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ProPublica: “The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar …
Nieman Lab: “In the final days of World War II, as the German Reich collapsed, Nazi officials ordered millions of party membership cards to be destroyed. The vast card index that documented membership across Germany survived largely because a paper mill operator, Hanns Huber, chose to hand the records over to the advancing US forces …
The New York Times – Gift Article: “PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3 billion in costs to the bills of millions of households and businesses within the next three years, an increase driven by the power demands of data centers. During the …
Yahoo Tech – They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network – “That small stub on top of nearly every LED streetlight? Most people assume it’s a photocell — a dumb sensor that flips the light on at dusk. It’s not. Or not just that. It’s a standardized NEMA socket, and cities are quietly filling it …
“The web was made by people. Not by algorithms, not by models, not by machines that dream in code. By people in rooms, garages, and workshops arguing over protocols, shipping software on floppy disks, building companies from nothing, and connecting the world one awkward, brilliant, human decision at a time. For over fifty years, from …
TheBoard.World: The Liar’s Dividend: When Seeing Is No Longer Believing in Wartime AI deepfakes are hyper-realistic audio, video, or images generated by artificial intelligence to mimic real people or events, with the intent to deceive. During the Iran war, a surge of deepfake content on X (formerly Twitter) has overwhelmed both the public and verification …
Reuters: “Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting workers for mass layoffs. The lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California, federal court late Monday, says that the company relied on factors such as …
BloombergLaw [no paywall]: “AI-native firms may not be taking Big Law’s market share, but they are making incursions into a valuable asset: talent. “The AI-forward attorneys are chafing at the slow pace of firm adoption and archaic thinking,” said Sam Shaddox, 38, a co-founder of Seattle’s Talairis Law Group. “They’re migrating to the firms that …
Indicator: “In July’s episode of Show & Tell, Hal Triedman showed us how easy it can be to poison an AI research agent. Hal is a privacy and security researcher at Cornell Tech and former senior privacy engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He walked us through a recent research project he ran with colleagues Tingwei …
Stillwell, Hayley and Harrington, Sean, Predicting the Court: Evaluating Large Language Models as Forecasters of Supreme Court Decisions (July 10, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7096518 Large language models are increasingly used by lawyers to analyze legal materials and forecast litigation outcomes. This Article evaluates four leading large language models-GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, …
404 Media no paywall: “Fiction written by artificial intelligence is easy to detect because it struggles with complex story structure and tends to moralize in clunky ways, according to a preprint study from researchers at University of Maryland, College Park and Google DeepMind. They found that AI fiction has tells that go beyond stereotypical overuse …
Abi Awomosu “The surveillance is real. It’s real. The infrastructure runs deeper than any single app — it runs at the device layer, and you consented to that somewhere in a forty-seven-page document written in a font size designed not to be read. Voice assistant software has documented microphone access that extends beyond active use. …
