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I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer or SoundCloud to start. See also Moby relaunches free music library for creatives, with 500 new tracks – “Electronic musician, producer, DJ, and “cultural polymath” Moby recently relaunched Mobygratis, the free sound library that he originally created in 2005 to provide indie …
NCLS – Artificial Intelligence 2025 Legislation Updated March 22, 2025 – “AI—the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as learning and decision-making—has the potential to spur innovation and transform industry and government. As AI advances and widespread adoption of these tools increase, government, business and the public are …
In Custodia Legis: Thursday, May 22, 2:00 p.m. “How to Handle AI? – Italian National Regulation in the Context of European Law” – A Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar. Join senior legal research analyst Dante Figueroa and senior researcher at the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Roberto D’Orazio for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled, …
EFF: “Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up, you can accidentally undermine your privacy. When a conversation is properly encrypted end-to-end, it means that the contents of those …
Vanity Fair – no paywall: As the administration pushes its “invasion” fantasy, the courts are providing a real-world check on presidential power. One of Donald Trump’s first executive orders, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” signaled where the administration was headed. By characterizing migrants as invading the United States, Trump could take actions only …
Brett Heinz. April 30, 2025 – “The United States of America is a different nation than it was 100 days ago. The opening months of the second Trump administration shattered the post-World War II record for the most executive orders issued by a new President. Within the first two weeks of his second term, President …
Follow up to Trump fires Librarian of Congress – via CBS News: “The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday. The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of …
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, …
