Science Policy, Ethics & Society

35+ min ago   (272+ words) I run a small static Nuxt site (SSG + Storyblok) with cookieless analytics: no consent banner, nothing stored server-side about who visits. Great for privacy, but it left me blind on the one question every freelancer or small business asks: where…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (527+ words) paddleocr-pdf-api runs as an HTTP server that accepts PDF uploads and returns markdown. Setting... Tagged with azure, paddleocr, docker, ocr....

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (927+ words) EDITORIAL: The decision by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to jointly develop an AI standards body is a telling acknowledgment of the risks accompanying a technology advancing at breakneck speed. That three of the companies driving this extraordinary race now see…...

17+ hour, 30+ min ago   (70+ words) White House Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios discusses the guardrails on artificial intelligence after President Donald Trump announces the formation of 'AI Force.' Kratsios also weighs in on the cybersecurity issues with AI. White House Science and Technology…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (772+ words) Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University and Chris Mooney, University of Tennessee The year? 1986. What just a few years earlier had been called a “science boom” in the media industry was now dubbed a “science crash.” Cries of despair came from the…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (351+ words) How I added exact-duplicate detection to a free WordPress plugin, what broke on a 3,099-image multilingual site, and the SQL that fixed it. So the identity of an image has to be the content of the file, not its name....

15+ hour, 44+ min ago   (753+ words) Faulty environmental data is not merely an academic problem. It can lead to flawed policies, wasted resources and regulatory gaps that put human health at risk. The fight against pollution and the effort to mitigate climate change depend on data…...

27+ min ago   (922+ words) Since headlines broke about claims AI advancement could lead to human extinction, James Downs has felt his anxiety rising. "It makes me almost feel powerless. Like, what can I do as an individual?" said the mental health campaigner from Cardiff....

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (511+ words) Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working human cells, but they stress that they're not "mice that think like humans." In a study published... Scientists Grow Partly Human Brains Inside Mice Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working…...

56+ min ago   (1384+ words) How browser-based PDF processing works, why document privacy matters, and what to look for in an online PDF tool Students use them for notes and assignments. Businesses use them for contracts, reports and invoices. Freelancers exchange proposals and client documents…...