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TechCrunch: “Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being used to …
The Guardian: “…despite the obvious devotion of the most renowned literary voices of the last two centuries, the “chee chew chee chew” of the nightingale, the twittering of the house martin and the voice of the song thrush are heard no more in gardens, yards and balconies across many parts of Britain. In the last …
LightningMaps.org is an additional service to the main project Blitzortung.org [A worldwide, real-time, community collaborative lightning location network.] For general questions about this project and for ordering the necessary hardware have a look at the appropriate documentation, FAQs and instructions before contacting us. Also, the discussion board is a good place for all questions and …
Heatmap – A just-released MIT paper argues that the energy transition is still largely following the trajectory laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act.
American Association of Law Librarians: “This guide is intended to help you use AI in your legal research effectively and responsibly.”
The Guardian: “”Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and …
Wired: “ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility [OPR] is supposed to be for internal investigations,” says Gonyea, “and now they’re using their own internal departments on American civilians.” OPR is supposed to act as an internal watchdog. It’s responsible for inspecting detention facilities, investigating allegations of employee and contractor misconduct, and processing security checks for new applicants. …
AI Law Librarians: Charlie Amiot – How We Got Here “Recently I was chatting with a friend from law school who has been a practicing lawyer for seven-plus years and whom I’ve known for 11+ years. I have a great amount of respect for this person’s thoughts and opinions on nearly any subject (admittedly rare …
Washington Post – no paywall: “…People working with AI tend to outperform those without it on tasks well-suited for AI, such as drafting text, synthesizing research and generating ideas. In controlled experiments, researchers have seen massive improvements — at least in the short term. In a 2026 peer-reviewed paper in Organization Science, Ethan Mollick at …
Follow up to Supreme Court rules Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies, this article predates the decision and provides insight into the magnitude of consequences that will cascade as as a result: Partnership for Public Service, Chris Piper: “Since returning to office in 2025, President Donald Trump has taken unprecedented steps to consolidate authority …
The New Republic: “President Trump is once again attacking Smithsonian director Lonnie Bunch and the museum system, the latest development in his “war on wokeness.” “The Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in …
Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index Global Map is an interactive map that visualises how climate change is influencing daily temperatures around the world. It displays today’s data, showing which regions are experiencing temperatures that have been made significantly more probable due to climate change….Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research …
