EU clinches deal to roll back AI restrictions

Deal marks first significant delay of digital rules amid pressure from the U.S.

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Intimate talks: Brussels ponders the naked body in AI bill

Officials debate how to define “intimate parts” in a draft ban on AI nudification tech.

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EU welcomes Anthropic move to slow the release of powerful new AI tool

The tech company made the announcement after finding that its new Claude Mythos model outperformed most humans at “finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.”

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Do you make a search engine and want more market share?

Provide a button that says "exclude sites with ads" or "order results with fewer ads first" and enjoy the huge surge in users.

#InternetSearch #searchEngine

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
#GoogleSearch #InternetSearch
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Card Catalog

To do internet searches without getting that annoying #AIsummary (which usually makes for one more useless thing to scroll through to get to the links you want to see, and which wastes a large amount of electricity every time), you can add a simple bit of text at the beginning or end of your search query.

Type “hyphen AI” at the start or end of any search query to not get that annoying AI summary at the top of your search results (which usually makes for one more useless thing to scroll through to get to the links you want to see, and which wastes data center electricity every time).

For example:
-ai Names of all four Beatles
**OR**
Names of all four Beatles -ai

#AIprompts #GoogleTricks #AIsummaries #AI #GoogleSearching #GoogleSearch #InternetSearch #SearchEngines #Searches #Googling #AvoidingAI #NoAI

@thomkennon @GossiTheDog

🎌🖼️ Apparently, the world has been eagerly awaiting the ability to upload blurry smartphone photos of Japanese woodblock prints to a magical #database that claims it can find anything. Because obviously, everyone’s weekend project involves deciphering 18th-century art via the sheer computational brilliance of an internet search engine. 😂🔍
https://ukiyo-e.org/ #blurryphotos #Japaneseart #woodblockprints #techhumor #internetsearch #18thcenturyart #HackerNews #ngated
Japanese Print Search and Database

Searches thousands of Ukiyo-e, Meiji, Shin Hanga, and Sosaku Hanga Japanese prints.

SearXNG instances

Online and offline instances

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ottaross/115905574884070113

I have just spent the last little while altering my search engine settings on three browsers; replacing DuckDuckGo with No-AI DuckDuckGo, and adding No-AI Qwant. And then doing it all again because I made mistakes. It's fine now, though. I think.

#InternetSearch #DeGoogle #WebSearch

You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch