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Wired [no paywall] – “This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under …
We completed the most comprehensive study of how economists and AI experts think AI will affect the U.S. economy. Forecasting Research Institute. Mar 31, 2026. “There is widespread disagreement over the impact that AI will—or won’t—have on the U.S. economy: some prominent voices warn of a transformative upheaval and large-scale job losses, while others predict …
Washington Post via MSN: “Anthropic recently “hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world” for a two-day summit: Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered …
“Hallucinations” by West and Lexis AI? A Cautionary Study and Cautions About the Study, Michael Berman – “This post is a follow up to “Hallucinations” by West’s CoCounsel? (Apr. 7, 2026). In U.S. v. Farris, __ F. 4th __, 2026 WL 915082, at *1 (6th Cir. Apr. 3, 2026) (per curiam), the court found errors in a …
AP: “The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week posted a list of more than two dozen types of testing that have become unavailable. This is not the first time the CDC has paused …
“We built OSINT Navigator to make it easier for investigators and researchers to find the right tools for the job — and discover tools they didn’t know existed. Navigator allows you to enter a question like “How do I find the owner of a website?” or “How do I research a YouTube video?” and receive …
The New York Times Interactive Visual – “The cost of fuel in the United States steadily ticked up after the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran began in February. Developments in the conflict — showing progress or not — have directly impacted the price of oil, which gasoline across the nation tracks. But increases at the pump …
Washington Post [no paywall] Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight. Members of the U.S. DOGE Service spoke regularly over Signal, the encrypted chat service that can auto-delete messages. They were informally recruited by people they knew. And …
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 …
