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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>EasyxLab</title><subtitle>Open studies and verification tools for the rules software has to follow.</subtitle><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/</id><link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/"/><link rel="self" href="https://easybyte.es/lab/feed.xml"/><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated><author><name>EasyxLab · EasyByte Hub S. Coop. Mad.</name></author><entry><title>S17 — High-value datasets on data.europa.eu: what a machine sees, and what Member States say</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s17/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s17/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>On 2026-10-03, 28 months after the rules became applicable, the European data portal identified no high-value dataset for 7 of the 27 Member States, 3 of which had told the 2025 Open Data Maturity survey that their portal uses the DCAT-AP HVD tag; another 13,948 records (12,062 distinct datasets) carried an HVD category without the legal reference the portal needs to count them.</summary></entry><entry><title>S11 — Do the registration numbers on Airbnb listings exist in the official registries? Spain and New York around 20 May 2026</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s11/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s11/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>In June 2026, in five Spanish areas with an open registry, 2,066 of 31,222 listings showing a well-formed tourist-dwelling number (6.6%) showed one we could not trace to any registered dwelling; a further 557 (1.8%) showed a registered dwelling written in a recognisable wrong form.</summary></entry><entry><title>S10 — Past the static deadlines: NeTEx on five European access points, checked against open schemas</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s10/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s10/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>8 of 34 timetable datasets from five national access points are fully valid against the NeTEx XSD, all of them French; the static MMTIS deadlines passed in 2019–2025, and the 1 December 2026 date covers parking and vehicle sharing, not timetables.</summary></entry><entry><title>S8 — What can a machine verify on Spain&#x27;s public-sector websites?</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s8/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s8/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Of 5,130 public-sector home pages served over HTTPS, 1,688 (32.9%) send HSTS; of 5,570 entities, 4 serve a security.txt that is strictly valid under RFC 9116.</summary></entry><entry><title>S7 — Do Google&#x27;s AI Overviews and AI Mode keep up with Spanish rule changes? About one answer in twenty did not</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s7/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s7/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Judged against the consolidated law in force on 2 October 2026, 12 of 240 AI Overview answers (5.0%) and 13 of 291 AI Mode answers (4.5%) on 27 recently changed rules were outdated or wrong.</summary></entry><entry><title>S6 — Do AI-generated images on Wikimedia Commons carry provenance marks?</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s6/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s6/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Files with a machine-readable AI mark rose from 25.8% of January–May 2026 uploads to 50.2% of June–July uploads; our own validator, ai-mark-lint 0.1.0, wrongly rejected 187 valid C2PA manifests (fixed in 0.1.1).</summary></entry><entry><title>S5 — Who publishes attestations on PyPI and npm — and who stopped?</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s5/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s5/"/><published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>The latest version is attested for 3,479 of 14,995 top PyPI projects (23.2%); 138 projects that once attested no longer do in the line pip installs, 96 of them after a change of publishing tool or workflow.</summary></entry><entry><title>S4 — Multilingual quality of drug names in Wikidata</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s4/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s4/"/><published>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>About 0.9% of 34,207 labels are wrong (a lower bound), concentrated in Urdu, Persian, Russian and Hindi; 135 proposed corrections, not applied.</summary></entry><entry><title>S3 — Do AI provenance marks survive common image, video and audio pipelines?</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s3/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s3/"/><published>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Every pixel or container rewrite removed the embedded C2PA manifest (124/124); editing one metadata field after signing left it present but invalid (6/6).</summary></entry><entry><title>S2 — Spoofed AI crawlers</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s2/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s2/"/><published>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>39.3% of 16,548 claims on three small sites were spoofed; for user-initiated fetchers (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User…) 67.8%.</summary></entry><entry><title>S1 — Conformance of open-source Verifactu implementations</title><id>https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s1/</id>
<link href="https://easybyte.es/lab/studies/s1/"/><published>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<summary>Of 35 files presented as valid records, 10 (28.6%) contain at least one error; the most frequent defect is a declared hash that does not match the record.</summary></entry></feed>
