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Wired – no paywall: “Last month, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the dumps shed light on Epstein’s own social circle and activities, they also provide a rare window into the inner workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies like Google respond …
The Local Stack: “I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge …
“Today, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released a memorandum and previously undisclosed documents revealing new details about drastic cuts the Trump Administration is making to the training and testing of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers. The documents were produced to Blumenthal via …
ARMY CYBER INSTITUTE TECHNICAL REPORT – Tracking The Trackers: Commercial Surveillance Occurring on U.S. Army Networks – May 4, 2025. “Despite current security implementations, Internet activity on DoD networks is susceptible to web trackers and commercial data collection, which have the potential to expose information about service members and unit operations. This report documents the …
AI-Powered Epstein Files Research Database – Search the complete DOJ production: ~1.4 million documents, ~2.8 million pages across 12 datasets — including transcribed audio & video, spreadsheets, and photographs, fully indexed. See also Epsteinalysis.com See also EPSTEIN Files Explorer – Full-Text Search. Search across 300,271 documents by content, names, dates, or Bates numbers See also …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 21, 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 …
Wired [no paywall]: “Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation. A PDF that Department of Homeland Security officials provided to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte’s office about a new effort to build “mega” detention and processing …
ZDNET: “The vast majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, if any, has been conducted, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT and collaborators found…The 39-page report, “The 2025 AI Index: Documenting Sociotechnical Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems,” which can …
AI Risk tool – Privacy infrastructure for the agentic AI era. Anonymise sensitive data before it reaches any AI model. Feels private. Chat interfaces feel anonymous, but they’re not Easy to miss. Sensitive details hide in plain sight: names, dates, amounts buried in longer text Productivity pressure. The focus is on getting things done We …
Under the moniker – Axiomofinfinity – for which there is no further information that I could locate – a individual or group has posted a remarkable searchable database, Epstein Files Explorer, of over one million documents and over two million pages that comprise the Epstein Files released by the DOJ. Applications used – Programmatic applications …
Follow up to White House Webpage Pushing Save Our Elections Act – Via the Brennan Center – New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting – Update: When this article was first published, the SAVE America Act included a provision that would have also required voters to show documents such as …
Internet Archive Blogs: “Digital journalists increasingly turn to web archives like the Wayback Machine to follow how things on the Internet break, change or disappear – from deleted posts to quietly edited pages. The web has become not only a source of information but also the subject of media investigations, prompting journalists, researchers and activists …
