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404 Media: “A data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which was designed for ICE to receive the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients, was published as part of a lawsuit earlier this year, with the public now able to see …
404 Media [no paywall]: “The same sort of algorithms that use your face to unlock your phone are being used by cops to recognize you in traffic stops and immigration raids. Cops have access to tools that have scraped billions of images from the web, letting them identify essentially anyone by pointing a phone camera …
Quartz – The companies building them have decided that’s a risk worth taking: “In October, OpenAI launched Atlas, its ChatGPT-powered browser designed to go head-to-head with Google Chrome. Perplexity has Comet. Opera (remember them?) unveiled Neon. Mozilla, which built its entire brand on being the browser you can trust, just announced an “AI Window” for …
Cage, Julia and Gallo, Nathan and Hengel, Moritz and Henry, Emeric and Huang, Yuchen, Fact-Checking and Misinformation: Evidence from the Market Leader. [61 pages] (December 05, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5868423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5868423 What are the dynamic effects of fact-checking on the behavior of those who circulate misinformation and on the spread of false news? …
Bloomberg [no paywall] Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X – “Elon Musk’s X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, with thousands of instances each hour over a day earlier this week. Since late December, …
“The White House published an official webpage on the events of Jan. 6, that describes the Capitol attack as a “peaceful protest,” and that Democrats and the Capitol Police – not Trump supporters – were responsible for the violence. The page calls Jan. 6 defendants “patriots” and “hostages,” praised Trump for issuing sweeping pardons, and …
“Since the 20th century, scientific ornithology has been closely linked to the conservation of birds. The study of feathers is a factor that is often overlooked. In museums, the majority of their bird skin collections are archived, stored away in drawers under lock and key and only ever seen by a very selective audience and …
