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Deepseek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool For Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions “Some in the industry have claimed that the U.S. holds an 18-month AI lead, but that obfuscates reality—it’s closer to three months.” – U.S. AI Executive Read the full report here. DeepSeek represents a profound threat to our nation’s …
Wired [no paywall] – A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually save. Attorneys suing the United States government over its use of vanishing Signal messages to coordinate military strikes last month in Yemen allege that new court …
Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023. Carter C. Price. Published Feb 17, 2025 – The author extends prior work to estimate the gap between what workers earned in 2023 and what they would have earned with a more even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. The bottom 90 percent of workers would have …
Inside Higher Education: “As of April 16, over 210 colleges and universities have identified 1,300-plus international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department. Explosion of Visa Terminations – On March 27, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department had revoked 300 or more student visas, claiming …
European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) by European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) 1. Contrary to other vulnerability databases, the EUVD comes with a holistic approach and aims for ensuring a high level of interconnection of information sources. It does so by leveraging the open-source software Vulnerability-Lookup which enables a quick correlation of vulnerabilities from multiple …
The New York Times, April 16, 2025. Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them [no paywall]. To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his allies. When …
NPR: “In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board. The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential …
Fast Company: “…Reddit recently launched its own interactive search system for finding worthwhile info across the site. It’s called Reddit Answers. And I’ve legitimately been blown away by how useful and effective of a resource it can be. You’ll only need about 20 seconds to see what it can do. Just open up the Reddit …
AI in Banking and Finance, April 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacific highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are …
The New York Times [no paywall] “The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more. At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. …
Thinking About, Timothy Synder: “Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has …
Grist: “The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West. Federal agencies manage around 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the nation’s land, an invaluable resource Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has called “America’s balance sheet.” His membership in a …
