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Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible
Wired – no paywall: “Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact… That’s the paradox United States residents face as they decide how to resist—and record—ICE’s incursion into American cities. “Unfortunately, there is …
New database reveals how Americans use water
PHYS.org: “Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we’re using—and for what. Landon Marston, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his doctoral student Yunus Naseri are changing that. They …
Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data
Zimmer, Z. (2026). Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421474 (Original work published 2026) – “The Enron Corpus is a canonical training dataset representing one of the first scale jumps in the size of natural language data for machine learning (ML) research. That corpus was …
For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself
Gizmodo – Someone who calls herself “Coral Hart” is telling the world all her tricks. “If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” That strange quote is from an extraordinary New York Times article about “Coral Hart,” the pseudonym …
YouTube Music lyrics now require a Premium subscription
9to5Google: “After testing in recent months, YouTube Music looks to be widely rolling out a Premium paywall for lyrics. Lyrics in YouTube Music now require a YouTube Premium or Music Premium subscription. The middle tab in the Now Playing screen gains a new card at the top when this has rolled out to your account: …
Internet Archive – Search CIA World Factbook Collection
Follow-up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool, See Also Internet Archive Way Back Machine – Search CIA World Factbook collection: Search 18,004 web pages using an index built from anchor text, all URL parts (file names, hosts, domains), MIME Types, language, HTTP Status codes and the full text of the …
Nearly Half of Americans Believed Top False Claims in 2025
NewsGuard: “Over the first seven months of Reality Gap Index reports — from June to December 2025 — NewsGuard found that an average of nearly half of Americans believed at least one false claim about major claims spreading in the news. For the first six months after the launch of the NewsGuard Reality Gap Index …
Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies
The New York Times: “After federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Google employees lit up the company’s internal message boards with calls for the company to respond. On Friday, more than 800 employees called on management in a petition to be transparent about how Google’s technology supports federal immigration agencies and urged the …
Why You Should Stop Using Face ID Right Now
PCMag – “Biometric locks like face recognition are easy to set up—but thanks to a legal loophole, they’re easier for law enforcement to bypass than a passcode: “Using a face scan to unlock your phone and log in to accounts is easy to set up, but it’s not the best option for everyone. That’s because, …
New Database Maps the Politics of America’s Workplaces
PHYS.org: “Researchers, including Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, have produced VRscores, an unprecedented public database for understanding the partisan lean of different employers in the United States. Hurst, with co-authors Justin Frake (University of Michigan) and Max Kagan (Columbia University), developed VRscores …
Don’t lock yourself out of your iPhone
“Tech Brew [reg reqd]: Getting locked out of your Apple Account is the digital equivalent of locking your keys in your car—except your car (iPhone) contains your entire life—including every photo you’ve ever taken. Getting back in isn’t always as quick and easy as calling roadside assistance: Apple’s verification process can often make DMV wait …
