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“Artificial intelligence and defense are becoming increasingly intertwined, especially in the US. OpenAI this week announced a $200 million Pentagon contract as part of a project to bring “advanced AI tools to [US] public servants.” In December, the ChatGPT-maker said it was working with the military tech company Anduril, while rival Anthropic is collaborating with …
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments: “The COG Regional Crime Dashboard provides a high-level understanding of local and regional crime trends from recent days to 2002. The dashboard examines the following offenses against people and property: homicide, robbery, rape, aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft, burglary, and larceny. Real-time data in the crime dashboard is classified using …
Mashable: “Whether you’re trying to cut back on subscription fees, avoid auto-renewal after a free 30-day trial, or align your spending more closely with your values, there are tons of reasons you may want to cancel Amazon Prime. Of course, you may want to wait until after Prime Day — which officially takes place on …
Global Streaming Finder for Everyone. Discover what’s streaming worldwide — Check Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Prime Video libraries across the United States, UK, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and more.”
The Alan Turing Institute and LEGO Foundation: “There is a growing body of research looking at the potential positive and negative impacts of generative AI and its associated risks. However, there is a lack of research that considers the potential impacts of these technologies on children, even though generative AI is already being deployed within …
“Few modern presidents have waged a more visible or sustained campaign against the press than Donald Trump. From the launch of his political career, Trump has used social platforms — first Twitter, then Truth Social — to attack, belittle and discredit journalists, news outlets and the media as a whole. To better understand the scope …
Lit Hub: “Only one library book ban case has ever been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico (1982). In 1975, the Island Trees school board in Nassau County, New York removed nearly a dozen books from the high school and junior high …
Wasington Post via MSN: “President Donald Trump is accelerating efforts to transform the nonpartisan, merit-based federal workforce into one that demands and rewards loyalty to the president, according to civil servants, public service experts and employment attorneys. The ongoing shift would ditch decades-old rules that were intended to ensure that federal hiring, retention and promotion …
404 Media: “Local police in Oregon casually offered various surveillance services to federal law enforcement officials from the FBI and ICE, and to other state and local police departments, as part of an informal email and meetup group of crime analysts, internal emails shared with 404 Media show. In the email thread, crime analysts from …
The New York Times – no paywall: “…How might A.I. change the way history is written and understood? To answer that question, it’s useful to think about L.L.M.s as merely the latest in a long series of shifts in the organizing of human knowledge. At least since the third century B.C., when Callimachus wrote his …
“Founded in June 2020, dontcallthepolice.com is an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to calling the police or 911. We know that involving law enforcement in situations that they are not best equipped to handle can cause more harm than good. These harms disproportionately impact communities of color and the populations most in …
YouTube: Donald Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Park Service is nothing less than catastrophic. Among other measures, the budget proposes firing 5,500 more Park Rangers, reducing the agency’s budget by $1 billion, and selling off 350 of the Park System’s 433 Units. Defenders of Wildlife has called it an “extinction budget,” and …
