3+ hour, 31+ min ago  (195+ words) One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media. AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical diagrams have all slipped past editors and peer reviewers, and…...

4+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (292+ words) Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals. On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced API access deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to get major tech companies to pay…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (333+ words) If DDo Sing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots. The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive. today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDo S) attack…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (983+ words) DDo S hit blog that tried to uncover Archive. today founder's identity in 2023. Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive. today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDo S) attack against a blogger…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1233+ words) Microsoft won't explain why Bing blocked 1. 5 million Neocities websites. One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing, after the search engine inexplicably started blocking approximately 1. 5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities. Monitoring stats,…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (546+ words) The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it. "It's really handy that Wikipedia went and collated a detailed list of "signs of AI writing," Chen wrote on X. "So much so that you can…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1739+ words) We survived, but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive's founder says. The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project....

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (548+ words) Wikipedia host's lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works. The letter from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accusing Wikipedia of left-wing bias seems to be based on fundamental misunderstandings of how the platform works, according to a…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (276+ words) Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia. Cruz accused the foundation of "financially support…...

9+ mon, 23+ hour ago  (810+ words) Ten years of work to boost one man's reputation. Quick'what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages,…...