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Global Legal Post: “More than a third of top law firms are exacerbating the climate crisis by supporting some of the world’s biggest polluters through their advisory work, according to the latest Law Students for Climate Accountability report. The sixth annual climate scorecard found that while the number of firms receiving a top A grade …
Via Vicki Tate, Senior Librarian, University of South Alabama: “The NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library is no more. The easy access to publications to NCJRS no longer exists. The only thing available, that I could find, is two screens of 38 random documents from NIJ” Formerly the Virtual Library housed over 235,000 …
The Hechinger Report: Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week – “When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason …
The Atlantic – Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. “Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can read an analysis about LibGen and its contents here. Find The Atlantic’s search tool for movie and television writing used …
EFF: Learn how governments are able to read certain text messages, and how to ensure your messages are end-to-end encrypted on Digital Rights Bytes, our site dedicated to helping break down tech issues into byte-sized pieces.
Skeptic: “The recent announcement of the Stargate Project, a $500 billion initiative led by OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX, underscores the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and capabilities. While such developments hold immense potential, they also introduce critical security challenges, particularly concerning the potential for AI systems to deceive users. As AI becomes …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “Deep inside a subway station in Brooklyn, in a cramped, industrial room, Dyanesha Pryor pushes in a metal lever on a hulking machine that was installed nearly a century ago. A few hundred feet away, a signal light flashes red and a train that had been rumbling down the …
The Verge: “Phishing scammers are bypassing Google’s DKIM authentication by using Google Sites to send fake “subpoena alerts” that appear to come from “[email protected].” The scam creates authentic-looking emails by entering email text as an app name, which Google automatically sends and then links directly to sites.google.com instead of accounts.google.com to steal credentials…”
Forbes: “Forensic analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s “landscape with waterfall” drawing revealed that it was created in two successive phases, suggesting that it is not the depiction of a real landscape, but rather a result of da Vinci’s geological research over the years. The drawing is dated to August 5, 1473, and many historians have …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have received permission to access a highly sensitive Justice Department system that contains information including the addresses and case histories of millions of legal and undocumented immigrants, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The system — the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Courts …
