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Nov 15, 2024 | 
issues.org | Stephen Harrison
Rey Velasquez Sacgal Future Tense Fiction “Clearly, something had gone off the rails in his companion AI’s programming.” This story was originally published in Slate in September 2023. It is republished here as a part of the Future Tense Fiction project, presented by Issues in collaboration with ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Stephen Harrison
When I ask crime fiction fans about their favorite books, they usually mention stories focused on traditional crimes, that is, the crimes recurring in the genre. Most often that’s murder mysteries, but occasionally I hear recommendations for books involving theft, kidnapping, or government corruption. One category of criminal activity, though, is rarely mentioned: cybercrime. So far, nobody has told me that their favorite book involves a bad actor wreaking havoc with a computer.
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May 15, 2024 | 
notes.stephenharrison.com | Stephen Harrison
This article originally appeared in Slateon August 24, 2023. Wikipedia is, to date, the largest and most-read reference work in human history. But the editors who update and maintain Wikipedia are certainly not complacent about its place as the preeminent information resource, and are worried about how it might be displaced by generative A.I. At last week’s Wikimania, the site’s annual user conference, one of the sessions was “ChatGPT vs.
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May 6, 2024 | 
netgalley.com | Stephen Harrison
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May 1, 2024 | 
notes.stephenharrison.com | Stephen Harrison
This article originally appeared in Slate on January 28, 2019. Consider how Wikipedia’s role has changed since then with the shift from a link-based search architecture to chat-based search through apps like ChatGPT. According to Wikipedia administrator and attorney BD2412, a lawyer using Wikipedia to brush up on the law itself would probably be committing malpractice.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
notes.stephenharrison.com | Stephen Harrison
This article originally appeared in Slateon August 7, 2019. Today Welsh Wikipedia has more than 280,000 articles. If you say, “Alexa, faint o’r gloch yw hi?” the smart speaker will not understand that you are asking for the time of day. That’s because Welsh is not one of the eight languages currently supported by Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices. Gareth Morlais, a Welsh language and digital media specialist for the Welsh government, has argued for years that this language gap is disturbing.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
notes.stephenharrison.com | Stephen Harrison
This article originally appeared in the New York Times on March 28, 2018 under the heading “If You See Something, Write Something.” As of March 2024, Ng and Picker continue to edit Wikipedia. Ryan Ng is a 19-year-old freshman at Baruch College in Manhattan. He studies finance, lives at home with his parents in Queens and is a member of the college’s League of Legends video game club. But in the somewhat fanatical world of Wikipedia supercontributors, he is best known by his alias, Epicgenius.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
notes.stephenharrison.com | Stephen Harrison
This article originally appeared in The Washington Post on October 2, 2018. Pruitt has doubled his edit count since then. Steven Pruitt has more than 2.5 million edits to Wikipedia articles to his credit. Yes, 2.5 million. That’s a lot of editing to a lot of articles, so you’d understand if he couldn’t come up with the one that he most enjoyed working on.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
sussexexpress.co.uk | Stephen Harrison
Broadcast 2040+, a campaign which aims to protect access to broadcast TV and radio, is highlighting worrying predictions laid out in a new report by EY, that show 16% of premises in Sussex and the wider South East will still not have high-speed broadband in 2040. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowThe report TV Distribution After 2034 predicts that take up of high-speed broadband will still leave 16% of premises without the service in 2040.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Stephen Harrison
Broadcast 2040+, a campaign which aims to protect access to broadcast TV and radio, is highlighting worrying predictions laid out in a new report by EY*, that show 19% of premises in Blackpool and the wider North West will still not have high-speed broadband in 2040. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowThe report TV Distribution After 2034 predicts that take up of high-speed broadband will still leave 19% of premises without the service in 2040.
