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Ars Technica: “Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 2026 – 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 …
Eureka: “With almost a third of cacti species threatened with extinction, a new open access database of cactus ecology and evolution could help scientists and conservationists save species from the brink. Researchers from the Universities of Bath and Reading have launched CactEcoDB, the most comprehensive database ever created for the cactus family, offering an unprecedented …
“The Great Horned Owl Cam just got a whole lot cuter this week thanks to two new arrivals. Athena, the female owl, stood watch over the nest as her first egg hatched a down-covered owlet on April 8 after 34 days of incubation. The second owlet arrived two days later, on April 10. Over the …
Kottke: “Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. [The metaphor for these three things certainl resonates now!] Controlling the stickiness of …
The New York Times: “In late March, Iran circulated a shaky video supposedly showing an American F/A-18 under attack. Iranian officials claimed they had destroyed the jet, though the Pentagon denied that. The video quickly earned millions of views online, demonstrating how Iran has exploited the global media ecosystem to propagate an image of military …
Card Catalog: ” In 1754, Horace Walpole coined the word “serendipity” in a letter to a friend, borrowing it from a Persian fairy tale about three princes who made discoveries “by accidents and sagacity.” He meant the wandering that puts us somewhere unplanned, and the readiness to recognize what we’d stumbled into when we got …
EFF: “Another court has ruled that copyright can’t be used to keep our laws behind a paywall. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes …
ABC News: “Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s monumental 2024 decision granting President Donald Trump sweeping immunity from prosecution, the ruling’s broader impact on American government is beginning to come into focus as Trump and his lawyers repeatedly invoke the case in an effort to get the justices to endorse expansive presidential power. “That’s …
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The Brighter Side – Understanding where a tree’s mass comes from reshapes how you think about growth, food, and the environment. “Trees are not just passive recipients of soil nutrients. A Different Reading of Familiar Material. The practical implications of this are easy to underappreciate. Wood is not geological material shaped by roots. It is …
The Alliance for Secure AI, AI Job Loss Tracker – Newly reported layoffs where AI is either explicitly cited or credibly blamed as a material factor. Reporting window starts January 1, 2025.
