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The Guardian: “Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue. Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their content from appearing in Google’s AI summaries in UK search results, the British competition watchdog has announced.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new requirement …
LitHub – Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship: “In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist newspapers. Legislatures passed laws banning any publication that may show “a tendency to …
“After more than 18 years with The Washington Post, the Capital Weather Gang will return to its roots as Capital Weather, an independent offering, starting May 31 at CapitalWeather.com. We are deeply grateful to The Post for believing in local weather journalism and helping us grow from a small blog into one of the nation’s …
LifeHacker: “You probably use Perplexity as a quick answer machine. Instead of Google Search, you ask Perplexity questions, and it responds with citations you can check yourself. While Perplexity is good at this, the scope of what the service can do (especially in the paid tiers) goes way beyond. After integrating some built-in features, harnessing …
Military Times: “A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) probe has found that the Pentagon failed to evaluate the effects of recent civilian personnel reductions, leaving a substantial gap in understanding for key areas such as “readiness, workload, and lethality.” Roughly 78,000 civilian positions were eliminated in 2025 — about 10% of a workforce that originally …
Bird History: “Making this list was the hardest thing I’ve ever done: “I love bird names. And in a world with more than 11,000 kinds of birds, ornithologists have had to dig deep to come up with unique titles for each one. While literal descriptions have their place (I’m delighted every time someone asks me …
Fortune Tech: “President Trump’s long-rumored executive order about artificial intelligence has finally dropped. The EO, published Tuesday with little fanfare, aims to address cybersecurity threats posed by AI. It calls for the prioritization of cyber defense, the provision of cybersecurity tools and services (including frontier models) for government agencies and various other organizations, and a …
Nautilus: “When you go to sleep at night, NASA is watching. High above the Earth, satellites monitor artificial light sources gleaming in the dark as part of NASA’s Black Marble project. By combining observations from three satellites and correcting for factors like cloud cover, terrain, and the faint glow of atmospheric gases, NASA can produce …
The American Prospect: “The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American. A disturbing story at the intersection of innovations in war and our surveillance economy broke last week. Reuters reported on a letter sent by U.S. Central Command to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) back …
The Drey Dossier – “There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. Mine found me on TrumpRx. If you have not been to TrumpRx, it is a federal drug pricing website that looks like Wix and a Pinterest board threw up on each other. There …
Ethan Mollick – One Useful Thing: “If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other: Many of the comments to these posts are also generated by AI. So are an increasing number of academic papers and New York Times …
The New York Times Gift Article: “The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate. The National Science Foundation said it would send ships in June to begin removing more than …
