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“Duck.ai is a free feature that allows you to have private conversations with 3rd-party AI chat models, anonymized by us. It currently supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Each model relies on unique algorithms and datasets and will respond to your prompts …
CRS Report – Social Security’s Projected Shortfall: The Role of Demographic Factors, June 5, 2025 – Referenced Legislation: P.L.98-21 – “Social Security is a social insurance program that provides income replacement to workers and their families due to a loss of earnings after a worker’s retirement, death, or disability. Yet Social Security, the federal government’s …
404 Media: “A cybersecurity researcher was able to figure out the phone number linked to any Google account, information that is usually not public and is often sensitive, according to the researcher, Google, and 404 Media’s own tests. The issue has since been fixed but at the time presented a privacy issue in which even …
Make Use Of – (and How to Get Rid of It): “If you’ve ever wondered how Google seems to read your mind, the answer lies in its massive and incredibly detailed data collection. You can actually take a look at what Google knows about you—and delete it if you want to clean the slate. It’s …
MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy – “As tanks are sent en masse to the nation’s capital, complete with revolutionary insignia, for a propaganda event this Saturday, one of the president’s top advisors is accusing the government of the State of California of aiding and abetting “an invasion”—a condition for a charge of treason—while the …
CRS Legal Sidebar – Supreme Court Grants Emergency Motion on President’s Removal Power, June 4, 2025: “On May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the executive branch’s motion to stay lower court orders reinstating officials at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) who enjoy statutory removal protections. Over the …
The Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the GEO GWIS work program for the years 2023-2025, GWIS aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional and national levels in order to provide a comprehensive view and evaluation of fire regimes and fire …
The Guardian: “Today, the Guardian launches a unique new tool for protecting journalistic sources. Secure Messaging is an important new technological innovation that will make it easier for people to share confidential information with us. Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing has always taken bravery. As threats to journalists around the world increase, so does the …
