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Yahoo Tech – They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network – “That small stub on top of nearly every LED streetlight? Most people assume it’s a photocell — a dumb sensor that flips the light on at dusk. It’s not. Or not just that. It’s a standardized NEMA socket, and cities are quietly filling it …
“The web was made by people. Not by algorithms, not by models, not by machines that dream in code. By people in rooms, garages, and workshops arguing over protocols, shipping software on floppy disks, building companies from nothing, and connecting the world one awkward, brilliant, human decision at a time. For over fifty years, from …
TheBoard.World: The Liar’s Dividend: When Seeing Is No Longer Believing in Wartime AI deepfakes are hyper-realistic audio, video, or images generated by artificial intelligence to mimic real people or events, with the intent to deceive. During the Iran war, a surge of deepfake content on X (formerly Twitter) has overwhelmed both the public and verification …
The War Horse – “Critics Say It’s Built to Reach One Conclusion: The researcher leading the assessment also led a controversial 2015 Marine Corps study that the defense secretary has used to argue women should not serve in combat roles Two months before Pete Hegseth appeared in front of Congress to testify in his confirmation …
Reuters: “Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting workers for mass layoffs. The lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California, federal court late Monday, says that the company relied on factors such as …
The Atlantic Gift Article: The State Department told a court last year that the secretary didn’t use disappearing messages. By this spring, it had dropped that claim.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates as part of his job. So it was no surprise that …
BloombergLaw [no paywall]: “AI-native firms may not be taking Big Law’s market share, but they are making incursions into a valuable asset: talent. “The AI-forward attorneys are chafing at the slow pace of firm adoption and archaic thinking,” said Sam Shaddox, 38, a co-founder of Seattle’s Talairis Law Group. “They’re migrating to the firms that …
Indicator: “In July’s episode of Show & Tell, Hal Triedman showed us how easy it can be to poison an AI research agent. Hal is a privacy and security researcher at Cornell Tech and former senior privacy engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He walked us through a recent research project he ran with colleagues Tingwei …
Wired: “A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had. On April 14, 2025, a federal IT staffer filed a whistleblower complaint with Congress alleging that members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed and possibly exfiltrated sensitive information …
Stillwell, Hayley and Harrington, Sean, Predicting the Court: Evaluating Large Language Models as Forecasters of Supreme Court Decisions (July 10, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7096518 Large language models are increasingly used by lawyers to analyze legal materials and forecast litigation outcomes. This Article evaluates four leading large language models-GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, …
404 Media no paywall: “Fiction written by artificial intelligence is easy to detect because it struggles with complex story structure and tends to moralize in clunky ways, according to a preprint study from researchers at University of Maryland, College Park and Google DeepMind. They found that AI fiction has tells that go beyond stereotypical overuse …
Dialed.gg is a simple browser game that shows you a color, hides it, asks you to recreate it from memory, and scores you on how well you did. [Another example of the natural divergence in learning, interpreting and recalling information.] [Camel, rhinoceros, rabbit…but what colors are they? Perfect score?]