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Axios: “The U.S. Secret Service denied multiple requests for additional resources from President Trump‘s detail during his campaign, according to a new report on the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt. The big picture: The report released Sunday from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs detailed a “disturbing pattern of communications failures and negligence” …
Open Culture: “..the thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Their digitized collection currently holds over 10,000 books free to read online from cover to cover, allowing you to get a sense of what adults in Britain and the U.S. wanted children to …
Today we launched a website to track how much Trump plays golf. TrumpGolfTrack.com This site provides URLs, titles and links to news stories that track when and where Trump play golf during the course of his term in office as the 47th President of the United States. This tool is made with publicly available information …
Bellingcat: “Armed and masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors roughly tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles have borne witness to frequent and aggressive immigration raids that have seen people …
Wired: “The Department of Homeland Security is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter, WIRED has learned. Threat bulletins issued during last month’s “No Kings” protests warn that the US government’s aggressive immigration raids are almost …
Muck Rack: “In 2000, many Americans lived in a community with journalists — people whose job it was to cover school board decisions, announce small business openings and closures, root out corruption at city hall, warn commuters about road work and trumpet the exploits of the high school teams. Today, most of those journalists are …
“The shortlist for the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition has been unveiled. From a blood moon hanging over Shanghai to a family portrait of the Solar System and a close-up of a comet’s streaming tails, distant astronomical wonders are photographed in magnificent detail for all to admire. Now in its 17th year, …
Netcraft: “When Netcraft researchers asked a large language model where to log into various well-known platforms, the results were surprisingly dangerous. Of 131 hostnames provided in response to natural language queries for 50 brands, 34% of them were not controlled by the brands at all. Two-thirds of the time, the model returned the correct URL. …
Tabb Forum: “Forget AI world domination, for the moment – the real story is how it’s making us better. But are you worried AI will make a “tool” out of you? Andrew Dunn, Practice Lead at Streets Consulting, cuts through the hype, exploring AI’s immense power alongside its limitations, and looks at why human intelligence …
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has made available hundreds of historic volumes of U.S. Supreme Court cases dating from 1790–1991. These cases are published officially in the United States Reports and are now available on GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. United States …
Gallup: “As artificial intelligence transitions from abstraction to reality, U.S. adults are evenly divided on its implications for humankind. Forty-nine percent say AI is “just the latest in a long line of technological advancements that humans will learn to use to improve their lives and society,” while an equal proportion say it is “very different …
Mark Magazine #66 February/March 2017 – “Contemporary warriors are retreating more and more from the battle field and exchange guns for computers like the one this article is written with. But unlike me, these warriors are sitting in maximum security installations like bunkers. Therefore, hitting a bunker is a military jackpot, eliminating drone pilots, cyber …
