal to add a flag in its app to prevent its screen from being recorded, but Tiwari says that’s not a reliable or long-term solution.

India plans to AI companies pay for training data - Rest of World #ai #copyrights

India recently released a draft proposal requiring artificial intelligence companies to pay royalties when they use copyrighted work from the country to train their models. If enacted, the law could reshape how Meta, Google, OpenAI, and other big tech firms operate in one of their biggest markets.

With the world’s largest population, India has leverage that few other countries have. It is the second-biggest market for OpenAI’s ChatGPT after the U.S. It is one of the fastest-growing markets for Perplexity’s AI search engine, and the largest user base for WhatsApp and Facebook, where Meta is rolling out its AI tools. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon recently announced some $67 billion in AI infrastructure investments in the country.

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