Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of ...

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.

The source material is a guide from WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who have been hunting AI-generated ...

The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

Text-to-speech (TTS) tools convert written text into spoken word using AI, which can increase accessibility and offer a shortcut to natural-sounding voice-overs for creative and p ...
GitHub

NOVIC: Unconstrained Open Vocabulary Image Classification

💡 TL;DR: Given an image and nothing else (i.e. no prompts or candidate labels), NOVIC can generate an accurate fine-grained textual classification label in real-time, with coverage of the vast ...
Bleeping Computer

Fake 'Inflation Refund' texts target New Yorkers in new scam

An ongoing smishing campaign is targeting New Yorkers with text messages posing as the Department of Taxation and Finance, claiming to offer "Inflation Refunds" in an attempt to steal victims' ...
CNET

This AI Writing Detector Shows Its Work. For Me, It's a Step in the Right Direction

Apps that purport to spot AI-generated text have a trust issue. The solution may be more transparency about what they find. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...
The Indianapolis Star

'We won't allow facts to be buried': Hogsett investigative report omissions raise concerns

Some on the Indianapolis City-County Council are asking questions about omissions from the report looking Mayor Joe Hogsett's handling of reports of harassment on the part of one of his staffers. The ...
Reason

Texas Ten Commandments Bill Is the Latest Example of Forcing Religious Texts In Public Schools

Texas has become the latest state to pass a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. The bill, which is already being legally challenged and is unlikely to pass ...
IEEE

Annotation Guideline-Based Knowledge Augmentation: Toward Enhancing Large Language Models for Educational Text Classification

Abstract: Automated classification of learner-generated text to identify behavior, emotion, and cognition indicators, collectively known as learning engagement classification (LEC), has received ...
Frontiers

Weakly supervised text classification on free-text comments in patient-reported outcome measures

Background: Free-text comments in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) data provide insights into health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, these comments are typically analysed using ...