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ProPublica – The Secret IRS Files: “In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes. Michael Bloomberg managed …
Washington Post – no paywall: “Why the nation’s founding document is marred by stains, a mysterious handprint. The physical journey of the Declaration of Independence tells its own story. Its imperfections and endurance reflect those of the America it helped create…Two and a half centuries ago, the newborn United States did not yet reflect the …
“The Trump administration took aim at the separation of church and state June 26, 2026, issuing a draft report from the president’s Religious Liberty Commission that says the separation concept is a legal error and that Americans should view religion as an “essential support” and always remember “the Creator who made us and bestows our …
Bloomberg – no paywall: “Leaked files reveal the Social Design Agency’s efforts to control the information that underpins search engines and AI chatbots. Russian influence operators called it Project 2026. The plan wasn’t just to spread fabricated stories on social media platforms. It outlined efforts to create an alternative information ecosystem. Leaked documents from a …
Via LLRX – Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know – AI agents can fail in too many ways to count. This article by Jerry Lawson focuses on one of the biggest vulnerabilities, prompt injection. However, because there are so many other ways agentic AI can fail, the final sections will also discuss ways to …
PBS – “Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots. Watch Steiner’s remarks in the video player above. …
NeimanLab – “So this independent bookstore decided to start publishing its own. When The Washington Post’s management axed Book World in February, it wasn’t just one casualty among hundreds of layoffs; it was the latest high-profile death blow to a newspaper book review section in more than two decades of a thousand cuts. The AP …
The Guardian “A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood. The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a call for grant applications related to a nearly 20-year-old program meant to raise awareness about frozen embryo …
“Every month since 2011, Hacker News runs an “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread where each top-level comment is one job posting. Chart how often a language, tool or work-style shows up across those postings – a live read on what the tech job market actually asks for. Chart how often a language, tool or …
Persuadability and LLMs as Legal Decision Tools. Oisin Suttle. School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Maynooth Ireland. David Lillis School of Computer Science University College Dublin Dublin Ireland (2026). As Large Language Models (LLMs) are proposed as legal decision assistants, and even first-instance decision-makers, across a range of judicial and administrative contexts, it becomes essential …
Article and Video Tour of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library that opens next week. “It will be open to the public on July 4. Crews are still putting the finishing touches on the $450 million 96,000 square foot building. The library walks visitors like the Daniels family through the 26th president’s life, starting with his …
Actions Against the Empire of AI: “AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen: large-scale, generative systems that power products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. These systems consume an unfathomable …
