Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Pew Report – “Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Now, with a patchwork of differing state laws in effect, perceptions of abortion access vary by where people live. A 60% majority of U.S. adults …
Protos – “Polymarket, a prediction market platform owned by New York-based company Blockratize, currently has open assassination markets on its website. They’re easy to find because they’re some of the most heavily traded markets on the platform. Among these markets are: Iran leader by end of 2026? (the current Ayatollah is on the list) Will …
NextGov/FCW – “The Justice Department issued an opinion last week authorizing the Trump administration’s plan to allow employees from tech companies to work for the federal government while remaining employed by their companies and keeping their not-yet-vested company stocks. The administration will be onboarding managers from twenty-plus companies including Anduril, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir and …
Privacy Guides: “An email aliasing service allows you to easily generate a new email address for every website you register for. The email aliases you generate are then forwarded to an email address of your choosing, hiding both your “main” email address and the identity of your email provider. Email aliasing can also act as …
Channel Surfer is a retro TV guide that turns YouTube into live cable TV. Every channel runs on a fixed schedule based on wall-clock time — everyone watching the same channel sees the same video at the same moment. It’s the shared, lean-back experience of 90s cable, rebuilt for YouTube. How does the schedule work? …
Ars Technica – Your phone still functions when held to your ear, people! “…Ever since people began emerging from their pandemic isolation, I’ve seen a shocking amount of public speakerphone usage. Especially—of all places—in the grocery store. I can only assume that picking out spicy hummus and chicken tikka masala at Trader Joe’s is so …
“Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe. I created the European Tech Map to change this. It is aimed to be the most comprehensive and curated directory of European tech, software, and services companies. Built on a single conviction: …
Business Insider: “I come bearing great news for my kind of people (horrible typists): Typos are the new status symbol. Garbled spelling, a missed space, improper capitalization — those are all the new and best ways to signal to others that you are powerful and elite.. The most notable recent example of how the rich …
Abby André – Executive Director of The Impact Project. “Today, we released an expanded version of The Security Map – and the data is alarming. Between 2015 and 2025: 🔴 Threats to local public servants increased by 2,030% 🔴 Threats to families of public servants increased by 3,700% 🔴 34% of threats against families occurred …
“Every March, literary bloodsport reigns supreme. Since 2005, the Tournament of Books has been home to a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels. Each weekday in March, two works of fiction go head to head, with one of our judges deciding which book moves forward in the competition—until one finally wins that year’s …
All Rise News: “In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) joined Democratic Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, giving the request bipartisan buy-in. “On January 30, 2026, DOJ published over three million pages and files of Epstein-related records, including …
FT.com – Tim Harford [no paywall]: “In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, without which there would be no ecommerce. Cryptography is hardly valueless to the military, either. One never knows …
