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404 Media: “Employees at Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services received an email Tuesday morning with the subject line “AI Deployment,” which told them that ChatGPT would be rolled out for all employees at the agency. The deployment is being overseen by Clark Minor, a former Palantir employee who’s now Chief …
ProPublica: “…The shock troops of DOGE, at the Social Security Administration and myriad other federal agencies, were the advance guard in perhaps the most dramatic transformation of the U.S. government since the New Deal. And despite the highly public departure of DOGE’s leader, Elon Musk, that campaign continues today. Key DOGE team members have transitioned …
“In a significant advancement for geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the country to date, offering a unique regional view of geology at and beneath the Earth’s surface. “Geologic maps have many uses, such as helping experts look for energy, mineral and water resources,” said Christopher Swezey, …
Premiered on YouTube August 26, 2025 [Note this video includes commercial interruptions] – “If you live in the United States, it’s very likely that a private startup has been logging and sharing your vehicle’s location without your consent. In this video we explore how AI can defend against being tracked by 3rd party police and …
Columbia Journalism Review – The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News. ” A few days ago, we searched for the latest news from Washington, DC, on behalf of visitors who had traveled to the US from abroad. They were considering canceling their trip to the nation’s capital after hearing about …
Guardian: “Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process.The website offered years’ worth of accessibly written material on climate science. The site is technically still online but …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 30, 2025 – 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 …
Reclaim The Records. “Today we’re simultaneously announcing a big new free database update, about 1.5 million new names and more basic biographical information about deceased American veterans from the 2020-2023 period! It’s the first public update to our big BIRLS database, a dataset that we originally released late last year, bringing the new grand total …
Join us for a timely conversation with librarians James Jacobs and Jim Jacobs about safeguarding public information in the digital age. Librarian Shari Laster will guide our discussion. REGISTER NOW! Date: August 28 Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am Cost: Free Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-preserving-government-information-tickets-1513557303639 Organizer: Internet Archive
“This CRS Insight accompanies the Congressional District Geography Workbook, a Microsoft Excel file that congressional users can download from CRS.gov. The workbook provides information about U.S. House districts as configured in the 119th Congress (2025-2026). It supersedes the version published for the 118th Congress: CRS Insight IN12393, Congressional District Geography Workbook (118th Congress): An Interactive …
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government. The Lancet Volume 406, Issue 10500p227-228. July 19, 2025 – “A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in the dataset title and …
Wired – no paywall – “Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated. Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. On Wednesday, the …
