Monthly archives: December, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 28, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 28, 2025 – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Microsoft, Privacy

Explore ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered

Washington Post [no paywall]: “Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is helping to rewrite the story of the big, bad wolf, with a surprise twist. Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation

Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet

EFF – We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. “Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet

HackADay: “We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance you are talking about an Excel spreadsheet, and if not, at least a program that can read and produce Excel-compatible sheets. But we remember a time when there was no Excel. …

Subjects: Education

Happy Holidays – Enjoy Cooking, Baking and Eating with family, friends, companion animals

Via Wikipedia – Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento,[a] is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.[3] The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, …

Subjects: Education

Welcome To America’s New Surveillance High Schools

Forbes: “Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety — a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school’s high-profile …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICE List Wiki

Crust News and Dominic Skinner: “The ICE List Wiki is now public. It documents immigration enforcement activity across the United States, not just ICE, but Border Patrol, HSI, DHS more broadly, and the hundreds of local police departments operating under 287(g) agreements. Agent identities, incidents, raids, vehicles, supporting agencies, and companies propping up the regime, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

An electricity crunch is driving high bills in these states. It’s not getting better anytime soon

CNN – no paywall – “Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way. As CNN recently reported, utility customers in Maryland and Washington, DC, are some of the first in the country to …

Subjects: AI, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Epstein Files Trump’s DOJ Didn’t Mean to Show You

The Epstein Files Transparency Act required full release of all unclassified DOJ Epstein records by December 19, 2025. To date, DOJ has released two partial, heavily redacted sets, still withholding an untold number of documents in multiple formats, and no schedule of release has been made public. In addition, the DOJ removed and added additional …

Subjects: Congress, E-Records, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas

Via Kottke: Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas – “In 2002, Aardman Animations produced a series of short episodes called Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions. In each episode, Wallace unveils a new invention, which Gromit then has to deal with. For the holiday season, Aardman has packaged a few of these short shorts into this compilation, Wallace & …

Subjects: Internet