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Prof. Galloway: “The Manhattan Project, the top-secret U.S. government initiative to build an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany did, relied on hundreds of brilliant scientists from leading universities. Many of them had fled fascist regimes in Europe and found refuge on American campuses, including Berkeley, Columbia, MIT, Princeton, Purdue, and the University of Minnesota. In …
Note – this post is dated May 2024 but the recommendation continues to work – Via Tedium: “Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL…Google announced some …
Android Headlines: “Every time you ask ChatGPT for an answer, another website fades into silence. In a landmark lawsuit, Ziff Davis takes on OpenAI—and the fight could decide who owns the soul of the internet…The convenience of AI makes it feel free, even magical. But it’s not. The models powering those instant responses were built …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 10, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
The Lever [no paywall] – “A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, …
CNN Reliable Sources: “Since the beginning of this year, The Atlantic has hired twelve journalists away from The Washington Post. The New York Times has poached at least ten Posties. CNN has picked up half a dozen. The Post exodus is one of those things that rival editors whisper about, sounding mystified as they ask, …
How to Geek: Two-Factor Authentication iCloud Private Relay Advanced Data Protection Stolen Device Protection Lockdown Mode Other Key Habits to Improve Your iPhone Security Summary: Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to protect your iCloud account, while iCloud Private Relay safeguards your privacy when browsing online with Apple’s Safari browser.C onsider enabling Advanced …
IEEE Spectrum – “Researchers are pushing beyond chain-of-thought prompting to new cognitive techniques. Since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI companies have been locked in a race to build increasingly gigantic models, causing companies to invest huge sums in building data centers. But toward the end of last year, there were rumblings that the …
The Littler Annual Employer Survey Report, May 25, 2025 – “It has been a turbulent start to 2025 as U.S. employers scramble to adapt to new executive orders, sweeping changes at federal agencies and a growing patchwork of workplace regulations at the state and local levels. To understand how businesses are navigating these disruptions, Littler …
The Hill: “President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to be Librarian of Congress. A spokesperson for the library told The Hill in an email that “Tonight, the White House informed …
Lifehacker: “The dark web, for the uninitiated among you, is a virtual neighborhood beyond the borders of the normal, everyday internet (which includes the website you’re looking at right now). It’s somewhere Google and Bing don’t index, and you need special tools to get to it. It’s a place where you’ll find data leaks and …
WSJ [no paywall]: “Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues. Roughly five millennia ago, a small band of nomads set out from their homeland around the Black Sea. On the wide-open grasslands of the steppe, they honed their skills as …
