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New Report Highlighting Trump Family Corruption, Launch of Trump Digital Grift Tracker

[January 20, 2026] “Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a new report identifying how President Donald Trump has accepted digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests as President of the United States. The investigation by Oversight Democrats has found that President Trump and his family are exploiting …

Subjects: Congress, Cryptocurrency, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

This Script Removes the AI Features From Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

Lifehacker: “Tech companies are getting increasingly pushy with their large language models—prominent buttons for these AI features coat every surface designers can think of, including in three of the most prominent browsers: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. If you want these AI features to go away, and stay away, there’s a script for that. JustTheBrowser is …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

The FBI Has Gained Access to the Washington Post Newsroom – Press Freedom?

Gizmodo: “The FBI raided the home of The Washington Post reporter and “federal government whisperer” Hannah Natanson last week. The agency seized her private laptop, work laptop, work phone, a 1 TB portable hard drive, a Garmin running watch, and a voice recorder she uses for work, according to newly released court documents. For the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year

Via LLRX – 12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year – Spencer Overton, Professor of Law, George Washington University, homes in on how after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a pattern emerges. Across dozens of executive orders, agency memos, funding decisions and enforcement changes, the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

AI Fools Itself: Top Chatbots Don’t Recognize AI-Generated Videos

NewsGuard “tested leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of cases, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT. OpenAI’s new AI video-generating tool, Sora, has quickly gained a reputation for its ability to fool humans into thinking its videos are authentic. …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

‘I will not be intimidated’: Jack Smith says

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified in front of Congress for more than three hours, January 22, 2026 [Video]. “If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or Republican. No one should be above the law in …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now?

Via LLRX – Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? – In 2014, Rick Anderson wrote A quiet culture war in research libraries – and what it means for librarians, researchers and publishers’, arguing that there existed an ongoing conflict within the academic library profession over whether the library’s most important role …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

An Integrated Review and Research Agenda on Work and Loneliness

All the Lonely People: An Integrated Review and Research Agenda on Work and Loneliness. Julie M. McCarthy, Berrin Erdogan, Emily Campion. Journal of Management [Open Access]. Volume 52, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241313320 “Decades of studies spanning multiple disciplines have provided insight into the critical role of loneliness in work contexts. In spite of this extensive research, …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox

ASKVG: “This article will help you in getting rid of all AI (Artificial Intelligence) features and services available in Mozilla Firefox to make it an AI-free web browser. Mozilla team has started adding many AI-powered features to Firefox browser recently such as AI chatbots, link previews, smart tab groups, etc. Firefox utilizes ML (Machine Learning) …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

US science after a year of Trump

Nature – A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce. “More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies that oversee research. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few …

Subjects: Censorship, Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.

Ars Technica: “On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the simple prompt plugin feeds Claude a list of 24 language and formatting patterns that Wikipedia editors have listed as chatbot giveaways. …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research